Good question! For starters, the annual cost of a full-time senior-level developer now exceeds $200,000, plus benefits (and good luck finding a well qualified one available). Also hiring and onboarding qualified developers takes time. In the mean time you may need infrastructure done ASAP to take advantage of a new market opportunity.

In addition you may also want to have your full-time developers focused on your core technology and have us work on the neccessary but less complex parts of your stack. Finally, you may not always have enough work to keep your developers busy at all times, so you're stuck paying for time you aren't able to utilize.

With our plans, in effect you're hiring a fractional developer for a predictable monthly rate.

With the monthly plan, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need to ensure you're only paying for your development resources when you have work available.

You can add as many microservices to your work queue as you like, and they will be delivered one by one. It's a FIFO queue.

Yes. We can consult on infrastructure and technology, and are open to custom development work beyond just microservices.

Our standard deliverable is a Dockerized microservice written in Go, with a REST/JSON API and backed by PostgresDB or MySQL.

It can be deployed on Kubernetes, Docker Compose, or as a standalone binary on either x86 or ARM architectures.

It comes complete with the usual DevOps goodies: authentication, structured logging, metrics, error handling, health checks, standard YAML/ENV configuration, etc. And of course your custom business logic.

We can do some limited customization to our standard server, such as a gRPC API instead of REST/JSON, switching to a different database, or a different architecture (e.g. RISC-V). More extensive customization can be requested on the PRO Plan.

In summary you start it up, send it API calls and it does that thing it does quickly and reliably. That's basically what you need, right?

No, none of our code is AI generated.

For the microservice scaffolding we use bog-standard, battle tested open source libraries used by major Enterprise companies. Your custom business logic is lovingly hand crafted and quality tested to your exact specifications by highly experienced humans.

At the moment pure AI code generation is still not entirely reliable. It's not something you want to stake your production code on, certainly not without human oversight. If we do adopt AI codegen at some point it will be with great caution, paying attention to quality, customer needs, and legal risk.

That really depends on how well specified your microservice is. If you know the limited number of API calls you need and have well specified back end logic, we can turn around an implementation reasonably quickly.

If you have many API calls and very complex back end logic it will obviously take longer. Software development time estimation is an unsolved problem in Computer Science - or possibly Cosmology, we're not sure.

Yes. You will get a detailed API spec describing the syntax, API argument type validation, command line usage, and all configuration options.

In addition you will get a list of all dependencies and any special infrastructure requirements.

On the PRO subscription plan we provide security updates, bug fixes, and dependency updates for one year even if you pause your subscription. Custom longer term maintenance and support plan can be made available, just ask.

On the STANDARD plan we provide security updates, bug fixes, and dependency updates while your subscription is active.

The code is owned by you and can be licensed how you like.

Please note that portions of the code you receive will be open source licensed typically by inclusion of widely used and well known libraries either under the MIT, Apache or similar permissive license.

Custom licensing terms can be negotiated on the Pro Plan.

While we specialize in very standardized, almost off-the-shelf software, we are open to more complex engagements.

As they say, contact us to discuss your needs.

Project design documents, specific tasks, change requests, and technical details are managed via GitHub issues in a private shared repository.

In an ideal scenario you already have a design spec for what you need, complete with an accompanying API spec. If not we can work with you to produce one and take it from there.

No worries! We'll keep revising the implementation until you're 100% satisfied.

Due to the very specialized and high quality nature of the work there will be no refunds issued.