Infrastructure & cloud
Infrastructure you can rebuild
The question is not whether a server will go down, but how long it takes to come back. We design for recovery.
The problems we address
What brings you here
Deployment is manual and risky
One person knows the procedure. It is written down nowhere, and every release is a source of anxiety.
The backups have never been restored
An untested backup is not a backup. It is a file you hope works.
Nobody knows when the service is degraded
Users are the ones who report it. No monitoring, no alerts.
The cloud bill rises without explanation
Oversized resources, forgotten environments, storage never purged.
Deliverables
What you receive
- Hosting architecture matched to your real load
- Containerisation of the applications
- Continuous integration and deployment pipelines
- Separate environments: development, acceptance, production
- Monitoring, metrics and alerts
- Automated backups and tested restore procedures
- High availability where the need justifies it
- Performance and cost optimisation
- Migration and modernisation of existing infrastructure
Benefits
What it concretely changes
Reproducible deployments
The same automated procedure in acceptance and in production. Rollback is planned and tested.
Recovery that is measured
We put figures on the recovery time and the maximum data loss, then verify them with a real exercise.
Infrastructure that is written down
The configuration is versioned: the environment can be rebuilt identically.
Costs you can read
Sizing against observed load, unused environments shut down, spending tracked.
Features
What we can do in this area
- Docker containerisation and orchestration according to scale
- Reverse proxy, TLS certificates and automatic renewal
- Replicated databases and encrypted off-site backups
- Centralised logs and application metrics
- Alerts on downtime, latency and saturation
- Secret management kept out of the source code
- Ephemeral environments for acceptance testing
- A documented and proven recovery plan
Our approach
How we go about it
Assessment
An inventory of servers, dependencies and single points of failure.
Target and service level
Availability and recovery objectives defined with you, because they drive the cost.
Automation
Infrastructure and deployments described as versioned code.
Switchover
Gradual migration with a rollback window, then decommissioning.
Recovery exercise
A real restore from backup, timed, with a written report.
Architecture
How it is built
We size against observed load, not against the worst case imaginable. High availability is added where downtime costs more than redundancy.
Network and access
Filtering, TLS termination, abuse protection, restricted administrative access.
Runtime
Application containers, horizontal scaling, strict separation of environments.
Data
Replicated database, encrypted off-site backups, defined retention.
Delivery
Continuous integration, automated tests, deployment with rollback.
Observability
Structured logs, metrics, alerts, operations dashboard.
Technologies
Relevant technologies
- AWS
- OVHcloud
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Nginx
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- PM2
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Sentry
- Cloudflare
- Let's Encrypt
Industries covered
The industries where we apply it
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
Infrastructure and cloud
Do we have to move to a public cloud?
Do you handle day-to-day operations?
How do you check that the backups work?
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