We are CloudAlto
Our mission is to assist you on your DevOps journey
Who we are.
CloudAlto is a technical consultancy based in Dublin, Ireland who specialise in helping small to medium sized enterprises leverage their unique strengths to become more efficient through usage of DevOps and cloud technology.
We're experts in DevOps and cloud, with organisational transformation and modern practice adoption to spare. Having experienced and sometimes lead the adoption of modern DevOps practices across a number of recognisable companies such as IBM, Fidelity and Ericsson. Our new goal is to leverage what we've learned over the past near-decade of DevOps, continuous integration, continuous deployment and infrastructure as code experience to help small to medium sized companies scale into their potential.
Located in the start-up centric Dogpatch Labs in the IFSC, we prefer to work closely with our clients and provide face to face partnerships whenever possible. Our location was chosen in order to facilitate this to the best extent.
Baris
Co-Founder and Devops Engineer
Ilija
Co-Founder and Application Architect
Emmet
Developer and DevOps Engineer
Continuous Integration and Delivery
CI&CD is essentially the practice of building code at short, regular intervals, then delivering the value derived from that code into your customers hands as soon as possible.
The traditional method of working on a feature for months, then releasing it to the public is not the accepted best practice anymore, for good reason. The sooner you build your code, the sooner you know if it works. The sooner you let your customers try a feature, the sooner you know if they like it. CI&CD enable the feedback based, iterative development cycles that are key to an Agile company.
Serverless Computing
Serverless computing is essentially the practice of abstracting away as much of the infrastructure for a service as possible. It is not always recommended, as it can be more complex than it seems. However, for the right situation, serverless architecture can lead to massive cost savings.
An example of where serverless computing is ideal is a service that doesn't have a constant up time and isn't resource heavy. In this case, keeping a server for it doesn't make much sense, as the server is always being paid for, whereas serverless computing lets you only pay for the service when it's used.
Containerisation
Containerisation is essentially packaging the entire server that an application will run on into a single file. This lets you move software from one environment to another with ease. Their lightweight architecture allows them to be started almost instantly, making them significantly more flexible to use than, say, virtual machines.
The benefits to their usage can be immense, as they increases portability, improve scalability, make deployment easier and faster, improve security, and if done right, significantly enhance productivity.
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as code is the natural next step to the philosophy behind containerisation. Codifying your infrastructure will let you have better tested, higher quality, more efficient deployments. Any changes to infrastructure can be easily reviewed by peers, automated testing can be done much more simply. Instead of trying to fix complex errors on manually deployed infrastructure, you can simply re-deploy your tested version.
In our opinion, infrastructure as code is a necessary practice for making the best use out of a cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
How we work.
1 We give you a free consultation to check on your current practices and overall DevOps readiness, providing advice on your next steps.
2 If you choose to go for a premium plan, we discuss your DevOps and cloud goals, then draft a proposal for how to meet them.
3 We implement the plan we've drawn up together. Gathering feedback and coaching your staff along the way.