API Evangelist Papers
Formal, practitioner-focused white papers by Kin Lane — each one takes a consequential piece of API operations and turns sixteen years of research and field work into an opinionated, reusable playbook, complete with anti-patterns and a self-assessment you can run against your own operations. Experience-based, vendor-neutral, and revised on a regular cycle. Every paper is $25.00 — instant PDF + Word download.
The Fundamentals of API Discovery
The unglamorous prerequisite under governance, security, and AI — inventory as archaeology, the taxonomy of the dead, machine-readable discovery on...
The Fundamentals of API Governance
The real governance stack — landscape mapping, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, policies and Spectral rules, design-first vs. code-first, Git, IDE, CI/CD, shi...
The Fundamentals of API Evangelism
The technology was always the easy part — belief before adoption, internal-first, the blog as a compounding asset, outreach and onboarding, communi...
Publishing a Public MCP Server
Treat MCP as part of your API operations, not a science project — the three provider archetypes, the build → auth → curate → host → govern → distri...
About API Evangelist White Papers
These differ from a blog post or a vendor white paper in three ways: the recommendations come from doing the work at scale, no sponsor steers the conclusions, and each is a living document carrying a version and an "as of" date. Buy once and you get every future revision of that paper.