Real Time API Orchestration for Commodity Trading: A Zero-Latency Use Case
Discover how a global commodity trading firm used Unmeshed to orchestrate real-time API workflows with near-zero latency between steps. With Unmeshed’s definition-driven orchestration, teams can build ultra-fast, traceable API chains without sacrificing performance. Every execution is fully captured—allowing for instant replay, call history inspection, and self-service debugging without expensive log reconstruction or third-party observability tools.
Client’s Dilemma
Commodity Trading firms frequently orchestrate multiple backend services to deliver seamless, real-time customer experiences—these workflows typically span market data aggregation, trade execution, processing settlement and more. Traditionally, an entire engineering teams are tasked to stitch together APIs manually, manage secrets, build routing logic, implement retries, and sort through logs to debug failures. This complexity came at high cost: millions spent on infrastructure and engineering hours, compounded with barriers to rapid development and agile delivery.
One client faced this exact challenge. Their engineering team invested significant effort to stabilize backend operations powered real-time data dashboard, validate trade data, and tracked high-value transaction. However, as market volatility increased and compliance expectations grew- alongside mounting infrastructure costs and exorbitant licensing fee, it became clear that their legacy system was no longer sustainable.
By adopting definition-driven workflows with Unmeshed, the client transformed backend operations by streamlining complex workflows. With full visibility, teams can monitor, replay, or debug workflows—without writing brittle glue code.
Solution
Unmeshed equips the client with powerful orchestration capabilities designed for modern, scalable backend automation. The platform enables users to orchestrate API calls using step definitions, pass data between steps using contextual references ({{ steps.X.output.Y }}
) and automatically retry failed calls with configurable delays.
Unmeshed captures every workflow execution in a complete, step-by-step trace. This enables the client to store detailed call history, replay runs on demand and empower operations teams to independently debug issues—all without relying on external observability platforms or building custom monitoring tools. This built-in traceability drastically reduces resolution times and increases transparency across services.
Unmeshed also includes a wide range of built-in features: a drag-and-drop workflow builder, visual design flows, input and output validation, dynamic call routing and rate limiting, native support for streaming responses, built-in alerting and log forwarding. These system features ensure that the client can maintain real-time performance and resilience across both internal and third-party services.
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External Interface Requirements
Unmeshed seamlessly integrates with modern application ecosystems. It supports HTTP and HTTPS endpoints using REST or SOAP protocols, enabling connectivity with both legacy and modern services. Authentication mechanisms such as Okta, API Secrets, and custom headers are supported out of the box. Secrets and credentials are securely managed within the platform to ensure compliance and reduce the risk of exposure.
Non-functional Requirements
Unmeshed delivers exceptional performance and resilience for mission-critical workloads. It supports high availability and retry resilience, ensuring workflows continue without disruption even if individual API calls fail—thanks to automatic retries and fault-tolerant design.
With role-based access control (RBAC), the client can enforce secure and compliant workflow access by defining fine-grained permissions based on roles such as developer, operator or approver. This allows collaboration across teams without compromising governance.
Unmeshed also enables CI/CD integration via exported process definitions in JSON format, allowing process logic to be versioned, reviewed, and deployed just like application code. This supports modern DevOps practices and ensures orchestration evolves alongside your software.
Client Gains Instantly with Unmeshed
Without writing brittle glue code or managing infra, the team now benefits from:
- Full call tracing – know exactly what happened, when, and why
- Call history – see who triggered a flow, with what inputs
- Secrets & authentication handling – built in, secure, and compliant
- Validation & routing – ensure requests are clean and delivered to the right service
- Rate limiting – control traffic without building custom middleware
- Streaming support – return partial or real-time responses
- Failure handling – automatic retries and graceful degradation when services hiccup
With Unmeshed, the developers now spend less time debugging and more time delivering features—while platform teams enjoy peace of mind knowing they can search, monitor, debug and scale workflows durably.
Our Fixed Pricing Model Will Surprise You
Unmeshed delivers enterprise-grade orchestration with real-time performance at a fraction of traditional costs. We offer predictable, fixed pricing model so that you only pay for what’s in the contract —no inflated licensing fees, no surprise charges or hidden costs. Whether you're orchestrating a few hundred calls or scaling to millions, we deliver enterprise-grade performance at start-up friendly economics.
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