A global bank's payments platform
Building and operating a Kubernetes platform on AWS in a regulated environment - Istio service mesh and Kubernetes networking, Flux GitOps, and Datadog observability.
UK cloud & reliability consultancy
We help engineering teams move to the cloud and run systems they can trust - through cloud migration, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and Kubernetes security.
What we do
Move to the cloud safely, with infrastructure as code so the result is repeatable and auditable.
Learn more →Monitoring, alerting and meaningful SLOs, so you hear about problems before your customers do.
Learn more →Secure, observable service-to-service traffic with Istio - mTLS, traffic control and safe rollouts.
Learn more →Datadog set up properly - consistent tagging, useful dashboards, SLOs and alerts, and a bill that stays under control.
Learn more →Hardened clusters with a smaller attack surface that meet your compliance requirements.
Learn more →Selected experience
Regulated, high-traffic platforms in financial services, payments, healthcare and automotive.
Building and operating a Kubernetes platform on AWS in a regulated environment - Istio service mesh and Kubernetes networking, Flux GitOps, and Datadog observability.
Migrated internal applications from data centre to AWS as part of a major corporate separation - Terraform-built infrastructure, an automated Confluence Cloud migration, and Datadog dashboards and alerts for support teams.
Migrated applications from UK Cloud and Azure to AWS, lift-and-shift and rebuilt on EKS and ECS - including a high-performance computing cluster - plus vulnerability remediation, Tableau reporting and Datadog monitoring.
Designed monitoring for a research platform - AppDynamics APM and infrastructure monitoring, dashboards and alerts, and SLOs used to find and fix performance problems.
DevOps for a programme of 250+ websites rolled out to more than 130 countries - AWS infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring with AppDynamics, Datadog and Splunk.
Insights
What a service mesh actually solves, the Istio features worth adopting first, and the production gotchas - from sidecar overhead to an egress gateway TLS trap.
Read article →How to set up Datadog on Kubernetes so metrics, traces and logs connect - unified service tagging, SLO-based alerting, and keeping ingestion costs under control.
Read article →A high-level walk through what happens, step by step, when your browser resolves a domain name into an IP address.
Read article →Tell us what you're working on - we'd love to hear about it.