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Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.
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November 2026
- Create, Autofill And Export On-Brand Designs Automatically With Canva
- Add DNS Records, Block Attackers And Balance Traffic With Cloudflare
- Trigger Customer Journeys, Run A Loyalty Program And Load Records In Bulk With Salesforce
- Publish Posts, Moderate Comments And Find Hashtags With Instagram
- Make Calls, Send Texts And Register Your Brand For SMS With Twilio
- OpenAI API Pricing: What Every Model Costs Per Million Tokens
- Publish Offers, Ship Orders And Print Shipping Labels With eBay
- Where A Score Fits In Your CI Pipeline And Your Developer Portal
- The X- Prefix Is A Feedback Loop, Not A Mistake
- Rethinking The API Free Tier In The Agentic Age
- Payments And Banking: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
- Grade An API From Zero To One Hundred And Check Which Dimensions Were Actually Scored
- Agents Will Not Look For An SDK Generator, They Will Look For A Problem To Solve
- Refresh Datasets, Publish Reports And Embed Dashboards With Power BI
- Send Multi-Channel Notifications And Promote Them To Production With Novu
- Publish APIs, Set Usage Limits And Build A Developer Portal With Amazon API Gateway
- Open Pull Requests, Track Issues And Find Vulnerable Dependencies With GitHub
- Provision Quantum Workspaces And Submit Quantum Jobs With Microsoft Azure Quantum
- The Dutch Government Now Runs On OpenLint
- Score The APIs Nobody Outside Your Company Can See
- Walk The History Of APIs From Talking Drums To Agent Protocols In One Call
- The Microsoft API Estate: 169 Surfaces, One Company, and the Work of Making It Coherent
- The Client Stack Did Not Collapse, It Went Dark
- Okapi Is Dependabot For APIs, And The Business Needs The Register Behind It
- Hire, Pay And Manage Employees In Other Countries Without A Local Entity Using Remote
- Find Target Companies And Enrich Your CRM With Firmographic Data From Coresignal
- Build Audience Segments, Run A/B Tests And Manage Email Subscribers With Adobe Experience Cloud
- Generate Images, Video And Audio With AI Models From Your Own App Using fal
- Host Your Code, Track Issues And Ship Releases On Your Own Servers With Gitea
- What To Check Before You Call Your API Production Ready
- Healthcare: A Bundle For The Shape Of The Answer
- Five Hundred Eighteen Companies Hire For Sarbanes-Oxley And One For The Colorado AI Act
- Find The PII And Secrets An API Exposes Before You Hand It To An Agent
- Manage Orders, Fulfill Shipments And Organize Products With Shopify
- Run AI Prompts In Bulk, Manage Team Workspaces And Deploy Agents With Anthropic
- Add Login, Multi-Factor Authentication And Enterprise Single Sign-On To Your Product With Auth0
- Run Open Source AI Models, Transcribe Audio And Search Datasets With Hugging Face
- Store, Rotate And Recover Passwords And API Keys With Amazon Secrets Manager
- The APIs.io Pricing Page Now Shows How APIs Charge
- Service Level Agreements Come Back Around As SLA4OAI
- Modeling An API By Talking To It With Structura
- Make The Case For API Investment With Facts Instead Of Feelings
- Find Which Companies Are Ready To Do Business Through APIs
- Control Who Sees Your Data, Manage Warehouses And Run AI Models With Snowflake
- Find The Root Cause Of Outages, Search Logs And Forecast Monitoring Costs With Dynatrace
- Add Webhooks To Your Product And Recover Failed Deliveries With Svix
- Manage Marketing Emails, Campaign Budgets And Customer Conversations With HubSpot
- Run Website Reports, Send Server Events And Handle Privacy Deletion Requests With Google Analytics
- Use A Score To Build Your API Roadmap And Not To Chase A Number
- The Same Fifty Providers Sit Under Every Kind Of Application
- The Decoder Only Pours Part Of The Bedrock
- Check Two OpenAPI Versions For Breaking Changes, And Know What It Cannot See
- Publish Your APIs, Issue Developer Keys And Package API Products With Apigee
- Monitor Your Systems, Respond To Incidents And Track Cloud Costs With Datadog
- Send Webhooks Reliably And Retry Failed Deliveries Automatically With Convoy
- Manage Support Tickets, Customer Records And Satisfaction Ratings With Zendesk
- Verify Insurance Eligibility, Check Claim Status And Handle Prior Authorization With Availity
October 2026
- Send Logs, Set Up Alerts And Troubleshoot Slow Applications With New Relic
- Test And Monitor Your APIs And Generate Client Libraries Automatically With Postman
- Transcribe Meetings, Create Voiceovers And Track Your AI Spending With OpenAI
- Run Ad Campaigns, Capture Leads And Post Jobs Automatically With LinkedIn
- Create, Back Up And Restore Your Postgres Databases Automatically With Prisma
- Governing The Inputs And Outputs Of Inference
- Find And Verify Business Email Addresses And Build Lead Lists With Hunter
- Scale, Stop And Start Your Kubernetes Clusters Automatically With Azure Kubernetes Service
- Create Jira Issues, Publish Confluence Pages And Manage Team Access With Atlassian
