Ink, Inc.

Platform engineering

APIs & platforms

The connective tissue: APIs, webhooks, and internal tools that let the rest of the system tell the truth.

Some products are not a screen. They are a contract other systems call — a partner API, a webhook, a sync into a CRM, an importer that has to be safe to run twice. We build that layer so the customer-facing app is not also the integration bus.

Versioning, idempotency, and a document a partner can read are part of the delivery. An endpoint nobody can call correctly is not finished. When the events are heavy or the parser is hostile input, the worker may be Rust. The contract stays stable either way.

APIs & platforms

What the work covers

Public and partner APIs

Versioned HTTP APIs with authentication, pagination, and errors a caller can branch on.

Webhooks

Signed event delivery, retries, and a way for a subscriber to see what they missed.

System sync

Connections to CRMs, billing, warehouses, and the other systems that already hold a copy of the truth.

Internal platforms

Admin tools and operational consoles for the people who run the product every day.

Imports

Migrations and file imports that can be repeated without duplicating or destroying records.

Developer documentation

A reference that matches the API you shipped, including the example that actually works.

Delivery

What you leave with

  • A versioned API or event stream
  • Auth and a replay story for subscribers
  • Documentation a partner can implement against
  • An internal tool for the operations the API implies

Fit

Choose this when

  • Other software has to integrate, and a CSV is no longer enough.
  • The bottleneck is moving data between systems you already run.
  • Support is blocked because nobody can see what an integration did.

Neighbors

When another practice fits better

These are the switches we recommend in scoping, not a disclaimer.

Bespoke SaaS

The missing piece is the customer-facing product, not the pipe behind it.

TypeScript

You need the application that calls the API, built with it.

Rust

The worker’s throughput or the hostility of the input is the actual problem.

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