Cloud architecture
Infrastructure planned for the product it carries — sized to what it needs now, with room to grow without a rewrite.
- Infrastructure planning
- Scalability strategy
- Cost review
CI/CD & deployment automation
Pipelines that make a release a routine event: build, test, deploy and roll back, without a person remembering a sequence of commands.
- Build pipelines
- Deployment automation
- Production environments
Monitoring & observability
Knowing that something is wrong before a user reports it, and having enough signal to find out why without redeploying.
- Metrics & logging
- Alerting
- Backups & recovery
Application security & audits
Security designed in from the first architecture decision: authentication, authorisation, API protection, session and token handling, and validation at the edges.
- Security audits
- Vulnerability assessment
- Auth & access architecture
- Secure API design
Infrastructure hardening
Server configuration, access control, event logging and the operational hygiene that decides how a system behaves on a bad day.
- Server hardening
- Access control
- Event logging
Maintenance & technical support
Long-term support that keeps a product secure, fast and evolving: bug fixing, security updates, performance work and new features on a steady cadence.
- Bug fixing & troubleshooting
- Security updates
- Performance optimisation
- Continuous monitoring
The same sevenStages.
The same sequence runs whether the engagement is four weeks or four quarters. Only the depth of each stage changes.
Discover
Business goals, users, workflows, constraints and the existing system. We write down what is true before proposing anything.
Strategize
Scope, sequence and the technical direction. Architecture and stack are decided here, after the problem — never before it.
Design
Flows and interfaces designed against real content and reviewed in the browser, with data model and interface moving together.
Build
Short cycles and working software each time. Frontend, backend, data and infrastructure are built as one system, not four.
Test
Automated coverage where it pays, security and performance checks, and structured sessions with the people who will use it.
Launch
Deployment, migration and the handover of a system your own team can operate, with monitoring in place before release.
Grow
Measurement, iteration, new capabilities and scaling. Most of a product’s real life happens here.
