Cloud & Infrastructure

Infrastructure engineering is the process of designing an infrastructure platform that can serve the core needs while also remaining flexible to handle dynamic operations and evolution.

Reliability engineering is the practice of monitoring and reacting to the infrastructure while it operates. Whether automated or manual, the idea is to ensure all services have sufficient resources and remain online even during unexpected loads.

Comprehensive observability is achieved by applying monitors and metrics your various services, thus allowing you recognize and react to operational changes. The three main pillars of observability are Monitoring, Tracing and Alerting.

Infrastructure needs to be designed correctly for scale. Like the stresses applied to pulling each end of a knotted string only serve to tighten the knot even more, ill-defined infrastructures can become a severe sticking point for growth and must be carefully planned to ensure there’s no pinch points.

Applications that are not designed with scaling in mind can perform quite poorly when running in their infrastructure. Understanding and aligning your infrastructure scaling needs during the development process is critical to ensuring that they’re well balanced for scale.

It’s easy to overengineer an infrastructure. Just because you can easily utilize both horizontal and vertical scaling mechanisms doesn’t mean it’s feasible to do so. Understanding what’s enough and what’s not enough is critical to a well balance scaling plan.

Almost all scaling is achieved via cloud-based services, and a lack of cost optimization knowledge can send your infrastructure billing through the roof. Cost optimization is not only ensuring you’re no over-utilizing, but also in core architecture design with an understanding of how the major platform providers bill for their services.

With so many factors to scalability – infrastructure engineering, application architectures, cost management and more – it’s important that your technology solutions partner is well-versed in all areas. We are well-versed, and we can help.