Focus area: Platform, cloud, and architecture · Platform and architecture

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When several teams work on the same product, the platform determines how fast and how safely they can ship. We design and build internal developer platforms in which architecture, security, and operation are written down as a shared foundation. Every new application can rely on the same building blocks without renegotiating architecture for each initiative.

Reference architecture and service templatesShared libraries and componentsReproducible local and productive environmentsPermission and role model for teams

Engagement packages

Every package starts from a clear objective.

Each package starts with a worked-out architecture and ends with a clean handover to your operations team, and we agree the scope and the investment frame together after a first inventory of the work at hand.

2 – 3 weeks

Start here

Platform assessment

An inventory of your engineering landscape, current delivery processes, and the needs of application teams. The outcome is an architectural draft for an internal platform and a prioritised build roadmap.

Included

  • Interviews with application and platform teams
  • Inventory of current build, deploy, and operations processes
  • Architecture draft for the target platform
  • Prioritised build roadmap
  • Make-or-buy evaluation

Best suited for

Organisations with several engineering teams currently working inconsistently and considering a shared platform.

Platform foundation

Engagement 01

Platform foundation

8 – 14 weeks
Platform evolution

Engagement 02

Platform evolution

Ongoing, planned quarterly

How we work

Our approach.

Every engagement follows a repeatable course from analysis through implementation into ongoing operation.

01

Analysis

We map the current engineering landscape: delivery processes, tool chain, ownership boundaries, and the biggest recurring friction points. From this we derive what the platform must do.

02

Architecture

We write down the target platform: service templates, identity model, delivery and operations concept. A written architecture, agreed with your platform team, precedes the build.

03

Build

We build the platform in traceable steps. Every component ships with pipelines, tests, and documentation. Application teams can adopt what exists early on.

04

Handover

We hand the platform over together with operations documentation, interface contracts, and escalation paths. Continued development with or without us is possible.

Typical use cases

Where this work carries the most weight.

A selection of typical engagements, without drawing a closed list, so requests beyond these areas are explicitly welcome.

Several application teams currently use their own tools and conventions; a shared platform is wanted.

An existing platform has grown organically and should be consolidated structurally.

New regulatory requirements should be addressed platform-wide rather than per application.

Delivery times of new applications should be shortened through standardised building blocks.

Multi-tenancy or self-service capabilities for internal teams should be built up.

Common questions

What decision-makers usually ask.

Answers to the questions we are asked most often during the framing of an engagement.

4 questions

Both are possible. During analysis we evaluate which existing platform products (e.g. Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Azure Developer Platform) can be meaningfully integrated and decide together with you between in-house build, open source, or commercial components.

Next step

Let's walk through your initiative together.

Where a structured engagement begins

Office

  • Karlsbad
    Auf der Hub 38
    76307 Karlsbad, Germany
  • Remote
    Distributed team
    Available internationally