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Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.

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November 2026

  1. Create, Autofill And Export On-Brand Designs Automatically With Canva
  2. Add DNS Records, Block Attackers And Balance Traffic With Cloudflare
  3. Trigger Customer Journeys, Run A Loyalty Program And Load Records In Bulk With Salesforce
  4. Publish Posts, Moderate Comments And Find Hashtags With Instagram
  5. Make Calls, Send Texts And Register Your Brand For SMS With Twilio
  6. OpenAI API Pricing: What Every Model Costs Per Million Tokens
  7. Publish Offers, Ship Orders And Print Shipping Labels With eBay
  8. Where A Score Fits In Your CI Pipeline And Your Developer Portal
  9. The X- Prefix Is A Feedback Loop, Not A Mistake
  10. Rethinking The API Free Tier In The Agentic Age
  11. Payments And Banking: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
  12. Grade An API From Zero To One Hundred And Check Which Dimensions Were Actually Scored
  13. Agents Will Not Look For An SDK Generator, They Will Look For A Problem To Solve
  14. Refresh Datasets, Publish Reports And Embed Dashboards With Power BI
  15. Send Multi-Channel Notifications And Promote Them To Production With Novu
  16. Publish APIs, Set Usage Limits And Build A Developer Portal With Amazon API Gateway
  17. Open Pull Requests, Track Issues And Find Vulnerable Dependencies With GitHub
  18. Provision Quantum Workspaces And Submit Quantum Jobs With Microsoft Azure Quantum
  19. The Dutch Government Now Runs On OpenLint
  20. Score The APIs Nobody Outside Your Company Can See
  21. Walk The History Of APIs From Talking Drums To Agent Protocols In One Call
  22. The Microsoft API Estate: 169 Surfaces, One Company, and the Work of Making It Coherent
  23. The Client Stack Did Not Collapse, It Went Dark
  24. Okapi Is Dependabot For APIs, And The Business Needs The Register Behind It
  25. Hire, Pay And Manage Employees In Other Countries Without A Local Entity Using Remote
  26. Find Target Companies And Enrich Your CRM With Firmographic Data From Coresignal
  27. Build Audience Segments, Run A/B Tests And Manage Email Subscribers With Adobe Experience Cloud
  28. Generate Images, Video And Audio With AI Models From Your Own App Using fal
  29. Host Your Code, Track Issues And Ship Releases On Your Own Servers With Gitea
  30. What To Check Before You Call Your API Production Ready
  31. Healthcare: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
  32. Five Hundred Eighteen Companies Hire For Sarbanes-Oxley And One For The Colorado AI Act
  33. Find The PII And Secrets An API Exposes Before You Hand It To An Agent
  34. Manage Orders, Fulfill Shipments And Organize Products With Shopify
  35. Run AI Prompts In Bulk, Manage Team Workspaces And Deploy Agents With Anthropic
  36. Add Login, Multi-Factor Authentication And Enterprise Single Sign-On To Your Product With Auth0
  37. Run Open Source AI Models, Transcribe Audio And Search Datasets With Hugging Face
  38. Store, Rotate And Recover Passwords And API Keys With Amazon Secrets Manager
  39. The APIs.io Pricing Page Now Shows How APIs Charge
  40. Service Level Agreements Come Back Around As SLA4OAI
  41. Modeling An API By Talking To It With Structura
  42. Make The Case For API Investment With Facts Instead Of Feelings
  43. Find Which Companies Are Ready To Do Business Through APIs
  44. Control Who Sees Your Data, Manage Warehouses And Run AI Models With Snowflake
  45. Find The Root Cause Of Outages, Search Logs And Forecast Monitoring Costs With Dynatrace
  46. Add Webhooks To Your Product And Recover Failed Deliveries With Svix
  47. Manage Marketing Emails, Campaign Budgets And Customer Conversations With HubSpot
  48. Run Website Reports, Send Server Events And Handle Privacy Deletion Requests With Google Analytics
  49. Use A Score To Build Your API Roadmap And Not To Chase A Number
  50. The Same Fifty Providers Sit Under Every Kind Of Application
  51. The Decoder Only Pours Part Of The Bedrock
  52. Check Two OpenAPI Versions For Breaking Changes, And Know What It Cannot See
  53. Publish Your APIs, Issue Developer Keys And Package API Products With Apigee
  54. Monitor Your Systems, Respond To Incidents And Track Cloud Costs With Datadog
  55. Send Webhooks Reliably And Retry Failed Deliveries Automatically With Convoy
  56. Manage Support Tickets, Customer Records And Satisfaction Ratings With Zendesk
  57. Verify Insurance Eligibility, Check Claim Status And Handle Prior Authorization With Availity

