Cloud Native Feature Development
Build systems with serverless technologies and AWS managed services to supercharge your business.
Modern application development is about more than just writing code. It's about understanding the business problem you're trying to solve, and building a system that will solve it. It's about building a system that will scale with your business, and be able to adapt to changing requirements and needs. It's about building a system that will be easy to maintain and extend as your business grows.
Our cloud native approach leverages rock-solid cloud infrastructure and AI for highly agile and responsive systems, creating solutions that grow with your business.
Higher Quality
By leveraging battle-tested AWS managed services and limiting custom code, we create more well-designed, well-tested, and overall higher quality applications that require less maintenance and have fewer bugs.
More Relevant Product
Using our Domain-Driven Design process to keep us focused and true to the business need, we produce a much more relevant product the first time, reducing costly revisions and ensuring business alignment.
More Extensible
Event-driven architectures leveraging AWS Step Functions and Event Bridge allow us to create more extensible applications and systems that can easily adapt to new requirements without major refactoring.
Increased Agility
Because we can more easily extend our systems, we can more quickly adopt new technologies and managed services to rapidly respond to opportunities and enable greater business agility.
More Cost Efficient
Prior proper planning helps us keep development costs lower and more focused. Right-sizing resources helps manage cloud spend. Scalable, demand-driven systems have costs that scale with utilization and business value.
Features on Demand
Our flexible engagement model lets you pay for features only as you need them, avoiding the overhead of managing internal or contract developers while still getting enterprise-grade implementation.
Our Domain-Driven Design Process
Domain-Driven Design is a perfect companion to event-based architectures and modern serverless development. Our structured approach ensures deep alignment between your business objectives and the system being built.
Discovery
Prior to beginning the project, we perform discovery with the goals of understanding the business domain and how software can help. This is done through a series of activities designed to elicit, document, and create a shared understanding.
- Questionnaire on business objectives, constraints, and top success metrics
- Discovery interview to outline and detail the steps of your business processes
- Develop Domain Stories - visual representations of the actors and actions in your business process
Problem Analysis
Still prior to the project, we want to confirm we understand your objectives and scope of intervention and produce a detailed, scoped project plan and proposal.
- Receive and incorporate feedback on Domain Stories
- Perform additional interviews on scenarios
- Develop scenario Domain Stories
- Produce preliminary architecture diagram
- Deliver a scoped and priced design and implementation proposal
Solution Exploration
Achieve shared understanding and agree on the implementation plan by exploring various approaches to address the identified business needs, considering trade-offs between different solution options.
- Evaluate AWS managed services that align with requirements
- Identify integration points with existing systems
- Assess technical constraints and dependencies
- Explore architectural patterns and best practices
Solution Design
Design and document all components of the system including all integrations and use of managed services, creating a comprehensive blueprint for implementation.
- Detailed architecture diagrams
- Service interface definitions
- Data model design
- Security and access control specifications
- Infrastructure as code templates
Implementation
Construct the system from serverless components, managed services, and well-known frameworks and tools, following a detailed, shared project plan.
- Iterative development with regular checkpoints
- Continuous integration and testing
- Infrastructure as code deployment
- Documentation of implementation details
- Knowledge transfer sessions
Ongoing Support & Operations
Once things reach steady state, we can continue to provide ongoing production support, DevOps support, system maintenance, and monitoring through our Cloud Operations service for as long as you like. And if you think you've got things covered but need a lifeline, we can provide secondary support on demand.
- Monitoring and incident response
- Performance optimization
- Security patching and updates
- Cost optimization reviews
- Feature enhancements and extensions
Cloud Native Features We Deliver
In addition to supporting you with custom feature development, our team specializes in implementing a wide range of modern cloud capabilities using AWS managed services. Get inspired by checking out our services page.
The next steps are easy
Introductory Call
A short online meeting to discuss your business objectives, learn about existing system and deployment, understand time and resource constraints, and communicate budget and timeline expectations.
Proposal
We draft our recommendations for your review, outlining the project scope, objectives, deliverables, technical approach, timeline, and pricing.
Project Implementation
After your approval, we execute the project plan. All code work done in your applications is yours.
(Optional) Ongoing Support
Once your system is deployed, we can provide ongoing operations as a service for a time period to ensure stabilization, fine-tune the system and maintain the cloud infrastructure. This is a great option for smaller teams or companies without a dedicated cloud infrastructure or DevOps team.