API and Integration Management
API design, gateways, authentication and event-driven integration that connect your systems without turning them into a tangle.
Overview
Every business runs on systems that need to exchange data: ERP, CRM, payments, logistics partners, mobile apps. We design the APIs and integration patterns that keep those connections understandable and secure.
That includes API architecture and lifecycle, gateway implementation with products such as Azure API Management, authentication and authorisation integration, and event-driven designs using message brokers where loose coupling is needed.
We also modernise older integration estates, replacing point-to-point scripts and file drops with monitored, documented interfaces.
Problems we address
- Point-to-point integrations nobody dares to change
- Partners integrating against undocumented or inconsistent APIs
- No central view of who is calling which API and how often
- Batch file transfers causing delays and reconciliation errors
- Authentication handled differently in every service
What we deliver
- API architecture and lifecycle
- Resource design, versioning, OpenAPI contracts, deprecation and developer documentation.
- API gateways
- Azure API Management, Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio gateways with policy and throttling.
- Authentication and authorisation
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect integration with your identity provider.
- Event-driven integration
- Queues and topics with RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus or Kafka for resilient, decoupled flows.
- Enterprise and workflow integration
- Connecting ERP, CRM, payment and logistics systems with monitored data flows.
- API monitoring
- Usage, latency and error dashboards per consumer and per endpoint.
Technology
Typical tools for this work. We choose per engagement; listing is not a claim of vendor partnership.
- Azure API Management
- OpenAPI
- OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
- RabbitMQ
- Azure Service Bus
- Apache Kafka
- Apache NiFi
Example use cases
Illustrations of the kind of work this covers.
- Publishing a documented partner API with keys, quotas and analytics
- Replacing nightly file transfers with event-driven order updates
- Centralising authentication for a set of internal services
- Integrating a courier or payment provider into an existing platform
Relevant industries: FMCG, Goods and Distribution, Logistics and Parcel Delivery, E-commerce, Manufacturing and Industrial
Delivery approach
Discover
Understand the business goal, the systems in place and the constraints: budget, compliance, skills and timelines.
Design
Agree an architecture and delivery plan, with the trade-offs written down and the risks named early.
Build
Deliver in small, reviewed increments with automated tests, infrastructure as code and regular demonstrations.
Launch
Release through pipelines with monitoring, rollback paths and runbooks in place before go-live.
Operate and improve
Run, measure and refine, or hand over fully documented to your own team.
Related services
- Application EngineeringWeb, mobile and backend software built to be maintained: clear architecture, tested code and interfaces that hold up as the business grows.
- Network and Cybersecurity EngineeringSecure network design, identity, TLS, container and Kubernetes security, built into infrastructure rather than bolted on.
- Data Engineering and Database ManagementDatabase architecture, migration, performance and data pipelines across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Azure Cosmos DB.
Talk to us about apis & integration
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