API Development
APIs are products with developers as users. We build clean, versioned, documented interfaces — with sandboxes, idempotent writes, and rate limits — that your partners can integrate against without filing a support ticket.
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{ 01 } — API process
Designed like a product, run like infrastructure.
Contract first, then code: the API schema is agreed and mocked before implementation, so consumers build in parallel instead of waiting — and the contract stays the single source of truth from design review to deprecation notice.
Design the contract
- Resource & schema design
- Versioning strategy before v1 ships
- Auth, scopes & key lifecycle
- Error, pagination & idempotency standards
- Mock server so consumers build in parallel
Implement
- REST or GraphQL build
- Validation & rate limiting at the edge
- Idempotency keys on mutating endpoints
- Documentation generated from the spec
- Sandbox with realistic test data
Operate
- Monitoring & per-consumer usage analytics
- Published deprecation policy
- Partner onboarding & support
- Performance tuning against real traffic
- Abuse & anomaly alerting
{ 02 } — Developer experience
The best API support ticket is the one never filed.
Review your API designEvery ambiguity in an API becomes a support conversation. Generated docs, predictable errors, and a real sandbox turn integration from weeks of email into an afternoon of reading.
The boring contracts are what make an API trustworthy: idempotency keys so a retried payment never becomes two payments, cursor pagination that cannot skip or repeat records, error bodies that say what happened and what to do next. None of it is glamorous — all of it is the difference between a platform and a liability.
And breaking changes are a governance problem, not a technical one: explicit versions, deprecation windows, and changelogs partners actually receive — so they trust the platform enough to build their own product on it.
{ 03 } — What we deliver
Interfaces partners build on.
Partner & public APIs
Documented, sandboxed interfaces that onboard third parties without hand-holding — the first successful call happens without a meeting.
Internal platform APIs
Service contracts that keep your own teams decoupled and fast — the same discipline, pointed inward.
Webhooks & events
Signed payloads, retries with backoff, replayable delivery — events partners can trust without polling you to double-check.
API gateways & auth
Keys, OAuth, scopes, and rate limits enforced at the edge — with a key lifecycle partners can manage themselves.
Usage metering & API plans
Quotas, tiers, and per-plan limits — the mechanics that turn an API into a product line rather than a cost centre.
Docs & sandboxes
Generated references and safe test environments that stay in sync with the code — because they are produced from the same contract.
{ 04 } — API stack
Built on the standards your partners expect.
Nothing exotic — integrators should recognise every layer from the first page of the docs, and their existing tooling should just work.
{ 05 } — Ways to engage
Start with the contract, the build, or the platform.
API design sprint
The contract designed, mocked, and reviewed with a real consumer in 2–3 weeks — before implementation is priced. Ends with an OpenAPI spec you can build with anyone.
- Spec + mock server delivered
- Reviewed against a real integration
- Fixed price, no obligation to continue
Build + handover
We implement, document, and load-test the API on your infrastructure, then hand over — sandbox, dashboards, and runbook included.
- Your cloud, your gateway, your keys
- Docs generated from the contract
- Team walkthrough before handover
Platform retainer
Ongoing API operations — new endpoints shipped, deprecations managed on schedule, partners onboarded, performance watched.
- Deprecation calendar maintained
- Per-consumer usage reviewed
- New versions shipped without breaking old ones
{ 06 } — What ships
An API is a product. We ship the whole product.
An API is judged by everything around the endpoints — the contract, the docs, the sandbox, the numbers. All of it ships.
An OpenAPI specification and mock server — the artifact consumers build against before a line of implementation exists.
Semantic versioning with a written deprecation policy — integrators never wake up to a broken build.
Generated from the spec, so documentation and behaviour cannot drift apart — even when nobody is watching.
Partners integrate against realistic fake data before touching production — including the failure cases.
Who calls what, how often, and what fails — per consumer, per endpoint, per version.
Rate limits proven under load before a partner discovers them for you — with the limits documented and signalled in headers.
{ 07 } — The symptoms
Signs your API is costing you partners.
APIs rarely fail loudly. They fail as friction — integrations that stall, partners that quietly choose someone else.
{ 08 } — What changes
From liability to platform.
Before
Integration measured in weeks of back-and-forth email.
After
A sandbox, test keys, and docs that answer questions before they are asked.
Before
Retries that double-charge; duplicates nobody can explain.
After
Idempotency keys make every retry safe by contract.
Before
Breaking changes discovered in production.
After
Versioned endpoints, published deprecation windows, changelogs partners actually receive.
Before
Docs maintained by hand, drifting from behaviour.
After
Docs generated from the contract — unable to disagree with the code.
Before
Rate limits discovered by the partner who hit them.
After
Limits documented, load-tested, and signalled with proper headers.
Where this applies
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Frequently asked questions
REST for partner-facing simplicity, GraphQL where clients need flexible queries — often both, backed by the same service layer. We recommend per case, in writing, with the trade-offs attached.
Explicit versions with published deprecation windows — consumers get a changelog and time, never a surprise. The usage dashboard shows exactly who still depends on the old version before it is retired.
Idempotency keys on mutating endpoints: the same key returns the same result, so a nervous client retrying a timeout can never create a duplicate. Webhooks get the mirror treatment — signed, retried with backoff, and replayable.
Docs are generated from the contract itself, so they cannot drift from reality — plus a sandbox with test credentials and realistic data, including the failure cases partners actually hit.
Self-serve where possible: keys issued from a dashboard, a sandbox that behaves like production, quickstart guides — and a human reachable for the cases documentation cannot cover.
Yes — a clean API facade over a legacy core is often the first step of modernization, and lets new products ship immediately while the core is replaced at its own pace.
{ Sources }
Standards and regulators referenced here
- OpenAPI Specification — OpenAPI Initiative
- RFC 6749 — the OAuth 2.0 authorization framework — IETF
- Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 — Semantic Versioning