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summary: Studying the technology, business, policies, and people of APIs since 2010.
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        <h5 class="card-title">About API Evangelist</h5>
        <p class="card-text text-muted mb-0">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.</p>
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        <p class="card-text text-muted mb-0">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.</p>
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        <p class="card-text text-muted mb-0">This site is the active daily working toolbox for Kin Lane. <a href="https://contracts.apievangelist.com/" style="color: var(--ae-green);">Feel free to explore the toolbox</a>, 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.</p>
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