Services Service

Platform and backend engineering

Backends split into a few services with honest boundaries, running at the edge. Cold starts, connection limits and cross-region latency get solved in the architecture, not in production.

Lead time
6–12 weeks
Deliverables
4

When you need this

When adding one field means touching three services. When nobody deploys on a Friday. When the phrase "connection limit" comes up in every second stand-up. None of these are scale problems. They are boundary problems, and boundaries can be redrawn.

What we actually do

We start from the data, not from the services. First we work out which data genuinely shares a lifecycle, and the service boundaries follow that line. Everything runs at the edge, so cold starts and cross-region latency disappear during architecture rather than becoming optimisation tickets later.

What you get

A small number of services with honest boundaries, a written API contract with a versioning policy, a preview environment configured exactly like production, and observability — meaning that when something breaks, you can see which layer broke.

What we do not do

We will not split your monolith into fifteen microservices. Most teams need three or four boundaries; past that you have only replaced function calls with network calls and bought yourself latency and a new class of failure. We will tell you plainly how many cuts your system warrants.

How it starts

A two-week architecture review: we read your data flow and your deployment process, and hand back a document naming the three changes worth making first. More often than not, the first one is not a rewrite.

Deliverables

  • Service boundaries and data model
  • API contracts and versioning
  • CI/CD with real environment isolation
  • Observability and alerting

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