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Conversation with Mike Amundsen of Apiture October 2025

Spent an hour with Mike Amundsen looking at microservices and hypermedia, but also went in deep on the role that ontology and taxonomy play in what we are trying to accomplish with artifiicial intelligence, walking through the cast of characters who have invested in what we need to make sense of information at scale.

    Very relevant discussion about hypermedia and capabilities that provides a good deal of material for Naftiko storytelling.

    Questions

    • What has changed since you wrote your first API book?
    • What’s the state of the web today?
    • What is the state of micro services?
    • What is hypermedia? 1:29
    • What is the role of information architecture in providing the meaning we need?
    • What is the role of ontology and taxonomy in hypermedia? 2:04
    • What was Ted Nelson a literary radical?
    • Who was Wendy Hall?
    • Who was Leonard Richardson?
    • What is a capability? 4:13
    • Who should be in the room when. Crafting capabilities? 1:53
    • How do we reconcile traditional automation and orchestration with agentic?
    • How do you help people understand and apply semantics?
    • How do you recommend folks stay grounded in hype cycles like today?
    • How do you help people be successful with AI in their work when they don’t have. Much control?