Nafitko Capabilities

For this episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast we sat down with Budhaditya Bhattacharya from Tyk and Supreet Nagi from Northwestern Mutual to talk API governance. Supreet shares his practitioner perspective on achieving zero touch governance, where compliance is baked into the development lifecycle rather than being a gate or checkpoint. Budha discusses governance as consistency, reliability...

For this episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast we had a conversation with Dániel Kovács from Speakeasy about their newly released agent skills and what they signal for SDKs and developer experience. Daniel discusses how coding agents like Claude and Codex are changing workflows, and how deterministic SDK generation can prevent costly contract mismatches between clients and APIs. Daniel expla...

In today's Naftiko Capabilities podcast we sat down with freelance journalist and developer experience expert Jennifer Riggins about the current state of developer experience amid rapid AI adoption. We discussed how AI can improve individual productivity and broaden participation in building technology, while raising concerns about security, missing guardrails, and best practices. We explored...

As part of recent work on spec-driven development I sat down for conversation with Chris Hood about experience-based API design, arguing that APIs should be expressed in human, business-oriented language rather than CRUD-centric engineering terms to improve contextual understanding. we discuseds why traditional REST approaches may be insufficient for AI and agent-based systems, concerns about intr...

In this episode, I sit down with Clemens Vasters, Principal Architect for Messaging and Real-Time Intelligence Services at Microsoft, to talk about JSON Structure — a new spec designed to take on the territory JSON Schema has dominated for years. Clemens shares the origin story behind JSON Structure, why JSON Schema and Avro both fell short for Microsoft's real-time data pipeline needs, and h...

This episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast features a full conversation with Patrick Kelly (SideKo, Port of Context) about context engineering for AI agents, MCP, and evolving API tooling. Patrick explains SideKo’s shift from generating developer-facing API products (docs, SDKs, mock servers from API specs, with customers like Prudential) toward Port of Context as agent consumption grows, in...

In this episode of Naftiko Capabilities podcast we dive deep into the complex landscape of artificial intelligence. Through conversations with experts like Simon Wardley, Kevin Swiber, and Mike Amundsen, we explore the broad impacts of AI, from geopolitical considerations to practical technology applications. Learn about 'vibe coding,' large language models, and the balance between hype...

In this episode of Naftiko Capabilities we sit down down with Anna Daugherty of Arnica to delve into the important topic of application security governance. From pinpointing the sweet spot for identifying vulnerabilities to the role of governance in the development workflow, this episode covers it all. Learn how AppSec practices are evolving, the difference between AppSec and AI security, and how...

In this episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast, I sit down with Kevin Swiber to tackle one of the hottest debates in AI integration: are agent skills going to kill MCP? Spoiler — it's more nuanced than that. Kevin breaks down the difference between MCP tools (the what) and agent skills (the how), explains why most enterprise teams are still using AI as a glorified Stack Overflow, and mak...

What happens when the gateway patterns we built for REST don't fit the AI agent world? Christian Posta, CTO at Solo.io, joins me to talk about why MCP and agent-to-agent communication demanded a completely new proxy architecture, how identity and authorization get complicated when non-deterministic agents start calling the shots, and the security risks lurking in runtime MCP server changes. P...

What happens after you build something that changes an industry? Fran Méndez created AsyncAPI—a specification now valued at $34 million—but he doesn't have $34 million. In this raw conversation, Fran opens up about walking away from the project he built over 10 years, the brutal economics of open source, and why he's now building Commune, a social network for newsletters. We talk about b...

In this episode of the Naftiko Capabilities podcast, we sit down with Anil Dash—blogger, creator, and former founder of Glitch—to explore the fascinating origin story and enduring relevance of Markdown. Dash offers a firsthand account of how John Gruber's simple plain-text formatting tool emerged from the early blogging era on Movable Type, was beta-tested by the late Aaron Schwartz, and even...

Drowning in distributed system chaos? You're not alone. In this episode, we sit down with David Boyne, creator of Event Catalog, to explore how organizations can bring order to the madness of modern architectures. David shares how his open-source tool evolved from a simple event documentation project into a powerful way to map domains, visualize boundaries, and make sense of the services, sch...

This episode of Naftiko Capabilities is focused on exploring some of the more advanced, but also foundational aspects of using JSON Schema and OpenAPI with David Biesack, Chief API Officer at Apiture/CSI. David shares their approach to using JSON Schema, along with the OpenAPI specification to get their hands around API and schema complexity, and bundling the schema and APIs needed for specific bu...

This is the Naftiko Capabilities podcast for January 13th, 2026, where we share excerpts from our conversations with Sam Newman and Simon Wardley on artificial intelligence's impact on the enterprise. Sam's conversation dovetails with last week's episode about microservices, while Simon helps us break down the relationship between the business of AI and the business of cloud computi...

Microservices continues to be one of the top signals we see when profiling and talking to enterprise organizations about APIs and integration. To better understand the current landscape, we checked in with two microservices experts, Mike Amundsen and Sam Newman, to explore the state of microservices in an age of AI integration. We asked both Mike and Sam about the state of microservices, then went...

This is the Naftiko Capabilities podcast for January 6th, 2026, where we sit down with Mike Amundsen and Christian Posta to ask, "What is a Capability?" Mike brings a rich understanding of the web, hypermedia, and semantics, while Christian dives into the technical details from the artificial intelligence perspective, MCP, and the gateway view of capabilities. This discussion is helping...