Most API governance advice is aspirational. This is the status-quo stack — what governing APIs actually looks like, from someone who stood one up at scale. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/fundamentals-of-api-governance/
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Looks like I will be at apidays Toronto September 9th and 10th -- talk accepted, train ticket purchased, and hotel acquired. See you there! www.apidays.global/events/toronto
The technology was always the easy part. Whether your API gets used at all comes down to storytelling and human persuasion. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/fundamentals-of-api-evangelism/
You can't govern, secure, or automate what you can't find. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/fundamentals-of-api-discovery/
Cigna Healthcare tops the US insurance stack when it comes to APIs and programmability, but with only a strong composite Kin Score, and only agent-aware, there is a massive opportunity in the insurance space. providers.apievangelist.com/us-insurance/
Some of the work and narrative behind why I felt it was critical to separate the Spectral spec from the tooling, and will keep investing in it until there is a home. apievangelist.com/2026/08/05/t...
The Tool Is One Implementation Among ManyWhen I say the ruleset format matters more than the linter that runs it, that is a claim, and a claim is worth almost nothing without a list behind it. So I ...apievangelist.comMarkdown is production configuration now. AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, rules — they drive what agents do, and almost nobody governs them. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/explicit-agent-boundaries/
A small deep-tech book that instruments its own agents and builds almost nothing at the top. Every DCVC company that ships an API, scored. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/dcvc-api-portfolio/
Your Spectral ruleset reaches the IDE and the pipeline. It does not reach the conversation — which is now where APIs actually get designed. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/conversational-api-governance/
A broad, long-vintage generalist book that still has no reference-grade API. Every Canaan Partners company that ships an API, scored. https://papers.apievangelist.com/papers/canaan-partners-api-portfolio/
Apigee comes out on top in my latest state of the API management market report. providers.apievangelist.com/management/
