API Evangelist
@apievangelist.com
I am the API Evangelist, making sense of the technology, business, policies, and the people of APIs since 2010 by surveying and assessing the public and private API landscape.
Supreet Nagi, Senior Director at Northwestern Mutual and Budhaditya Bhattacharya, Director of Product Ecosystem at Tyk will be coming by tomorrow for my recurring Tuesday 10:00 AM conversation to talk about "a practitioner's point of view for zero-touch governance" ⚠️ Registration - bit.ly/4qK9gZj
February 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Supreet Nagi, Senior Director at Northwestern Mutual and Budhaditya Bhattacharya, Director of Product Ecosystem at Tyk will be coming by tomorrow for my recurring Tuesday 10:00 AM conversation to talk about "a practitioner's point of view for zero-touch governance" ⚠️ Registration - bit.ly/4qK9gZj
Clemens Vasters is coming by tomorrow for my Thursdays webinar conversation @ 10:00 AM EST to talk about JSON Structure, a data structure definition language that enforces strict typing, modularity & determinism. Register - bit.ly/3O0gOsl & JSON Structure - json-structure.github.io/core/draft-v...
February 4, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Clemens Vasters is coming by tomorrow for my Thursdays webinar conversation @ 10:00 AM EST to talk about JSON Structure, a data structure definition language that enforces strict typing, modularity & determinism. Register - bit.ly/3O0gOsl & JSON Structure - json-structure.github.io/core/draft-v...
Patrick Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Sideko, and creator of open-source execution layer for agentic tool calls Port of Context is coming by tomorrow to talk context engineering with me during my Tuesday live webinar conversation. ⚠️ Registration - bit.ly/4qK9gZj
February 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Patrick Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Sideko, and creator of open-source execution layer for agentic tool calls Port of Context is coming by tomorrow to talk context engineering with me during my Tuesday live webinar conversation. ⚠️ Registration - bit.ly/4qK9gZj
I want to elevate & shine a light on the API governance rules schema Spectral, but also it's rebirth as Vacuum Rules, while acknowledging that it began back in 2016 as Speccy. I want to incite ongoing contributions to the schema, but also adoption of the variety of tooling. spotlight-rules.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I want to elevate & shine a light on the API governance rules schema Spectral, but also it's rebirth as Vacuum Rules, while acknowledging that it began back in 2016 as Speccy. I want to incite ongoing contributions to the schema, but also adoption of the variety of tooling. spotlight-rules.com
I want to shine a spotlight on how far Spectral rules have come from their early days. These API governance linting rules have taken on a life of their own, and they deserve having more of the spotlight shown on why they matter, and how they are being used. spotlight-rules.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I want to shine a spotlight on how far Spectral rules have come from their early days. These API governance linting rules have taken on a life of their own, and they deserve having more of the spotlight shown on why they matter, and how they are being used. spotlight-rules.com
The city business and politics of rate limits impact on your subscription -- your Citibike costs more because the city just limited your speed to 15 MPH. ;-)
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The city business and politics of rate limits impact on your subscription -- your Citibike costs more because the city just limited your speed to 15 MPH. ;-)
Croissant Format Specification - Croissant enables the interchange of datasets between ML frameworks and beyond, tackling a variety of discoverability, portability, reproducibility, and responsible AI (RAI) challenges. - docs.mlcommons.org/croissant/do...
April 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Croissant Format Specification - Croissant enables the interchange of datasets between ML frameworks and beyond, tackling a variety of discoverability, portability, reproducibility, and responsible AI (RAI) challenges. - docs.mlcommons.org/croissant/do...
Can you see your API platform? engineering-platform-builder.apievangelist.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Can you see your API platform? engineering-platform-builder.apievangelist.com
After 25 years of HTTP APIs, do you have API governance in place? tyk.io/blog/after-2...
March 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
After 25 years of HTTP APIs, do you have API governance in place? tyk.io/blog/after-2...
I love Hyperjump because it validates my JSON schema, but then also validates my JSON using JSON Schema. 😁 json-schema.hyperjump.io
March 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I love Hyperjump because it validates my JSON schema, but then also validates my JSON using JSON Schema. 😁 json-schema.hyperjump.io
Seeing a lot of new SDK generation services and tools in my inbox. I already have an SDK partner in APIMatic.io, but I can share some lessons from my journey with APIMATIC over the last decade. apievangelist.com/2025/03/04/s...
March 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Seeing a lot of new SDK generation services and tools in my inbox. I already have an SDK partner in APIMatic.io, but I can share some lessons from my journey with APIMATIC over the last decade. apievangelist.com/2025/03/04/s...
Added three items to this years API timeline. What else has happened in the last couple of years. When does something become history is a fascinating thought. apievangelist.com/timeline/api/
February 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Added three items to this years API timeline. What else has happened in the last couple of years. When does something become history is a fascinating thought. apievangelist.com/timeline/api/
Still not used to API Evangelist having dark mode. I am old.
February 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Still not used to API Evangelist having dark mode. I am old.
We ran a series of tests and it gets equal results as ChatGPT does on benchmark testing. astrologyapi.com/tarot-api-docs
February 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We ran a series of tests and it gets equal results as ChatGPT does on benchmark testing. astrologyapi.com/tarot-api-docs
I am slowly expanding my current research into Webhooks and I added two core Hookdeck capabilities to the stack (send & receive webhook). I also added their CLI to the stack of tools. engineering-platform-builder.apievangelist.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I am slowly expanding my current research into Webhooks and I added two core Hookdeck capabilities to the stack (send & receive webhook). I also added their CLI to the stack of tools. engineering-platform-builder.apievangelist.com
From the LinkedIn Newsletter. They have a monthly release with an annual deprecation.
January 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
From the LinkedIn Newsletter. They have a monthly release with an annual deprecation.
The Internet Standards Work APIs Rely Upon That Does Not Always Get the Spotlight - apievangelist.com/2025/01/06/t...
January 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Internet Standards Work APIs Rely Upon That Does Not Always Get the Spotlight - apievangelist.com/2025/01/06/t...