Mike Amundsen
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- apidays Paris4 editions2012–2025
- apidays New York3 editions2020–2025
- GOTO Chicago3 editions2019–2023
all 16 in the filters
on a stage with
- Erik Wildeonce
- Mehdi Medjaouionce
- Ronnie Mitraonce
who talks about the same things
- Erik Wilde15 talks
- Kin Lane9 talks
- Mehdi Medjaoui31 talks
- Chris Ward18 talks
- Alan Glickenhouse14 talks
- Daniel Kocot14 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| From Automation to Augmentation: AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise | Accelerate Chicago 2026 | 2026-06-22 |
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2026. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo
https://gotochgo.com
Mike Amundsen - Independent Author, Speaker, Trainer & Advisor… | ||
| Hypermed-AI: Where intelligence Emerges from Connection | apidays Paris 2025 | 2025-12-09 |
Argues that combining hypermedia with AI makes workflows emerge at runtime: agents read action, context, results descriptions (HTML forms, MCP JSON manifests)… | ||
| Designing APIs with OpenAPI: Build the Right APIs the Right Way. | apidays New York 2025 | 2025-05-14 |
OpenAPI gets used as a prototyping language: create a plain-text three design assets story, a connection diagram, and a vocabulary, then build a spec that… | ||
| AI + ALPS = API | apidays New York 2025 | 2025-05-14 |
Shows a workflow that turns a plain user story into an ALPS document via a prompt library and an ALPS assistant, converts that to OpenAPI or directly to a… | ||
| Five Essential Design Assets for Successful APIs | apidays Paris 2024 | 2024-12-02 |
Five essential API design assets are stated and demonstrated with a running person service example: story, vocabulary, diagram, description and a… | ||
| RESTful API Patterns & Practices | GOTO Amsterdam 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Practical catalog of 75+ patterns organized into design, clients, services, data and workflow with concrete claims: 11 design patterns for interoperability and… | ||
| RESTful API Patterns and Practices | apidays New York 2024 | 2024-04-30 |
Catalog of reusable API solutions emphasizing concrete practices: make clients format-aware so new response types need only an extra parser; keep the API… | ||
| Programming the Web with HyperLANG & HyperCLI | GOTO Chicago 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
A command-line REPL and small DSL that actually programs across HTTP APIs: HyperCLI stores a stack of responses, fills forms and follows links, and runs… | ||
| Continuous API Strategy Management | apidays Paris 2021 | 2021-12-07 |
Book claims organizations that treat APIs as managed products see a 50% increase in effectiveness per Coleman Park; IDC shows 90% of companies plan… | ||
| Panel : Continuous API management with all 4 co-authors | apidays Paris 2021 | 2021-12-07 |
Panelists argue the API landscape shows a clear maturity leap over the last three to four years: the new edition adds a new chapter on API styles, richer… | ||
| Leveraging Autonomous Agents on the Web | Developers Summit 2021 | 2021-02-18 |
Demonstrates building AMEE, a goal-based agent that navigates random web-hosted mazes expressed as XML/JSON/RDF over HTTP using ALPS profiles for vocabulary… | ||
| Testing Your APIs: Postman, Newman & Beyond | Postman Galaxy 2021 | 2021-02-02 |
Walks through a two-layer workflow: fast simple request tests with curl for quick endpoint validation, then full Postman collections using Chai JS assertions… | ||
| Reconnecting with our futures past | Apidays LIVE Paris 2020 | 2020-12-08 |
Survey of century-old technical bets links concrete artifacts to today: Otlet, Vannevar Bush’s memex film-strip model, Engelbart’s mouse and hyperlinked… | ||
| Design and Build Great Web APIs | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Argues for a repeatable API-first workflow: design (story, diagram, ALPS description), build (sketch with API Blueprint, prototype with OpenAPI, implement in… | ||
| Microservice Migration Roadmap | Developer Summit 2020 | 2020-11-21 |
Migrating a monolith to microservices uses a concrete roadmap: STAR: Stabilize, Transform, Add, Repeat — first insert pass-through proxies (Envoy/service mesh… | ||
| GraphQL, gRPC, REST, Oh My! - A Method for Unified API Design | apidays LIVE Jakarta 2020 | 2020-09-30 |
Argues for designing APIs as an abstract interface description using ALPS description (or Dublin Core profiles) instead of HTTP-first artifacts, and… | ||
| GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design | GOTOpia Europe 2020 | 2020-09-15 |
Claims that API design should be implementation-agnostic and based on properties and actions rather than URLs and HTTP verbs. Uses ALPS descriptors as the… | ||
| Building Great Web APIs | apidays New York 2020 | 2020-07-28 |
Argues for an API‑first lifecycle: model with narrative API stories, diagram transitions, and describe with a tech‑agnostic profile (ALPS), then iterate via… | ||
| GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! A Method for Unified API Design | GOTO Chicago 2020 | 2020-04-27 |
Argues for designing APIs with an interface description layer (properties + actions) rather than HTTP artifacts, then translating that single source into… | ||
| Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide | GOTO Chicago 2019 | 2019-04-29 |
Claim: applying REST and Web hyperlink principles delivers discoverable, loosely coupled microservices that scale. Demonstrates a mapping approach… | ||
| Handy Tools for Designing Great Web APIs | NDC Porto 2019 | 2019-02-26 |
Argues that API design must be a repeatable method not just docs, and shows a tool chain that goes from workflow sketch to Web Sequence Diagrams (or PlantUML)… | ||
| Microservices, APIs, and the Autonomous Web | QCon São Paulo 2018 | 2018-05-09 |
Argues that everything needed to build autonomous, safe web services already exists and demonstrates concrete patterns and protocols to do it: leverage HTTP… | ||
| Mike Amundsen (Layer 7) Interview - OSCON 2014 | OSCON 2014 | 2014-07-20 |
Argues that hypermedia links and forms make client-side composition of tiny services practical, showing how a RestFest hack built worker bots that actually… | ||
| Scaling the API Economy with Scale-Free Networks. | APIdays San Francisco 2013 | 2013-06-22 |
Argues that current hub-and-curation API designs conflict with the web’s scale-free (power law) networks and will fail as we approach tens of billions of… | ||
| interviewed – Mike Amundsen | Fluent 2013 | 2013-05-28 |
A new book with Leonard Richard and Sam Ruby argues for client-focused REST: it demonstrates using JavaScript hypermedia to let mobile apps add features and… | ||
| SOA and APIs : Fearless Lessons From The Field | APIdays Paris 2012 | 2012-12-03 |
Three field lessons: pick models and tools that fit how much of the stack is controlled (REST suits loosely controlled, distributed systems; SOAP exposes… | ||
| What the last 50+ years of modern computing history tell us about future interfaces | APIdays Paris 2012 | 2012-12-03 |
Survey of fifty years argues that interfaces evolve from linking ideas to run time systems: concrete inventions include the Memex concept to hypermedia… | ||
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