10 — Cloud & Backend
INFRASTRUCTURE THAT DOESN'T FLINCH.
Backends designed for load, cost and recovery — with the maintenance and support to keep them healthy.
Infrastructure only becomes visible when it fails. We design backends around three questions asked early: what happens under ten times the load, what happens when a region goes down, and what does this cost per month at that scale.
Everything is defined as code, deployed through automated pipelines with instant rollback, and monitored with alerting that reaches a human before your customers do.
- Backend architecture
- Database design
- Cloud infrastructure
- CI/CD pipelines
- Authentication & authorisation
- Monitoring & alerting
- Security hardening
- Maintenance & support
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET.
Autoscaling Services
Compute, queues and caching sized to real traffic patterns, scaling up for a spike and back down for the bill.
Backups & Recovery
Automated backups, point-in-time recovery and restores that are actually tested — not assumed.
Zero-Downtime Deploys
Automated pipelines with health checks and instant rollback, so releases stop being events to fear.
Monitoring & Alerts
Metrics, logs, traces and on-call alerting that surface a problem before a customer reports it.
Security Hardening
Least-privilege access, secret management, patching and regular review of the exposed surface.
Cost Engineering
Right-sized infrastructure with per-service spend visibility, so cloud bills stay explainable.
THE STACK BEHIND IT.
We choose technology for lifespan, not fashion. Hover any node to see the part it plays in this service.
IO Core
The shared engineering foundation behind every layer of this stack.
FOUR MOVES. NO GUESSWORK.
Assess
Load profile, risk surface, recovery objectives and current spend.
Design
Services, data stores, boundaries and explicit failure modes.
Automate
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD and repeatable environments.
Support
Monitoring, on-call playbooks and continuous hardening.
- Predictable uptime
- Faster, safer releases
- Lower cloud spend
- Long-term maintenance cover
- High-traffic platforms
- Data-heavy products
- Compliance-driven systems
- Post-launch ownership
SEVEN STAGES. NO SURPRISES.
- 01
Discover
Business goals, constraints, users and the real workflow.
- 02
Strategize
Scope, architecture, sequencing and success metrics.
- 03
Design
Flows, interface systems and interaction language.
- 04
Build
Vertical slices shipped continuously, reviewed weekly.
- 05
Test
Automated tests, device matrix, load and security passes.
- 06
Launch
Staged rollout, monitoring and rollback ready.
- 07
Scale
Iterate on evidence, harden, extend, support.
Delivery roadmap
READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT?
Tell us what you're building. We'll help turn the idea into a digital product that works.