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We help organizations design, secure, and operate their API landscape: from gateway enforcement to developer self-service, through a consulting-led approach backed by a proven product foundation.
The challenge
API problems rarely look like API problems on the surface. They look like slow integrations, security incidents, duplicated work, or teams that can't tell you what's actually deployed. The root cause is almost always the same: no consistent standard, no lifecycle ownership, and no clear picture of what's exposed and what data is flowing through it.
Every team making different decisions on formats, auth, error handling, versioning. No shared baseline.
APIs get created, rarely deprecated. Versions pile up. Changes happen without versioning or consumer notice.
Each team handles auth and threat protection differently, creating gaps no one has a full picture of.
Can't answer basic questions: what APIs are live, who's consuming them, what data is going in and out.
Documentation out of sync with reality. Clients integrating against behavior, not a defined spec.
Manual steps for every new developer or application. Bottlenecks that create friction and slow delivery.
What we deliver
We don't start by selling a platform. We start by understanding what you already have, then focus on your actual pain points, not a generic checklist. Security, performance, SLAs, and resiliency are first-order concerns, not configuration afterthoughts.
You'll know what's deployed, where, and what it's doing across teams and environments. Including the APIs nobody documented.
Not everything needs fixing at once. The highest-risk gaps and highest-impact improvements get addressed first, based on your context, not a template.
A hardened, well-performing platform with defined SLAs and built-in resiliency. Designed in from the start, not bolted on after the fact.
From design to deprecation. Versioning, consumer communication, and environment consistency handled as ongoing practice, not one-time setup.
Gateway capabilities
The gateway enforces a layered security model where each component handles its own concern, and together they form a coherent posture that doesn't depend on any single mechanism being perfect.
Routing & resilience
Observability
API styles & protocols
Not every integration fits a synchronous REST pattern. Modern API landscapes increasingly include GraphQL for flexible data querying and async event-driven patterns for decoupled, non-blocking communication. We help you understand where each style fits and how to govern it consistently alongside your REST APIs.
Schema-first, flexible querying. Useful when consumers need to shape their own responses, as in BFF and mobile-facing APIs.
Kafka, JMS, and webhooks for non-blocking integrations. Decouples producers from consumers and handles high-throughput workloads without tight coupling.
Legacy systems often speak SOAP or JMS. The gateway bridges old and new, exposing clean REST or GraphQL interfaces over existing backends without rewriting them.
Developer portal
The developer portal is where internal teams, partners, and external developers discover and integrate with your APIs. Their experience there directly affects how fast and how correctly they do it.
Onboarding & access
Experience & tooling
Our approach
API governance isn't just a technical concern and it isn't just a business one either. It lives at both levels simultaneously. We address each with the right tools and the right conversations, then make sure they're aligned.
Every API in your portfolio should behave predictably, regardless of which team built it. That means enforced standards for formats, date-time handling, error structures, naming conventions, authentication patterns, and versioning.
Custom APIs solve custom problems, but they create custom maintenance burdens. Where possible, we align your APIs to industry-standard patterns, so your platform stays interoperable, scalable, and easier to evolve.
OpenAPI 3.0 as the contract. Spec before code, every time.
Security, rate limits, routing — managed through config, not buried in implementation.
Every request is authenticated and authorized. No implicit access granted based on where a call originates.
Self-service onboarding, sandbox access, and documentation that stays in sync automatically.
For how this is implemented on the Broadcom Layer7 platform — policy templates, enforcement categories, and centralized distribution across Gateway clusters — see the API Governance solution page.