Modernize Data Access with
REST Data APIs
We design, secure, and scale REST Data APIs that make your data easy to use across teams and systems. Partner with us to assess your current APIs, prioritize improvements, and ship production-ready services.
- Faster integration: Standard contracts and tooling that cut onboarding time.
- Governed access: Central authentication, authorization, and auditing for sensitive data.
- Reliable performance: Caching, rate limits, and SLAs for predictable uptime.
- Lower costs: Efficient query patterns and caching that reduce backend spend.
What is a Data API?
A Data API is a software interface that exposes data from databases, data warehouses, or cloud systems through predictable HTTP endpoints. It acts as a gateway between applications and services and their data sources, processing client requests and returning results securely and efficiently. Data APIs handle both structured and unstructured data and are foundational for scalable, data-driven applications and integrations.
Key Characteristics
- Resource-oriented REST: Endpoints map to data resources and use standard HTTP methods for CRUD.
- Predictable contracts: JSON payloads, clear schemas, status codes, and consistent error handling.
- Flexible queries: Filtering, sorting, pagination, field selection, and search to return only what is needed.
- Security and governance: Authentication and authorization, transport encryption, access control, auditing, and compliance (e.g., PII, GDPR).
- Performance and reliability: Caching, rate limits, batching, idempotency, and retries.
- Versioning: Backward-compatible changes with managed deprecations to keep integrations stable.
- Observability: Logging, metrics, tracing, and SLAs to monitor health and usage.
- Developer experience: OpenAPI documentation, examples, SDKs, and sandbox environments for faster integration.
With the basics in place, effective management turns REST endpoints into dependable, governed data products.
Why Manage Your REST Data APIs?
Once your data is exposed via REST, effective Data API management is what keeps access secure, consistent, and scalable across teams and systems.
- Faster integration: Standardized contracts and tooling reduce one-off work and onboarding time.
- Governed access: Central authZ/authN, audit trails, and policies for PII and compliance.
- Reliable performance & SLAs: Caching, rate limits, retries, and capacity planning.
- Cost control: Throttle abusive traffic, cache hot paths, and right-size backend usage.
- Change management: Versioning and clear deprecations prevent breaking changes.
- Observability: Usage analytics, logs, tracing, and health dashboards.
- Reuse & consistency: Shared patterns, SDKs, and governance reduce duplication.
At Web Fountain, we design, secure, and operate REST Data APIs end-to-end— from resource modeling and OpenAPI docs to gateways, governance, and ongoing SLAs.
Services
API Assessment
Discovery, maturity scoring, and a prioritized roadmap for REST Data APIs.
Design and Build
Resource modeling, OpenAPI, governance, gateways, and production rollout.
Performance and Cost
Caching, query optimization, and capacity planning to hit SLAs at lower spend.
Security and Compliance
AuthN/AuthZ, audit trails, and policies for PII (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA as applicable).
Observability and SRE
Dashboards, traces, alerts, and runbooks for reliable operations.
Enablement
Developer portals, SDKs, examples, and training to drive adoption.
Technologies We Use for REST Data APIs
We design and operate APIs with a stack that balances speed, governance, and reliability.
Common patterns include OpenAPI specs, OAuth2/OIDC, API gateways, schema validation (JSON Schema), caching layers, and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
About Web Fountain
Web Fountain helps teams turn data into dependable, governed APIs. We focus on partnerships, integrity, and practical innovation.
Recent work includes cutting median integration time from weeks to days by standardizing REST contracts and launching a developer portal.
We are also developing Synapto.io, a developer tool for data API management, reflecting our ongoing investment in the ecosystem.
General FAQ
How can Web Fountain help my business?
We specialize in data API management and integration, helping you expose trusted data with predictable performance and lower costs.
What industries do you serve?
We work across finance, healthcare, e-commerce, SaaS, and technology. We tailor governance and performance to your regulatory and scale needs.
What does Data API management include?
Design standards (OpenAPI), security (OAuth2/OIDC), gateways and policies, versioning and deprecations, observability, SLAs and SLOs, and developer experience (docs, SDKs, portals).
Why keep the ORM thin, and what's our approach?
ORMs are great for simple CRUD, but large surfaces can hide query costs, cause N+1 issues, and tightly couple APIs to domain objects. We keep the ORM thin and move complex reads to explicit SQL or a query builder, using views or materialized views where appropriate. We encapsulate queries in small modules, map results to DTOs, and rely on indexes, explain plans, and caching to meet SLAs. This improves performance, transparency, and maintainability without throwing out the ORM entirely.
How do projects typically start?
We begin with a 60 to 90 minute assessment call and a short discovery. You receive a written plan with scope, timeline, and a fixed-fee or milestone proposal.
Do you work with our existing stack?
Yes. We integrate with your databases, CI/CD, gateway, and identity provider. We prefer open standards and avoid lock-in.
Let's Work Together
Ready to tackle your data API challenges? Together, we can build a solution that turns your data into an engine of growth and innovation.
