API & Backend Development

A good API is consistent, predictable, and documented. We agree how it will work before building it, describe it in OpenAPI/Swagger (a standard format other developers can read), and keep the naming, error messages, and paging the same everywhere. That saves your own developers and any partner connecting to you a lot of guesswork.

REST is our default. It's simple, widely understood, and easy to speed up by saving copies of common answers. GraphQL lets each app ask for exactly the fields it needs, and it earns its added complexity when many different apps need different slices of the same data. We build either, and we'll recommend based on who will use the API.

Microservices (a product split into many small, separate services) solve team-size and scaling problems that most products don't have yet. For a new product, we usually start with one well-organized service and draw clear lines inside it, so a piece can be split out when there's a reason. When you already have the scale and the teams, we design and build microservices properly.

Secure sign-in (using tokens, OAuth2, or single sign-on) and access by role are built in from the start. Sign-in is the worst place to improvise. OWASP, the security community's reference list, ranks broken authentication second in its API Security Top 10 and calls the sign-in mechanism "an easy target for attackers since it's exposed to everyone."

Slow products are often slow database lookups. We tune the database design and add indexes (shortcuts that keep searches quick), then test the system under heavy simulated traffic before launch, so you learn how it behaves under pressure from us, not from your users.

Backends run on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with automated releases (CI/CD) in place so your team can publish updates on its own after handoff.