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Engine

Performant and scalable engine for executing capabilities while controlling inbound and outbound traffic, managing encryption, key and token issueing and rotation, rate limiting, and other runtime needs.

    Problem

    Modern enterprises run on an ever-expanding landscape of APIs, data sources, 3rd party services, and cloud platforms. As this environment grows more distributed and more dynamic, teams need a reliable, unified way to execute business capabilities while handling the operational complexity that comes with integrating internal and external systems.

    Solution

    The Naftiko Engine is built for exactly this moment—a performant, scalable runtime designed to execute, automate, and govern business capabilities with precision, consistency, and security. Whether you’re powering copilots, agentic automation, internal microservices, or integrations with 3rd-party SaaS solutions, the Naftiko Engine provides the foundation you need.

    Features

    At its core, the Naftiko Engine is responsible for executing capabilities—business operations exposed through a mix of APIs, event-driven architecture, and data connections. But unlike a traditional API gateway or API consumption engine, it is designed specifically for capability-driven integration, where business semantics, intent, and governance carry as much weight as the API calls being brokered.

    • Executes internal and external capabilities at scale
    • Controls inbound and outbound traffic
    • Manages encryption, key and token issuance, and rotation
    • Enforces rate limits and quotas
    • Applies dynamic, personalized data protections
    • Observes, audits, and reports activity for compliance
    • Mediates protocols and versions to maintain long-term stability

    This is a runtime built for the next decade of automation—not just to move data, but to move business value with the context and governance needed to confidently do business across hundreds of 3rd-party platforms.

    Capability-Driven

    What makes the Naftiko Engine different isn’t just its runtime—it’s the methodology behind it. Capability-driven integration ensures that teams think in terms of business operations, not raw APIs, data connectors, and other tooling.

    The Engine supports this lifecycle through five key phases:

    • Discover & Learn - Identify your first use case and select the source capabilities you will consume.Understand what exists, what’s missing, and where the value is.
    • Explore & Create - Explore the catalog of existing capabilities.Create new ones as needed—always aligned to business domains.
    • Deliver & Govern - Define the external and internal consumption policies.Apply guardrails and governance without blocking innovation.
    • Mediate & Broker - Version capabilities, add ports and adapters, and mediate protocols.The Engine handles the translation—teams focus on the business need.
    • Compose & Orchestrate - Design composite capabilities that bring it all together. Consumers (humans, copilots, or agents) define what they need, and the Engine makes it possible.

    This flow enables teams to move quickly, safely, and consistently—without reinventing the basics every time a version changes, and when a new integration or automation is required.

    Outbound Policies

    These are the current proposed outbound API consumption policies being proposed for the Naftiko Engine, standardizing the layer in between your applications, internal systems, and 3rd-party external APIs–getting a handle on all of your outbound traffic.

    • API Authentication
    • API Token Refresh
    • API Rate LImiting
    • API Budget Management
    • API Discovery
    • API Mocking
    • API Failover
    • API Scaling
    • API Consumption Observability
    • API Consumption Auditing
    • API Consumption Reporting

    Inbound Policies

    These are the current proposed inbound API consumption policies being proposed for the Naftiko Engine, standardizing the layer you build your server, desktop, web, mobile, and artificial intelligence applications, and the 3rd-party or internal APIs they consume.

    • Internal Client Authentication
    • Internal Client Authorization
    • Internal Rate Limitation
    • Internal Quota Management
    • Personalized Data Masking
    • Personalized Encryption
    • Semantic Data Validation
    • Semantic Data Formatting
    • Network Management
    • Conditional Caching

    These are the proposed features for the open-source Naftiko Engine and will be changing and evolving as work begins on the engine, and the road map comes into focus for 2026, developing this tooling out in the open based upon what the ecossytem is needing today.

    • Naftiko Discussion - A dedicated conversation on discussion forum about what the Naftiko Engine is and can be, engaging with the community along the way.
    • Engine Schema - The draft schema being used to define the configuration of each Naftiko engine.