0xA is a one-man team providing on-demand, personalized advice and solutions to complex cloud, networking, and software development problems.
In my experience, teams everywhere are struggling to deal with the costs and complexity of their cloud infrastructure. Not to mention how their applications perform on that infrastructure.
There is simply too much to know: it is inevitable that teams will struggle with the complexity of Cloud Platforms due to complex they are, how fast they change, and risks of getting things wrong.
You want your frontend engineers focused on making the best version of your web application.
You want your backend engineers focused on implementing all the features which makes your product or service special
NOT figuring out how to setup a VPC.
“We can’t touch that. The API goes down if we do so we just leave it like that”
“Who knows why the app takes 10 seconds to load. It’s doing a lot of stuff! How could we even figure that out?”
“What would we do in a disaster? I don’t know; we don’t have any of our infrastructure documented as code so we’d need to manually set it back up… I guess…”
“It just takes 30 minutes for us to deploy. That’s just simply how it is.”
“There is no way we could deploy multiple times a day, that’s crazy.”
There are real, practical solutions for all these problems.
But your teams are focused on other things for good reasons. These nagging problems, very real technical debt, sit in your JIRA/Github Issues for months and years without being investigated or resolved.
Tech Leads and Staff Engineers intuitively make your scopes and ambitions smaller because they already know that won’t be possible right now. New engineers join your team and cause outages they never could have predicted.
My goal at 0xA is to help teams build better software by dealing with these issues.
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If you need an on-demand senior engineer with experience building and maintaining large cloud-based services to help your team or business please reach out for a free consult.