Devss — Production-Grade Engineering Foundations

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Production-grade engineering

Foundations for teams
shipping fast with AI.

Infrastructure, authentication, and delivery—done correctly.
Fixed scope. Documented handover. No surprises.

Elephants working on infrastructure conveyor belt

The problem

AI helps you ship faster. It doesn't help you ship safer.

Teams are building faster than ever—but the gap between launch and failure has collapsed too.

Security gaps ship to production

Auth flows get copy-pasted from tutorials. Tokens are stored wrong. Permissions are an afterthought. These mistakes used to surface in months—now they surface in days.

Infrastructure becomes a mystery

Pipelines get duct-taped together. Secrets end up in env files. Deploys work until they don't—and nobody knows why. The person who set it up has moved on.

Early shortcuts become permanent constraints

Quick fixes harden into architecture. What was "temporary" is now load-bearing. Refactoring gets pushed to "later"—but later never comes.

Offerings

Foundations should be boring—and right.

Authentication shouldn't be experimental. Infrastructure shouldn't be fragile. Deployments shouldn't be mysterious. We deliver the critical parts that need senior judgment, not AI guesswork.

01

Auth, Sessions & RBAC

Security that doesn't come from a tutorial.

Authentication is where most breaches start. We implement session handling, permissions, and token flows the way security auditors expect—so you pass compliance checks, not explain gaps.

Read our security guide

02

Infrastructure & CI/CD

Deployments your team can actually debug.

When your deploy pipeline breaks at 2am, someone needs to understand it. We build infrastructure that's explicit, documented, and owned by your team—not a mystery inherited from a contractor.

Read our infrastructure guide

03

Preview Deploys & DevOps

Every PR gets an environment. Every environment matches prod.

Your team should review features in context, not guess how they'll behave in production. We set up preview environments that actually mirror reality—with proper data, proper isolation, proper teardown.

Read our deployments guide

Process

Clear scope. Clear decisions.

Every engagement follows the same five steps. No ambiguity, no surprises.

Scoping call

Risk, constraints, and what "done" means. A technical conversation, not a sales pitch.

Fixed deliverables

Scope protects budget and momentum. You'll know exactly what you're getting before work begins.

Architecture approved

Decisions documented, trade-offs explicit. You sign off before implementation begins.

Implementation

Correct defaults, minimal magic. Code your team can read, understand, and own.

Handover

You own it. Docs, knowledge transfer, and a support window. No lingering dependencies.

Explicit over clever

Code your team can read at 2am. No magic, no mystery, no tribal knowledge required.

Proven over trendy

Battle-tested tools that scale. Every dependency earns its place—with a clear path out if needed.

Security by default

Least privilege from day one. Secure cookies, explicit permissions, audit trails built in.

North Star

Make the critical things boring.
Make the boring things correct.
Let teams focus on what differentiates them.

Bring a problem. Leave with a plan.

If your foundations feel fragile—let's talk.

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