Resilience & disaster recovery
Shrink your RTO and RPO from hours to minutes. Multi-AZ and multi-region failover, tested backups, chaos drills and runbooks your on-call team actually trusts.
Senior engineers. No hand-offs.
Infrastructure that holds.
Software that scales.
Canary Crest is a software, DevOps and full-stack consultancy. We fix the problems that keep CTOs up at night: fragile recovery, runaway cloud bills, systems that buckle under load, and monoliths that can't leave the data centre.
- AWS · GCP · Azure certified architects
- C++ · Rust · Go · TypeScript in production
- Fixed-scope or embedded engagements
Recovery time objective
6h
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0m
Monthly cloud spend
$184k
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$0k
Order-path p99 latency
2.4ms
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0µs
Regions serving traffic
1
→
0
▍ illustrative targets from past engagement shapes
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- C++20
- Rust
- Go
- TypeScript
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- gRPC
- Envoy
- Cloudflare
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- LangGraph
- Model Context Protocol
Services
What we're hired for
Every engagement is led by the engineers who do the work. No account managers, no junior bench.
Cloud cost reduction
Typical savings of 30–50% without touching reliability. Right-sizing, commitment strategy, storage tiering, egress and NAT elimination, and FinOps guardrails so the bill stays down.
Scaling web applications
From one box to tens of thousands of requests per second. Caching layers, read replicas and sharding, async queues, autoscaling and load testing with real traffic shapes.
Monolith to cloud & global availability
Lift, modernise and distribute. We decompose monoliths along real seams, containerise, build the CI/CD and IaC, and put your app in front of users on every continent with sub-100ms latency.
Agentic AI workflows
Production-grade agents, not demos. Tool-using LLM pipelines with evals, guardrails, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, observability and cost controls, wired into the systems you already run.
Low-latency financial systems
Order routing, market-data handlers and risk engines where microseconds and correctness both matter. Lock-free designs, kernel bypass, deterministic replay and exhaustive testing.
C++ & systems engineering
Modern C++ and Rust for the parts that can't be slow: networking stacks, storage engines, embedded firmware, SDKs and performance rescues of code nobody wants to touch.
Platform & DevOps
Golden paths for your developers. CI/CD that ships in minutes, infrastructure as code, secrets and policy, SLOs and observability, and an on-call rotation that isn't a punishment.
Approach
How an engagement runs
Short, honest phases. You can stop after any one of them with something useful in hand.
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01
Assess
One to two weeks reading code, architecture, bills and incident history. You get a written findings report with prioritised, costed options.
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02
Design
Target architecture, migration plan, risk register and a rollback story for every step. Reviewed with your team, not handed over.
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03
Build
We ship alongside your engineers in your repos, with tests, IaC and docs. Weekly demos. No surprises at the end.
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04
Operate & hand over
Runbooks, dashboards, game days and pairing until your team owns it outright. Optional retained support afterwards.
Outcomes
What we engineer for
Representative targets from the kinds of engagements we take on. Your numbers will depend on where you start.
0%
Typical cloud bill reduction within the first quarter
0m
Recovery time objective for tier-1 services after a resilience programme
0%
Availability target for globally distributed deployments
0µs
Tick-to-trade budgets we design and verify against
About
Why the canary
Miners carried canaries because they noticed danger first. That's the job we do for engineering organisations: find the fragile backup, the unbounded queue, the region that's a single point of failure, the line item quietly doubling every quarter, and deal with it before it becomes an incident.
We are a small group of principal-level engineers who have run infrastructure and written production code at exchanges, SaaS companies and cloud providers. We stay small on purpose: the people you meet in the first call are the people in your repos.
- Boring on purpose. We pick the proven option unless there's a measured reason not to.
- Everything as code. If it isn't in the repo with a test, it didn't happen.
- Measure first. Every proposal comes with the metric that proves it worked.
- Your team owns it. Success is when you no longer need us.
Intake
Tell us what's hurting
Ten minutes of your time. We reply within two business days with a short, honest read on whether and how we can help.
- No sales call. You talk to an engineer.
- We'll sign your NDA before looking at anything.
- Prefer email? hello@canarycrest.dev