SAP to open-stack ERP migration
Manufacturer, 500+ employees. Phased migration off SAP ERP onto an open stack with custom modules — run in stages while the plant kept working.
- 0 downtime
- 8 mo migration
- −40% on licences
DevOps for teams that do not have a platform department
Most teams do not need Kubernetes. They need a build that cannot be skipped, an environment that can be rebuilt, monitoring that pages a human and a runbook that works at 3am.
What we can show you
DevOps
Four mechanisms, not a job title
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and an on-call story. Everything else in this field is tooling preference.
What DevOps services actually deliver
DevOps in practice is four mechanisms. Infrastructure as code, so an environment is a command rather than a memory. CI/CD, so a red build cannot reach production and a bad release can be rolled back in minutes. Observability — logs, metrics and alerts that page a person before a customer calls. And an on-call story: who responds, in which hours, following which runbook.
Notice what is not on that list: a specific orchestrator. Kubernetes is a tool for a scale most products never reach, and we regularly talk teams out of it. What we will not do is leave you with infrastructure only one person understands — including when that person is us.
When to bring in DevOps help
When deployment is manual, environments differ, or the person who built the infrastructure is the only one who can rebuild it. Also when the cloud bill has stopped being explainable — right-sizing is unglamorous and pays for the engagement.
Signals your delivery pipeline needs attention
- deploying to production is a manual sequence someone remembers;
- staging and production differ in ways nobody wrote down;
- you learn about outages from customers;
- backups exist but have never been restored in a drill;
- nobody can explain last month's cloud invoice line by line.
Price
Audit $1,790, setup from $7,990
Timeline
Audit in 5 days
Payment
50/50 by milestone
Comparison
Hire a platform engineer or bring in a DevOps partner
The comparison people rarely make out loud, including the case where hiring wins.
Criterion
In-house hireDevOps partner (us)
PartnerIn-house platform engineer
Time to first improvement
2–3 months including hiring
Days
Cost shape
Salary, taxes, equipment, indefinitely
Fixed setup plus $790/month, cancellable
Breadth of experience
One person's history
What worked across many systems
Bus factor
One person, on holiday sometimes
A team, with a documented runbook
Deep domain context
Grows over years
Learned in the audit, written down
When it wins
Platform is your product, or scale is genuinely large
You need delivery to be boring, not a department
Process
What we set up, and what we talk you out of
The Kubernetes question comes up on every second call, so it gets an honest answer here rather than in a sales meeting.
Do you actually need Kubernetes?
Usually not. Managed containers, a managed database and a queue cover most products at far lower operational cost. Kubernetes earns its complexity when you run many services with independent scaling, or a platform team already exists.
If the honest answer for you is «no», we say it — even though the simpler setup is the smaller engagement.
Environments as code
Terraform or equivalent, one definition, different sizes. Staging that differs from production in unwritten ways is the root cause of a large share of «works on my machine» incidents.
Nothing is configured by hand in a console: a hand-built environment is a new bus factor of one.
Pipelines that block bad releases
Tests, linting and security checks in CI; a red build cannot reach production; deploys are staged with a rollback that has been rehearsed rather than assumed.
Secrets live in a secret manager with documented rotation — not in the repository and not in a spreadsheet.
Observability and on-call
Logs, metrics, traces and alerts that page a human before a customer calls, with thresholds tuned so nobody learns to ignore them.
On-call is written down: who responds, in which hours, following which runbook. Business hours as standard, 24/7 by separate agreement with an escalation path.
Why us
Why teams hand us delivery
Four things we can prove, rather than four adjectives.
We talk you out of complexity
The recommendation is the simplest thing that meets the requirement. Selling you a platform you cannot operate is a support ticket waiting to happen.
Backups that have been restored
A restore drill is part of the audit. A backup nobody has restored is a belief, not a backup.
Everything in your accounts
Cloud, repository, CI and secret manager stay yours. The runbook is written so another team can take over without calling us.
Cost review as a habit
A monthly look at the invoice line by line: right-sizing, lifecycle rules and idle resources. Unglamorous, and it usually pays for the retainer.
Industries
DevOpsby industry
Uptime means different things by domain: a warehouse cannot pause, a property portal cannot drop listings, a SaaS cannot lose a tenant's data.
- IT companies and digital agencies
- Insurers and brokers
- Lenders and microfinance
- E-commerce
- Wholesale and distribution
- Manufacturing
- Freight and forwarding
- Clinics and medical centres
- Dental
- Car dealers and service centres
- EdTech
- Legal and consulting firms
- Equipment rental
- Real estate agencies
- Property developers
- Travel and events
- Beauty and wellness
- Construction and renovation
FAQ
DevOps questions
Six answers that usually replace a discovery call.
Do we actually need Kubernetes?
Usually not. Managed services and containers cover most products; Kubernetes earns its complexity above a certain scale, and we will tell you where that line sits for you.
What is in the infrastructure audit?
Environments, deployment path, secret handling, backups and a restore drill, monitoring coverage, a cost breakdown and a prioritised plan. $1,790, credited against the setup.
Can you set up CI/CD in our existing repository?
Yes: pipelines that block a red build, staged deploys and a rehearsed rollback — all inside your accounts, with no lock-in to us.
Do you take on-call?
Business-hours response as standard, 24/7 by separate agreement with a written escalation path. We do not quietly imply round-the-clock cover we have not agreed.
How do you handle secrets?
A secret manager, no credentials in the repository, and rotation that is documented and tested. If secrets currently live in a spreadsheet, that is the first thing the audit flags.
Will this reduce our cloud bill?
Often. Right-sizing, lifecycle rules and removing idle resources are the boring wins, and we show the breakdown before promising a number.
2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work
Work we can show you
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
AIRDEVELOPPA
Indoor air quality finder driven by sensor data
CAR5
Car-sharing app
APP.DENTAL
Cloud CRM for dental clinics
NEXORA
Warehouse and logistics management platform
As-built docs
Digital as-built documentation
EX211
Telegram Mini App for currency exchange
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
Deploying by hand and finding out about outages from customers?
Send your stack and how a release happens today. You get an audit plan, the three changes with the highest payoff, and a fixed quote for the setup.