I have the apis.io search engine populated to levels I think represents the API economy. I will keep adding ones here & there & of course others can add their own, but now I intend on spending the summer making sense of what is there & the approach providers are taking when it comes to integration.
I spend a lot of my time on the consuming end of API keys—banging my head against the wall of how every API provider handles the issuing, verifying, and managing of credentials differently. apievangelist.com/2026/06/19/o...
I am working through research on “MCP governance”—meaning, what others out there are calling MCP governance. As with APIs, there is a wide mix of smoke, mirrors, and concrete practices around what governance of this new set of API patterns actually is. apievangelist.com/2026/06/19/m...
I have been writing about API monetization since 2011. Early on I was fascinated by the mechanics: resource-based versus experience-based pricing, the cost-to-value accounting framework I tried to formalize. apievangelist.com/2026/06/12/a...
For the first time in 16 years I don't have any AWS EC2 or RDS instances running. I've retooled API Evangelist, APIs.io, and other sites to be 100% static. My only bill is AWS S3 now.
I keep coming back to the problem of scaling the onboarding, the setting up of applications, and the obtaining of API keys across many different APIs. The differences in how every API provider handles this keep leaving me hitting a brick wall. apievangelist.com/2026/06/19/s...
One story I’ve told many times, but couldn’t find in my own historical archives of API Evangelist, is the origin story of API Evangelist itself. apievangelist.com/2026/06/12/h...
I have been writing about this since March 2017, kept expanding it through 2018 with a diagram that I brought to talks and workshops, and reinforced it again in 2020. Coming back from APIDays Amsterdam, the same message needs saying again. apievangelist.com/2026/06/12/y...
I spent the last week cataloging the industrial manufacturing API landscape — not the casual surface glance, but a proper inventory of what is out there, what APIs providers expose, what vocabulary they use to describe themselves. apievangelist.com/blog/2026/06...
The APIs.io network added a new layer this week — arazzo.apis.io. It joins the catalog as its own Workflows section in the More dropdown across every site in the network, sitting alongside the OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON-LD specification layers. apis.io/2026/06/04/a...