Microservices

Nulladmin

Custom Backend and Infrastructure Development

An awsome subscription service for backend and infrastructure development and consulting. Yes, we can create AI Agents too.

How It Works

Specify

Specify backend services, API, and infrastructure you need. Or we can consult with you to design it from the ground up.

Subscribe

Subscribe to a plan. Pause or cancel your subscription any time. Fixed monthly cost, industry standard deliverables, minimal hassle.

Deliver

We work on your project, until you are 100% satisfied. Project specs, progress, and deliverables managed and tracked in GitHub.

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Microservices

Standard Deliverable

Our standard deliverables are Dockerized services specified by OpenAPI, written in Go or Python, with a REST/JSON API. Backed by PostgresDB, AI models, or other third party integrations. Example 1 Example 2

Need to customize? No problem. Switch to gRPC API. add Clickhouse, store on S3, log to Sentry, deploy on Heroku - you tell us.

Suitable for deployment on Kubernetes, Docker Compose or standalone.

Comes complete with the usual DevOps goodies: authentication, structured logging, metrics, OpenTelemetry, health checks, standard YAML/ENV configuration, etc.

And of course your custom business logic.

Benefits

Flexible and Scalable

Pause or cancel your subscription at any time.

Fixed Monthly Rate

No surprises. Pay the same fixed price monthly. Effectively you're getting a fractional developer.

Efficient Engagement

Eliminate timesink of contract and rate haggling with random agencies. Get right to defining your requirements.

Top Quality Work

High quality code built on top of software components battle tested by household names in technology.

Modern Standards

Deliverables designed to work in modern containerized deployments. Logging, metrics, tracing, configuration, health checks, resource limits - it's all there.

Custom Made For You

The source code and all deliverables are all 100% yours to do with as you like.

Subscription Plans

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STANDARD

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What's included:

  • Pause or cancel anytime
  • Project managed via GitHub
  • Source code and Docker build instructions
  • OpenAPI documentation
  • Code maintenance during subscription only

PRO

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What's included:

  • Pause or cancel anytime
  • Project managed on GitHub
  • Source code and Docker build instructions
  • OpenAPI documentation
  • One year of code maintenance
  • Custom contract terms (e.g. NDA)
  • Up to 2 remote meeting per month (if needed)
  • Written project status upon request
  • More customization options on deliverables
  • Basic test harness
  • Client code examples

FAQ

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 services 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 coding. Do you need a fractional manager or CTO perhaps?

Our typical deliverables are Dockerized back end services written in Go or Python, with a REST/JSON API and backed by PostgresDB or these days often an AI model.

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

The services come complete with the usual DevOps goodies: authentication, structured logging, metrics, OpenTracing, 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 servers, such as a gRPC API instead of REST/JSON, switching to a different database, or a different architecture (e.g. ARM). 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?

At this time none of our code is AI generated.

For the 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.

Having said that, the field of AI coding is moving very fast, and we are experimenting with AI tooling to speed up development.

In our opinion at this time expert human oversight is still needed to effectively review and use AI generated code without undue business risk. We are proceeding with great caution, paying close attention to quality, customer needs, and legal issues.

That really depends on how well specified your backend service 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. Especially if you alreadey have an OpenAPI spec ready to go.

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! While you are subscribed 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.