We build the delivery platforms that let engineering teams deploy in minutes instead of weeks — with automated pipelines, reproducible infrastructure and observability that actually tells you what's broken.
Pipeline & platform assessment included · Findings in 5 business days
Slow releases, flaky tests and "it works on my machine" aren't people problems — they're platform problems. When the path to production is painful, engineers route around it, and quality degrades quietly.
We build internal platforms as first-class products. Golden paths that make the right thing the easy thing. Pipelines that fail fast and tell you why. Infrastructure that's reproducible from a commit, not reconstructed from memory.
The outcome is measurable in DORA terms: more deployments, shorter lead time, fewer failures, faster recovery. Not vibes — numbers.
If a human does it twice, it becomes a pipeline step. No exceptions.
Tests and scans finish in minutes, so developers stay in flow.
Security gates, canaries and rollbacks baked into every deploy path.
DORA metrics tracked continuously. Progress you can show the board.
Engage the full platform build or start with a single workstream. Every capability is delivered by engineers running it in production today.
Pipelines designed around your team's workflow — fast, deterministic and boring in the best possible way.
Production-grade cluster architecture with the guardrails, autoscaling and multi-tenancy your teams actually need.
Every resource defined in version control, reviewed like code and deployed through the same pipeline as your applications.
Telemetry that answers "what's broken and why" in seconds — plus SLOs that align engineering effort with user experience.
An internal developer platform that gives every engineer a golden path from idea to production — without a ticket to the platform team.
Chaos testing, capacity planning and disaster recovery — so the platform holds when traffic spikes and hardware doesn't cooperate.
Aggregate across 40+ platform engagements · 2023–2025
A four-stage engagement with measurable outcomes at every gate. You always know what's being built, why, and what it's worth.
We baseline your DORA metrics, map your delivery workflow and find the bottlenecks costing you the most engineering hours.
Target platform architecture, tooling decisions and a phased roadmap reviewed with your team — with the trade-offs written down.
Pipelines, IaC modules, cluster configuration and observability shipped in two-week increments — always leaving you with something working.
Platform support, SLO monitoring and continuous improvement — or a structured handover with runbooks and internal training.
Every engagement produces working code, documented decisions and dashboards — not a strategy deck that gathers dust.
Where you are today on all four metrics, with the specific bottlenecks behind each number.
Diagrams, tooling decisions and the reasoning behind each trade-off you're accepting.
Pipeline definitions your teams can adopt in a day, with caching and parallelism built in.
Versioned, tested modules with policy guardrails and drift detection wired in.
Instrumentation, dashboards and alerts deployed and tuned to your actual SLOs.
Documented operations plus live sessions so your team owns the platform confidently.
We have preferred tools because we've run them at scale — but we'll meet you where your team already is.
A retail platform running on hand-configured EC2 instances needed to move to Kubernetes and CI/CD — while shipping features every sprint.
Platform Modernisation“We didn't stop the roadmap for a single sprint. The Murcury Labs built the platform underneath us while we kept shipping — and six months later we deploy 40 times a day without thinking about it.”
Priya Raghunathan · Director of Platform, Meridian
No. A meaningful share of our work is helping teams decide whether Kubernetes is the right answer at all — and often it isn't. If your workload fits a simpler model, we'll tell you and design that instead. Kubernetes is a tool, not a goal.
Embedded, not adjacent. We join your standups, commit to your repos and review code with your engineers. The goal is always capability transfer — by the end of an engagement your team should be able to run and extend everything we built without us.
In almost all cases, yes. We use strangler-fig patterns, dual-write strategies and traffic shifting to move workloads incrementally. High-risk cutovers are rehearsed in staging with rollback plans tested before anything touches production.
A baseline of your four DORA metrics, a review of your pipeline and infrastructure configuration, and a written report identifying your top bottlenecks ranked by engineering hours lost. It takes about a week and requires read-only access to your repos and cloud accounts.
Audits and fixed-scope platform builds are fixed-fee, quoted after the audit. Ongoing platform support and SRE retainers are monthly, scaled to the size of the estate you're running. You'll get a written scope and price before any work begins.
Book a free delivery audit. We'll baseline your DORA metrics, map your workflow and hand you a prioritised list of bottlenecks — no obligation, no sales theatre.
The Murcury Labs