What we build
An API is a promise to everyone who calls it. Break the promise quietly and you break their software; keep it well and the API becomes something teams build on without thinking. We design and build backend services — public APIs, internal services, integrations — that are clear to consume and safe to change.
We are deliberately unromantic about microservices. A well-structured single service beats a distributed system nobody can debug. We split services where there is a real reason — independent scaling, ownership, release cadence — and not because the architecture diagram looks better with more boxes.
How we approach it
The test of a service is not whether it works on launch day. It is whether your team can still operate, debug and extend it three years later, after the people who built it have moved on. We design for that from the start.
- Explicit contracts and a versioning strategy, so changing the API does not mean an outage for everyone who depends on it.
- Sensible boundaries — services drawn around ownership and data, not around fashion.
- Operability built in — structured logs, metrics and traces from day one, so production is observable rather than a mystery.
- Documentation that stays true — generated from the contract where possible, so it cannot quietly drift from the running code.
What you are left with
Services your engineers understand, can change with confidence, and can operate without a handover call. For more on designing for the long term, read our note on designing an API your team can still operate in three years.