Cloud Engineering Services
Well Architected Cloud Solutions
Expert Implementation
Continuous Improvement
Managed Cloud Services
F L A T S P E L L
Helping You Save On Cloud Spend
We see most of our clients miss major savings due to lack of deep understanding of not the cloud services themsevles but the deep knowledge of configuration based savings and architectures that are lighter weight, use less and take advantage of scale the correct way. Through the lens of visibility and utilization we design systems for the most basic unit of work and apply scalable services to those designs. If your app doesn't fit perfectly into that paradigm we begin a compositional approach to offloading logic into suitable services. If you're already a services/microservices stack, we'll revisit your existing service boundaries and begin profiling for possible further decomposition or recomposition often producing technical discovery.
With our tenure in large enterprise cloud deployments we've developed a highly impactful resource waste reduction assessment. As the story always went, more abstraction it became easier to launch proof of concept projects. With the demands of the market it becomes a slippery slope and those proof of concept deployments fold into the regular development lifecycle. With Agile development in full swing it becomes easy to improve later and the compute spend rises until that unicorn improvement sprint comes galloping out of the woods in the form of downward pressure from management. Sound familiar? Flat Spell employs a mind set and rigor akin to C++ programming methodologies where resource utilization is optimized at software, cloud resource configuration or cloud service offering choices. Then, Flat Spell implements deep integration with cost capabilities into your financial tracking stack, allowing a robust and lasting FinOps posture. Through the lens of instrumentation and observability we've created feedback loops of cost vs code in a "DevFinOps" manner, keeping stakeholders and developement teams aligned.
Platform Solutions
Well architected cloud solutions are a differentiator between operational capacity and development complexity. Whether you're mid migration to cloud native, planning a modernization initiative or at the drawing board architecture effort is a non-negotiable exercise to save on cloud spend and identify efficiencies for your platform. The difference between a functioning stack and a performant, efficient stack with flexibility to scale is profound to end users, engineers and therefore stakeholders. If its not part of your cadence, let us show you how.
Implementation in the cloud can be lengthy in exploratory stages. There are a lot of opinionated engineers, encylopediac amounts of methodologies and it can be difficult to choose a source of truth for 'best practices' since most employ an 80/20 approach to the engineering community. A solid implementation comes from a well understood problem set, a sound foundational architecture and an easily integrated existing platform. In reality its not always easy to find the panacea of neutrality so we adapt. We specialize in both brown and green field platform implementations.
Cloud Platform Help
Improvement: The practie of the continuous improvement is a non-negotiable part of every successful platform. In order to uphold savings, uptime and reliability as a platform's needs and functionalities advance a constant improvement effort . The concept of an aging architectures is a newer term that reminds us of how quickly projects evolve as business needs eb and flow.
Maintenance for those solutions that are future proof, stand the test of time and those that cannot be chagned for various reasons is a critical practice that is ongoing. Let us take that burden off of your operations teams by moving towards a lesser total cost of ownership.
Managed cloud services, finally, are for those who want a fully operational solution but do not possess or do not want to possess the resources to design, implement, maintain and host applications and work loads we provide white glove services for custom SaaS applications and hosting platforms. If this customer is you, please contact us to discuss your options.