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Scaling, Reliability and Observability Stay fast and stay up when traffic spikes

Performance and reliability engineering for systems under real load. Autoscaling, caching and CDNs, database tuning, load testing, SLOs, monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry, and on call ready alerting.

10x

Traffic headroom proven with load tests

SLOs

Error budgets and alerts that mean something

p95

Latency tracked for every endpoint

3 pillars

Metrics, logs and traces with OpenTelemetry

Overview

What is Scaling, Reliability and Observability?

Growth is only good news if the platform keeps up. We find the limits before your customers do: load tests that mimic real behaviour, profiling of slow endpoints and queries, and capacity planning based on data rather than guesses.

Scaling work usually combines several layers: a CDN and edge caching in front, ALB or NLB with autoscaling groups or Kubernetes autoscaling behind, application level caching with Redis, read replicas and connection pooling for databases, queues to smooth spikes, and rate limiting to protect the core.

Reliability is engineered with service level objectives. We define what good looks like for availability and latency, instrument the system with OpenTelemetry, build Grafana or Datadog dashboards your team actually reads, and set alerts that page for real problems only.

When incidents happen you will have runbooks, structured logs and distributed traces to find the cause in minutes, and a review process that turns each incident into a fix rather than a repeat.

Key benefits

Why businesses choose this

Proven Headroom

Load tested to a multiple of expected peak traffic.

Layered Scaling

CDN, load balancers, autoscaling, caching and database tuning.

Real Observability

Dashboards, traces and SLO based alerting with OpenTelemetry.

Calm Incidents

Runbooks, on call alerts and blameless reviews.

How it works

Our delivery process

  1. 01

    Measure

    Baseline load tests, profiling and a review of current monitoring.

  2. 02

    Plan

    A prioritised list of bottlenecks with expected gains and cost.

  3. 03

    Fix and Scale

    Caching, autoscaling, query tuning and architecture changes, re-tested.

  4. 04

    Watch

    Dashboards, SLOs, alerts and runbooks so it stays fast.

Use cases

Real world applications

  • Launch readiness and load testing
  • Autoscaling and load balancer tuning
  • Database performance and caching strategy
  • Observability rollout with Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
  • SLOs, alerting and incident response setup
Let us build it

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