Helping clients turn ideas into products & services
We help startups & larger organizations navigate cloud services & technology selection to match their new project goals. We leverage best of breed Cloud Services from AWS coupled with tooling and frameworks to ensure client solutions have the optimal reach and experience with mobile apps and web-based deliverables.
The cloud and at-scale sass solutions available today make today the best time ever to move your ideas forward with regards to cost, risk, and speed to market.
Idea to Product
Turning napkin drawing into apps, sites, and more. Ideate concepts, build MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) and take existing proven ones to the next level.
Cloud Solution Architecture
Construct detailed architecture diagrams that match the goals of the product/service today and tomorrow to include interactions and service selection basis.
Full Stack Implementation
Build parts or entire solution architectures from back end cloud to one or more front ends. Enrich data and workflow with services.
Services
Roadmap Building - Mockups
Having a common and well understood vision that all stakeholders are aligned with is key to building out a successful product/service both over time as well as shorter term development sprints.
Solution Architecture
Todays modern solutions are built and composed differently. Connecting custom compute, data, and workflow allows for amazing outcomes. Selecting services and how they interact and store data is both the opportunity & challenge.
Web Applications
Single Page Applications (SPA) are becoming more popular than more server-based stacks and for good reason. There are mature and widely adopted frameworks and tooling such as React and Next.js that when connected with backend APIs provide the foundation for solutions that can scale indefinitely.
API Development
REST (strick or loose) and GraphQL APIs are the most widely used structured approaches today. Newer technologies such as serverless cloud-functions, containers, integrations, and API-surfaces/abstractions are bringing more abilities to architectures. We focus on the value-add and cost/benefit over strict adherence to technical correctness.
Mobile Applications
Great technology and tooling evolving at an incredible pace. Native, cross-platform frameworks, web-hosted, or other hybrid approaches exist to match various use cases. We have been focusing mostly on React Native due to it's ability to shorten development cycles to build Apps that run on iOS and Android devices.
Integration
Build event-based sender and/or receivers to bridge microservice boundaries and pre-designed workflows. Build ETL (extract, transform, and load) to push or pull data between systems and data sources. Nightly and schedule jobs can be built to use massive compute and data resources for a time period allowing abilities that were not affordable before.
Technology & Tooling
Backend - Cloud (AWS)
AWS, Azure, and Google are all making available incredibly powerful and useful services available in the cloud. We primarily use cloud services offered by AWS to design, build, and host solutions. Below are common AWS services our solutions often include though each project is different and technology is always matched to project goals.
With the evolution and adoption of Next.js, we have started using hosting partners such as Vercel and continue to revisit services we use both within AWS and outside to ensure we are considering the right services in this fast changing technology landscape.
Compute - Lambda, ECS Fargate, Docker
RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server), Aurora
DynamoDB, Redis, more
SQS - Queuing
SNS - Publish Subscribe Messaging & Mobile Push Notifications
EventBridge - Serverless Event bus,
Step Functions - Workflow
S3 - Storage for numerous purposes
Cognito - Identity
CloudFront (CDN) - Content Delivery Network
CloudWatch (Logging, Task Scheduling, Monitoring)
Shared Services - Route53 (DNS)
Our Approach
Collaborate, prioritize, wireframe & mockups, design & implement, release, collect feedback, iterate
Define the problem your product/service solves
Define the product/service, goals, competition, size of "market", opportunity, unique advantage your product/service provides.
Define user Personas
Identify users with fictional identities that model the characteristics, demographics, interests, and more. These are used to be able to speak to the experience, opportunities, expectations, and challenges of them using the product/service.
Collaborate and brainstorm with stakeholders
Explore the business domain and environment to identity processes and events that the solution should account for. Create journey maps identifying detailed flow of how users would achieve the processes and events in your product/service.
Prioritize Features
Use prioritization charts to identify the most impactful features based on need, importance, and complexity.
Design and Implement
Utilize wireframe mockups and prototypes to evolve journey maps while providing a more polished finish to the product/service. Convert wireframes and backend requirements into completed and tested deliverables.
Release product/service, collect feedback, and iterate
Leverage feedback to evaluate new opportunities and prior defined prioritization.
