If you've spent any time connecting AI agents to your development workflow, you know the feeling: a dozen JSON config files scattered across your machine, each with slightly different schemas, different key names, and different scoping rules. - naftiko.io/blog/the-mcp...
My API Evangelist newsletter for last week focusing on the intersection of document and MCP servers -- shifting how we deliver the governance guardrails we are needing. buttondown.com/apievangelis...
"We have 14 competing standards," someone says. "Ridiculous. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use case." "We now have 15 competing standards." If you work in APIs, you're not living in a simulation. You're living in that cartoon. naftiko.io/blog/from-a-...
We sat down with Emmanuel Paraskakis of Level 250 to talk about API products, API design, and spec-driven development in today's episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WPP...
The best tool for the job? The one your team never has to log into. Stop forcing developers out of their workflow. Meet them where they already are. 🔧
Long before we wrote equations, contracts, or specifications, we told stories.
OMG, I absolutely love "Poor leadership just keep on keeping on." -- so much truth. I am glad it resonated with you. It really is the biggest challenge folks I am talking to face that doesn't get addressed by vendors.
Working to find what signals matter in the technology marketplace right now as part of the latest API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) newsletter. - buttondown.com/apievangelis...
In today's episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast I sit down with Clemens Vasters to talk about JSON Structure and how the specification and supporting tooling can help us think about JSON and YAML schema validation and composition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stre...
For years, we’ve said “design first” when talking about APIs--only recently has that idea become truly practical at scale. At its core, design-first is a product mindset applied to APIs. If an API is a product—just like any other product—it deserves the same discipline. naftiko.io/blog/design-...
For data-driven platforms, the API is the product. When your core value proposition involves empowering customers to fetch complex data structures, your documentation cannot simply be a reference manual; it must be an active onboarding engine. blog.docuwiz.io/p/case-study...
Spotify requires premium account to access API - this will be a continuing trend amongst API providers tightening down their resources. developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02...
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
Lightweight API Specification for Intelligent Systems - Every time an LLM needs to work with your API, it consumes your OpenAPI spec as context. That spec was designed for code generators and documentation tools, not for language models.https://github.com/cr0hn/LAPIS
Stainless CLI generator: your API, now with --help - www.stainless.com/blog/stainle...
Taking another look at how I build my online presence in this weeks edition of the API Evangelist Governance (Guidance), to keep optimizing what is working when it comes to finding the signal in the noise. buttondown.com/apievangelis...
The @apievangelist.com @kinlane.bsky.social is on Commune now 🚀
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Security tooling has a reputation problem with developers. Alert too early and you're noise. Gate too late and you're a blocker. So where's the sweet spot? naftiko.io/blog/finding...
My friend Joshua Curry is looking for some developer relations creative writing work. He's a super creative writer that worked for API Evangelist back in the peak season and will bring some much needed creativity and curiosity to your ecosystem. joshuacurry.dev/writing/
Getting better and finding the signal in the noise of today’s market and it had made me realize that there is no signal without the noise.
I discuss the highest levels of AI with Simon Wardley, and how to stay sane in the depths of the hype cycles with Kevin Swiber and Mike Amundsen in this week's episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ombZ...
Product managers are connecting copilots to Jira and Confluence through MCP servers. Sales reps are wiring up CRM integrations. The Model Context Protocol has made it remarkably easy for anyone to plug third-party services into their AI workflows. - naftiko.io/blog/shadow-...
I think that Speakeasy's Agent Skills are a significant shift, and not for the reasons most people will be celebrating. apievangelist.com/2026/02/06/t...
