API Development at Blackbelt Labs

Why Invest In APIs?

Accelerate change. APIs are the oil for improving your customer experience at speed. Without modern, documented APIs your developers are pulling their hairs out trying to build apps and automation for your customers.

Profit from partnerships. Focus on your core business while enabling partners to grow with you. APIs allow you to minimize the overhead involved working with external parties and staying in control.

Modernize your infrastructure. Standardized APIs give you the freedom to replace any infrastructure below. Through APIs you understand what goes in and out of your legacy systems and allows you to incrementally modernize.

How we work

Our Delivery Process

Need help defining the scope of your APIs? APIs always need to be driven by defined requirements in apps or automation initiatives. We help you find the right priorities for your investment.

Have trouble maintaining quality for your APIs? We help you follow best-practices like test-driven development and to build and document APIs based on the Open API standard.

Want to ensure return on investment for your API efforts? We don't work with you without defining clear assumptions for returns. Those should be derived from improvements of your customer experience or a reduction in costs through automation.

We come with solutions

Our Packages

Featured

Zapier Integration

Integrate instantly with thousands of apps by becoming part of the Zapier platform. With a solid API as your foundation you can enable your users with Zapier to build custom automation with zero code. We help you get integrated into the Zapier platform and create all the content necessary to become officially listed.

Node.js API setup

Having worked with Node.js since 2010, it has become the tool of our choice for building modern APIs. Node.js is perfect for quickly iterating on APIs in fast-paced environments. We help you get setup with a battle-tested stack based on Hapi.js.

Heroku Deployment and Maintenance

Heroku is our platform of choice for fast and lean product launches. It comes with out of the box monitoring and automated deployment solutions integrated with Github. We can help you setup your Node.js based API on Heroku and provide ongoing maintenance and support.

Microservice Deployment on Amazon Web Services

As you scale out your product and move towards a microservice architecture, Amazon Web Services is our preferred platform. We help you setup continuous integration, monitoring and logging with AWS tools. We further train your team for ongoing maintenance or can provide that service for you.

OpenAPI based specification and documentation

We help you follow best-practices for specifying your APIs and create developer-friendly documentation. This helps your App or Automation developers deliver products at speed. We work with the OpenAPI standard and the tooling ecosystem to set you up for the long-term.

Automated testing setup

We help you adopt test-driven development practices and setup reliable end-to-end testing automation. Your team will be able to move faster, quality improves and you reduce the risk of downtime for your customers.

API Versioning

The moment you publish your API and others start relying on it, you will have to stay backwards compatible. We help you follow best-practices when it comes to API versioning and keeping your team productive.

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