Core capability
Build a cloud foundation that helps the product move.
Inorbit designs, modernizes, and operates cloud platforms that support product velocity, resilience, security, observability, and cost-aware growth.
What this covers
- Strategy and migrationDecide what should move, in what order, and what should change on the way.
- Platform engineeringMake the well-architected path the easy path for every team that ships.
- Resilience and observabilityUnderstand the system in production and recover from failure predictably.
- Security and cost postureKeep the two things that quietly compound — risk and spend — visible and owned.
01The problem
What good looks like
A cloud platform should make the right things easier: releasing safely, scaling when demand changes, understanding what is happening, recovering from failure, and making cost and security visible to the people responsible for the product.
When a platform is working, deploying is unremarkable and an incident is a known procedure rather than an improvisation. When it is not, teams slow down for reasons nobody can name — release anxiety, environments that drift, dashboards nobody trusts, and a bill nobody can explain.
We work on the platform in service of the product, not as a separate infrastructure project with its own agenda.
02What we do
How the work is put together.
Strategy and migration
Decide what should move, in what order, and what should change on the way.
- Cloud strategy and readiness assessment
- Application and data migration planning
- Cloud-native architecture design
- Environment and account structure
Platform engineering
Make the well-architected path the easy path for every team that ships.
- Infrastructure as code
- Containers and orchestration
- CI/CD and release automation
- Developer platform and golden paths
Resilience and observability
Understand the system in production and recover from failure predictably.
- Metrics, logs, traces and useful dashboards
- Service-level objectives and alerting that means something
- Reliability engineering and failure testing
- Backup, recovery and continuity planning
Security and cost posture
Keep the two things that quietly compound — risk and spend — visible and owned.
- DevSecOps practices in the delivery pipeline
- Identity, secrets and least-privilege access
- Cost and resource visibility by product area
- Managed cloud support and ongoing optimisation
03Outcomes
What changes when this works.
- Releases that are frequent, small and unremarkable
- Scaling behaviour that matches real demand patterns
- Production behaviour that is actually observable
- Recovery procedures that have been rehearsed
- Security controls built into delivery, not bolted on
- Cloud spend that can be explained and attributed
The Inorbit Product Loop
Progress without losing the plot.
Align
We clarify users, outcomes, constraints, risks, and the decisions that matter most — so the team is solving the same problem before anyone writes code.
What you get
- Problem and opportunity framing
- User and workflow map
- Success measures
- Risk and constraint register
Architect
We shape the product, platform, data, integration, security, and cloud foundations, and record the trade-offs behind each decision.
What you get
- Architecture position and rationale
- Tenancy, identity and data model
- Integration and API approach
- Delivery plan and first release scope
Build
We work in focused increments with design, engineering, quality, and product thinking together rather than in sequence.
What you get
- Working software in production
- Design system and accessible UI
- Automated test and release pipeline
- Observability from the first release
Accelerate
We improve adoption, performance, intelligence, release confidence, and operating leverage using what the product has actually taught us.
What you get
- Adoption and behaviour insight
- Performance and reliability improvement
- Prioritised next-phase roadmap
- Ongoing engineering capacity
Where we apply it
Domain context changes these decisions.
Questions
Straight answers.
If your question is not here, ask it directly — we would rather have the conversation than write a longer page.
Almost never, and attempting it is a common source of stalled programmes. We usually sequence by value and risk: move or rebuild the component that unlocks the most product benefit first, prove the pattern, then repeat. Some workloads legitimately stay where they are.
That someone can answer "is it working, for whom, and what changed?" without guessing. In practice that means service-level objectives tied to user-visible behaviour, traces that cross service boundaries, logs with consistent identifiers, and alerts that fire on symptoms customers feel rather than on every metric that moved.
By making it attributable before trying to reduce it. Once spend can be mapped to product areas and customer segments, the trade-offs become ordinary product decisions. Untagged, unattributed spend produces panic-driven cuts instead of good architecture.
Yes. We work with the platform you have already committed to and the constraints that come with it. Where we recommend a change, we explain the trade-off and the migration cost rather than presenting a preferred stack as a requirement.
Keep exploring
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Make the next release a step forward.
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