// architecture

Where it runs, how it stores, and what happens when a piece of it stops

Cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines and data architecture designed from your actual constraints — availability, cost, obligations — rather than from whatever was popular the year the platform was built.

Two questions decide most of an architecture, and neither of them is about technology. What has to keep working when something fails, and who has to be able to operate it at three in the morning? Answer those honestly and the shortlist of sensible designs is usually short.

We design the smallest infrastructure that satisfies the obligations you actually have, express it as code so it is reviewable and reproducible, and build a deployment path with health checks that mean something and a rollback that has been executed rather than merely documented. Where a managed service is the right answer, that is the answer — the goal is a platform your own team can run without us.

High-load data platform. Ingest, store and serve designed from the access patterns, not from a preferred database.

High-load data platform — components

  • Source systems
  • Ingest / streaming
  • Raw landing zone
  • Modelling layer
  • Serving store
  • Query API
  • Cache
  • Consumers

High-load data platform — connections

  • Source systems connects to Ingest / streaming
  • Ingest / streaming connects to Raw landing zone
  • Raw landing zone connects to Modelling layer
  • Modelling layer connects to Serving store
  • Serving store connects to Query API
  • Serving store connects to Cache
  • Query API connects to Consumers
  • Cache connects to Query API

How we approach it

Start from access patterns and failure modes

What is read, how often, by whom, what has to be consistent with what, and what is allowed to be stale. Throughput problems are usually modelling problems wearing a costume.

Describe the environment as code

Every environment reproducible from an empty account, state and secrets handled properly, and changes reviewed the way application code is. Infrastructure that only exists in a console is infrastructure nobody can audit.

Make the release path boring

Gated promotion, real health checks, and a rollback proven in a drill. A deploy that cannot be undone in one step is a deploy that will eventually be defended rather than reverted.

Instrument before you need it

Structured logs, metrics and traces chosen so that the first question during an incident has an answer. Alerts that fire on symptoms people care about, not on every CPU spike.

Working principles

  • Backups are not a strategy until a restore has been performed and timed.
  • Cost assumptions are written next to the numbers, so the estimate can be challenged.
  • Secrets never live in a repository, an image or a CI log.
  • The database is not exposed to the internet — verified by probing from outside the network, not by reading a config file.
  • Where data physically sits is stated plainly, including when the honest answer is "not decided yet".
  • Everything we build can be operated by your team; if it needs us, it is designed wrong.

Outside the scope of this work

  • We do not operate as a 24/7 managed service provider and we offer no availability guarantee.
  • We are not a cloud reseller and we do not resell hosting, licences or support contracts.
  • We do not publish uptime or latency figures for past work — numbers without your workload behind them are marketing, not engineering.
  • We do not certify anyone as compliant with a standard; our reviews are engineering assessments, not audits.

// catalogue

The services in this area

Each one lists its deliverables, its typical technology and — deliberately — what it does not cover.

Strategic Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Orchestration

Infrastructure described as code, environments that can be rebuilt from an empty account, and a deployment path that an on-call engineer can reason about at three in the morning.

  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
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