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 ...

April 27, 2026 · Kin Lane

Convert CSV to JSON From Multiple Sources With One Naftiko Capability

Every enterprise has CSV drops they pretend aren't APIs — a payroll export, a vendor price list, a warehouse inventory file. The CSVs already exist...

April 27, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for APIIDA

APIIDA is a federated API management platform designed for enterprises that operate multiple gateways. It provides a unified control plane that spa...

April 26, 2026 · Kin Lane

Five Problems Heads of AI Face Right Now

The Head of AI role is now the connective tissue between executive AI ambition and the engineering reality of MCP servers, third-party services, an...

April 26, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for Apache APISIX

Apache APISIX is a high-performance, cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd. It handles routing through a declarative configuration model...

April 25, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for Ambassador Edge Stack

Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress controller built on Envoy Proxy. It manages the traffic surface of Kubernetes ...

April 24, 2026 · Kin Lane

Capabilities Are the New Abstraction Layer

Kate Holterhoff asked me on the RedMonk MonkCast whether the AI era needs a new abstraction layer above APIs and SDKs. I muttered through an answer...

April 24, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities for Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is the managed REST and HTTP API service in AWS. If your backend services run in AWS, API Gateway is likely the front door — man...

April 23, 2026 · Kin Lane

From X12 278 to FHIR: How a Capability Spec Closes the Prior Authorization Gap

CMS-0057-F requires payers to expose prior authorization decisions via FHIR R4. Most payer infrastructure speaks X12 278. A Naftiko capability spec...