Chowder

Chowder is a unified API layer designed to aggregate, normalize, and serve data from disparate sources through a single, consistent endpoint. Its primary purpose is to eliminate the complexity of integrating multiple APIs, databases, and third-party systems by providing a standardized interface for querying and managing data. This allows engineering teams to focus on product logic rather than building and maintaining numerous custom integrations and data pipelines.

Chowder connects to a wide range of data sources—such as internal services, external APIs, and various data stores—and normalizes their schemas into a coherent data model. It exposes this unified view via one endpoint, simplifying authentication, authorization, and request routing across sources. Developers can define transformations, mappings, and access rules centrally, ensuring consistent data contracts across applications. Chowder also supports versioning and schema evolution, helping teams adapt to changing upstream APIs without breaking downstream consumers.