This is one of the use cases I flagged as underexplored in my Many Use Cases for OpenAPI Overlays post, and it is quietly my favorite one. Most of the time when we talk about API governance, we mean a linter. You point Spectral at a spec, it checks the spec against a ruleset, and when the spec...
I went looking at universities this summer to refresh my understanding of where higher education stood with APIs in 2026, but also with AI. I’ve long tuned into, engaged with, and reported upon the state of APIs at the university level, but AI was new for me. API Evangelist spends most of its...
Earlier this week I profiled ZotGPT, UC Irvine’s campus-owned generative AI platform, into the API Evangelist network. It came to me through my intern, whose research on how universities are actually adopting AI is what surfaced the platform in the first place — and the fact that a research pass...
I have a new project where we will be integrating with a third party API that is currently being written. Due to Conway's Law, we are being sent new versions of the OpenAPI spec as a set of JSON files via email. I quite like seeing the HTML rendering of an OpenAPI spec when reading it and...
GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to look far back on this (rather inactive) blog to see I have previously championed this technology. After building many a React SPA on top of a...