Custom API
Web Logix Group designs, builds, and maintains secure, scalable custom APIs that connect complex systems, automate workflows, and unlock real-time data across your organization. Our APIs are engineered to support high-traffic environments, strict compliance requirements, and rapid business growth—especially in healthcare, enterprise, and data-driven industries.
Discovery and Systems Analysis
API Architecture and Design
API architecture patterns define how APIs are structured, secured, and scaled across systems. Common patterns include API gateways for centralized access control, layered architectures for separation of concerns, backend-for-frontend for client-specific needs, microservices for independent scaling, event-driven APIs for loose coupling, and API composition for reduced client complexity. Effective patterns emphasize strong contracts, security, observability, versioning, and evolvability while balancing performance, reliability, and maintainability.
SOAP API Architecture
What it is: A strict, XML-based messaging protocol with a formal contract (WSDL). Often paired with enterprise standards (WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging).
Architecture pattern: Contract-first, message-oriented integration
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Strongly defined operations and schemas
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Heavy emphasis on formal governance, compatibility, and reliability guarantees
Best for
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Legacy enterprise ecosystems (banks, insurance, government)
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Scenarios needing standardized security, signing, encryption, auditing, reliability
RESTful API Architecture
What it is: Resource-oriented HTTP APIs (GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE), typically JSON, using HTTP semantics (status codes, caching, idempotency).
Architecture pattern: Resource-based request/response
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Stateless calls
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Cache-friendly and CDN-friendly
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Easy interoperability across clients and languages
Best for
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Public APIs and broad client compatibility
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CRUD-heavy products
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Systems where caching and simplicity matter
GraphQL API Architecture
What it is: A query language and runtime where clients request exactly the fields they need from a single endpoint, backed by a schema and resolvers.
Architecture pattern: Client-driven data composition (BFF-friendly)
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Great for aggregating multiple backends behind one graph
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Strong schema, introspection, typed contracts
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Excellent for rapidly evolving frontends
Best for
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Complex UI/data needs (mobile + web + multiple screens)
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Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layers and API aggregation
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Reducing round trips for read-heavy experiences
gRPC API Architecture
What it is: A high-performance RPC framework using Protocol Buffers (binary), HTTP/2, and strongly typed service definitions.
Architecture pattern: Service-to-service RPC in microservices
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Fast, compact payloads
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Streaming supported (client, server, bidirectional)
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Strong contracts and code generation
Best for
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Internal microservices with performance/latency needs
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Polyglot services where codegen is helpful
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Streaming and real-time-ish internal workflows
WebSocket API Architecture
What it is: A persistent, full-duplex connection between client and server. Great for real-time push and interactive messaging.
Architecture pattern: Stateful real-time channel
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Server can push instantly
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Client can send continuously without new HTTP requests
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Enables “live” experiences
Best for
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Chat, collaboration, live dashboards, presence, multiplayer interactions
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Low-latency updates and bidirectional messaging
Webhook API Architecture
What it is: Server-to-server callbacks over HTTP. One system sends an HTTP request to another when an event occurs.
Architecture pattern: Event notification / push-based integration
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Asynchronous and decoupled
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Great for cross-system automation (payments, CRM, EHR, marketing tools)
Best for
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Integrating third-party systems
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Event-driven workflows (“user.created”, “payment.succeeded”, “appointment.updated”)
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Avoiding polling
Database Engineering
Web Logix Group’s Database Engineering Services for APIs are designed to ensure that APIs are not just functional, but fast, secure, scalable, and reliable under real-world load. The focus is on building database architectures that support modern API-driven ecosystems across healthcare, SaaS, and high-traffic digital platforms.
At the core of Web Logix Group’s approach is API-first database design. Data models are engineered specifically around how APIs read, write, and aggregate data—not how legacy systems stored it. This reduces latency, minimizes over-fetching, and ensures predictable performance even as usage scales.
Web Logix Group specializes in relational, NoSQL, and hybrid database architectures, selecting technologies based on access patterns rather than trends. Transaction-heavy workflows leverage optimized relational schemas, while high-throughput or event-driven APIs use NoSQL and distributed data stores to support horizontal scaling and fault tolerance.
For performance, Web Logix Group engineers query optimization, indexing strategies, caching layers, and read/write separation directly into the API stack. This includes database-level tuning, in-memory caching (Redis or equivalent), and API-aware pagination and filtering strategies to maintain low response times under heavy demand.
Security and compliance are foundational, especially for healthcare and regulated industries. Database engineering services include field-level encryption, role-based access control, audit logging, tokenization, and HIPAA-aligned data handling, ensuring APIs expose only what clients are authorized to access.
Web Logix Group also designs event-ready databases, enabling APIs to integrate seamlessly with webhooks, message queues, and analytics pipelines. This supports real-time notifications, reporting, and downstream integrations without impacting core transactional systems.
The result is a database layer purpose-built for APIs—resilient, observable, and future-proof—allowing Web Logix Group clients to scale confidently while maintaining performance, data integrity, and regulatory compliance as their platforms grow.
Authorization and Security Framework
Web Logix Group’s authorization and security framework services for APIs ensure secure, compliant, and scalable access across modern platforms. The team designs and implements OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect authentication, JWT and service-to-service identity, and role- and attribute-based access control. Security is enforced at both the API gateway and service layers with rate limiting, encryption, audit logging, and zero-trust principles. Web Logix Group also supports HIPAA-aligned data protection, webhook security, key management, and ongoing monitoring, enabling organizations to protect sensitive data while confidently scaling API-driven systems.
Endpoint Logic
Web Logix Group’s Endpoint Logic for APIs focuses on designing API endpoints that are intuitive, secure, performant, and resilient—while cleanly mapping business rules to technical execution.
Web Logix Group engineers endpoint logic using clear resource modeling and intent-driven actions, ensuring endpoints reflect real-world workflows rather than exposing internal systems. Each endpoint is designed with strict input validation, consistent request/response schemas, and predictable error handling to improve reliability and developer experience.
Security is embedded directly into endpoint logic through fine-grained authorization checks, scope validation, and field-level access control, ensuring users and systems only access permitted data. Idempotency safeguards and concurrency controls are applied to prevent duplicate or conflicting operations.
For performance and scalability, endpoint logic incorporates efficient query patterns, pagination, filtering, caching, and asynchronous processing where appropriate. Business-critical endpoints are built to gracefully handle partial failures, retries, and downstream service latency.
Web Logix Group also emphasizes observability at the endpoint level, including structured logging, correlation IDs, metrics, and audit trails—critical for healthcare, enterprise, and regulated environments.
The result is endpoint logic that is cleanly structured, policy-aware, and production-hardened, enabling APIs that scale reliably, remain secure, and evolve without breaking clients as business requirements grow.
Testing and Quality Assurance
Web Logix Group’s API Testing and Quality Assurance services ensure APIs are reliable, secure, and production-ready before and after launch. The team implements automated unit, integration, and contract testing to validate endpoint behavior, data integrity, and schema consistency across services. Load and stress testing are used to confirm performance under real-world traffic, while fault-injection testing verifies graceful failure handling and resiliency.
Security testing is embedded into the QA process, including authentication and authorization validation, input sanitization, rate-limit enforcement, and vulnerability scanning. Web Logix Group also conducts regression testing, versioning validation, and backward-compatibility checks to prevent breaking changes. Combined with continuous monitoring and CI/CD integration, this approach delivers stable, scalable, and compliant API systems.
