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Introducing Markdown for Agents The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but...

Cloudflare's network supports real-time content conversion for enabled zones using content negotiation headers, when AI systems request pages from any website, they can automatically express the preference for text/markdown in the request. blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for...

Finding the Sweet Spot: AppSec Governance and the Developer Workflow | Naftiko

Security tooling has a reputation problem with developers. Alert too early and you're noise. Gate too late and you're a blocker. So where's the sweet spot? naftiko.io/blog/finding...

YouTube video by Naftiko Naftiko Capabilities Podcast for 13th, 2026 - Governance & Security Guardrails for Developers

I sat down with Anna Daugherty, CPMM of Arnica to talk about AppSec & governance at the intersection of IDE, Copilots, Git, Pipelines, and source code in today's episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ZJ...

Emmanuel Paraskakis came by to talk API products and AI with me today during my live weekly conversation, and shared some insight into what spec-driven development is all about.

Why Specification-Driven Development Matters for Enterprises Today | Naftiko

For decades, code has been king. Specifications existed to serve code. Product requirement documents (PRDs), architecture diagrams, and technical plans were scaffolding—useful early on, but quickly outdated. naftiko.io/blog/why-spe...

Specification-Driven Development (SDD) - For decades, code has been king. Specifications served code—they were the scaffolding we built and then discarded once the "real work" of coding began. github.com/github/spec-...

Navigating AI Hype: Lessons from Industry Experts | Naftiko

What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) at both geopolitical and industry-specific levels naftiko.io/blog/navigat...

YouTube video by Naftiko Naftiko Capabilities Podcast for 11th, 2026 - Making Sense of AI

I discuss the highest levels of AI with Simon Wardley, and how to stay sane in the depths of the hype cycles with Kevin Swiber and Mike Amundsen in this week's episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ombZ...

The Enterprise API Playbook Has Changed—And We're Looking for Design Partners to Shape It We spent the last several months talking to platform teams, API architects, and integration leaders across the enterprise. We asked a simple question: What's actually blocking you right now? The answe...

We spent the last several months talking to platform teams, API architects, and integration leaders across the enterprise. We asked a simple question: What's actually blocking you right now? www.linkedin.com/pulse/enterp...

42 Problems Nobody's Solving Yet: The Real Enterprise Gaps in APIs, AI Agents, and MCP | Naftiko

The API economy is evolving faster than the tooling, governance, and organizational muscles built to support it. After dozens of conversations with platform teams, API architects, and integration leaders across the enterprise, a pattern has emerged. naftiko.io/blog/42-prob...

Shadow AI Is Coming for Your MCP Servers — Here's How to Get Ahead of It | Naftiko

Product managers are connecting copilots to Jira and Confluence through MCP servers. Sales reps are wiring up CRM integrations. The Model Context Protocol has made it remarkably easy for anyone to plug third-party services into their AI workflows. - naftiko.io/blog/shadow-...

The Future of API Governance Is Guidance — And It Lives in Markdown Files | Naftiko

API governance has always had a branding problem. The word "governance" conjures images of gatekeeping, enforcement, & pipeline failures. What we're seeing now is a fundamental shift in how that help gets delivered — and it's converging on a familiar pattern -- the README. naftiko.io/blog/the-fut...

Is MCP Coming Up Against Your Internal Enterprise Security Policies? | Naftiko

There's a quiet standoff happening inside enterprises right now. On one side: engineering teams eager to ship AI-powered integrations using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and real-time streaming. naftiko.io/blog/is-mcp-...

Are Agent Skills the Real Game-Changer? A Conversation with Kevin Swiber on MCP, Context Engineering, and What Actually Matters | Naftiko

Every new wave of technology brings a familiar chorus: "This will kill everything that came before it." GraphQL was going to kill REST. MCP was going to kill all APIs. Now MCP apps are supposedly going to kill all web UIs. naftiko.io/blog/are-age...

