[{
"slug": "2024-08-24-session-two",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Tim Lane",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Where do you work?"},
{"question": "What industry do you work in?"},
{"question": "Are you an API producer, consumer, service provider, tooling provider, or analyst?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "Are APIs a priority with your leadership?"},
{"question": "What is your biggest challenge with APIs?"},
{"question": "Why do you think people don’t care about APIs?"},
{"question": "Do you work with REST APIs?"},
{"question": "Do you use OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "What is the most interesting part of your job?"},
{"question": "What book are you reading?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-08-23-session-one",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Kin Lane",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Where do you work?"},
{"question": "What industry do you work in?"},
{"question": "Are you an API producer, consumer, service provider, tooling provider, or analyst?"},
{"question": "What is API Conversations?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "Do you use OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "Do you use JSON Schema?"},
{"question": "What is your biggest challenge with APIs?"},
{"question": "What is a priority for you right now?"},
{"question": "What is not a priority but wish it was?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-03-pat-patterson-backblaze",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Why do you use the title technical evangelist?"},
{"question": "What industry do you work in?"},
{"question": "What do you mean by S3-compatible storage?"},
{"question": "Is the Amazon S3 API a standard?"},
{"question": "How long have you been an evangelist?"},
{"question": "What is the most effective tool in your API toolbox?"},
{"question": "What is a priority for you right now?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-040-stanislav-zmiev-monite",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Stanislav Zmiev, Tech Lead of Platform Engineering at Monite",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why is API change management important?"},
{"question": "What is API versioning?"},
{"question": "Why did you build your versioning solution as open-source?"},
{"question": "What is the cost of API versioning?"},
{"question": "Is the Stripe API a standard when it comes to versioning?"},
{"question": "What motivates you?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-05-sebastian-loch-fatsecret",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Sebastian Loch, Business Development at FatSecret",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "What is your biggest challenge with APIs?"},
{"question": "What does it mean to operate an API in an AI-driven landscape?"},
{"question": "Is business development important when it comes to selling to AI applications?"},
{"question": "Is artificial intelligence more than training with APIs and access AI with APIs?"},
{"question": "How do you operate your APIs?"},
{"question": "How did you learn about APIs as a business stakeholders?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-10-adam-duvander-everydeveloper",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Adam DuVander, Technical Content Strategist at EveryDeveloper",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Did you see I updated my resources and removed ProgrammableWeb?"},
{"question": "Why do you think ProgrammableWeb couldn't stay alive?"},
{"question": "We all used the ProgrammableWeb hockey stick chart to guide our journeys?"},
{"question": "What should API producers be investing in to get the story out there?"},
{"question": "Who should the stories API producer tell speak to?"},
{"question": "Is marketing more than just outputting a story?"},
{"question": "Should product, sales, and support be getting more involved in API lifecycle?"},
{"question": "Who is paying attention to APIs?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-12-daniel-kocot-codecentric-ag",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Daniel Kocot, Head of API Consulting at codecentric AG",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "What is your background?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "Do you use OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "Is TypeSpec used for automation?"},
{"question": "Is TypeSpec used with OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "What is needed to make TypeSpec successful?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-18-dale-mccrory-breeze-strategy",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Dale McCrory, Software and Product Management Leader at Breeze Strategy",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why should business leadership care about APIs?"},
{"question": "Why do businesses need an API product manager?"},
{"question": "What are the different types of APIs?"},
{"question": "How do you generate value from APIs?"},
{"question": "Are APIs more than just technical?"},
{"question": "What is the difference between API and SDKs?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-18-robert-buchanan-pg",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Robert Buchanan, API Evangelist Driving API Integrations and API First practices at Procter & Gamble",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "What is the top mistake you see people make doing APIs?"},
{"question": "Why do people see APIs as just a technical thing?"},
{"question": "Where is the source of truth for APIs?"},
{"question": "Should business people be involved with APIs?"},
{"question": "Is OpenAPI a contract?"},
{"question": "Why do you use OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "What are custom HTTP methods?"},
{"question": "Why is it so hard to understand the semantics of APIs?"},
{"question": "What worries you most about the future?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-19-jamie-tanna-elastic",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Jamie Tanna, Engineering Productivity at Elastic",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "What is difference between web APIs and other APIs?"},
