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It Is Difficult To Know Where To Begin With APIs

The API landscape is huge. APIs are being used to power desktop, web, mobile, and device applications across almost every business sector…

Oct 21, 2019

It Is Difficult To Know Where To Begin With APIs

Oct 21, 2019

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Round Two Of The Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse Platform RFI

I’m spending some more time thinking about APIs at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in response to round two of their request for…

Feb 27, 2018

Round Two Of The Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse Platform RFI

Feb 27, 2018

Kin Lane

My Response On The Department Of Veterans Affairs (VA) RFI For The Lighthouse API Management…

I am working with my partners in the government API space (Skylight, 540, Agile Six) to respond to a request for information (RFI) out of…

Nov 15, 2017

Nov 15, 2017

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2,210 Unique API Resources Across 66 Amazon Web Services

This is my work to define the APIs offered by Amazon Web Services. This work is all defined used OpenAPI Spec, and indexed using APIs.json…

Jan 13, 2017

Jan 13, 2017

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Finding The Right Dystopian Filter To Represent The World Unfolding Around Us

I got sucked into a project over the holidays, partly because it was an interesting technical challenge, but mostly because it provided me…

Jan 4, 2017

Finding The Right Dystopian Filter To Represent The World Unfolding Around Us

Jan 4, 2017

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Thinking About The Monetization Layer For Public Data

This is my walk-through of the concepts involved with the monetization of public data using APIs. In this work I am not advocating that…

Jan 4, 2017

Jan 4, 2017

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API Best Practices: The Legal Department

In my last post I discussed common support practices that define successful API operations. Today I will cover legal aspects to be…

Nov 29, 2016

API Best Practices: The Legal Department

Nov 29, 2016

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API Best Practices: Support

Supporting your API community may seem obvious, but this is one of the most common elements missing from API providers. Support isn’t easy…

Nov 23, 2016

API Best Practices: Support

Nov 23, 2016

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API Best Practices: Communication

It can be easy to overlook communications as it pertains to API operations when efforts are born out of technical groups, but it should be…

Nov 15, 2016

API Best Practices: Communication

Nov 15, 2016

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API Best Practices: Code Resources

In my last post I shared three essential things any good API documentation should include: list paths, interactive tools and status/error…

Nov 8, 2016

API Best Practices: Code Resources

Nov 8, 2016

Kin Lane

Kin Lane

I am the @apievangelist , and chief evangelist for @getpostman , sharing stories of the API lifecycle, and helping you make sense of everything API.

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