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.
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Traffic headroom proven with load tests
SLOs
Error budgets and alerts that mean something
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Latency tracked for every endpoint
3 pillars
Metrics, logs and traces with OpenTelemetry
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.
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.
Our delivery process
- 01
Measure
Baseline load tests, profiling and a review of current monitoring.
- 02
Plan
A prioritised list of bottlenecks with expected gains and cost.
- 03
Fix and Scale
Caching, autoscaling, query tuning and architecture changes, re-tested.
- 04
Watch
Dashboards, SLOs, alerts and runbooks so it stays fast.
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
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