Name: S2 E12 - API Risks and Rewards in the Age of AI by The API Experience Podcast
Duration: 56 min 3 s
Description: In this episode, Ken Han and Baljeet Malhotra of Teejlab join Mike and Matt to discuss how to manage the spectrum of risks for APIs, how risk management relates to API discovery, and what new risks–and rewards–the explosion of AI technologies is creating in the world of APIs.

In this episode, Mike and Matt are joined by Alli Deacon of GraceBlood LLC. Alli shares her unique path into the application integration business, her experience incorporating APIs into a world of EDI and ERP's, as well as some of the unique business challenges she has faced and solved in sorting out increasingly complex supply chains for her customers.

S2 E3 - APIs in the Deep End

In this episode, Mike and Matt welcome Christian Posta, Field CTO at solo.io, to share his insights on the role of APIs in the AI Agent space, the framing of APIs as agentic capabilities, and the enterprise readiness of Model Context Protocol (MCP).

S2 E4 - APIs, MCP, and Agentic Capabilities

In this episode, Kin Lane joins Mike and Matt to share his experience as a builder and leader in the global API community, to recount some of the biggest lessons he has learned along the way, and to discuss what he sees in the future for APIs.

S2 E5 The History and Future of the API Evangelist

Description: In this episode, Mike and Matt make the case for why following the best practices of API strategy and implementation is the best path to readiness for implementing AI Agents. Along the way, they talk about where agentic technology can best be applied first, what some of the big blockers will be, and how well-defined, well-designed APIs can provide the foundation.

S2 E6 - The API Advantage for AI Agents

In this episode, Mike and Matt explore two of Mike’s most recent pieces of writing, which both explore how to design for unknown and emergent systems. The first article covers the concept of innovation, and its relationship to emergent systems. The second brief article calls out a new perspective in design: catering to machine clients rather than humans.

S2 E7 - Designing for Emergence

In this podcast, Diana Montalion–author of Learning Systems Thinking and the upcoming Knowledge Flow–does a deep dive into the essence of information and knowledge, how they relate to context and action, and the role APIs play in allowing knowledge flow in digital ecosystems. Connect with Diana at https://montalion.com/.

S2 E8 - The Role of APIs in Knowledge Flow

In this episode, Mike and Matt speculate about the future of APIs in the post-GenAI world. They challenge conventional wisdom regarding API protocols, development lifecycles, discovery mechanisms and more with an eye to what organizations can do right now to prepare. Also tulips. :-)


S2 E9 - What will the API landscape look like in 2028

In this episode, Mike and Matt continue their discussion on the post-GenAI API landscape. This time, they dive deeper into API protocols as well as predicting what the impact of AI will be on API security, traffic management, and the API economy as a whole.

S2 E10 - What will the API landscape look like in 2028? - Part 2

In this episode, Mike, Matt, and guest co-host Stephen Fishman sit down with Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. Tim recalls the origins of the API Economy and "Web 2.0", assesses the impacts of AI on the current digital landscape, and envisions the future of APIs–including MCP, open ecosystems, and the emergence of semantic networks.

S2 E11 - From the origin of APIs to the future of AI

In this episode, Ken Han and Baljeet Malhotra of Teejlab join Mike and Matt to discuss how to manage the spectrum of risks for APIs, how risk management relates to API discovery, and what new risks–and rewards–the explosion of AI technologies is creating in the world of APIs.

S2 E12 - API Risks and Rewards in the Age of AI

Hosts Matt McLarty and Mike Amundsen take a look across the digital landscape and identify key focus areas that are currently impacting the world of APIs, Integration, and Business.

S2 E12 - API Risks and Rewards in the Age of AI

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