Web Development
APIs & Integrations
The connective tissue between your systems — interfaces that move data reliably, stay documented, and do not break whatever depends on them.
What this actually is
The connective tissue: letting your systems, partners and apps exchange data reliably.
An API is the agreed way two systems talk to each other. Your website asks your inventory system what is in stock. A partner sends you an order. A mobile app reads from the same records your staff use. When that plumbing works, nobody notices it; when it does not, someone is re-typing data by hand.
We write the interface contract first and document it, because an undocumented API is a support burden with no end. Authentication, permissions and rate limits are designed in rather than added after an incident. Changes are versioned, so a partner who integrates today is not broken by work you do later.
How we work
Four steps, in this order.
Contract
Define and document the interface before either side builds against it.
Secure
Authentication, rate limits and permissions designed in, not added later.
Version
Change without breaking the people already depending on it.
Observe
Logging and alerts so failures are noticed by us, not by your customers.
What you get
Every engagement hands over these.
- A documented API with a live reference your developers can read
- Authentication keys, permission scopes and rate limits configured per consumer
- Working integration between the named systems, with error handling and retries
- Logging and alerting covering failures, retries and unusual traffic
Who it’s for
This is usually the right fit when…
- Two systems you rely on do not talk, so someone re-keys the same data twice.
- A partner or client wants to connect to your platform and keeps asking for documentation.
- You are building a mobile app and need a stable backend it can depend on.
Questions
The things people ask before starting.
We already have an API, but nobody can use it. Can you fix that?
Usually. Most of the time the problem is not the code — it is missing documentation, unclear errors and authentication nobody explained. We read what exists, write the reference, tidy the responses so failures say what went wrong, and add versioning so you can improve it without breaking whoever is already connected.
What if the system we need to integrate with has no API?
Then we find the next best route and tell you what it costs in fragility. That might be a scheduled file exchange, a database view, or a vendor add-on. Screen-scraping is a last resort and we will say so plainly — it works until the other side changes a page. The choice should be yours, with the trade-off visible.
How will we know when an integration fails?
Because we will be watching it, not your customers. Every call is logged, failures are retried where a retry is safe, and anything that cannot be recovered raises an alert to a channel your team already reads. Silent failure is the real risk here — data stops flowing and nobody notices until a report comes out wrong.
Is it safe to expose our data this way?
It is safe if access is scoped properly and audited. Each consumer gets its own credentials and only the permissions it needs, so a leaked key does not expose everything. Requests are rate limited, sensitive fields are kept out of logs, and keys can be rotated without downtime. If a partner leaves, you revoke one credential.
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