Digital Transformation / Engineering

Microservices &
API Development

We decompose monoliths into resilient, independently deployable services and design the APIs that connect them. From contract-first REST and GraphQL to event-driven choreography and service mesh, we build distributed systems that scale by team and by service.

Independently deployableContract-first APIsEvent-driven
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GET/api/v2/orders
20042ms
Gateway
edge
auth-svc
orders-svc
payments-svc
event-bus · order.created → 3 subscribers
What We Build

Services That Talk Cleanly.

Six disciplines that turn one brittle codebase into a fleet of small, observable services, and the well-governed APIs that let them collaborate.

01

Monolith Decomposition

Strangler-fig migrations that carve bounded contexts out of legacy monoliths, incrementally, with zero big-bang risk.

02

API Design & Governance

Contract-first REST, GraphQL, and gRPC with OpenAPI specs, style guides, and versioning that keeps consumers stable.

03

API Gateway & Management

Centralized auth, rate limiting, request shaping, and analytics through Kong, Apigee, or AWS API Gateway.

04

Event-Driven Architecture

Asynchronous choreography with Kafka and pub/sub, event sourcing, CQRS, and the saga pattern for distributed consistency.

05

Service Mesh & Resilience

Istio and Linkerd with circuit breakers, retries, and timeouts so a single failing service never cascades.

06

Inter-Service Communication

Sync and async messaging, service discovery, and backward-compatible contracts that let teams ship independently.

Communication Protocols

The Right Protocol For Every Call.

We don't force one style on every problem. Each service boundary gets the protocol that fits its latency, coupling, and consumer needs.

REST

Stateless, cacheable HTTP APIs that any client can consume. We design clean resource models, predictable status codes, and HATEOAS where it earns its keep.

Best for
Public APIsCRUD servicesBroad compatibility
1GET /api/v2/orders/8821
2Accept: application/json
 
4200 OK
5{ "id": 8821, "status": "shipped" }
How We Deliver

From Monolith To Mesh.

A disciplined path that decomposes safely, contracts first, and ships each service on its own clock, without a risky rewrite.

01

Domain Decomposition

DDD · Event Storming

Domain-driven design workshops map your business into bounded contexts, so service boundaries follow ownership, not org charts.

02

API Contract Design

OpenAPI · gRPC · AsyncAPI

Contract-first specs in OpenAPI and Protobuf become the source of truth, generating stubs, mocks, and docs before code is written.

03

Service Implementation

Polyglot · DB-per-service

Small, single-responsibility services built on a shared template, each with its own datastore, pipeline, and deploy cadence.

04

Integration & Messaging

Kafka · Istio · Gateway

Sync calls through the gateway, async flows over the event bus, and service discovery wired into a managed mesh.

05

Resilience & Testing

Pact · Chaos · Circuit breakers

Consumer-driven contract tests, fault injection, and chaos experiments prove the system degrades gracefully under failure.

06

Deploy & Observe

Canary · OpenTelemetry

Progressive delivery with canaries, plus distributed tracing that follows a single request across every hop.

Why Plaxonic

The Distributed Advantage.

Done right, microservices aren't complexity for its own sake, they buy you speed, resilience, and the freedom for every team to move at its own pace.

10x

Faster, safer releases

Independent deploys mean a fix ships in minutes, no coordinated release train holding every team hostage.

Zero

Cascading failures

Circuit breakers, bulkheads, and timeouts isolate faults so one struggling service never takes down the system.

Per-service

Right-sized scaling

Scale only the hot path instead of the whole app, cutting infrastructure waste and cloud spend.

Full

Request-level visibility

Distributed tracing stitches a single request across every hop, so root cause is minutes away, not days.

Polyglot

Best tool per job

Each team picks the language, framework, and datastore that fits its service, without forcing a monoculture.

Contract

Safe evolution

Versioned, consumer-tested API contracts let teams upgrade on their own schedule with zero breaking surprises.

Proven Outcomes

Systems We Helped Untangle.

From risky monoliths to clean, observable service fleets, here is what the right architecture unlocked.

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Cartwheel Retail
Monolith Decomposition
Cartwheel Retail

Breaking a 1.2M-line monolith into 40 services, without a freeze

Using a strangler-fig approach, we peeled checkout, catalog, and fulfillment out of a decade-old monolith one bounded context at a time. New services shipped behind the existing API while the legacy core kept serving traffic, so the business never paused.

11x
more frequent deploys
0
minutes of migration downtime
Meridian BankAPI Platform
Meridian Bank

An open-banking API platform serving 80M calls a day

A governed API gateway with OAuth2, rate limiting, and a developer portal turned core banking into a partner-ready product.

80M+
API calls per day at p99 under 90ms
Polaris LogisticsEvent-Driven Architecture
Polaris Logistics

Real-time shipment tracking on a Kafka event backbone

Event sourcing and CQRS replaced nightly batch jobs, giving customers live tracking and the ops team an auditable history.

Real-time
tracking, replacing 6-hour batch delays

Ready to decompose the monolith?

Start with an architecture audit. We'll map your bounded contexts, score your API maturity, and lay out a safe, incremental path to a service mesh.