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Long-form technical content, ecosystem analysis, and hands-on storytelling from the Naftiko crew.
May 1, 2026 · Kin Lane
Capability YAML vs x-mcp: Why Vendor Extensions Aren't the Answer
Two new OpenAPI extensions hit the developer portal market this year — Zuplo's x-mcp and Redocly's x-mcp. Both let you describe MCP server tools as...
May 1, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for Axway API Management
Axway API Management is a full-lifecycle API management platform with deep enterprise integration, identity federation, and multi-organization mana...
May 1, 2026 · Kin Lane
API Discovery, Reusability, and Governance — Three Capabilities, One MCP Surface for Claude and Copilot
Every enterprise platform team has the same three problems: nobody can find the APIs, nobody can prove which ones are reused, and governance happen...
April 30, 2026 · Kin Lane
Specs Age Like Bananas — Spec-Driven Integration as the Cure
Every API team has the same problem: the spec ships clean on day one and then drifts. By month three the OpenAPI doc and the production behavior ha...
April 30, 2026 · Kin Lane
From Standards to Profiles: Naftiko Capabilities and the Path to IHE-Compliant Healthcare Integration
Translating HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM, and OpenEHR with Naftiko Capabilities is the easy part. The harder, more valuable layer is delivering IHE Integrat...
April 30, 2026 · Kin Lane
Elevate an Existing API: From Pass-Thru to Capability
I keep getting pulled into rooms where the proposed answer to 'our API is hard to consume' is to rewrite it. That is almost never what the situatio...
April 30, 2026 · Kin Lane
Determinism Is the Substrate. Non-Determinism Is the Surface.
Most enterprise AI rollouts fail in one of two ways: they treat the entire stack as non-deterministic and end up with agents that hallucinate again...
April 30, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for Azure API Management
Azure API Management is Microsoft’s enterprise API gateway platform, tightly integrated with the Azure ecosystem. It handles API lifecycle manageme...
April 29, 2026 · Kin Lane
Does Your MCP Have Telemetry?
Most MCP servers in production today are observability dead-zones. You can call them, but you cannot see what they did, how long it took, who paid ...
April 29, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for Apinizer
Apinizer is an API management and gateway platform focused on enterprise API governance, security, and monitoring. It provides a centralized view o...
April 28, 2026 · Kin Lane
Rightsize AI Context: Stop Shoving Whole Payloads Into Prompts
Upstream APIs were never designed with a language model in mind. They return the envelope the product team needed on a Tuesday afternoon in 2019 — ...
April 28, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for APIPark
APIPark is an open-source AI gateway and developer platform that combines API management with AI model access management. It is built specifically ...