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The Consumer Decides the Gateway: API Governance at the Consumption Layer

MCP for Spectral Governance: Make Your API Rules Conversational

Arazzo Workflows Are Your New Integration

Cerner Oracle Health and the SMART on FHIR Sequence

Govern in the IDE, Where the Work Happens

The Linux Foundation Is the Home of Our API Specifications, and They Should Work Together

Canvas Medical and the Shape of an EHR FHIR Workflow

Git Is Your Governance Source of Truth

Kong Konnect Has Two Front Doors and Neither One Is the One I Want

Design-First or Code-First: Pick, and Know the Cost

Mapping Particle Health Record Retrieval as Arazzo Workflows

Understanding the Way Things Are

Spectral Rules: Machine-Readable Enforcement

Policies and Style Guides: The Why Above Your Rules

Building the Tooling for Consumer API Governance

Revisiting OpenAPI Extensions Alongside APIs.json

JSON Schema Governs the Shape of Your Data

The Many Use Cases for OpenAPI Overlays

Tyk and the Quiet Superpower of Extending OpenAPI

I Do Not Believe There Is One Tool or Approach to Solve API Governance

OpenAPI Is the Unit of API Governance

OpenAPI Overlays Tooling Support Across Open-Source and Commercial Services

Consumer API Governance in an Agentic World

Standalone JSON Schemas, Overlaid for Every Purpose

Start by Mapping Your API Landscape

OpenAPI Overlays Let One Products API Speak Four Languages

The Fundamentals of API Governance

The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP

There is a Real Bill Associated With Offloading API Design This Round

Google Makes the Interactions API the Front Door to Gemini

SoundCloud Shows What Programmatic API Onboarding Should Look Like

MCP Discovery & Governance

Ory Talos Puts API Key Management Back in Your Hands

The Architecture Behind 10,000 API Providers

Your Diverse API Toolbox

History of API Evangelist

API Value Exchange

Industrial Manufacturing APIs and the AI Integration Gap

The APIs of the World’s Top Universities — 634 of Them, and Most Are Library Plumbing

Obtaining the Control Over Your LinkedIn Data That You Desire

Automated Agent Onboarding Is a Naftiko Capability, Not a Gateway Feature

Where Is the Fortune 1000 at When It Coms to AI — Here Are the Receipts for All 989 of Them

Only Four API Providers Publish a Real .well-known/api-catalog Right Now

Stripe Through the Lens of API Evangelist

API Evangelist Scores 83% Agent-Ready — And the Last 17% Doesn’t Apply

Who In The API Evangelist Network Has an MCP Server

Signals, Stories, and Search

Making the API Evangelist Network Agent-Readable

The Bullshit Levels Came Down at APIDays NYC

83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal

Seeing MCP

A Roundup of US Federal Agencies and Their APIs

Wrestling With API Complexity

Publishing Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps for 3,837 API Providers

Artificial Intelligence Choosing My Tools and Services

Within the Enterprise Mindset There Are No Solutions, Just Stories

We Standardized the API. We Didn’t Standardize the Application.

A Bridge Between Human and AI on Your Documentation

With API Knowledge Comes Great Power

Documentation Page Level AI Copilot and Human Bridge

Guardrails, Not Gates: Supreet Nagi on Taming the API Jungle

The Business and Politics of Platform Status Page Details

Learning About Standards via Cloudflare Radar AI Insights

That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I Just Need To Be Capable of Doing Something

An API Consumer Interoperability Mindset

The Next Wave of API Investments Will Be All About Experience

Questioning Our API Governance Reality

You See a Spec, I See a Common Language, and a Common Understanding

My /me API Using Naftiko

Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March

The Promise of a New Specification

What Is Your Beef With JSON Schema?

There is a Lot of Knowledge and Wisdom Packed Into Speakeasy’s Agent Skills

Where Is Governance (Guidance) Going?

How Does a Capability Come to Life?

What is the Diff Between Bruno Collection and OpenCollection

Dispatches From The Frontlines at Moltbook

Why Do I Need Agents When I Have Requests, CRON Jobs, and Events?

Organizing Signals Into a Platform Definition with Operations Organized by Role

MCP Server for Microcks Mocking and Testing

Weekly API Evangelist Conversations

A 3rd-Party Notion API Sandbox to Provide a Safer Agent Sandbox

Agents. It Is All APIs. Nothing Has Changed

Governance Rules as Guardrails in a Strongly Typed Journey

Baseline OpenAPI Rules For Governance of 3rd-Party APIs

Exploring What Schema Tools Are Available

My Avalara API Review Provides a Benchmark for Modern API Operations

My Rabbit Warren of JSON Expressions, References ($ref), Queries, or Pointers

What Are the Application and Interface Specification Priorities?

A New Year for API Evangelist

I Am Proud To Introduce You To Naftiko

Saying Things Are Broken is Broken

My Avalara API Review Provides a Benchmark for Modern API Operations

Capabilities Are Everything You Need To Integrate With AI

Capabilities Are About Having An Honest Conversation About Control

The Web and APIs Weren’t Built for Autonomous Agents, They Were Built For Humans

API Discovery Will Need To Be Contextual and Ephemeral

MCP is a Valid Tactical Response

OpenAPI Extensions to Generated What You Need for AI Integration

OpenAPI Extensions to Generate What You Need for AI Integration

Schema-Validated, Rules-Guided, and Policy-Driven Experiences

As a Startup You Should Not Be Consulting

Why Drift Is Ubiquitous

Applying Domain-Driven Driven Design to Integration and Consumption

How This Moment Will Shake Out

What is a Capability?

How This Moment Will Shake Out

Conversations With Enterprise Product and Engineering Teams Has Given Me More Empathy About This Moment In Tech

Selfish Standardization Using JSON-LD for Job Postings

Trust is the Secret Ingredient Missing in API Discovery

Minimizing Ambiguity in Business Alignment Using APIs

The Intersection of API Rate Limits, Plans & Pricing, and Marketplace Working Things Out

Solutions That Speak To Your Tactical Pain While Expanding and Scaling Your Strategic Pain

There Is Only API Consumption

API Evangelist & Fourcast Media Are Partnering To Bring Kin Lane and LeTroy Gardner Together Again For A New API Podcast

Can We Have a Conversation About API Discovery, Integration, and Consumption?

I Will Be Joining Naftiko as the Chief Community Officer