A data infrastructure practice working with companies that need the work finished, documented and handed over — not restarted every time a supplier changes.
Instrumenting what already runs, so a failure is noticed by a monitor rather than by a client.
Reading the bill line by line against what the workload actually needs, and cutting what nobody uses.
Access control, backups that are restored on a schedule, and a documented recovery procedure.
Ingestion and transformation that can be re-run from scratch and produce the same numbers twice.
Two weeks reading the current architecture, the bill and the incident history.
The fixes are ranked by risk and cost and executed in that order, one at a time.
What we changed, why, and how to run it — written down and walked through.
Stream-Based Processing Grid is an infrastructure practice that is usually called in after the second outage. We keep the team small on purpose: the people who scope the work are the people who do it.
Tell us what is not working today. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.