API Evangelist
Studying the technology, business, policies, and people 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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An API Consumer Interoperability Mindset
It is difficult to think like an API consumer when you are an API producer. When I talk to anyone about what I am building at Naftiko, which is extremely API consumer centric, a...
Questioning Our API Governance Reality
Questioning how I see the technology, business, and politics of APIs is the foundation of API Evangelist. I’ve changed my opinions on a lot of things over the years, as my aware...
You See a Spec, I See a Common Language, and a Common Understanding
Many engineers I’ve worked with over the years see OpenAPI and AsyncAPI as a configuration for whatever tooling outcome they desire. I see OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema tha...
My /me API Using Naftiko
For years I’ve been writing on API Evangelist about the idea of a personal API footprint — the idea that every individual should have a single, coherent surface representing the...
Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March
I did not write a single post on API Evangelist in March. I have gone months before without writing a story, but this month is primarily due to artificial intelligence. I am all...
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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API Evangelist Conversation With Derek Thompson of Ambassador
Derek Thompson of Ambassador came by for a discussion about code generation and artificial intelligence. I had began engaging with Derek's team about the importance of maintaini...
API Evangelist Conversation With Marc Laventure of Scalar
I sat down today with Marc Laventure of Scalar to talk about their API client and documentation offerings, and how they see OpenAPI as a specification. Marc's taken a slightly d...
API Evangelist Conversation With Juan Cruz Viotti of Sourcemeta About Schema Registries
Juan Cruz Viotti of Sourcemeta came by for a conversation about the schema registry solution he had recently built. Juan has gone deep into the JSON Schema rabbit hole, deeper t...
About the API Evangelist Site
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.