Cloud-Native Application Development
Applications designed for the platform they run on, rather than lifted onto it afterwards.
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Microservices Architecture
Service boundaries drawn around real business capabilities, and honest advice when a monolith is better.
Overview
Microservices solve an organisational problem: letting multiple teams deploy independently. If you have one team, they mostly add network calls, distributed transactions and debugging difficulty to a problem that did not need them.
We help teams decide whether to split at all, and where. When splitting is right, the boundary follows business capability and data ownership — not layers, and never a shared database that quietly recouples everything.
What you get
Boundaries that hold
Services aligned to business capabilities, each owning its own data outright.
Independent deployment
Teams ship without coordinating releases, which is the point of the exercise.
Failure contained
Timeouts, retries with backoff, circuit breakers and idempotency designed in rather than added after an outage.
Debuggable in production
Distributed tracing and correlation IDs so a slow request can be followed across every hop.
How we work
- 01
Model
Business capabilities and data ownership mapped before any code is moved.
- 02
Decide
A written recommendation on what to split, what to keep together, and what to leave alone.
- 03
Extract
Services separated incrementally, typically strangler-style, with the system working throughout.
- 04
Operate
Tracing, contract tests and deployment independence proven before the next extraction.
Common questions
Is a monolith a mistake?
No. A well-structured modular monolith is the right answer for most teams under about twenty engineers, and it keeps the option of splitting later.
How small should a service be?
Small enough for one team to own end to end, large enough to own its data and deliver a capability without constant chatter to its neighbours.
What about shared databases?
They defeat the purpose. If two services share tables they cannot be deployed independently, which removes the only benefit you were buying.
Often paired with
Application Re-platforming & Re-architecting
Targeted change that makes an application cheaper to run and easier to maintain, short of a rewrite.
Read moreKubernetes & Container Orchestration
Production Kubernetes with sane defaults, guardrails and documentation — or honest advice that you do not need it.
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We will tell you what we would do, roughly what it costs, and whether it is worth doing yet.