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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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Browse AllSwagger Was A Config File Until We Made It A Format
Everything I am doing with the Spectral ruleset format right now is a move I have watched work before, and I want to write down how it worked, because the people arguing with me...
Agents Turn Broken Auth Into a Breach at Machine Speed
The API security problems we have now are not new. Broken object-level authorization–the flaw where your API happily hands over record 1002 to someone who was only ever supposed...
OpenAPI Overlays for MCP and AI-Agent Enrichment
I have been picking apart the use cases from my earlier post, The Many Use Cases for OpenAPI Overlays, and this is the one that sits closest to my heart right now, because it is...
Does Your API Game Live Up to Your AI Hype?
Everybody is agent-ready now. The MCP server is announced, the Agent Skills are published, the phrase is in the press release and on the pricing page, and the keynote slide has ...
Context Engineering Is Governance
When most people in the API space hear the word governance, they picture a Spectral ruleset. They picture a linter in a CI/CD pipeline rejecting a pull request because someone u...
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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