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API infrastructure for serious production traffic
APIFlow Systems puts a managed gateway, zero-trust authentication, rate limiting and a developer portal in front of your services — deployed from London, routed across 31 global edge locations, observable down to the single request.
48B+
API calls routed monthly
99.99%
Gateway uptime SLA
< 3 ms
Added gateway latency
31
Global edge locations
The Platform
Everything between your users and your services
Eight layers of infrastructure, one control plane. Deploy them together or adopt them one at a time — each component works with what you already run.
API Gateway
One entry point for every service. Routing, transforms, retries and protocol bridging with under 3 ms of added latency.
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API Management
Register, version and govern every API from a single control plane. Deprecate safely with automated sunset headers.
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Authentication
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, API keys and mTLS — enforced at the edge before a request ever reaches your services.
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Rate Limiting
Token-bucket, sliding-window and burst-aware limits per key, per plan, per endpoint. Fair use, enforced globally.
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Developer Portal
Branded docs, interactive API explorer, self-serve keys and sandboxes — so developers onboard themselves.
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Monitoring
Live metrics, distributed tracing, log pipelines and alerting on every route, with second-level granularity.
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Integrations
Native connectors for the tools your teams already run — identity providers, clouds, queues and observability stacks.
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Documentation
OpenAPI-native docs generated from your schemas, kept in sync on every deploy. Versioned, searchable, yours.
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Reference Architecture
The APIFlow architecture, end to end
Every request travels the same well-instrumented path: from client, through the edge and gateway, past the authentication layer, into your services — with the management plane, monitoring and developer portal watching the whole route.
Request path ↓
01 Client Layer
Consumers of your public API surface
02 Edge & Delivery
Global anycast edge, 31 points of presence
03 API Gateway
Single entry point — routing, throttling, transformation
04 Authentication & Authorization
Zero-trust identity for every request
05 API Management Plane
Control plane for the lifecycle of every API
06 Backend Services
Your upstream services, load-balanced and health-checked
07 Data & Events
Persistent stores and the event backbone
Monitoring & Observability
Continuous, across every layer
- Live Metrics
- Distributed Tracing
- Log Pipelines
- Alerting
- Status Page
Developer Portal
Continuous, across every layer
- Interactive Docs
- API Keys Console
- SDKs & CLI
- Sandbox Tenant
- Usage Analytics
Guarantees
- 99.99% gateway uptime SLA
- < 3 ms added gateway latency
- SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001
- UK & EU data residency
Documentation
Docs that behave like the product
Every APIFlow endpoint is documented the way engineers expect: method, path, auth, latency budgets and working examples — generated from OpenAPI schemas and versioned alongside your releases.
# Issue a gateway-scoped API key
curl -X POST https://api.apiflow.systems/v1/keys \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-d '{"scope":"gateway:read"}'
/v1/routes List all active gateway routes with their upstream targets, policies and health status.
/v1/keys Issue a scoped API key bound to a gateway, environment and rate-limit plan.
/v1/metrics/traffic Query traffic metrics by route, status class, region and time window at one-second granularity.
/v1/policies/{id} Update a rate-limiting or auth policy. Changes propagate to all 31 edge locations in under five seconds.
/v1/keys/{id} Revoke an API key instantly across the entire edge fleet.
/v1/webhooks Register a webhook target for deployment, quota and incident events, signed with HMAC.
Ready to put serious infrastructure behind your APIs?
Deploy a managed gateway, secure every endpoint, and give your developers a portal they will actually enjoy. Our engineering team is ready when you are.