{"question": "What is Semantic Versioning?"},
{"question": "Why should you start an API with 0.1.0 version?"},
{"question": "What are other ways to communicate API change?"},
{"question": "What API providers do versioning well?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-24-heather-xiao-horizon-zero-ltd",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Heather Xiao, Founder and CEO at Horizon Zero Ltd",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "What is your background?"},
{"question": "What is Smart Data?"},
{"question": "Is Smart Data about having empathy for end-users?"},
{"question": "Does paying attention to end-users create better outcomes?"},
{"question": "Is it better to focus on real-world outcomes over the technology?"},
{"question": "Should technologists talks less about APIs and more about business?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-09-26-bruno-vaz-da-costa-api-architect-digital-plumber-at-rhi-magnesita",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Bruno Vaz da Costa, API Architect (digital plumber) at RHI Magnesita",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why do APIs matter?"},
{"question": "What is your biggest challenge with APIs?"},
{"question": "What does API standardization look like in your industry?"},
{"question": "Why does your business leaders want to standardize APIs?"},
{"question": "Is standardization about using 3rd party APIs?"},
{"question": "Why does on-premise APIs matter to your industry?"},
{"question": "How do you get people to care about APIs?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-08-sue-smith-fastly",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Sue Smith, Senior Learning Experience Manager at Fastly",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "What is education in technology?"},
{"question": "Do we properly teach the technology fundamentals?"},
{"question": "What do people need to learn to be successful?"},
{"question": "What are semantic APIs?"},
{"question": "Do you feel like we have enough discipline to be called engineers?"},
{"question": "What are the technology fundamentals?"},
{"question": "How do we educate people when things always change?"},
{"question": "Are we losing the web through walled gardens?"},
{"question": "Are we feeding developers curiosity?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-15-subramanian-krishnan-cloud-software-group",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Subramanian Krishnan, Architect and API Integration at Cloud Software Group within Citrix",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Is cloud cost management a growing trend?"},
{"question": "Is this about doing more with less?"},
{"question": "Do you recommend backend developers get more customer-facing experience?"},
{"question": "How do you stay adaptable?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-17-lorna-mitchell-redocly",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Lorna Mitchell, VP of Developer Experience at Redocly",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is Redocly CLI?"},
{"question": "How do you handle references?"},
{"question": "How does rules linting apply beyond just OpenAPI?"},
{"question": "Is Redocly extensible?"},
{"question": "What is the future of API governance?"},
{"question": "How do people get involved with the OpenAPI specification?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-22-raymond-camden-adobe",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate at Adobe",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "What are you working on?"},
{"question": "What can you do with Cloudflare?"},
{"question": "What are you building?"},
{"question": "What benefits are there using the API over the UI?"},
{"question": "Are semantics important to AI?"},
{"question": "How much time are you spending working with AI?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-24-luke-seelenbinder-stadia-maps",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Luke Seelenbinder, Founder & CEO of Stadia Maps",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What makes you think that you can take on Google Maps?"},
{"question": "What are your thoughts on product-led growth?"},
{"question": "What does APIs as a product mean?"},
{"question": "What is your biggest challenge with APIs?"},
{"question": "Are you consumers just developers or business stakeholders?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-10-29-ian-mai-executive-coach",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Ian Mai, Executive ADHD & Impulse Control Coach",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why are you leaving tech?"},
{"question": "What advice do you have for someone starting their career?"},
{"question": "Is addiction the right word to use?"},
{"question": "Are you still focusing on helping people in tech?"},
{"question": "Is there a role technology companies play in making addictive software?"},
{"question": "What does your regular routine look like?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-11-01-greg-dennis-zeil",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Greg Dennis, Senior Software Engineer at Zeil",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is the difference between HTTP APIs and programming language APIs?"},
{"question": "How long have you been developing programming language library APIs?"},
{"question": "Do programming language libraries offer more of a buffet of resources?"},
{"question": "Where did you learn to build programming language libraries?"},
{"question": "Do you have feedback loop with your consumers?"},
{"question": "Why is JSON Schema important to your work?"},
{"question": "Is it better to have open source as a side project?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-12-03-asanka-abeysinghe",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Asanka Abeysinghe, CTO at WSO2",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is important to you right now?"},
{"question": "What does it mean to be building an API platform?"},
{"question": "What do people need from an API platform?"},
{"question": "What obstacles are in the way of delivering high quality APIs?"},
{"question": "Do business people care about APIs?"},
