Kubernetes Expert Review

Built a Kubernetes platform yourself within your organisation and want to know where you stand? Get a set of fresh eyes with extensive production experience review of your Kubernetes platform. The result is a detailed report with potential issues and risks, combined with actionable advice on how to move forward.

• An immediate snapshot of the current state of your Kubernetes Cluster(s)
• Direct access to experts with production experience
• An overview of top risks and gap with best-practices
• Transfer of knowledge is built-in
• Actionable and prioritized advice so you know what to do first
• Response to specific questions and challenges that you may have

Considering our growth, the ongoing technical mentorship that Skyscrapers provided us with was very valuable. Skyscrapers helped us set up and manage a future proof Kubernetes platform that supports our fast-growing product and development team.

Yorick Horrie, DevOps Lead at Teamleader

SaaS Platform Review

Have a set of fresh eyes, with extensive production experience, review your SaaS platform. In a short and fixed price engagement, one of our experts will review your Saas platform from different perspectives. The result is a detailed report with potential issues and risks, combined with actionable advice on how to move further.

Our experts will review your Saas platform from different perspectives. In this service we will review your platform from various perspectives:

• Immediate snapshot of current (DevOps) situation
• Assessment of top risks, the gap with best-practices, etc
• Transfer of knowledge built-in
• Short and easy to engage project
• Actionable and prioritized advice so you know what to do first
• Fixed-price

In our IoT project, Skyscrapers really helped us save time in architecting the platform. The sparring sessions were supported by deep technical expertise and the overall cooperation was very easy going and transparent. The Executive Summary at the end really made it clear to me what had to be done.

Jean-Christophe Carette, Head of Technology, IMI Hydronic

Expert Sparring

Pick our brains: don’t waste time and get the guidance you need to make the right decisions today. Together with one of our experts you can explore concepts, validate an approach or ask in-depth questions. This can be around Amazon Web Services, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD or Serverless. At the end you’ll have the answers and input you need to move forward.

• A combination of sparring, focused research, guidance and real-world expertise
• Easy to engage on with fast turnaround to get your answers
• Talk to the right expert for your specific questions
• Actionable advice at the end

Compared to figuring everything ourselves, talking to an expert from Skyscrapers really helped us accelerate our design process. They showed us all the available, realistic options including ones we wouldn't have thought about ourselves.

Mark Nelissen, CTO & Founder Gemsotec

Poc-in-a-Box: Kubernetes on AWS

Explore how a DevOps approach, containers and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service can accelerate your speed of innovation. In a well planned and scoped set of workshops, your developers will safely learn about these concepts, get hands-on experience and gain knowledge on a Cloud Native way of working.

• Explore viability of a Cloud Native approach in a short time
• Validation of AWS EKS as a fit for your workload
• Gain new insights
• Maximum knowledge transfer thanks to a hands-on and practical approach
• Initiation to the aspects that go along with a mature cloud practice like security, cost management and operational efficiency.

Kubernetes is allowing us to orchestrate all of our services and have a unified view of the platform. Skyscrapers takes care of managing the platform and guides our development team. In summary: we can focus all of our time and energy on building our applications.

Alexandre Mathieu, CTO, AppTweak

AWS Well Architected Review

Based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Skyscrapers will review your AWS platform and practices. You will walk away with actionable advice, based on AWS best practices, to lower costs, drive better security and performance, adopt cloud-native architectures and have better scalability.

• Receive guidance to improve and optimize your workloads and applications
• Identify and mitigate risks in your applications that can lead to cost savings and reduce the likelihood of security incidents, application outages, rapidly increasing costs, and performance issues
• Direct access to experts that have touched many similar, real-life production workloads in other projects
• Paves the way for follow-up projects and plans you may have.

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.

Jo Giraerts, DevOps Lead, Rombit

Container to Kubernetes Workshop

Is your SaaS company ready for a Cloud Native application? Learn what it takes to get your containers into production on the cloud. In a focused workshop, your developers work closely together with a Skyscrapers Cloud Engineer on getting a container-based application deployed and running on a Kubernetes platform.

You will walk away with hands-on experience, concrete improvements to your application, and increased knowledge about building Cloud Native applications.

• Learn what’s needed to make proper containers that follow cloud-native principles
• Get a hands-on introduction to working with Kubernetes as a developer
• An application better adapted to run on a container-based hosting platform
• Get an impression of each other's skill levels and ways of working

Moving to containers and Kubernetes was a necessary step for us: it will improve our security practices and allow us to experiment more, ultimately speeding up our rate of innovation.

Bob Van Looveren, CTO at Q1.6

DevOps-as-a-Service

Ready to accelerate your DevOps? What we used to name Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) now DevOps as a Managed Service, is a scalable and affordable virtual Infra & Ops service that complements your existing development or DevOps teams. DevOps-as-a-Service is ideal for startups, scale-ups and established SaaS companies, with or without an existing DevOps (or Infrastructure & Operations) team.

Based on our proven Reference Platforms for SaaS, we provide you with:

• Constant platform improvements
• Full platform monitoring and 24/7 operations
• Developer support
• Pro-active optimizations for cost and performance
• All-you-can-eat advice and guidance on application architecture, Serverless, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, etc
• Focus your team on innovating your business and applications
• No lock-in: you can in-source these when ready
• Gradually grow your expertise
• No technical debt on the cloud layer
• Monthly and predictable price

Considering our growth, the ongoing technical mentorship that Skyscrapers provided us with was very valuable. Skyscrapers helped us set up and manage a future proof Kubernetes platform that supports our fast-growing product and development team.

Yorick Horrie, DevOps Lead at Teamleader

Post-engineering Helpline

This service is specifically for customers that recently engaged with Skyscrapers on an Engineering project.

With the post-engineering helpline you get:

• Easy access to Skyscrapers
• Usage support on what was delivered
• Troubleshooting: we can jump in with you and help figure it out
• Fixing of uncovered bugs
• Pull request reviews
• Implementation of minor changes
• Support on other AWS aspects
• Short contract-cycle

Skyscrapers rebuilt our container platform on AWS EKS and Fargate. They proved to be very knowledgeable and guided us perfectly. We got exactly the value we expected, including great documentation. We are happy with the results!

Vincent Ghyssens, CTO Cohabs

AWS Resale

As an official “AWS Authorized Commercial Reseller” Skyscrapers can provide you with an easy and seamless invoicing experience for AWS services.
Leveraging AWS cloud products and services will help your business scale and grow by building flexible, scalable and reliable solutions that can be implemented in any industry.

• Single billing source for your cloud services
• A streamlined invoicing process
• Access to add-on services from Skyscrapers like consulting, managed services, etc.
• Access to AWS technology partner ecosystem
• Familiarity with your account
• Skyscrapers DevOps Specialization
• Skyscrapers Specialization in Cutting-edge AWS technology

In the Pocket wanted to grow their AWS expertise. Skyscrapers got us going quickly by providing us with the right production knowledge on AWS from the start. In conclusion, we were delighted with the cooperation and how smooth it all went.

Jonathan De Moor, Cloud Tech Lead at In The Pocket