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Deploy pipelines your team trusts.

CI, CD, infrastructure-as-code, secrets, environments and the developer experience that makes the entire team faster. Engineered so deploys on Friday afternoon aren't a moral question.

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§In this practice
§ 01The problem

The problem we solve

Most CI/CD pipelines are a YAML file someone wrote three years ago that nobody touches. Builds take 20 minutes. Deploys are manual and scary. Environments drift. Secrets are in screenshots in Slack. We rebuild the pipeline with discipline — fast feedback, deterministic builds, safe deploys, and a developer experience your engineers actually enjoy.

§ 02Capabilities

What we ship

  • 01CI pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, CircleCI
  • 02Fast feedback: cached builds, parallelization, sharded tests
  • 03Continuous deployment with progressive delivery
  • 04Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or Pulumi
  • 05Secrets management: Vault, Doppler, cloud-native
  • 06Environments: dev, preview, staging, production — automated
  • 07Database migrations on rails — automated, reversible, safe
  • 08Container builds with proper layer caching
  • 09Release management: tags, changelogs, rollback procedures
  • 10Developer-facing tooling: local dev parity, ergonomic CLIs
§ 03Deliverables

What you receive

  • Sub-10-minute CI pipeline for typical PRs
  • Automated deploy to staging on merge, gated production
  • Infrastructure-as-code repository covering the whole estate
  • Developer documentation: setup, deploy, debug, rollback
§ 04Stack

Stack we reach for

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Buildkite
Terraform · Pulumi · OpenTofu
Docker · BuildKit
Argo CD · Flux
Vault · Doppler
Atlantis · Spacelift
LaunchDarkly · Flagsmith
Datadog · Grafana
§ 05Ideal for

Ideal for

  • → Teams whose deploys take 30+ minutes or require manual steps
  • → Engineering leaders wanting feature flags and progressive delivery
  • → Companies with environment drift between staging and production
  • → Teams adopting infrastructure-as-code for the first time
§ 06Process

How an engagement runs

  1. 01

    Pipeline audit

    Where time is being lost. Build time, queue time, deploy time, environment drift, secrets handling.

  2. 02

    Foundation

    CI rebuilt for speed and reliability. Infrastructure brought under IaC. Environments codified.

  3. 03

    Progressive delivery

    Feature flags, canary deploys, automated rollback — so deploys stop being scary.

  4. 04

    Developer experience

    Local dev parity, ergonomic tooling, documentation. Onboarding new engineers in a day.

§ 07Engagement

How to engage

01

DevEx Audit

1 — 2 weeks

Pipeline, environment and developer experience audit with prioritized fixes.

02

Pipeline Rebuild

4 — 10 weeks

End-to-end CI/CD and IaC modernization.

03

Embedded Platform Team

3 — 9 months

Platform-engineering capacity inside your team while you hire your own.

§ 08Common questions

Frequently asked.

01GitHub Actions or something else?

GitHub Actions for most teams. Buildkite for teams that need self-hosted runners at scale. GitLab CI if you live in GitLab. We'll match the tool to your team.

02Argo CD or Flux?

Either, both excellent. We choose based on your team's existing Kubernetes fluency. For non-Kubernetes deploys, neither — we use the simplest thing that works.

Have a problem worth solving well?

Tell us the outcome you want. We'll tell you what it takes — honestly, within a week, in writing.

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