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A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR YOUR PRODUCT

Confident releases.
Infrastructure with a plan.

Take your application from development to a maintainable production setup. Design Hat helps plan deployment, release workflows and operational visibility around your product.

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Cloud & DevOps / Design Hat

THE APPROACH

Build an environment your team can work with.

Infrastructure decisions affect delivery, cost and day-to-day maintenance. We review the application, expected usage and team workflow before proposing a hosting and deployment approach. Clear environments, repeatable releases and practical documentation make it easier to operate the product and understand what happens when something needs attention.

What we focus on

  • An infrastructure plan matched to the application
  • Repeatable build and release workflows
  • Environment and configuration documentation
  • A clear monitoring and maintenance scope

WHAT’S INCLUDED

A complete service, shaped around your scope.

Each project is scoped to your requirements. These are the capabilities we can bring together.

01

Infrastructure review

Assess the application’s hosting, storage, runtime and integration requirements.

02

Cloud deployment

Configure the agreed hosting environments and supporting services.

03

CI/CD workflows

Automate build, checks and deployment steps where appropriate.

04

Environment configuration

Separate development and production settings and document configuration ownership.

05

Monitoring & backups

Define visibility, backup and recovery arrangements suited to the workload.

06

Operational handover

Provide runbooks, access guidance and a clear ongoing support boundary.

TANGIBLE OUTPUTS

Clear deliverables. A useful handover.

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Architecture outline

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Deployment workflow

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Environment documentation

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Operational handover

HOW WE WORK

From the right questions to the right result.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Review the application, traffic assumptions and current delivery workflow.

  2. 02

    Design

    Agree on environments, responsibilities and the release approach.

  3. 03

    Implement

    Configure the agreed infrastructure and deployment automation.

  4. 04

    Handover

    Review a release, recovery expectations and operational documentation.

VISUAL DIRECTION

Relevant work from the portfolio.

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Dashboards

Product analytics dashboard

Dashboards

Revenue analytics dashboard

Dashboards

Business reporting dashboard

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A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS

About cloud & devops.

Can you work with our current hosting provider?

Yes. We begin with the existing environment and requirements before recommending whether to retain or change it.

Are cloud subscription costs included?

Provider charges and third-party service fees are separate unless explicitly included in the proposal.

Can you help with an existing deployment problem?

We can scope an environment review and a focused remediation plan after understanding the application and access requirements.

Do you provide round-the-clock support?

Support hours, response expectations and responsibilities must be agreed separately. No uptime or response guarantee is implied by the project build.

LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN

Let’s talk about cloud & devops.

Start with your goals, requirements and any existing assets. We’ll help shape a practical scope.