Consistent shapes
The same field means the same thing everywhere, lists paginate the same way, and dates are always the same format. Predictability is what makes an API pleasant.
Sites that load fast and convert
Custom builds and integrations
Bounded, auditable, human-approved
Being found, staying fast, staying safe
Software & Applications · Service 10
An API is a promise: send this, get that back, and it will keep working next year. Designing one well is mostly about restraint and documentation — the code is the easy part. We build APIs that your own front end, your customers' developers and your integration partners can all work against without asking you questions.
Anatomy
A worked example from a booking system. Click any endpoint — note that the shapes are predictable, the errors are useful, and nothing requires reading the source code to understand.
Endpoints
Versioning
Once anything consumes your API, you no longer control when it updates. Some changes are safe to ship on a Tuesday; others need a new version and a migration period. Pick a change and see who notices.
Scope
Writing endpoints is perhaps a third of the work. The rest is what makes them usable by someone who has never spoken to you.
The same field means the same thing everywhere, lists paginate the same way, and dates are always the same format. Predictability is what makes an API pleasant.
A machine-readable code, a human-readable message and the specific field at fault. Vague 400 responses turn every integration into a guessing game.
Tokens that can be scoped to what a client actually needs and rotated without downtime — because eventually one will leak.
Clear limits, headers showing what remains, and a retry-after when exceeded. Silently throttling clients is how you lose integration partners.
OpenAPI written alongside the implementation so it cannot drift, with worked examples for every endpoint. Stale documentation is worse than none.
A stated policy for what counts as breaking, how long old versions live, and how consumers are warned. Decided before the first client, not after.
Automated checks that the response shape has not changed unintentionally, so a refactor cannot silently break someone else's software.
Signed, retried, idempotent callbacks so consumers are told when something happens rather than asking every minute.
Per-client logging and latency metrics — so when someone reports a problem you can see it rather than asking them to reproduce it.
Questions
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