Cloud and DevOps
Infrastructure defined in code, deployments that run without ceremony, and monitoring that tells you about a problem before a customer does. Set up in your own accounts, under your own billing, so it is genuinely yours.
Infrastructure that exists only in one person's memory
It was clicked together in a console over two years by several people, none of whom wrote it down. Nobody is sure what half the running resources do, nobody dares delete anything, and rebuilding it after a serious failure would be an archaeology project. The bill grows and no one can say precisely why.
You’ll recognise this if
- Deploying involves a person following steps from memory
- Your cloud bill rises and nobody can explain the increase
- You would struggle to rebuild production if you lost it
- You find out about outages from customers
What we actually deliver
Infrastructure as code
Your environment defined in Terraform and version-controlled, so it can be reviewed, reproduced, and rebuilt. The console stops being the source of truth.
A real deployment pipeline
Automated build, test, and deploy with preview environments per change and a rollback that has actually been tested. Releasing becomes routine rather than an event.
Monitoring and alerting worth having
Uptime, error rates, and latency, with alerts tuned so they mean something. Alerts everyone has learned to ignore are worse than none.
Cost visibility
Resources tagged and spend attributable, so an increase can be explained. Usually pays for a good part of the engagement on its own.
The way we approach it
Your accounts, your billing, from day one
We work inside infrastructure you own rather than reselling you capacity through us. If you replace us tomorrow, nothing about your hosting has to change.
Right-size to reality
Most teams are running for imagined scale. We build for your actual traffic with clear headroom, which is usually markedly cheaper and simpler than what is already there.
Practise the recovery
A backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a plan. We test restores and document the runbook while things are calm.
What changes
- An environment that can be rebuilt from code rather than memory
- Deployments that are routine and reversible
- Problems that alert you before they reach a customer
- A cloud bill you can explain line by line
Asked often enough to answer here
Which cloud provider should we use?
For most teams it matters far less than the internet suggests. We weigh what your team already knows, what your compliance position requires, and where your data has to live — and we will happily work in whichever you are already committed to.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Probably not. It solves genuine problems at genuine scale and adds substantial operational burden below that. We recommend it when the case is real and something far simpler when it is not.
Can you take over infrastructure someone else built?
Yes. We start with an audit — what is running, what it costs, what the risks are — and then bring it under code incrementally rather than proposing a risky rebuild from scratch.
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Wherever you’re starting from, let’s figure out the next step.
Tell us what you’re building — we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right team for it.