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Long-form technical content, ecosystem analysis, and hands-on storytelling from the Naftiko crew.
May 6, 2026 · Kin Lane
The Naftiko Roadmap Through GA: What's In Your Hands Today and What's Coming
Roadmaps are buyer documents. This is the Naftiko one — what shipped in First Alpha (March 30), what is landing right now in Second Alpha (end of A...
May 6, 2026 · Kin Lane
Naftiko Capabilities Have Three Parents: AI, APIs, and Domain-Driven Design
Naftiko Capabilities did not appear out of nowhere. They are the child of three traditions — AI gave us the agent runtime, APIs gave us the wire fo...
May 5, 2026 · Kin Lane
Your Backstage Capability Page Is Where Developer Experience Lives or Dies
Backstage is where developers actually look. If your capabilities are not in the Backstage catalog, they do not exist — not in any way that transla...
May 5, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for NGINX
NGINX is the most widely deployed web server and reverse proxy in the world, and via the NGINX Plus API it exposes a rich management surface for tr...
May 5, 2026 · Kin Lane
Elevate Google Sheets API: Turn a Spreadsheet Into a Real API
Every company I work with has a Google Sheet somewhere that quietly runs part of the business — inventory, partner tiers, pricing tables, rollout s...
May 5, 2026 · Kin Lane
APIs Are the Source of Truth — Explained Without the Jargon
Most of the people who need to make decisions about AI right now do not know an API from a hole in the ground. That is a problem, because APIs are ...
May 4, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for MuleSoft Anypoint
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is Salesforce’s enterprise integration and API management platform. It manages the organizational structure of your inte...
May 4, 2026 · Kin Lane
Cost, Velocity, Risk — The Three Lenses on AI Investment Signals
Every conversation about AI investment eventually collapses into one of three priorities — cost, velocity, or risk. The interesting question is not...
May 4, 2026 · Kin Lane
Cost Is the Missing Half of an OpenAPI Spec
An OpenAPI spec tells your agent how to call the API. It does not tell the agent what the call costs. That gap was invisible when the only consumer...
May 4, 2026 · Kin Lane
Capabilities Are the FinOps Line Item Nobody's Tracking
Your CFO knows your cloud bill. They know your model-provider spend. They almost certainly do not know your per-capability AI spend — because no on...
May 4, 2026 · Kin Lane
Bringing Bloomberg AIM into AI With Naftiko Capabilities — Context-Engineered, Observable, Governed
Bloomberg AIM is one of the densest, most regulated, most consequential API surfaces a buy-side firm touches. Throwing an MCP server at it is the w...
May 3, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for Kong Gateway
Kong Gateway is one of the most widely deployed open-source API gateways. Its declarative configuration model — services, routes, consumers, plugin...