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Build & migrate

A real cluster platform. Not a year-long science project.

Designing, building, and running production clusters, multi-tenant when they need to be, boring when they should be. For teams who want the benefits of a shared platform without learning it the hard way in production.

Sounds like "We want to run clusters. We just don't want to learn them the hard way."
Clusters
What it looks like

You might recognize one of these.

Cluster conversations usually start with a product team that wants to ship faster, and an operations team that has already seen what a half-built platform does at 2 a.m.

The cluster is someone's side project It works until that person is on vacation, and nobody else can upgrade it, restore it, or explain the networking.
Developers are waiting on tickets Access, secrets, networking, and storage are all manual. The platform is slower than the product.
You inherited a snowflake Config everywhere, no source of truth, no backup story, and an upgrade path that starts with "don't."
Multi-tenant is becoming a problem More teams, more noisy neighbors, more ways to take the shared cluster down.
Why it's hard

The hard part is operating it, not installing it.

Standing up a control plane is the easy week. The next year is upgrades, networking, storage, access, and the on-call that never quite settles.

01

The platform has a lot of moving parts

Networking, storage, certs, image registries, and deploy pipelines all have to work together, and keep working after the first upgrade.

02

Production traffic doesn't wait

You still have to patch nodes, rotate certs, and drain workloads without turning a Tuesday into an incident.

03

Skill is uneven across the team

A few people know the cluster. Everyone else opens a ticket. That doesn't scale, and it doesn't survive turnover.

How we approach it

Build a paved path. Then keep it paved.

We treat the cluster as a product your developers consume, not a pile of config your ops team babysits.

  1. 01

    Decide what the platform is for

    Tenancy model, upgrade cadence, what developers can self-serve, and what stays a ticket.

  2. 02

    Design the cluster the team can run

    Networking, storage, deploys, backup, and observability chosen to match the workload, not a conference demo.

  3. 03

    Build and prove the path

    Deploy, upgrade, restore, and fail a node on purpose before you call it production.

  4. 04

    Hand over or stay on it

    Runbooks, training, and a support model, we operate it, or your team does, with a documented way to keep going.

What you walk away with

A cluster your team can actually ship on.

✓
A production-grade platform Not a lab cluster that leaked into prod.
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A paved developer path Deploy, scale, and recover without a war room for every change.
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An upgrade and backup story Tested, not assumed.
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Someone who owns the boring parts Us, your team, or both, with the runbooks to match.

We've done this work

All success stories
Success Story

The 3 AM phone doesn't ring anymore.

How Follosoft stopped firefighting Linux infrastructure and got back to building their field-operations platform.

Follosoft SaaS
Success Story

Modernizing a bank's integration platform. From the ground up.

How Crafty Penguins delivered a fully production-ready, high-availability, multi-data-center platform for a US commercial bank, from zero footprint to documented handover.

US Commercial Bank Financial Services & Banking

Adjacent challenges

Often part of the same conversation
Challenge · Build & migrate

Infrastructure Migrations

Moving workloads off old platforms, cleanly, with the data intact and the change window respected. AWS to VMware, on-prem to cloud, one Linux distribution to another. We've done the trip before.

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Challenge · Scale & sustain

High Availability & Reliability

When a system going down isn't acceptable. HAMS is our product line of turnkey high-availability solutions, redundant databases, web, storage, and containers with automatic failover, built and managed so a failed server or a maintenance window never becomes an outage.

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Challenge · Scale & sustain

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, log aggregation, alerting that doesn't cry wolf. So when something does go wrong at 3 a.m., the right person knows about it, before the customer does.

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