YouTube video by Naftiko JSON Structure With Clemens Vasters of Microsoft

What is JSON Structure? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc11...

The Hidden Costs of Ungoverned APIs: Why Reuse Metrics and MCP Server Governance Matter More Than Ever | Naftiko

Every platform leader eventually faces the same uncomfortable question from the executive floor: "Are we actually getting value from our API investments?" naftiko.io/blog/the-hid...

Clemens Vasters is coming by tomorrow for my Thursdays webinar conversation @ 10:00 AM EST to talk about JSON Structure, a data structure definition language that enforces strict typing, modularity & determinism. Register - bit.ly/3O0gOsl & JSON Structure - json-structure.github.io/core/draft-v...

The Hidden Cost of Copilots: When APIs Become MCP Server Sprawl | Naftiko

AI copilots have quickly become a board-level expectation. Once leadership sees a demo—natural language queries flowing seamlessly into internal systems—the question is no longer if but how fast.

On this week's Naftiko Capabilities podcast, I sat down with Christian Posta, CTO at Solo.io, to dig into a question that's been on my mind: what's the role of a gateway in the age of AI agents? naftiko.io/blog/what-is...

YouTube video by Naftiko Naftiko Capabilities Podcast for February 3rd, 2026 - What is the Role of the Gateway?

Talking with Christian Posta about the role of the gateway in todays enterprise landscape, exploring identity and access management, commercialization, and what is shifting with AI, and specifically the Agent Gateway. youtu.be/xuiTNyCKMQ8?...

Map Your API Landscape To Prevent Agentic AI Disaster AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert Kin Lane.

AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert @kinlane.bsky.social.

By @charleshumble.bsky.social, thanks to @naftiko.bsky.social

YouTube video by Naftiko Evaluating API Usage: A Deep Dive into Precision Measurement

Patrick Kelly came by this morning for a talk on context engineering during my Tuesday's weekly webinar. The highlights from the conversation show up as a Naftiko Capabilities podcast in coming weeks, but here a short to wet your appetite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4S...

YouTube video by Naftiko Extending OpenAPI with Custom Extensions and Tools

In this short, we delve into the innovative ways developers are extending the OpenAPI specification to accommodate custom use cases and data injection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlLl...

Cutting Through the Moltbook Hype: A Practical Guide for Enterprise Leaders The AI agent social network called Moltbook has officially reached fever pitch. Your inbox and social media is flooded.

The AI agent social network called Moltbook has officially reached fever pitch. Your inbox and social media is flooded. Your leaderships is asking questions. Your teams are either panicking or overselling what this means for the business.

Why We're Considering Fair Source for Our Licensing Strategy | Naftiko

As we map out the next phase of the Naftiko roadmap, one question keeps surfacing in our planning sessions: how do we protect the sustainability of our business while staying true to the open-source is so important to us and our customers? naftiko.io/blog/why-wer...

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Why Explainability Is the First Real Test of Context Engineering AI evaluates your product before people do. Builder PMs design systems that hold up without them in the room

AI explains your product before customers talk to you.
If your product can’t explain itself, AI fills the gaps with partial context.
Explainability is where context engineering becomes real.

After the Spec: A Conversation with Fran Méndez on AsyncAPI, Burnout, and Building What You Actually Want | Naftiko

I recently sat down with Fran Méndez on the Naftiko Capabilities podcast, the creator of AsyncAPI about what happens after you build something successful, the brutal economics of open source & why he walked away from the project he spent a decade building. naftiko.io/blog/after-t...

Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project Cedar, an open-source policy language architected by AWS, has joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project. Designed for fine-grained application permissions, it decou...

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Running Into the Limits of Example Naming in API Sandboxes | Naftiko

As I continue building out API sandboxes for testing and exploration, I’m starting to run into one of those problems that only shows up once you’ve gone a few layers deep. naftiko.io/blog/running...