- Manage User Logins, Roles And Feature Flags For Your App With Kinde
- Run, Cancel And Re-Run Your Software Builds Automatically With GitHub Actions
- Reddit Closed Its API. Here Is Where Agents Can Still Post And Read
- Someone Mapped Who Is Standardizing Agentic Commerce
- Search Sixteen Years Of API Research From One Call
- I Mapped Every MCP Working Group, Interest Group, And Extension
- Automate Ecommerce Email Campaigns And Segment Shoppers With Omnisend
- Run Code Without Managing Servers And Release It Safely With AWS Lambda
- Automate Branch Cleanup And Push Notifications With GitLab
- Run Traffic Reports And Build Audience Segments With Adobe Analytics
- Manage Event Contacts, Discount Codes And Campaign Email With Cvent Event Cloud
- Skills Over MCP Is Now Officially Beta
- Lint An OpenAPI And Find Out Which Rules Decide If It Passes
- Google Ships Agent Skills Like Products, And That's The Lifecycle They Need
- E-Invoicing: The Shape Of The Answer
- API Evangelist Is Now A Financial Contributor To OpenLint
- Trigger Builds And Retry Failed Jobs Automatically With Buildkite
- Run A Managed Graph Database And Predict Connections With Amazon Neptune
- Connect To Your Customers Accounting, HR And CRM Systems With Merge
- Send Contracts For Electronic Signature And Track Them With Docusign
- Send Marketing Email And Manage Contact Lists With SendGrid
- Who Actually Gets To Define API Standards
- Two Hundred Nine API Companies And Seven Hundred Seventy-Five Enterprises Hire In Different Worlds
- The MCP Maintenance Bill Depends On How You Built It
- Can Your MCP Server Finish The Job?
- Australian Government Is Open But Not Yet Discoverable By Agents
- Advertising: The Shape Of The Answer
- Share Files And Add Maps, Places, And Routes To Your Business With Google
- Compare USPS, UPS, FedEx, And DHL Shipping Rates With SMKlog
- Run Your Catalog, Pricing, And Customers In Software With BigCommerce
- Automate Clusters, User Access, And Patching With Red Hat
- Manage Products, Orders, And Coupons For Your Online Store With WooCommerce
- Telecom Network APIs: The Shape Of The Answer
- Regulation Writes The API
- Writing the MCP Style Guide for the Tools an Agent Reads First
- Why I Forked Spectral, And Why It Became OpenLint
- Track Errors, Releases And Cron Jobs In Your Software With Sentry
- Create, Track And Report On Issues Automatically With Jira
- Take Payments, Run Subscriptions And Send Invoices With Stripe
- Automate Projects, Tasks And Team Goals With Asana
- Calculate Sales Tax And File Returns Automatically With Avalara
- The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia
- Start With The Flow, Not The Agent
- Shipping: The Shape Of The Answer
- What Sets Australia Apart In Banking And Telco
- What 467 Conformant A2A Agent Cards Are Actually Offering
- The Specification Layer Now Has a Home
- A Meter With No Rate On It
- Open Responses Gets A Neutral Home, And A Baseline
- Insurance: The Shape Of The Answer Is Behind A Login
- If You Depend On OpenAPI Please Become a Member
- Gateways Count Every Token And Charge For Almost None Of Them
- API Monetization Is Falling Flat, Maybe It Is The Word
- Who Owns The Agent: The Panel At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
- We Had The Agent Protocol In 2008 And We Left It On The Table
- We Did Not Skip Hypermedia, We Moved It Out Of The Response
- Trust You Can Carry Has To Be Written Down
- Payments And Banking: The Shape Of The Answer
- Discovery Is The First Governance Control: My Keynote At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York
- A Banker Said Finance Does Not Have Enough MCP Servers And They Are Right About The Banks
- Where The Market Layer Of The Kin Score Stands
- What A Program Needs In Order To Decide
- Three Hundred Eighty Companies Say Claude And One Hundred Forty-Two Say Anthropic
- Healthcare: The Shape Of The Answer
- Four Companies Serve Skills Over MCP The Way The Spec Says
- Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Agent Cards Are Live, And We Are Not Counting Ours
- The Incumbent And The Challenger: NCR Voyix And Lightspeed
- Five Thousand Official SDKs, And Nine Thousand That Are Not
- DeepInfer And The Shape Of The Answer
- A Listing Is Not A Certification
- The Human In The Loop Is Now One Email
- The Harness That Works Is A Contract
- The First Poppy Files, and the One a Vendor Wrote
- The Brands Are Missing From Their Own Markets
- We Don't Need No Stink'n Rules!
- Every Regulated Market Already Publishes Its Own Map
- A Competitive Landscape Harness
- Five MCP Servers Put A Price In The Tool In Four Different Shapes
- The Wires Are Crossed: Slop For Humans, Structure For Agents
- Nobody Is Forecasting The Transactional API Economy
- Commune Has An API And Substack Does Not
- An Agent Found Four APIs And All Four Decided To Trust It
- Six Standards Nobody Ratified, Measured Against What The Industry Built
- One Hundred Two Companies Hiring For MCP And The Enterprises Are Ahead
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