Cloud, DevOps and maintenance
The unglamorous work that decides whether software lasts
Plenty of businesses have good software running on infrastructure nobody understands, deployed by one person from a laptop, with backups that have never been restored. That is not a cost problem, it is a continuity problem. It also makes every future change slower and more frightening than it needs to be.
Technologies used
What is included
- Infrastructure review: what runs where, who can access it, what happens if it stops
- Migration plan to Azure or AWS with a costed target state and a rollback
- Infrastructure as code, so environments are reproducible instead of remembered
- CI/CD pipelines: build on merge, deploy on approval, roll back in one step
- Monitoring, log aggregation and alerts that reach a human
- Backup and restore that has been tested, with a documented recovery time
- Support retainer with a response commitment and a change-hours pool
How a project like this runs
- 01
Review and document
We map what exists, including the parts running on someone's personal account.
- 02
Fix the continuity risks
Access, backups and restore first. These are cheap and they are what actually bites.
- 03
Pipeline and environments
Reproducible staging and production, deploys that anyone on the team can run.
- 04
Migrate in stages
Lowest-risk workloads first, with the old environment kept warm until you are confident.
- 05
Operate
Monitoring, monthly patching and a retainer for the changes that keep arriving.
An illustrative situation, not a client story
A company hosts its main application on a virtual machine set up years ago by a developer who has since left. Nobody has logged into the host. We document it, move it into infrastructure as code, set up a staging copy, add monitoring and a tested restore, then migrate to a managed database. Deployment goes from a two-hour ritual to a pipeline run.
Three questions we get about this
Sometimes, but that is the wrong reason to do it. The reliable gains are reproducibility, recovery and release speed. We give you a costed comparison before you commit.
Yes, after a review. If the codebase is in a state where we cannot support it responsibly, we will say so and cost the remediation separately.
A response-time commitment, monitoring and patching, and a monthly pool of hours for changes. Unused hours are visible, and we do not invent work to fill them.
Other services
Windows desktop software
WPF and .NET line-of-business apps, internal tools, kiosk and offline-first systems.
Web application development
Customer portals, operational dashboards and internal platforms that hold up under real use.
Websites and CMS
Marketing sites, e-commerce and headless or WordPress builds your team can actually edit.