← Capabilities/Capability C5Weeks 1–12 · first slice live by week 499.99% uptime · multi-region

Cloud-Native EngineeringK8s · Serverless · Edge

Cloud-native isn't Kubernetes for its own sake. It's small services, strong contracts, and an event spine that lets the business ship five times a day without flinching.

Lead time for change
<1 day
Change failure rate
<5%
Uptime
99.99%
Deliverables

Everything that ships

  • Reference platform
    K8s + service mesh + secrets + observability, IaC end-to-end.
  • Event mesh
    Schema-versioned topics, idempotency, replay, cross-region failover.
  • API gateway
    Auth, rate limits, contract tests, versioning, public + partner tiers.
  • CI/CD pipeline
    Trunk-based, progressive delivery, automated rollback.
  • FinOps + security
    Cost dashboards, SBOMs, image scanning, runtime policy.
Pod composition
  • Platform Architect
  • SRE
  • Backend Engineer
  • Security Engineer
Example output · Service contract · pricing.svcyaml
service: pricing.svc
runtime: k8s/eks
sla: { availability: 0.9999, p95_ms: 60 }
events:
  produces: [price.changed.v2]
  consumes: [order.created.v3]
deploy: progressive(canary=5%, bake=10m)
Timeline

Weeks 1–12 · first slice live by week 4

  1. 1
    Week 1-2
    Landing zone

    Accounts, networks, IAM, observability, cost guardrails.

  2. 2
    Week 3-4
    First slice

    One real service end-to-end on the platform — proof, not theory.

  3. 3
    Week 5-12
    Scale-out

    Event mesh, multi-region, FinOps, security baselines, paved road.

FAQs

Things prospects ask

Lock-in?

We pick managed where it pays and stay portable where it matters. Choices are documented.

Multi-cloud?

Yes when the business case is real (sovereignty, resilience, M&A); otherwise one cloud well.

How fast can you ship?

First production slice in 4 weeks. Paved road by week 12.

Commission · C5 Cloud-Native Engineering

Stand up Cloud-Native Engineering in Weeks 1–12.

We'll respond within one business day with a scoping note, a fixed-price outcome contract, and a named principal. Your details sync straight into our concierge queue.

  • • Outcome-priced — no T&M.
  • • Sovereign by default — your data, your region, your keys.
  • • Wired into the Fuel Pressure gauge from day one.
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