SRE practiced as software engineering.
A retainer for teams without a full SRE function.

The work ships as code: runbooks, SLOs with enforced error budgets, on-call rotations sized for two events per shift. Your team operates the artifacts.

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The room your code runs in.

Sound Familiar?

  1. Incidents eat weekends

    On-call escalations at 2am. Your best engineers spend Monday recovering instead of shipping.

  2. Cloud costs drift

    Bills climb 15% quarter over quarter. Nobody owns the spend. Optimization is always "next sprint."

  3. Deploys feel risky

    Rollbacks are manual. Feature flags are duct tape. Every release is a breath-holding ceremony.

  4. Engineers firefight

    Your senior engineers handle ops instead of architecture. Toil absorbs the talent you hired to build.

How It Works

Diagnostic

A 30-minute call maps your infrastructure risk surface. I name what's costing you time, money, and reliability.

Retainer

A fixed-scope monthly engagement. Health reviews, incident response protocols, cost audits, pipeline hardening, scoped to your needs.

Outcomes

Fewer incidents, lower costs, faster deploys. Your team gets back to building. SLA tracking proves the ROI.

From the Lab

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Compression Floor

Infrastructure principles from first principles. Every system has a minimal configuration where it still produces its characteristic behavior. Strip everything else.

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Resilience Patterns

Practical patterns for building systems that withstand unexpected failures and adapt to changing conditions. Drawn from production, validated under load.

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About infrawei

I’ve spent years running infrastructure at scale: scaling systems, building on-call culture, and turning operational chaos into repeatable playbooks. infrawei productizes that knowledge into retained engagements for teams who need operational excellence without the full-time headcount.

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Principles

  1. Playbooks over heroics
  2. Measure before you automate
  3. Reliability is a team sport
  4. Every system has a compression floor

Ready to stop firefighting?

A 30-minute diagnostic call maps your infrastructure risk surface. No pitch deck. Just an honest assessment of where you're leaking time and money.

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