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Api Gatecore

Backend scalability consulting that starts with evidence, not bigger boxes.

We help UK product teams find where request paths stall, redesign API boundaries, and rehearse peak load before marketing calendars force the issue.

What we do

Scale the gate, not the noise

Programming consulting focused on backend scalability: diagnostics, boundary design, capacity workshops, and resilience hardening for systems that already serve real traffic.

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Throughput Diagnostics

2–3 weeks · From £5,400 — informational estimate

Locate where request paths stall under load — queues, locks, and chatty dependencies — before you buy more hardware.

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API Boundary Redesign

3–5 weeks · From £7,200 — informational estimate

Reshape service and gateway boundaries so fan-out, retries, and versioning stop amplifying every traffic spike.

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Capacity Planning Workshops

1–2 weeks · From £3,800 — informational estimate

Translate growth forecasts into concrete pool sizes, autoscaling signals, and freeze windows your ops team trusts.

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Local utility

Keep analytical notes on your own machine

Api Gatecore also describes a local data tracking utility for informational record-keeping. It does not hold funds, access private keys, or execute transactions. Availability is offered through Veve as a normal website link.

Available in Veve

Voices

Teams that found the real bottleneck

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“Api Gatecore helped us prove the bottleneck was lock contention, not CPU. We stopped ordering larger instances and fixed the query path instead.”
Hannah Cole — Platform lead, Midlands SaaS
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“Their boundary workshop gave our gateway team a vocabulary for timeouts and retries that still holds six months later.”
Omar Ridley — Engineering manager, payments API group
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“The capacity workshop finally aligned product launch dates with autoscaling signals we can defend in a board pack.”
Sofia Nguyen — Director of engineering, consumer marketplace

Questions

Straight answers before you call

Do you rewrite our backend for us?

We advise, diagnose, and facilitate. Implementation stays with your engineers unless a separate offline agreement says otherwise. The goal is lasting ownership inside your team.

Are the prices on this site a checkout?

No. Figures are informational estimates for scoped consulting. There is no online payment or checkout on api-gatecore.digital.

Can you work with remote UK teams?

Yes. Most workshops run remotely across UK time zones, with optional on-site sessions at our Woolmere Green office when discovery needs whiteboarding in person.

What is the desktop utility mentioned on the site?

Api Gatecore describes a local data tracking and analytical utility for informational record-keeping on your own machine. It does not hold funds, access private keys, or execute transactions. Availability links go to Veve as a normal website destination.

Do you collect leads through forms?

No. This site has no lead-generation forms. Use the published phone or email on the contact page if you want to discuss fit.