May 11, 2026 · Kin Lane

When SaaS Vendors Lock Down Their APIs, It's Not Security — It's a Product Failure

Salesforce did it. Slack did it. SAP just did it. Each one quietly tightened the rules on API and agent access to a stack their customers were alre...

May 10, 2026 · Kin Lane

The Third Bucket — Not Just What You Use, But What's Even Possible

Most signal frameworks have two buckets — what you are using, and what you are not. Walled-garden enterprises need a third bucket. What is even pos...

May 9, 2026 · Kin Lane

Open Source DNA Is an AI Readiness Signal

If you have not been doing open source, you do not get to do open source. The companies that were quietly contributing to foundations and shipping ...

May 8, 2026 · Kin Lane

Running Naftiko Shipyard in Cloudflare

The end state of the Naftiko Framework's Shipyard tutorial is one capability YAML that exposes an MCP server, a REST adapter, and a Skill server si...

May 8, 2026 · Kin Lane

Privatize and Maintain — Not SaaS

There is a reason the same enterprises that bought a SaaS platform for everything in the last decade are now spending half their budget migrating o...

May 8, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for Gravitee

Gravitee splits the API platform into two control planes: the Gravitee Management API for APIs, plans, subscriptions, applications, and platform co...

May 7, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for KrakenD Gateway

KrakenD Gateway is a high-performance, declarative API gateway whose configuration is a single source of truth and whose runtime exposes a small bu...

May 7, 2026 · Kin Lane

Knowledge Layers, MDM, ITAM — and Where the Pipes Actually Live

Every company I talk to is trying to figure out which of the categories they already buy actually solves the AI integration problem. Knowledge laye...

May 7, 2026 · Kin Lane

From Bounded Contexts to Capability Boundaries

Yesterday I named Domain-Driven Design as the third parent of Naftiko Capabilities. Today I want to make the lineage operational. Bounded contexts ...

May 7, 2026 · Kin Lane

Compose AI Context: One Tool Call, Three Upstream Sources

Agents should not have to make three tool calls to answer one question. If a customer-health question spans the billing system, the CRM, and the su...

May 7, 2026 · Kin Lane

AI and EDI: The Honest Shape of Enterprise Integration

Pull the Naftiko Signals data on what enterprises are actually investing in right now and the top of the chart will surprise the people who write k...

May 6, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for Tyk

Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform with a strong enterprise feature set: a dashboard for API configuration and analytics, a ...