Production environments
Staging and production that actually resemble each other.
Services
Cloud Infrastructure and Deployment
Infrastructure appropriate for the size of the business, rather than complexity for its own sake.
Software needs somewhere reliable to run. The part that decides whether an application survives its first year is usually not the code.
We build and maintain production environments, deployment pipelines, databases, monitoring, backups, CDN and edge infrastructure, and cloud services.
We focus on infrastructure that is reliable and appropriate for the size of the business rather than adding complexity for its own sake. Most companies do not need the architecture of a company a hundred times their size, and paying for it slows everything down.
Problems this solves
You may recognise some of these.
- Deploying is manual, risky, and only one person will do it
- There is no staging environment, so production is the test
- The cloud bill grows and nobody can attribute it
- Backups exist and have never been restored
- An outage is discovered by a customer
What we do
The work itself
Deployment pipelines
Automated, repeatable releases with a rollback that has been tested.
Databases and backups
Including restoring from one, which is the only way to know it works.
Monitoring and alerting
Finding out before your customers do.
CDN and edge
Delivery and caching, which is often the cheapest performance available.
Process
How an engagement runs
Establish what exists
Where it runs, what it costs, and who can change it.
Make deployment boring
Repeatable releases remove a whole class of incident.
Add visibility
Monitoring and alerting before optimisation, because you cannot fix what you cannot see.
Right size it
Match the infrastructure to actual load and actual budget.
Document the operational reality
So the next person can run it.
Technology
What we typically build this on
The technology is chosen around the project. The business problem comes first.
- DigitalOcean
- Cloudflare
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
- BigQuery
- Node.js
- Python
Related work
Software we have built
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easyChef Pro
A consumer health and nutrition platform combining meal planning, pantry management, grocery workflows, nutrition data and personalised recommendations.
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Boho Beach Hut
A direct to consumer e commerce business we own and operate, from catalogue and payments through fulfilment and reporting.
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Things people ask before starting
- Do we need Kubernetes?
- Probably not. Most businesses are better served by simpler infrastructure they can reason about. Complexity has an ongoing cost that is easy to underestimate and hard to reverse.
- Can you reduce our cloud bill?
- Often, though the first step is attribution: knowing what each part costs. Savings usually come from right sizing and removing things nobody remembered were running.
- Can you take over infrastructure someone else set up?
- Yes. That normally starts with documenting what exists, because undocumented infrastructure is the real risk rather than the technology choice.
Related services
Often part of the same engagement
Tell us what you are trying to build
Tell us about the business, the problem, what you have today, and what you want to accomplish. If we are not the right team, we will tell you.