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API Design & Integration with PostgreSQL
API Design & Integration built on PostgreSQL, chosen where it genuinely fits, and swapped where it does not.
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Why PostgreSQL for this
We write the specification before the implementation, because the consumers' experience is the product and it deserves to be designed rather than discovered.
PostgreSQL is strongest at it handles far more workload than teams expect, with one operational model. For api design & integration that matters because the failure modes of this kind of system tend to cluster exactly there.
The honest trade-off: genuine analytical workloads past a certain scale belong in a warehouse. We say that up front because a stack chosen for fashion rather than fit becomes someone's migration project two years later. Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners.
We hand over with runbooks, tests and a team that knows how it works, not a dependency.
The honest assessment
- What it is
- Our default database, relational, JSON, full-text and vector in one engine.
- Strongest at
- it handles far more workload than teams expect, with one operational model
- Trade-off
- genuine analytical workloads past a certain scale belong in a warehouse
- Category
- data
We are not a reseller for PostgreSQL and hold no commission on this choice. Where a different option fits your workload better, the recommendation will say so. That is the entire value of asking us.
What is included
- OpenAPI specification written before the implementation
- Versioning strategy that does not break consumers
- Authentication, scopes and rate limiting
- Webhooks with retries and signature verification
- Idempotency on every state-changing endpoint
- Generated documentation and a sandbox
Questions
REST or GraphQL?
REST for partner-facing and public APIs where caching and simplicity matter; GraphQL where a first-party client needs flexible, varied queries. Most systems end up with both, used deliberately.
Do you document it?
Generated from the OpenAPI specification, with a working sandbox. Documentation written by hand and separately always drifts.
Can you integrate with legacy SOAP systems?
Yes, usually by wrapping them in a clean modern interface rather than exposing the legacy contract onward.
Alternatives for api design & integration
Same capability, different stack. Each page states its own trade-off.
Building with PostgreSQL?
Bring us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right stack for it.
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