October 2026

  1. Send Logs, Set Up Alerts And Troubleshoot Slow Applications With New Relic
  2. Test And Monitor Your APIs And Generate Client Libraries Automatically With Postman
  3. Transcribe Meetings, Create Voiceovers And Track Your AI Spending With OpenAI
  4. Run Ad Campaigns, Capture Leads And Post Jobs Automatically With LinkedIn
  5. Create, Back Up And Restore Your Postgres Databases Automatically With Prisma
  6. Governing The Inputs And Outputs Of Inference
  7. Find And Verify Business Email Addresses And Build Lead Lists With Hunter
  8. Scale, Stop And Start Your Kubernetes Clusters Automatically With Azure Kubernetes Service
  9. Create Jira Issues, Publish Confluence Pages And Manage Team Access With Atlassian
  10. Manage User Logins, Roles And Feature Flags For Your App With Kinde
  11. Run, Cancel And Re-Run Your Software Builds Automatically With GitHub Actions
  12. Reddit Closed Its API. Here Is Where Agents Can Still Post And Read
  13. Someone Mapped Who Is Standardizing Agentic Commerce
  14. Search Sixteen Years Of API Research From One Call
  15. I Mapped Every MCP Working Group, Interest Group, And Extension
  16. Automate Ecommerce Email Campaigns And Segment Shoppers With Omnisend
  17. Run Code Without Managing Servers And Release It Safely With AWS Lambda
  18. Automate Branch Cleanup And Push Notifications With GitLab
  19. Run Traffic Reports And Build Audience Segments With Adobe Analytics
  20. Manage Event Contacts, Discount Codes And Campaign Email With Cvent Event Cloud
  21. Skills Over MCP Is Now Officially Beta
  22. Lint An OpenAPI And Find Out Which Rules Decide If It Passes
  23. Google Ships Agent Skills Like Products, And That's The Lifecycle They Need
  24. E-Invoicing: The Shape Of The Answer
  25. API Evangelist Is Now A Financial Contributor To OpenLint
  26. Trigger Builds And Retry Failed Jobs Automatically With Buildkite
  27. Run A Managed Graph Database And Predict Connections With Amazon Neptune
  28. Connect To Your Customers Accounting, HR And CRM Systems With Merge
  29. Send Contracts For Electronic Signature And Track Them With Docusign
  30. Send Marketing Email And Manage Contact Lists With SendGrid
  31. Who Actually Gets To Define API Standards
  32. Two Hundred Nine API Companies And Seven Hundred Seventy-Five Enterprises Hire In Different Worlds
  33. The MCP Maintenance Bill Depends On How You Built It
  34. Can Your MCP Server Finish The Job?
  35. Australian Government Is Open But Not Yet Discoverable By Agents
  36. Advertising: The Shape Of The Answer
  37. Share Files And Add Maps, Places, And Routes To Your Business With Google
  38. Compare USPS, UPS, FedEx, And DHL Shipping Rates With SMKlog
  39. Run Your Catalog, Pricing, And Customers In Software With BigCommerce
  40. Automate Clusters, User Access, And Patching With Red Hat
  41. Manage Products, Orders, And Coupons For Your Online Store With WooCommerce
  42. Telecom Network APIs: The Shape Of The Answer
  43. Regulation Writes The API
  44. Writing the MCP Style Guide for the Tools an Agent Reads First
  45. Why I Forked Spectral, And Why It Became OpenLint
  46. Track Errors, Releases And Cron Jobs In Your Software With Sentry
  47. Create, Track And Report On Issues Automatically With Jira
  48. Take Payments, Run Subscriptions And Send Invoices With Stripe
  49. Automate Projects, Tasks And Team Goals With Asana
  50. Calculate Sales Tax And File Returns Automatically With Avalara
  51. The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia
  52. Start With The Flow, Not The Agent
  53. Shipping: The Shape Of The Answer
  54. What Sets Australia Apart In Banking And Telco
  55. What 467 Conformant A2A Agent Cards Are Actually Offering
  56. The Specification Layer Now Has a Home
  57. A Meter With No Rate On It
  58. Open Responses Gets A Neutral Home, And A Baseline
  59. Insurance: The Shape Of The Answer Is Behind A Login
  60. If You Depend On OpenAPI Please Become a Member
  61. Gateways Count Every Token And Charge For Almost None Of Them
  62. API Monetization Is Falling Flat, Maybe It Is The Word
  63. Who Owns The Agent: The Panel At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
  64. We Had The Agent Protocol In 2008 And We Left It On The Table
  65. We Did Not Skip Hypermedia, We Moved It Out Of The Response
  66. Trust You Can Carry Has To Be Written Down
  67. Payments And Banking: The Shape Of The Answer
  68. Discovery Is The First Governance Control: My Keynote At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
  69. A Banker Said Finance Does Not Have Enough MCP Servers And They Are Right About The Banks
  70. Where The Market Layer Of The Kin Score Stands
  71. What A Program Needs In Order To Decide
  72. Three Hundred Eighty Companies Say Claude And One Hundred Forty-Two Say Anthropic
  73. Healthcare: The Shape Of The Answer
  74. Four Companies Serve Skills Over MCP The Way The Spec Says
  75. Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Agent Cards Are Live, And We Are Not Counting Ours
  76. The Incumbent And The Challenger: NCR Voyix And Lightspeed
  77. Five Thousand Official SDKs, And Nine Thousand That Are Not
  78. DeepInfer And The Shape Of The Answer
  79. A Listing Is Not A Certification
  80. The Human In The Loop Is Now One Email
  81. The Harness That Works Is A Contract
  82. The First Poppy Files, and the One a Vendor Wrote
  83. The Brands Are Missing From Their Own Markets
  84. We Don't Need No Stink'n Rules!
  85. Every Regulated Market Already Publishes Its Own Map
  86. A Competitive Landscape Harness
  87. Five MCP Servers Put A Price In The Tool In Four Different Shapes
  88. The Wires Are Crossed: Slop For Humans, Structure For Agents
  89. Nobody Is Forecasting The Transactional API Economy
  90. Commune Has An API And Substack Does Not
  91. An Agent Found Four APIs And All Four Decided To Trust It
  92. Six Standards Nobody Ratified, Measured Against What The Industry Built
  93. One Hundred Two Companies Hiring For MCP And The Enterprises Are Ahead

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