CloudSaaS / Platform · 2024

Infrastructure that never takes a night off

Peakline wanted the kind of infrastructure nobody thinks about - reproducible, observable and cost-aware. We built cloud foundations sized to their stage today and ready to grow, so the team ships instead of firefighting.

Client

Peakline

Engagement

Ongoing partnership

Peakline

99.9%

Uptime

since the rebuild

10x

Deploy frequency

and far less scary

<5m

Rollback

rehearsed, one command

-31%

Cloud spend

right-sized

Overview

The best infrastructure is the kind that stays invisible. Peakline needed foundations that were reproducible from a repository, observable on the paths that matter, and cost-aware by design - right-sized to their stage rather than over-built for a scale they hadn't reached, with room to grow when they did.

The architecture

Built in layers

Each layer does one job well and can be reviewed, rebuilt and reasoned about on its own.

01

Right-size

We matched the architecture to Peakline's stage and resisted orchestration they couldn't yet use.

02

Reproduce

Infrastructure as code turned the environment into something reviewable and rebuildable.

03

Automate

A build-once pipeline with rehearsed rollback made deploys boring and safe.

04

Observe

We instrumented the paths that matter with a small number of trustworthy alerts.

The challenge

Releases were scary and outages were mysterious

Deploys were manual and nerve-racking, the environment couldn't be rebuilt with confidence, and when something broke the answer was a guessing game rather than a query. Peakline needed reliability without a rewrite - and a team that ships instead of firefighting.

Our approach

Right-size it, reproduce it, observe it

We matched the architecture to their stage and resisted premature orchestration, turned the environment into infrastructure-as-code that can be reviewed and rebuilt, made deploys boring with a build-once pipeline and rehearsed rollback, and instrumented the paths that matter with a small set of trustworthy alerts.

The outcome

Boring deploys, searchable problems, calm on-call

Peakline now ships through an automated pipeline with a fast rollback, rebuilds its environment from a repository, and answers incidents with a query instead of a guess. Reliability went up without an application rewrite, and on-call got quiet.

What runs the platform

Systems we put in place

01

Infrastructure as code

The whole environment is reviewable, versioned and rebuildable from a repository.

02

Build-once pipeline

One artifact is built, tested and promoted through environments - no surprises between stages.

03

Rehearsed rollback

A fast, practiced rollback makes releases boring instead of risky.

04

Observability that matters

Logs, metrics and traces on the critical paths, with a few trustworthy alerts instead of noise.

05

Cost as an architecture

Resources are tagged so spend maps to features, and expensive surprises are visible before they happen.

06

Least-privilege access

Security hardening and scoped access keep the platform defensible as it grows.

Toolchain

Cloud

AWSTerraformDocker

Delivery

CI/CDKubernetesIaC

Operate

MetricsTracingAlerting
Professional, responsive and genuinely invested in our success. We'll keep working with them.
Grant WellerFounder, Peakline
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