Assess
Discovery, current-state mapping, and strategy.
- Discovery workshops with stakeholders
- Current-state architecture mapping
- Capability and gap analysis
- Target-state options
Australian cloud and infrastructure consulting. Best-fit solutions, cloud migration, AI readiness. Embedded with your team.
Migrated off AKS to Azure Container Apps. Zero downtime, 100% IaC.
Reduction in infrastructure overhead
Scalene Solutions migration
Faster deployment of new microservices
Scalene Solutions migration
Infrastructure as code with Bicep
Scalene Solutions migration
Public endpoints exposed to the internet
Scalene Solutions migration
Every engagement runs the same four phases. Where you join us depends on what's already done. Where we hand back depends on what you need. Each phase is scoped per engagement.
Discovery, current-state mapping, and strategy.
Future-state design and the business case.
Implementation, integration, and release.
Handover, advisory, and continuous improvement.
Always experimenting. We run internal labs alongside client work, on agentic systems, AI patterns, and emerging cloud architectures. What we learn there shapes how we assess and architect for clients.
From strategy through production. We architect, build, automate, and hand you the keys.
Azure landing zones, AWS, GCP. Lift-and-shift or re-architect. We plan the move, execute it, and make sure it works in production.
Identity-first security with Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, network segmentation, and WAF. Compliance-ready from day one.
Azure AI Foundry, M365 Copilot readiness, and responsible AI strategy. We are building hands-on experience to bring these to your team.
Hub-spoke topologies, private endpoints, DNS, ExpressRoute, and SD-WAN. Designed for security and performance at scale.
Bicep, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps. Every resource defined in code, every deployment repeatable and auditable.
Azure cost management, right-sizing, reserved instances, and tagging strategies. Know what you spend and why.
We automate everything. Azure resources with Bicep, workflows with Python, and frontends with modern frameworks.
// Azure Container Apps with Application Gateway
@description('Container App configuration array')
param containerApps array
resource appGateway 'Microsoft.Network/applicationGateways@2023-11-01' = {
name: 'appgw-mialdo-prod'
location: resourceGroup().location
properties: {
backendAddressPools: [for app in containerApps: {
name: '${app.name}-pool'
properties: {
backendAddresses: [{ fqdn: app.fqdn }]
}
}]
httpListeners: [for app in containerApps: {
name: '${app.name}-listener'
properties: {
frontendIPConfiguration: { id: frontendIpId }
frontendPort: { id: httpsPortId }
protocol: 'Https'
sslCertificate: { id: resourceId('...', app.certName) }
hostName: app.fqdn
}
}]
}
}
How we deliver, drawn from our work with Scalene Solutions.
Full audit of Scalene Solutions' Azure environment. Identified gaps in security, reliability, and cost management. Delivered a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Replaced public-facing AKS ingress with Application Gateway and WAF. Centralised SSL, enabled host-based routing, and removed all public endpoints.
Migrated dozens of microservices from self-managed Kubernetes to serverless Container Apps. Reduced infrastructure overhead by 70% and tripled deployment speed.
Built reusable Bicep modules that provision Application Gateway listeners, backends, probes, and routing rules from a parameter array. New services deploy in minutes.
We are actively exploring how AI and modern data platforms can transform enterprise and government, and we are building hands-on experience to bring these to clients.
Building, evaluating, and deploying AI models on Azure. Prompt engineering, RAG patterns, and responsible AI guardrails.
Copilot readiness assessments, governance, and adoption strategy for enterprise Microsoft 365 environments.
Connecting systems with Azure Logic Apps, API Management, and event-driven architecture. Making data flow where it needs to go.
Modern data platforms for government and enterprise. Microsoft Fabric, medallion architecture, and analytics at scale.
Technical deep dives on cloud, containers, and infrastructure as code.
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