Platform & infrastructure
Someone to own the boring-critical layer, so your engineers ship features instead of fighting the platform. Cloud, pipelines, reliability and the monthly bill.
| 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.
Invisible when it works
Infrastructure takes no attention at all until it takes all of it. The pattern is familiar: deploys become something people schedule around, an outage costs a day, the cloud bill grows and nobody can say why, and gradually the platform sets the pace instead of the product.
We take ownership of that layer so your engineers stop paying attention to it.
What we cover
- 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 adding friction the team will route around.
Where the experience comes from
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 teach the same thing: the goal is not sophistication, it is a platform that stays boring under load.
How we leave it
Set up so your team can run it. 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 kind of infrastructure?
Cloud-native and serverless. Production on Cloudflare's edge and on the usual providers, from a single service to a platform serving a global audience across multiple regions.
Ongoing or one-off?
Either. We can own it on a retainer, or come in for 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 available as backup at whatever level you want.
Do you take on-call?
We can cover it during an engagement where that makes sense. The longer-term aim is monitoring and runbooks that make on-call manageable for your own team.
What does a cost cleanup usually find?
Oversized instances, forgotten environments, data leaving a region for no reason, and logging retained far longer than anyone needs. The first pass typically pays for itself.
Tell us the one thing it has to do.
If it's sharp enough to prove in a week, we'll say so and give you a date. If it isn't, we'll tell you that too, along with what we'd build first instead.