What We Do and How We Can Help
We consult, architect and build.
Whether you are an SME or Enterprise, we act as trusted advisors and deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions for our clients. Our approach is business oriented, context aware, and outcome focused.
Application architecture focuses on architecting and delivering modern, sustainable, and scalable systems. These typically span a variety of architectural styles and approaches including microservices and serverless. We deliver end-to-end value for customers, and ensure the solution can be appropriately managed and maintained by operational staff.
Data engineering plays a critical role in solving contemporary business challenges. Whilst “software is eating the world”, we believe data is shaping the world. Through this practice, we help clients extract benefit and insight from their existing data, by managing, transforming and securing data at scale.
Our expertise in cloud engineering incorporates secure infrastructure design, automation and testable programmable infrastructure. Whether utilising native cloud services, or delivering solutions on top, our clients rely on us to help leverage the right services to innovate, scale and deliver faster.
Engaged with the technology community
Being involved in the tech community is a massive part of our company culture. We are the founders and organisers of several meet up groups, speak and attend conferences and are always keen to share our knowledge, experiences and opinions through our blogs and webinars.
We have active partnerships with the world’s leading technology organisations and aim to be at the forefront when it comes to new technologies and increasing our technical expertise. We do however remain independent and don’t resell, ensuring our advice is always impartial, and in the best interest of our clients.
Delivering value to our clients
Over the years, we have worked with a range of clients, from large well-established blue chip organisations to small disruptive startups helping them to solve complex challenges. Here are some of the recent engagements we have been involved in.
“Gaining value from Apache Cassandra training and benefiting from data insights.”
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“Reducing time and effort spent on server provision and administration.”
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“Streamlined and faster, now able to fix problems immediately reducing costs.”
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“Benefiting from 40% cost savings through a world-class solution.”
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“Increased efficiency and resulted in savings of up to 45% on server costs.”
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“Increased operating efficiency, improving customer service and reducing costs.”
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Self-testing infrastructure-as-code
As traditional operations has embraced the concept of code, it has benefited from ideas already prevalent in developer circles such as testing your programmable infrastructure. This blog provides a concrete example and demonstration of what this looks like in practice. Read more
Devoxx UK 2018 (video): Multi Env Deploys with Terraform as Application Glue with Ben Vickers
In simple software releases, and in simple deployments, Continuous Delivery looks like a solved problem. However, many services come with external dependencies and rely on multiple platforms. When these applications need to be deployed across multiple environments, both developers and operators alike may struggle. In this talk I am going to show an easy way to tackle these problems with a familiar tool: Terraform. Terraform is primarily used for infrastructure management. Read more
Heuristics for Identifying Service Boundaries
To identify service boundaries, it is not enough to consider domains only. Other forces like organisational communication structures, and time, strongly suggest that we also should include other criteria in our considerations. This blog documents a list of heuristics for service decomposition. Read more
Microservices Anti-patterns: It's All About the People
Microservices anti-patterns are not always technical; they are often caused by how people approach building a system. This blog post goes into some of the most relevant anti-pattens we encountered building microservice architectures. Read more
Google Cloud Functions with Terraform
In this blog, Sarunas discusses how to use Terraform to create Google Cloud Functions and describes Terraform code in depth, with examples. Read more
