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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Scoring the Reusability of Your API Estate
I have been working my way through the governance and discovery tools I keep building under API Commons, writing one up a day, and today’s is the one that answers a question alm...
Postman Sells API Tooling but Still Makes You Click Generate API Key
I keep coming back to the same wall, and this week it has Postman’s name on it. I have spent years saying that onboarding is the part of an API that breaks first under load, and...
Standalone API Documentation Generated From APIs.json
This is the next stop in my daily walk through the API Commons tools, and it is one I have wanted for a long time: a way to hand somebody a single APIs.json and have it turn int...
OpenAPI Overlays for Translating and Localizing One Canonical Spec
Translation is where a lot of teams quietly fork their API contract, and they don’t even notice they’re doing it. Someone in the German office needs the docs in German, so they ...
Stedi and EDI as Modern API Workflows
Stedi has taken one of the oldest, crustiest corners of healthcare—X12 EDI—and wrapped it in a modern API. That is genuinely useful work, because the X12 transaction sets that g...
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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