What we do
Build the golden path first. We pick the service type your teams create most often and make one path from git push to production that just works. Build, test, scan, deploy, roll back. It runs on what you already have, such as Kubernetes, Terraform or a managed runtime. We don’t start with a rewrite. One path that teams trust is worth more than five half-finished ones.
Pave the road for CI/CD. Shared pipeline definitions that teams import instead of copy. Sensible defaults, with escape hatches for the teams that need them. When the platform team fixes something, every service gets the fix. Security scans, caching and deploy steps live in one place, so a change to them is one pull request instead of thirty.
Make new services cheap. A service template comes with logging, metrics, health checks, secrets handling and deploy config already wired in. A new service goes from idea to running in staging in hours. A developer portal such as Backstage comes later, and only if your service count makes it worth the upkeep.
Draw the ownership lines. We write down what the platform team owns, what product teams own, and how requests move between them. Then we measure lead time, deploy frequency and failure rate from your own data. We don’t build a dashboard for its own sake. The numbers exist to show where the next bit of work should go.
How it usually goes
We start by watching how a change moves from a laptop to production today. We talk to a few developers, read the pipelines and count the hand-offs. Within two weeks you get a written map of the friction and a proposal for the first golden path.
Then we build that path with your team, usually over four to eight weeks, and move one or two real services onto it. Once those teams prefer it to the old way, the rest follow. Your platform people own it from there. We document how the path works, how to extend it and how to say no to requests that don’t belong on it.
A good fit if
- Developers wait on another team to get a database, a pipeline or a new service.
- Every team deploys in its own way, and nobody can say which way is correct.
- You are growing past 20 engineers and the old habits have stopped scaling.
- You bought a developer portal and nobody opens it.