Stack

The stack we ship every week.

We're not tool-religious. We're outcome-religious. This is the current, honest inventory of what we run in production for clients, plus the alternatives we'll happily reach for when your context demands it.

AWSGoogle CloudAzureCloudflareKubernetesTerraformPulumiDockerNomadArgo CDGitHub ActionsGitLab CIVaultConsulPrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpenTelemetryLokiTempoPostgreSQLRedisKafkaRedpandaClickHouseElasticsearchIstioLinkerdEnvoyNGINXTraefikEthereumSolanaPolygonCosmosRayvLLMMLflow
Categories

Twelve layers, one platform

Grouped the way we think about them internally, not the way vendors sell them.

Cloud

Deep production experience across the three hyperscalers and specialist clouds. We design cloud-agnostic where it saves money, and lean into managed services when it saves time.

  • AWS (EKS, Nitro, RDS)
  • GCP (GKE, BigQuery)
  • Azure (AKS, Entra)
  • Cloudflare (Workers, R2)
  • Sovereign cloud providers
  • CoreWeave / Lambda

Orchestration

Kubernetes for stateful workloads, Nomad for edge and mixed fleets, Agones for real-time. Fleet upgrades treated as a first-class product.

  • Kubernetes 1.29+
  • Nomad
  • Agones
  • Karpenter / Cluster Autoscaler
  • KEDA
  • Cilium eBPF

GitOps & CI/CD

Everything reproducible, everything reviewed. Argo CD for continuous delivery, Renovate for supply-chain hygiene, cosign for image provenance.

  • Argo CD
  • Flux CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Buildkite
  • cosign / SLSA

Infrastructure as Code

No clicking. Terraform + Terragrunt for the boring parts, Pulumi for typed control planes, Crossplane where the API surface belongs in the cluster.

  • Terraform / Terragrunt
  • Pulumi (TS / Go)
  • Crossplane
  • Ansible
  • Packer

Observability

You cannot operate what you cannot see. We standardise on OpenTelemetry and pick the backend that fits your budget and geography.

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus + Thanos
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • Loki / Tempo
  • Sentry

Security

Zero-trust identity, secrets in vaults not env files, runtime detection, and audits your compliance officer will actually enjoy reading.

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Falco / Tetragon
  • OPA / Gatekeeper
  • Trivy / Grype
  • SOPS + age
  • Wazuh

Data & Streaming

From single-node Postgres to petabyte lakehouses. Streaming pipelines that survive a broker outage and analytics that survive a Monday morning.

  • PostgreSQL (HA, logical repl)
  • ClickHouse
  • Kafka / Redpanda
  • Flink
  • dbt
  • Iceberg / Delta

AI / ML Ops

GPU platforms with real cost accounting, model serving that hits your SLA, and evaluation pipelines so you know when quality drifts.

  • Ray / KubeRay
  • vLLM / TGI
  • MLflow
  • Weights & Biases
  • LangSmith
  • NVIDIA Triton

Networking & Edge

Service mesh where it earns its keep, private connectivity across clouds, and edge presence tuned per market.

  • Istio / Linkerd
  • Envoy
  • Cloudflare Tunnel
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Tailscale
  • WireGuard

Identity & Access

SSO consolidated, machine identity federated, blast radius controlled. Break-glass paths that are actually auditable.

  • Okta / Entra ID
  • SPIFFE / SPIRE
  • AWS IAM Identity Center
  • Teleport
  • Boundary

Blockchain Infra

Institutional-grade validator and RPC operations. HSM/MPC signing, MEV-aware relayers, archive indexing.

  • Ethereum (Geth/Reth)
  • Solana
  • Polygon
  • Cosmos SDK
  • Fireblocks / MPC
  • The Graph

Runtime & Compute

Right compute for the workload. Baremetal when latency demands it, spot when budget demands it, serverless when velocity demands it.

  • Baremetal (Equinix, Latitude)
  • AWS Nitro
  • GCP Spot
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Lambda / Cloud Run
Philosophy

Boring where it matters, ambitious where it pays

Managed > custom, until it isn't

Managed services buy you speed. We swap them out only when the math clearly beats the operational cost.

Standards over lock-in

OpenTelemetry, OCI, S3-compatible, Postgres wire. The exit is designed the day we enter.

One repo of truth

Infra, apps, dashboards, runbooks, all in git, all reviewed, all reproducible in a clean AWS account.

Have an unusual stack? Even better.

The interesting problems live at the edges. Bring us the weird one.