Rewiring America Accelerated API Development and Saved Weeks with Zuplo
Rewiring America transformed their popular IRA savings calculator into a robust API, enabling partners to integrate clean energy incentive data into their own platforms while saving weeks of engineering effort.
Accelerated Development
GitOps Integration
Enterprise Readiness
Transforming a Calculator into a Scalable API
Rewiring America had built a popular web-based IRA savings calculator that helped consumers understand tax credits and rebates available for clean energy home upgrades through the Inflation Reduction Act.
The calculator gained so much popularity that partners and other organizations wanted to integrate this valuable information into their own websites and applications. Additionally, Rewiring America needed a platform to power future applications built on the same knowledge base.
As the first full-time engineering hire, Tom Carden needed to transform what was initially client-side business logic running in the browser into a robust, scalable API that could be used by both partners and internal teams, while ensuring proper authentication, rate limiting, and documentation.
Pain Points
- API InfrastructureNeeded to build API key validation and management from scratch
- Security & Rate LimitingRequired protection against abuse and unexpected traffic spikes
- DocumentationNeeded a way to host and generate documentation from OpenAPI specs
- Time ConstraintsLimited engineering resources to build infrastructure vs. core functionality
Saved Weeks of Development Time
By leveraging Zuplo instead of building API infrastructure in-house, Rewiring America saved at least two weeks of initial engineering effort, plus ongoing maintenance and optimization time.
Rapid Deployment Workflow
Zuplo's GitOps integration and instant deployment capabilities enabled the team to quickly iterate on their API, testing features and deploying updates without managing complex infrastructure.
Enterprise-Grade Reliability
When a partner was preparing to announce a feature to 10,000 potential users, Rewiring America had confidence in their API's ability to handle the traffic thanks to Zuplo's battle-tested platform.
Focused Engineering Resources
By eliminating the opportunity cost of building common API infrastructure, Rewiring America could focus their limited engineering resources on solving problems unique to their mission of promoting clean energy adoption.
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