Step 01risks
Discovery and risks
Users, load, integrations and what has to work on day one. We name the risky parts first.
Custom platforms, engineered from the architecture up.
Booking engines, portals and SaaS products, where off-the-shelf software stops. We design the data model and APIs first, build the product on top and run the infrastructure under it, like the multi-supplier search we built for Nazarene Tours.
What we build
Products where the hard part is under the surface.
Users see the interface. Most of the engineering sits in the layers below it.
APIs and back ends
REST APIs that your web front end, your apps and your partners all use.
Third-party integrations
Supplier, payment and partner APIs called in parallel, with timeouts and retries handled.
Search and caching
Fast search over slow or large sources, with a Redis cache kept warm in the background.
Multi-tenant SaaS
Accounts, roles, plans and separated customer data, for products you sell to others.
Back-office tools
The internal screens your team uses to manage content, customers and operations.
Web front ends
Web apps in Next.js on top of the same API, so every client reads one source.
Method
How we approach a platform.
Architecture decisions come early, because they are the expensive ones to change later. Each step ends with something you can review.
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Reliability
Built for the systems you don't control.
- 01
Parallel calls
timeoutsThird-party APIs called side by side, each with its own timeout, so one slow supplier never holds up the rest.
- 02
Caching
RedisA Redis cache kept warm in the background, wherever the data allows it.
- 03
Tests on critical paths
testsAutomated tests on the flows that must not break, run before every release.
- 04
Staging and production
stagingSeparate environments, so every change is reviewed before it reaches users.
- 05
Monitoring
monitoringMonitoring, logging and backups, watched by the team that wrote the code.
Connects with
- Supplier APIs
- Payment providers
- Partner feeds
- Webhooks
- Google APIs
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Most platforms depend on APIs someone else runs. We design for their timeouts, limits and changes from the first sprint.
Where platforms run: dedicated infrastructureCase study
The search API behind a consumer booking site.
Travel & tourism · Nazarene Tours
Amadeus, Travelport and Gimmonix behind one search API.
- Suppliers
- Amadeus, Travelport and Gimmonix connected behind the same API.
- Results
- Progressive results: fares appear as each supplier answers, and the list settles when the last one is in.
- Runs
- We host the platform.
FAQ
Questions before a platform project.
We have a specification. Can you quote from it?
We read it, then ask questions. Most specifications describe screens, and we also need the data, integrations and load behind them. A short architecture stage turns the document into something we can estimate responsibly.
Can you take over a platform someone else built?
Yes. We start with a review of the code and the infrastructure, write down what we find and fix the riskiest issues before adding features.
How do you deal with slow or unreliable third-party APIs?
Parallel calls with timeouts, caching where the data allows it, and results shown as they arrive instead of waiting for the slowest supplier. That is how the Nazarene Tours search works.
Where does the platform run?
On infrastructure we manage, sized to the product: managed hosting, a VPS, or dedicated servers with high availability where the workload needs it. The team that wrote the code also watches it in production.
Bring us the hard part first.
The integration you are unsure about, the load you expect, the specification you have. We will tell you how we would build it.