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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...
April 23, 2026 · Kin Lane
From 38 OpenAPIs to 104 MCP Tools: What a Snowflake Capability Surface Looks Like
Snowflake publishes 38 OpenAPI specs. That's useful if you are writing code against Snowflake. It is not useful if you are wiring a copilot or an a...
April 23, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities for AIMLAPI
AIMLAPI is an AI model access gateway that aggregates 400+ models from different providers behind a single unified API. Chat completions, image gen...
April 23, 2026 · Kin Lane
AI Integration Without the Glue Code: A Naftiko Capability Pattern
Every time a team plugs a copilot into an internal system, the same thing happens: someone writes glue code. A bespoke tool wrapper. A one-off adap...
April 22, 2026
Your API Gateway Governs Traffic. Naftiko Makes It AI-Consumable.
Every enterprise has an API gateway. Some have more than one. Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint, Azure API Management, Kong, Tyk, NGINX, AWS API Gateway — ...
April 22, 2026 · Kin Lane
JSON Structure: The Schema Language That Actually Works for Developers
Clemens Vasters spent years fighting JSON Schema's validation-first design before building something better. JSON Structure is the schema language ...