{"question": "Who has more power API producers or consumers?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-12-05-henry-calvert-gsma",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Henry Calvert, Global Head of Future Networks @ GSMA",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is the GSMA Open Gateway?"},
{"question": "How was the API experience crafted for developers?"},
{"question": "How was the API experience crafted for business leadership?"},
{"question": "How are you addressing the regulatory side of things?"},
{"question": "Will APIs make mobile telco networks more visible?"},
{"question": "Can your approach be applied cross industry?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-12-05-lorna-mitchell",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Lorna Mitchell, OpenAPI Specification Maintainer with the OpenAPI Initiative",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Do you do better work in between jobs?"},
{"question": "What are OpenAPI Overlays?"},
{"question": "What are the most common use cases for OpenAPI Overlays?"},
{"question": "Will OpenAPI Overlays move API experience forward?"},
{"question": "Will OpenAPI Overlays allow more stakeholders to get involved with APIs?"},
{"question": "Can OpenAPI Overlays be associated with API lifecycle stages?"},
{"question": "Can OpenAPI Overlays be part of a code-first approach to APIs?"},
{"question": "What has been the tooling response to OpenAPI Overlays?"},
{"question": "Can OpenAPI Overlays help with the OpenAPI 3.x tooling adoption?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-12-11-claire-barrett-apisfirst",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Claire Barrett, Digital Strategist at APIsFirst",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your background?"},
{"question": "Are you hearing a lot of chatter about justifying the return on investment with APIs?"},
{"question": "Who is responsible for where we are at today?"},
{"question": "What does APIs as a product mean?"},
{"question": "What gets the attention of business leadership?"},
{"question": "Do API service providers understand what the enterprise needs?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2024-12-12-lorna-mitchell",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Lorna Mitchell, OpenAPI Specification Maintainer with the OpenAPI Initiative",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is an OpenAPI extension?"},
{"question": "How do OpenAPI extensions impact API experience?"},
{"question": "When should you extend the OpenAPI spec?"},
{"question": "How do you name your OpenAPI extension?"},
{"question": "If you extend the OpenAPI spec should you come present extension to community?"},
{"question": "Should people come to the OAI TSC meetings to discuss extensions?"},
{"question": "Should we be talking about API experience instead of the API lifecycle?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-06-ben-hutton-guild",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Ben Hutton of The Guild Software",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Can you summarize the conversation on LinkedIn?"},
{"question": "Where do you begin when working with APIs?"},
{"question": "What are the reasons for providing an SDK?"},
{"question": "What is difference between snippets, libraries, and SDKs?"},
{"question": "Why do some enterprises not want to use your API SDK?"},
{"question": "How do you decide when to produce an SDK for your API?"},
{"question": "Are we entering a pro SDK phrase or anti SDK phase?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-16-reza-shafii-kong",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Reza Shafii, Product Executive At Kong",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Why are API integrations dead?"},
{"question": "What is an API integration?"},
{"question": "What is an API?"},
{"question": "What is the role of an API gateway?"},
{"question": "What is the role of API specifications?"},
{"question": "What does business leadership care about?"},
{"question": "What is the role of API governance?"},
{"question": "Is this just signalling another layer of abstraction?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-18-dave-shanley-princess-beef-heavy-industries",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Dave Shanley of Princess Beef Heavy Industries",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is Princess Heavy Beef Industries?"},
{"question": "What is the story behind Vacuum?"},
{"question": "What is possible with default vs. custom rules functions?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-19-vincent-biret-microsoft",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Vincent Biret, Microsoft Graph SDKs Principal Software Developer at Microsoft",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is your role?"},
{"question": "Can you share more about OpenAPI parsing?"},
{"question": "Is this consumer-driven SDK generation?"},
{"question": "What does the API integration layer look like for AI?"},
{"question": "What is the relationship between APIs, plugins, and AI?"},
{"question": "What is the role of semantics in providing context for AI?"},
{"question": "What keeps you going each day?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-30-adrian-machado-zuplo",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Adrian Machado Staff Software Engineer at Zuplo",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is API rate limiting?"},
{"question": "How is rate limiting about the business of API?"},
{"question": "Does API rate limiting need to be standardized?"},
{"question": "What are some concerns around API monetization?"},
{"question": "What is important to you right now?"},
{"question": "Can you apply API gateway policies to a single domain?"},
{"question": "Is experimentation at the API gateway important?"},
{"question": "Why should API documentation be free?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-01-30-daniel-kocot-codecentric-ag",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Daniel Kocot, Head of API Consulting at codecentric AG",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "How do you see the boundaries between private and public APIs?"},
{"question": "Are the boundaries between APIs a technical thing?"},
