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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. API Evangelist is committed to helping your teams focus on the fundamentals of APIs, while also working with you to make sense of the leading edge of APIs, and where all of this is going.

Saying Things Are Broken is Broken

You read a lot of posts about “X” being broken. Especially in the age of AI smoke and mirrors. Everything that came before and in need of disruption is broken. In the API realm I exist within, OAut...

Published on December 19, 2025
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My Avalara API Review Provides a Benchmark for Modern API Operations

I enjoy reviewing APIs. I’m good at it. Over 15 years, I’ve developed a rich and proven API discovery and profiling process. Recently, folks at Avalara reached out to me about my API Evangelist Pos...

Published on December 19, 2025
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Capabilities Are Everything You Need To Integrate With AI

I am back to my work to precisely define how we integrate with many different APIs. With this round I am doing it for a handful of use cases meant to satisfy customer conversations around their AI ...

Published on November 28, 2025
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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. While I will still be shining a light on APIs, I won't be always leading with API, and working to strengthen my general understanding of our relationship with technology.

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 maintaining OpenAPI specs whi...

Published on March 6, 2025
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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 different approach th...

Published on March 5, 2025
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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 than anyone else I've...

Published on February 18, 2025
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About the API Evangelist Site

This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane, and [you can find many APIs, rules, and other interesting details about API operations. 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. Whenever you get lost, just come back to the home page for the basics of what API Evangelist is all about to the mainstream reader.