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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How I Actually Use MCP Across API Evangelist
I write about Model Context Protocol a lot, but I also run it. Across apis.io, apievangelist.com, and API Commons, MCP is not a thing I comment on from the sidelines—it is wired...
Gloo Platform Portal Has the Endpoints, but Self-Serve Lives or Dies on the Platform Team
I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company tells me they are all in on AI, that agents are the future, that machines will be first-class consumers of their APIs. Then th...
Giving Agents the Rules Before They Author, Not After
I have been walking through the governance tools I keep building under API Commons, one a day, and today’s is the one that finally admits something I have been circling for a wh...
The Technical Roots of API Sprawl
The organizational roots of sprawl set the stage, but modern architecture is what turns a trickle of new APIs into a flood. In this third post of the series I want to look at th...
Profile, Don't Invent: How Germany Chose OAuth 2.1 and FAPI 2.0
This is the second post in my series breaking down Germany’s federal API authorization blueprint for other governments to follow. The first post made the case that the whole thi...
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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