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Origen / Services / Platform Hosting · Deploys · On-call Vol. V · 2026

Someone on call who
wrote the code.

03.5 / Platform

AWS and Firebase, automated deploys, monitoring, and the on-call rota — handled, so the team you hired to build features isn’t the team woken at 3am to fix them. And when something does break, the engineer who answers already knows the system, because they built it.

All four disciplines →
§ 01

What we run

Three kinds of work

Infrastructure should be boring. That is the highest compliment the discipline has.

Work 01

Cloud foundations

AWS or Firebase set up properly the first time: environments, secrets, access, backups. The decisions that are cheap now and painful to retrofit later.

AWS · Firebase
Work 02

Deploys that are boring

Automated pipelines, preview environments, and rollbacks that work. When releasing stops being frightening, teams release more often and the product moves.

CI/CD · Rollbacks
Work 03

Knowing before your users do

Error tracking, uptime checks, and alerts that fire on things that matter. A customer email is the most expensive monitoring system a company can run.

Monitoring · On-call
§ 02

How we work

Same team, application to infrastructure

Most outages are handovers in disguise — the person responding did not write the thing that broke.

01

In your cloud accounts

Everything runs in accounts you own, defined in configuration we hand over and document as we go. No proprietary wrapper, no dependency on us to press the buttons, nothing you cannot take elsewhere.

You own it
02

Fix the release first

On existing systems we usually start with the pipeline, because a team that can ship safely can fix everything else. Automated deploys, working rollbacks, and environments that match production closely enough to trust.

First few weeks
03

Alerts that mean something

Monitoring tuned so a page means act now and silence means fine. Alert fatigue is worse than no alerting, because a team that has learned to ignore notifications will ignore the one that mattered.

Monitoring · On-call
§ 03

Proof

Three from the shelf
Case 01

WorX — shipped, relentlessly

Web · Mobile · Retained

A retained partnership across web and mobile for a UK enterprise software company — the same team holding quality across every surface, month after month.

RetainerCI/CDOps
Read the case
Case 02

Right Now Response — repairs, coordinated in real time

Realtime · Platform

An operational platform where downtime is not academic — jobs, contractors, and status all have to stay in sync while the business runs on it.

RealtimeReliabilityWeb
Read the case
Case 03

CrewPass — flight crew, looked after

Mobile · Portals

Multiple portals and a mobile app on one shared backend, which is exactly the situation where environments and access control stop being optional.

FirebaseMulti-portalAuth
Read the case
§ 04

Common questions

Straight answers

AWS or Firebase — which is right for us?

Firebase when speed to market matters and the data model suits it: auth, hosting, and realtime come free, and a small team moves fast. AWS when you need control, unusual compliance, or costs that scale predictably at volume. Plenty of our builds use both, deliberately.

Do you take the on-call rota?

On retained engagements, yes — and it is the same engineers who wrote the code. That is the whole point: the person paged at 3am recognises the stack trace instead of meeting your system for the first time during an incident.

Can you fix our deploys without rebuilding the product?

Usually, and it is one of the highest-value pieces of work we do. Automating a release pipeline, adding monitoring, and getting environments under control is often a few weeks of work that changes how often a team can safely ship.

What about our cloud bill?

We look at it, because it is often the easiest money on the table. Oversized instances, forgotten environments, storage nobody deleted, and queries doing far more work than they need to. We report what we find and what changing it would cost.

Will we be locked in to you?

No. Infrastructure lives in your own cloud accounts, defined in configuration we hand over, and documented so another team could pick it up. We would rather you stayed because the work is good.

Need this
handled?

Tell us what you’re running and where it hurts. If deploys or incidents are the problem, that is usually a few weeks of work, not a rebuild.