{"question": "What is the motivation for centralizing APIs?"},
{"question": "Should internal APIs be prepared for external access anytime?"},
{"question": "Are shadow APIs a problem?"},
{"question": "Does business leadership understand the security of API portals?"},
{"question": "Is it hard to convince enterprise to slow down and do APIs well?"},
{"question": "Who puts API governance into the pipelilnes?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-02-03-dave-shanley-princess-beef-heavy-industries",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Dave Shanley of Princess Beef Heavy Industries",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is the OpenAPI Doctor?"},
{"question": "Is the OpenAPI Doctor for API producers or consumers?"},
{"question": "Is this also for the API governance role?"},
{"question": "Can you talk about the modularity of OpenAPI Doctor?"},
{"question": "Does this help the enterprise invest in their own platform?"},
{"question": "What is libopenapi?"},
{"question": "Can libopenapi help us reduce the spec clutter?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-02-05-jennifer-riggins",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation About Nothing Changing in the World of APIs with Jennifer Riggins",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Can you tell us about your story in The New Stack?"},
{"question": "Who is responsible for things not changing?"},
{"question": "Is the move from API management to API platform a good one?"},
{"question": "Can platform build a bridge with business stakeholders?"},
{"question": "What tools do API product owners need?"},
{"question": "Are we being told that things are moving faster when they are not?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-02-06-adron-hall",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation About Trains, AI, Rich Fat Cats, Big Money, and Politics with Adron Hall",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "Can you tell us about the early days of the railoads?"},
{"question": "Can you share the parallels with what is happening today?"},
{"question": "What are the similarities in the financing and money of all of this?"},
{"question": "What is the role of government in all of this?"},
{"question": "Is there any racism, genocide, or xenophobia involved?"},
{"question": "What do you say to folks who say there aren't any lessons in the past?"},
{"question": "Can you share your train story?"},
{"question": "Did it change your view of trains?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-02-18-frank-kilcommins",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation With Frank Kilcommins About the OpenAPI Arazzo Specification",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is the Arazzo specification?"},
{"question": "What tooling adoption are you seeing around the Arazzo specification?"},
{"question": "Are we going to be able to govern Arazzo?"},
{"question": "Do you see Arazzo and OpenAPI working together?"},
{"question": "Where can people get involved?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-02-27-juan-cruz-viotti",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation With Juan Cruz Viotti of Sourcemeta About Schema Registries",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What do you do?"},
{"question": "Why is JSON Schema important?"},
{"question": "Why did you build a schema registry?"},
{"question": "Why does the version of JSON Schema you use matter?"},
{"question": "How does tooling influence how we use JSON Schema?"},
{"question": "What is the relationship between OpenAPI and JSON Schema?"},
{"question": "What does Sourcemeta do?"},
{"question": "Where shoud enterprises start with getting their schema house in order?"},
{"question": "Why is performance important for JSON Schema validation?"},
{"question": "Where can people find you?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-03-05-marc-laventure",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation With Marc Laventure of Scalar",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What is Scalar?"},
{"question": "Why did you build around the OpenAPI spec?"},
{"question": "Who is your customer, the API producer or consumer?"},
{"question": "Is Scalar just for engineers, or business users to?"},
{"question": "How is documentation published?"},
{"question": "How are you going to make money?"},
{"question": "What is lighting up your imagination right now?"},
{"question": "What keeps you coming into work?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2025-03-06-derek-thompson",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation With Derek Thompson of Ambassador",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What do you build for the API lifecycle?"},
{"question": "How are you applying AI to generate code for developers?"},
{"question": "Are you focused on the mundane aspects of API development?"},
{"question": "Are you building guard rails for developers?"}
]
},{
"slug": "2026-05-20-mike-amundsen",
"title": "API Evangelist Conversation with Mike Amundsen on the Lineage of the Web, Hypermedia, Capabilities, and What Comes Next",
"questions":[
{"question": "Who are you?"},
{"question": "What did you learn writing books across the decades?"},
{"question": "How do you feel about the web today?"},
{"question": "After a decade of microservices, what are your thoughts?"},
{"question": "What is hypermedia?"},
{"question": "What is the role of information architecture in giving us the meaning we need?"},
{"question": "Why is Ted Nelson a literary radical?"},
{"question": "Who was Wendy Hall, the steward of links?"},
{"question": "Who was Leonard Richardson, the collaborative realist?"},
{"question": "What's the role of ontology, taxonomy, and choreography in hypermedia?"},
{"question": "What does the word "capability" mean to you?"},
{"question": "Who should be in the room when crafting capabilities?"},
{"question": "How does all this translate into agentic systems?"},
{"question": "How do we reconcile traditional automation and orchestration with agentic?"},
{"question": "How do we help people stay grounded when the hype cycle pulls them away?"},
{"question": "How do you help people who don't have much control over the AI work landing on them?"}
]
}]