Cloud and DevOps

Shipping software should be routine, not risky. Dotqode sets up the pipelines, hosting and monitoring that let your team release often and sleep well.

What we set up

Automated pipelines test every change and deploy it the same way every time. Infrastructure is described in code, so environments can be rebuilt and reviewed like any other change. Monitoring and alerts tell you about problems before your customers do.

All infrastructure lives in your own cloud account. We document how it works and hand over access, so you are never locked in to us.

Common projects

Cloud and DevOps requests usually start from a specific pain:

• Releases that depend on one person. Deployment is a manual list of steps only one developer knows. We turn it into a pipeline anyone on the team can run.
• Moving off an ageing server. An application on a single on-premise or rented machine moves to managed cloud services, with a tested cut-over plan.
• No safe place to test. We create staging environments that match production closely, so problems show up before customers see them.
• A bill that keeps growing. We find where the money goes and right-size the setup without hurting performance.
• Not knowing when something breaks. We add uptime checks, error tracking and alerts that reach the right person.

How we approach it

We prefer simple, well-documented setups over clever ones. Managed services from your cloud provider are often the right choice for a small team, because they remove patching and upgrades from your list. Where we write custom configuration, it lives in version control and goes through review like application code.

Access is set up with separate accounts and the least permission each person or service needs. Secrets such as passwords and API keys are kept in a proper secrets store, not in code or shared documents.

Backups are only useful if they can be restored, so we test restores rather than assuming they work. Each setup comes with a short written recovery plan: what is backed up, how often, where it is kept, and the steps to bring the application back if a server, a region or an account is lost.

Who this is for

This service suits product teams who want to release more often with less stress, companies preparing to move from on-premise hardware to the cloud, and businesses that have grown past the hosting they started with. A DevOps engineer can join your developers as part of a dedicated team, or we can include hosting and pipelines in an end-to-end project from the start.

Because our working day runs until midnight IST, releases and maintenance windows can often be scheduled during quiet hours for users in the UK and Europe.