Services
Hosting and operations
Keeping things running, and knowing when they break before you call.
This is the larger part of what we do, and the part that lasts longest. Putting an application live takes an afternoon; keeping it running for five years is the real work. That means monitoring that trips before a user notices, and a named contact who knows your application.
What you get
- Hosting in Azure or on your own servers, whichever fits
- CI/CD on GitHub or Azure DevOps, so a release is not manual work
- Monitoring, logging and alerting with agreements on who gets called when
- Security hardening, backups and a restore procedure that has been tested
- Domain names and certificates, renewals included
When this fits
- You only learn something is broken when a customer or colleague reports it.
- There is a backup, but nobody has ever tried restoring from it.
- Releases happen outside office hours because they are done by hand.
An untested backup is not a backup
Most restore procedures turn out to work or not work at the exact moment you need them. We periodically restore one to a separate environment and record how long it took. That number is what you can tell your board.
Taking over from another supplier
Taking over operations starts with working out what runs where. Often nobody has the full picture. We deliver that inventory as a document, even if you then decide to place the work elsewhere.
How a project runs
Scoping
We map what is there, what needs to be added, and where it goes wrong if we misjudge it.
Design
Screens, flows and components are settled before a line of code is written.
Build
Two-week sprints, each ending in something that runs and that you can try yourself.
Release
Live in stages, with monitoring that trips before a user picks up the phone.
Maintenance
The part that lasts longest. Updates, incidents, and the version after this one.
What we work with
Work in this service
Need any of this?
A single half-hour conversation is usually enough to work out whether this fits and roughly what it costs.