API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist has worked for the last 15 years to make sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs, profiling public and private APIs and distilling down knowledge into a regular cadence of API storytelling, and weekly knowledge building sessions focused on schema, APIs, governance, operations, change, and evangelism.
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Add Webhooks To Your Product And Recover Failed Deliveries With Svix
A big customer asks whether your product can notify their system the moment an order ships. Your engineers say yes, then quote you weeks of work, because sending the message tur...
Manage Marketing Emails, Campaign Budgets And Customer Conversations With HubSpot
Your marketing budget lives in a spreadsheet, your campaign emails live in one tool, and customer questions pile up in a shared inbox. Someone spends part of every week copying ...
Run Website Reports, Send Server Events And Handle Privacy Deletion Requests With Google Analytics
Every Monday somebody on your team logs into Google Analytics, pulls the same numbers, pastes them into a spreadsheet and sends it around. A sale that closes in your back office...
Use A Score To Build Your API Roadmap And Not To Chase A Number
I recently spent a morning listening to a room full of people who run API programs talk about what they would do with the Kin Score. The first use that came up was the one I fin...
The Same Fifty Providers Sit Under Every Kind Of Application
A while back I wrote about a self-hosted fitness app and the providers it plugs into. Looking at applications that way was useful enough that I kept going, and we now have bluep...
Understanding Our Relationship With Technology
API Evangelist has been working to understand our relationship with Internet technology for the last fifteen years, but it has primarily been focused on understanding the producers of the technology, where moving forward I am more interested in understanding the consumers of not just APIs, but the applications they build on top of APIs.
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This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. Feel free to explore the toolbox, you won't break anything. API Evangelist works out in the open to encourage the reuse of our work, while also demonstrating the potential of evangelizing your API work as it occurs.
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