Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 26th, 2026
I jokingly asked if we needed gateways anymore on LinkedIn this week. Declaring that AI had breached the enterprise gates. I am only half joking. The...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 19th, 2026
Hello, and welcome to API Evangelist Governance, or what I prefer to just simply call guidance. Because that is what governance should be—guidance. This...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For January 12th, 2026
Welcome to 2026. I hope you got some rest over the holidays, and are ready for the work we have in front of us on the table this year. I have to be honest, I...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance) For December 17th, 2025
There was no API Evangelist newsletter last week because I was on my way to Paris, France for APIDays. I was saving up all of my ideas for the conversations...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I am thinking a lot about marketing and evangelism at the business and personal levels lately. To be honest, I never stop thinking about these things. But as...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I am doing the work to align multiple dimensions my work to build Naftiko around the very central concept of “capabilities”—which I currently define as open-...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
Business alignment is everything. When I say business alignment, I mean alignment between leadership and employees within a company, alignment between...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
As I ride my bike through NYC each day for two hours, I find myself thinking a lot about the power of context over domain. I ride through multiple domains...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I’m in the business of studying the signals that emanate from large systems. The only way to truly understand a large system is to study its inputs and...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
Finding the signal in the noise these days online isn’t easy. The web, social media, APIs, and enterprises, organizations, institutions, and government...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
The more I study the API landscape for Naftiko market research the more I see the missing fabric needed to stitch things together so things don’t just keep...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I am finding a way forward in the noise of today’s tech landscape. Last week’s newsletter dive into OpenRouter continued to evolve my view of the landscape....
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
A startup called OpenRouter has come up in my market research and during ongoing discussion enough lately that I found myself thinking about it throughout...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I have been diving deep into the world of FinOps, and how the technology industry is standardizing what we spend on our SaaS, Cloud, and now AI services. I...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
As I work to help lay an opinionated foundation for what Naftiko produces, I wanted to ground my narrative surrounding automation. Automation matters in this...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
Context is one of those magical words out there right now to describe where businesses should be focusing when it comes to making the rubber meet the road...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
The greatest shift in the last in the last five years isn’t artificial intelligence, it is the financialization of everything in our worlds using artificial...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
One thing that is evident when you look out across the API space is a lack of alignment between business and engineering when it comes what standardization...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I was immersed in what it takes to automate business all of this week. My definition of automation includes the current notion of agentic automation using...
Weekly API Evangelist Governance (Guidance)
I wanted to reflect this week on my 35 year journey regarding the negotiation and market-driven access to the information that has shaped the last 50 years...