Databases and cloud
“Our databases are slow, fragile or getting expensive.” If that sounds familiar, these are the problems we solve here and the services that do it.
The services that solve this
10 use cases across 3 industries come back to these 2 services. Each one has its own page with what it covers and how work starts.
Databases and cloud: problems we solve
What companies tell us, and what we build for it. Pick your industry to see the ones from your sector first.
10 use cases
Problem: Cloud bills grow every month and nobody can say which client or product drives them.
What we do: Cloud cost reports broken down by account, environment and client, with tagging fixed at the source.
Problem: Booking platforms slow down during sales and holiday peaks.
What we do: Database tuning and monitoring for booking systems ahead of peak periods.
Problem: Billing disputes take days, because usage records are hard to trace.
What we do: Usage records stored so any bill can be traced back to its events quickly.
Problem: Our database slows down or fails right when we need it most.
Any industry
What we do: We find the queries, indexes and settings behind the slowdowns, fix them, and set up monitoring so issues show early.
Problem: We do not know when our backups were last tested.
Any industry
What we do: We review your backup setup, run a test restore and put a schedule and a written recovery runbook in place.
Problem: Our only DBA has left, and nobody else knows how the databases are set up.
Any industry
What we do: We document what you run, take over day-to-day administration and stay on as your DBA team.
Problem: Storage and licence costs keep growing faster than the business.
Any industry
What we do: We look at sizing, retention and licensing, and recommend where to consolidate, archive or move.
Problem: Our hardware is due for renewal and we are weighing the cloud instead.
Any industry
What we do: We compare the options for your workloads and set out cost, effort and risk in writing.
Problem: We moved some systems to the cloud, and the bill is higher than expected.
Any industry
What we do: We review sizing, storage and idle resources and recommend what to change.
Problem: We want to migrate but cannot afford a long outage.
Any industry
What we do: We plan the cutover with you, rehearse it first and agree the downtime window in advance.
What you can hold us to
Companies we have delivered projects for:
A written plan before any work starts
After the first call we review your setup and send scope, timeline and team in writing.
Documentation with everything we deliver
Pipelines, databases, dashboards and deployments are handed over with documentation your own team can follow.
One team accountable for the result
The same engineers work across your databases, pipelines, dashboards and releases.
Talk to us about databases and cloud
Tell us what is going wrong and an engineer from our team will get back to you to set up a call.