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From the Website to the Technology

The website is written for everyone who has a say in choosing Apiway, so it describes outcomes: who gets in, what they may do, the service you promise. If you evaluate technology, this page is the translation — each outcome, the standard or component it rests on, and where to read about it.

Apiway is a product delivery platform. The components below are parts of it, the way an engine is part of a car: each is familiar on its own, and what Apiway sells is that they arrive already working together, driven from one contract.

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Who gets in, and what they may doAn OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorisation server issuing every token — client credentials, and authorisation code with PKCEAuthentication, Standards & Conformance
Identity GuardThe authorisation server plus per-request authorisation at the gatewayIdentity Guard
Each customer gets their own credentialsA client per subscription, scoped to what the customer’s plan entitlesScopes & Entitlements
Your people sign in with what they already useFederation with any OIDC identity provider — Entra, Okta, Auth0, GoogleIdentity Providers
When someone leavesAuthorisation resolved live on every request; why there is no SCIM directory synchronisationWhen Someone Leaves
Access withdrawn on the next callPer-request entitlement resolution; RFC 7009 token revocation; JWKS key rotationRevocation & Token Lifetime
What reaches your backendA verified token carrying the customer (tenant claim), the client (sub) and its scopes; UserInfo for a person’s profileWhat Reaches Your Backend
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The front door your customers callAn API gateway — Apiway’s own, or the one you run (Kong, Azure API Management, Apigee, Tyk, Zuplo)Multiple Gateways, Deployment Models
From idea to live productOpenAPI contract design, a stateful mock at the final address, then your implementation behind itDesign Studio, Mock Data, Going Live
Changes that never break customersSemantic versioning enforced at the gateway: a breaking change cannot go onto a version in useVersioning
Proof it runs as designedContract verification: tests generated from the OpenAPI document run against every deployment, and continuous drift analysis of what runs against what was specifiedAssurance, Compliance
Nothing ships that breaks a customerApproval flows with governance templatesApproval Flows
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The service you promise, enforcedOpenSLA documents: tiers, rate limits, quotas, a protective ceiling; 429 / 402 at the edgeOpenSLA
Early WarningRisk events classified and pushed live (server-sent events), plus signed webhooks for drift, upstream health and capacityRisk Management, Into Your Own Systems
Who is affectedDependency and consumer analysis before a changeBlast Radius
Wealth EngineMetering in resource units per customer and operation, credits, and line items by APIMetering, Credits, Wealth Engine
Everything you sell and buyThe API economy: APIs you produce and APIs you consume, under the same rulesAPI Economy, External APIs
Your shop windowA developer portal and marketplace with self-service subscriptionMarketplace, Subscribing
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Compliance evidence, produced as you runGrants, approvals and refusals recorded by the same system that enforces themAccess Evidence
Yours to leaveEvery record is an API read you can take with youExit & Continuous Audit