Case studies

Approaches

Clear challenges, credible approaches, and outcomes that platform leaders care about.

Enterprise VMware → Cloud Migration
Challenge: A large estate of legacy workloads with complex dependencies, tight change windows, and strict operational requirements.
Approach: Built a landing zone with guardrails, modeled dependencies, and executed a wave-based plan with rehearsed cutovers and rollback paths.
Outcome: Reduced cutover risk and established a repeatable migration approach that scaled across subsequent waves.
Multi-cloud Kubernetes Platform
Challenge: Multiple teams deploying to inconsistent clusters with unreliable pipelines and unclear operational ownership.
Approach: Standardized cluster blueprints, introduced GitOps, defined multi-tenant controls, and delivered SRE-aligned operational runbooks.
Outcome: More predictable releases, reduced variance across environments, and stronger operational readiness.
OpenTelemetry Observability Rollout
Challenge: Incidents required manual correlation across logs and metrics; trace coverage was inconsistent and alerting was noisy.
Approach: Defined an instrumentation strategy, deployed a collector topology, and rebuilt alerting around SLOs and actionable signals.
Outcome: Faster triage, fewer false positives, and measurable reliability improvements driven by shared service objectives.
Zero-downtime Database Migration
Challenge: Business-critical database migration with no downtime tolerance and strict RPO/RTO expectations.
Approach: Implemented replication-based migration, progressive cutover, and rehearsed rollback with explicit failure-mode planning.
Outcome: Successful cutover within change windows and improved long-term HA/DR posture.