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Long-form technical content, ecosystem analysis, and hands-on storytelling from the Naftiko crew.
May 3, 2026 · Kin Lane
A Capability Is Not Done When It Returns 200 OK
An API call works when it returns 200 OK. That bar was good enough when humans wrote the consumers. It is not good enough when agents do. In the AI...
May 2, 2026 · Kin Lane
Stop Shipping MCP Servers Without an Allow-List
The MCP-server-in-the-IDE pattern is the next supply chain attack surface. Most enterprises that rolled out Copilot did not roll out a security rev...
May 2, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for Bifrost
Bifrost is an AI-native API gateway — purpose-built for routing traffic to large language models and AI services rather than traditional REST backe...
May 1, 2026 · Kin Lane
Naftiko Fleet v1.0.0 Alpha 2 — "Catamaran" Is Here
The second alpha of the Naftiko Fleet — code name Catamaran — is out. OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 import-export, inline Groovy/JavaScript/Python st...
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...