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Services · Practice 03 · Platform Engineering
Open-source software running on infrastructure you control. Most enterprises can buy tools; very few can choose, build and run them well. That gap is the practice.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Python, Go, TypeScript, React, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow, MinIO
01 · The right tools for your use case
Tools evaluated against your actual workload, with no commission behind the recommendation — we resell nothing.
Evaluation based on your actual workload — data volumes, speed needs, batch or real-time, peak-load behaviour.
Your constraints mapped: where data must stay, industry regulation, existing cloud contracts.
We resell nothing, so the recommendation carries no commission.
02 · Elite engineering standards
Specification first and everything written as code: agents speed up the build, engineers approve every change, and industry-standard delivery numbers (DORA) prove it rather than claim it.
Everything written as code, small frequent releases behind feature flags, automated testing, security built into the release process.
Measured with the industry-standard DORA numbers, not just claimed.
Full-stack engineering in Python, TypeScript and Go — UX design and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js, Node.js), APIs, event-driven integration, and services that can move between clouds.
Built with your team rather than around them.
03 · Run for reliability
The discipline that decides whether year three costs less than year one.
Clear uptime targets (SLOs) and error budgets, full monitoring — metrics, logs, traces, alerts — and practised incident response with post-incident reviews.
Repetitive operational work automated away — increasingly by AI agents, with AI-assisted diagnosis in incident response — and cost, capacity and performance owned, not just reported.
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow, MinIO.
How the platform stays yours
Kubernetes · Terraform · Kafka · Airflow — skills you can hire for
Readable by your team · delivery speed measured, not claimed
Documented, transferred with training — the deliverable itself
Procedures yours · we stay only while we earn the renewal
The standard: no proprietary dependencies, no annual ransom, no exit penalty — done well, you could leave and nothing would break.
How we build now
AI has changed how software gets built — but speed without discipline just produces legacy faster. We build spec-first: the specification is the contract, agents do the heavy lifting, and engineers own every line that ships.
Every build starts with a written, reviewable specification — behaviour, connections, data rules, and what counts as done. The spec is what you approve, what agents build against, and what the tests verify. No drift between what was agreed and what runs.
Coding agents write the groundwork, tests and routine code against the specification — our engineers review, strengthen and approve every change. You get agent speed with named human accountability, the same “Autonomy earned, not assumed” rule we sell.
The specification is turned into tests before building starts. Nothing ships until the tests pass — coverage is measured against the specification, not claimed. Delivery numbers track the whole process end to end.
When the specification changes, the code is regenerated against it rather than patched around. Documentation, procedures and infrastructure code all come from the same source — so the handover you receive is never out of date.
The result: delivery measured in days where it used to be weeks, with a full trail from requirement to running code.
That is the standard the practice is built on. Everything is code your team can read, on open-source components you can hire for, with the knowledge transferred rather than retained. The relationship continues because it earns its renewal — not because leaving is expensive.
Measured, not claimed · DORA delivery numbers
How to engage
Discover and Build as fixed-fee work — a cloud foundation, a platform build, a migration, delivered as code with your team. Best for a change with a clear finish line.
Optimize as an ongoing service — reliability cover, uptime targets, upgrades, patches and monitoring with service guarantees. Best for platforms that must keep running.
A named platform team reserved just for you, working as an extension of yours. Best for a continuous platform roadmap.
Short, senior engagements: Discover on its own — architecture review, workload evaluation, constraint check. Best for deciding before committing.
Talk to the practice
Start with Discover, hand us a platform to run, or bring senior review to a decision you are about to make — the work meets you where it is.
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Open source on Kubernetes, run for reliability — everything written as code, delivery speed measured. Ask about cost, reliability, or an exit from lock-in.
