Platform & infrastructure
Your engineers spend their week fighting the platform instead of shipping features. We take over the layer underneath (cloud, pipelines, reliability and the monthly bill) and leave it in a state your own team can run.
| Engagement | Retainer or fixed project |
|---|---|
| Built for | Teams fighting their platform |
| Price | Quoted on scope |
Deploys that are boring
Infrastructure as code, real environments, and a pipeline where shipping is routine and rolling back is unremarkable.
Reliability sized to your risk
Monitoring, alerting and redundancy matched to the failures you are actually likely to hit, not to a checklist.
A bill you understand
Right-sized infrastructure and a clear view of where the spend goes, and which parts of it are not earning anything.
Runbooks your team can use
Written procedures for the things that go wrong, so on-call does not depend on one person being awake.
When the platform sets the pace instead of the product
Deploys become something people schedule around, an outage costs a day, and the cloud bill grows with nobody able to say why. Infrastructure takes no attention until it takes all of it.
We take ownership of that layer so your engineers can stop paying attention to it.
What does platform work actually cover?
Four things: cloud and deployment, reliability, cost, and the security basics.
- Cloud and deployment. Infrastructure as code, environments that match, CI/CD that makes shipping unremarkable.
- Reliability. Monitoring and alerting on the failures you will hit, with redundancy sized to real risk rather than to fear.
- Cost. Right-sizing, visibility into the bill, and cutting spend that is not earning its keep.
- Security basics. Secrets, access control and backups handled with sane defaults, without friction the team will route around.
Run at scale, kept boring
The live-streaming platform ran multi-region across the US and Asia on ECS microservices, with adaptive video, real-time chat and a virtual gift economy, through six years of growth and an acquisition. Socialog and several other products run on Cloudflare Workers with cron-driven publishing at the edge.
Both extremes point to the same goal: not sophistication, but a platform that stays boring under load.
Your team can run it when we leave
Runbooks written, decisions documented, and as much or as little ongoing backup as you want. An engagement that ends with you unable to operate your own platform has failed.
What does this actually run on?
Cloud-native and serverless. Production on Cloudflare's edge and on the usual providers, at sizes from a single service to a platform serving a global audience across multiple regions.
Do we have to put you on a retainer?
No. We can own it on a retainer, or take a defined project such as a migration, a reliability push or a cost cleanup, and hand it back in good shape.
Can you work with our engineers?
That is usually the best version. We set up the platform and the practices so your team can run it, and stay on as backup at whatever level you want.
Do you take on-call?
During an engagement, where it makes sense. The longer-term aim is monitoring and runbooks that make on-call manageable for your own team.
Is a cost cleanup worth paying for?
Usually; the first pass typically pays for itself. The savings come from oversized instances, forgotten environments, data leaving a region for no reason, and logs retained far longer than anyone needs.
Tell us what the platform is costing you.
Deploys people schedule around, outages, a bill nobody can explain. Send a few lines; within one business day we reply with whether it is a fixed project or ongoing ownership, and what it costs.