Platform Blueprint for SaaS

A proven cloud-native Developer Platform for SaaS teams, based on Kubernetes

Built on years of experience and successfully running mission critical workloads. Pre-integrated, best-of-breed cloud and open source technology. Continuously improved, and backed by a team that understands SaaS.

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What is a Developer Platform?

Our Platform Blueprint is a Developer Platform. It brings together everything your team needs to build, deploy, and run applications: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and more, all pre-integrated and ready to use.

Instead of your team piecing together tools and hacking something together, they get proven paths that just work. Less time on plumbing, more time working on your product.

Proven technology

The Platform Blueprint for SaaS integrates best-of-breed tools from the CNCF landscape and underlying AWS cloud platform. Everything is pre-configured, integrated, tested, and continuously updated.

Amazon Web Services

Elastic Kubernetes Service

EC2 Pods

EKS EC2 Nodes

EC2 Nodes

Fargate Pods

Kube-green

Keda

Vertical Pod Autoscaler

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Karpenter

Traefik

AWS LB Controller

K8s Gateway API

Ingress-nginx

Istio

External DNS

Core DNS

OpenVPN

Tailscale

WireGuard

RDS

DynamoDB

Elasticache

S3

SQS

ECR

AWS Backup

Velero

S3 CSI Driver

EFS CSI Driver

EBS CSI Driver

MongoDB Atlas

Neo4J

AWS KMS

Sops

Secrets store CSI driver

Dex

Cert Manager

OAuth2-Proxy

GitHub

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Antlantis

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Concourse

GitHub Self-hosted Runners

GitLab Self-hosted Runners

Bitbucket Self-hosted Runners

Alloy

Prometheus

Alertmanager

Grafana

Cloudwatch

Blackbox exporter

Node monitoring agent

Loki

FluentBit

Cloudwatch logs

OpenSearch

External logs

Tempo

Your stack might require a technology that is not part of our Platform Blueprint. A specific database, message queue, or third-party service? We can extend our managed services to cover them. Same Skyscrapers approach: monitoring, maintenance, updates, and support. Just tailored to your specific needs.

Golden Paths for common developer needs

Golden Paths are opinionated, proven and supported ways to accomplish common tasks. They reduce cognitive load, speed up delivery, and ensure consistency across your team. Here’s what’s ready out of the box:

Deploy a new service

From code to running container, with routing, TLS, and monitoring configured automatically.

Set up observability

Metrics, logs, and tracing pre-configured. See what’s happening without building dashboards from scratch.

Integrate secrets

Securely inject secrets from AWS Secrets Manager or Vault into your applications. No plaintext, no manual wiring.

Provision cloud services

e.g. RDS with automated backups, monitoring, and secure access. Ready for production from day one.

Configure autoscaling

Right-size your workloads based on demand. Scale up when needed, scale down to save costs.

Golden Paths are documented, maintained, and supported.
When you follow them, you get best practices without the research.

Why the Skyscrapers approach works

  • Battle-tested: Proven across 40+ SaaS platforms. Not a template but a system hardened and refined through years of real-world use.
  • No lock-in: Standard Kubernetes, Terraform, open-source tools. Everything we build is yours. You can take over when you’re ready for it.
  • Continuously evolving: We improve the platform constantly. Security updates, new capabilities, better tooling, richer Golden Paths: you benefit automatically.
  • Best-of-breed, not single-vendor: We select the best tool for each job from the CNCF landscape. No compromises for vendor convenience.
Dokku or Heroku

Already have DevOps engineers?

Even better. The Platform Blueprint for SaaS is built on the tools your team already knows: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and the CNCF stack. No proprietary magic, no black boxes.

Already have a DevOps engineer? Let’s talk about how we can amplify their impact.
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Built on standards

Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, GitOps workflows. Your team can read, understand, and extend everything from day one.

Documented and transparent

Full documentation, clear architecture decisions, and a public changelog. No reverse-engineering required.

Start from proven, not from scratch

Skip the months of building foundational infrastructure. Start with a battle-tested base and focus your team’s time on what’s specific to your product.

Modular by design

Adopt the full platform or integrate specific components. The architecture is modular: take what you need, customize the rest and add-on as you desire.

DevOps help for SaaS startups

We hide nothing

No black boxes. We document everything, publish our changes, and share our roadmap. You always know what we’re working on and what’s coming next.

What our clients say about DOaaS

What other customers say

What our clients say about DOaaS

Skyscrapers took away the complexity of doing an AWS Well Architected Review and provided the necessary guidance in an open and transparent cooperation. This WAR will help us with new sales opportunities and fits well in broader certification efforts at Rombit.

Rombit

Jo Giraerts, DevOps Lead

With Skyscrapers we don’t have to worry about DevOps while we are scaling up our business. I see the Devops-as-a-Service as an integral part of our value-chain towards our customers. They help us become a more effective development team through constant advice and guidance. We are very happy with how everything is going.

Neanex

Thomas Van Driessche, CTO