REST, GraphQL & webhooks
Auth schemes, rate limits, retries, and observability that make on-call humane—especially when third parties change behavior without a changelog.
APIsIntegrations, APIs & migrations
Make your clients’ systems talk—without a science project for every release
Agencies inherit spaghetti: spreadsheets that became the database, Shopify apps that disagree, or a Laravel monolith nobody wants to touch. We map contracts, add staging lanes, and document failure modes so launches are boring—in the good way.
- Cutover style
- Phased + rollback-friendly
- Documentation
- Partner-facing API notes
- Fit vs rebuild
- Explicit tradeoffs
Integrations vs net-new apps
Why integration-led work is its own engagement shape
The UI might be small while the risk is huge—data correctness, retries, and idempotency matter more than hero animations.
Integrations & APIs
Contract-first thinking, backwards compatibility, and operational runbooks—velocity is measured in incident reduction.
Custom web apps
UX and domain modeling lead—integrations matter, but product flows anchor the roadmap.
Marketing sites
Integrations are usually analytics, forms, and lightweight CRM hooks—scope stays visible in the page graph.
Where integrations land
APIs, glue services, and careful migrations
Sometimes the win is a thin automation layer; sometimes it is replacing a brittle cron with a versioned webhook pipeline—we match depth to the business risk.
Service layers & workers
Node or Laravel workers for queues, scheduled reconciliation, and backfills—typed boundaries so UI teams are not coupling to accidental SQL.
EngineeringMigrations with a staging story
Dual-write, batch imports, and parity checks—so finance and ops can compare outputs before you flip DNS.
- PostgreSQL
- Drizzle
- SQL
- Node.js
- Laravel
- CI
Prototype → production hardening
When a Lovable or AI-assisted spike proves demand, we tighten schemas, auth, and deploy pipelines—without shaming the prototype that sold the roadmap.
AI builder → productionHonest fit vs rebuild
If the cheapest path is an integration, we say so—if the real risk is data model drift, we say that too, with numbers attached.
Partner docs that ship
Examples, error codes, and versioning policy—so your client’s vendors stop emailing your project channel for ‘one quick question’.
Security boundaries
Least-privilege keys, rotation plans, and audit-friendly logging—especially when PII crosses systems.
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