Target architecture
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- Domain & service decomposition
- Event-driven & API contracts
- Data architecture & lineage
- Security architecture
- Cost & FinOps shape
Platform & Architecture · Practice II
Architecture is the bet you cannot revise quietly.
Resilient platforms, sequenced delivery, governed execution. We design target architectures and operating models that compound — and we ship them.
ScrollWhat we do, exactly
Act I · The thesis
Every platform is an unsigned contract with the next ten years.
Most are written in a hurry, and revised in panic.
We refuse the panic.
We design the platform with the next decade already in the room —
and we leave behind a system that gets cheaper to change,
not more expensive.
Act II · The lens
We hold platform work to four non-negotiable invariants.
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Architecture is a bet on the next ten years.
We design for the data volumes, regulation, and topologies that do not exist yet — but will. That means clear seams, evolvable contracts, and a refusal to optimise for today at the expense of tomorrow.
- 02
Operating models ship the architecture.
A target diagram is not a system. We design the team shape, ownership, and rituals that the architecture assumes — and we keep them honest with platform metrics, not opinion.
- 03
Resilience is a design property, not a postmortem.
Failure modes are decided at architecture time, not at incident time. We bake observability, recovery, and graceful degradation into the platform on day one.
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Governance is the speed layer, not the speed bump.
Delivery governance, change control, and platform standards exist to make safe shipping fast. We design them so the right path is also the easy path.
Act III · The matrix
Every layer of the stack, held to the same line.
Platform engineering
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- Internal developer platforms
- Golden paths & paved roads
- Multi-tenant runtimes
- Self-serve infra
- Service catalogs
Cloud & infrastructure
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- AWS · GCP · Azure
- Kubernetes & service mesh
- Edge & hybrid topologies
- Networking & connectivity
- Cost & capacity modelling
Resilience & observability
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- SLO & error-budget design
- Tracing, metrics & logs
- Chaos & game-day programmes
- Disaster recovery
- Incident architecture
Delivery governance
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- Programme operating model
- Change & release governance
- Architecture review boards
- Vendor & partner control
- Risk & audit alignment
Modernisation
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- Monolith → service migration
- Mainframe & legacy exits
- Cloud re-platforming
- Database & data-store migration
- Strangler-fig sequencing
Act IV · How clients buy this
How clients buy the platform, without buying a 36-month nightmare.
Shape 01
The Architecture Read
6–8 weeks · fixed
A senior architect-led read of the current platform — debt, drift, risk, and the three highest-leverage interventions. Delivered with a sequenced 12-month plan.
Shape 02
The Build
12–24 weeks · milestone-priced
We embed an architect, an engineering lead, and a delivery operator and ship the platform. One weight class as the in-house team, on the original line.
Shape 03
The Operating Partnership
12 months+ · retained
Architecture review, programme governance, and platform standards held alongside the in-house team. We do not become the team — we make it sharper.
Act V · The proof
Platforms that did not need a re-platform two years later.
Outcomes from platform and architecture mandates we have led across regulated, high-throughput, and AI-native workloads.
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99.99%
composite availability across critical platforms we operate or hold to SLO
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38%
median infra-cost reduction at constant workload after our re-architecture passes
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11 wks
average time-to-first-production on greenfield platform builds
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0
mandates re-baselined post-launch in the last 18 months
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