In the simplest terms, APIs are sets of requirements that govern how one application can talk to another. On the Web, APIs make it possible for big services like Google Maps or Facebook to let other apps access their offerings. Think about the way Yelp, for instance, displays nearby restaurants on a Google Map in its app, or the way some video games now let players chat, post high scores and invite friends to play via Facebook, right there in the middle of a game. APIs do all this by “exposing” some of a program’s internal functions to the outside world in an intentionally limited fashion.

These days, APIs are especially important because they dictate how developers can create new apps that tap into big Web services—social networks like Facebook or Pinterest, for instance, or utilities like Google Maps or Dropbox. The developer of a game app, for instance, can use the Dropbox API to let users store their saved games in the Dropbox cloud instead of working out some other cloud-storage option from scratch.

Not only can we use APIs for publicly available services like Twitter or Instagram, we can also create custom APIs to expose data from your enterprise to outside vendors and clients. Whether you need work-flow tracking, report generation, chart generation, or integration with a CRM, we are able to build APIs to produce, manipulate, and consume data.

We build APIs using the widely adopted RESTful methodology in order to make available data on the web and mobile devices using PHP, in combination with frameworks such as Laravel, CakePHP and NodeJS. In addition to writing custom APIs for CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) applications, we also connect to popular public APIs, such as Google Maps, Twitter, and YouTube.

We have the infrastructure and skill-set to build an end-to-end solution spanning from the server to the user. Whether you need someone to write SQL queries to manipulate data in your database, or someone to build out a mid-tier solution using PHP in order to process data, or someone to present the data on a web page utilizing the latest user interface design trends, or just a piece of this puzzle, we are ready to work with you to build the requirements and data objects needed to get the job done. And when we are done compiling the requirements and building out the system, we can host your web application on our highly scalable and redundant web hosting infrastructure at low cost.

How can you use our API development skills? Here are a few common use case scenarios that might serve as inspiration to use hire us for your next project:

Fast and reliable storage for you to integrate into your application.
Store and Retrieve Application Data

Host and Serve Images, Video, and other Media
Serve your large video files and other media for your application.

Host your static website content and save storage and bandwidth.
Distribute and Host Website Content

Store, Archive, and Backup Data
Play it safe and archive your data with redundancy and easy access.

Reporting
Create sortable grids of data from database tables of static text files.

Charts
Create charts to insert into reports from financial data.

Contact KLP Technology Consulting to learn how we may help you with your API programming and hosting needs.