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API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup. @api-gateway-setup
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Last review 2026-08-14
What you get
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96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Centralize API routing, authentication, throttling, observability, and policy enforcement behind one gateway. Finish state: every API fronted by a governed gateway with limits enforced.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
The API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup puts one governed front door in front of your APIs. Routing, authentication, throttling, and policy enforcement move out of individual services into a gateway layer — so every service stops re-implementing them, and every request is visible in one place. The finish state is your API traffic flowing through the gateway in production, with rate limits enforced, auth centralized, and per-route dashboards live.
The sprint is migration-shaped, not greenfield-shaped: existing APIs move behind the gateway route by route, with no breaking change for current clients. Gateway choice is driven by your stack — Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, Cloudflare, or an equivalent — not by preference.
What's included
Gateway Selection & Topology
An assessment of your API estate and traffic patterns, gateway selection for your cloud and stack, and a routing topology covering internal, partner, and public traffic.
Centralized Authentication
API keys, OAuth2/JWT validation, and mTLS where needed — verified once at the edge, with identity passed to services in a consistent, trusted form.
Rate Limiting & Policies
Per-client and per-route rate limits, quotas, and burst controls, plus policy enforcement — request validation, header rules, IP controls — as configuration rather than code.
Traffic Observability
Structured access logs, latency and error dashboards per route and per consumer, and alerting on limit breaches and error spikes.
How it works
- Scope — Inventory APIs and consumers, select the gateway, and design routing, auth, and limit policies.
- Build — Deploy the gateway, migrate routes incrementally behind it, and verify parity and limits under load.
- Handover — Full traffic cutover, dashboards and alerting live, and a policy playbook for adding routes and consumers.
Part of every Delivery Plan
The API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
Will existing API clients notice the change?
No — that is the acceptance test. Routes move behind the gateway with identical paths and behavior; clients see the same API with better reliability characteristics.
Do our services have to change?
Minimally. Services can usually drop their own auth and throttling code over time, but nothing is forced during the sprint — the gateway is introduced without touching service internals.
What happens after setup?
Your team operates the gateway with the handover playbook. Teams that want managed operation of uptime and incident response pair it with the Uptime & Incident SLA from the menu.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · api | ● available |
| Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · backlog | ● available |
| Technical Debt Reduction Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · technical-debt | ● available |
| Critical Application Rescue | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · rescue | ● available |