Service · Engineering

Make releasing software a routine, low-risk event.

We build the CI/CD pipeline and day-2 operations that let your team ship often and sleep at night — on AWS, Azure, or GCP, in your own accounts, assigned to you.

Fixed scope One accountable lead Steady state in 4–8 weeks

Commit to production, one defined path

COMMIT
BUILD TEST STAGE CANARY
PRODUCTION
AUTO-ROLLBACK ON DEGRADE ~5% FAIL RATE

The real problem

Why shipping a release is still the scariest thing your team does.

Because the path from commit to production runs on manual steps, tribal knowledge, and hope. Releases get batched into big, dreaded events — so they happen rarely, which makes each one bigger and riskier still. And when something breaks at 2 a.m., nobody can tell what changed or how to roll it back.

This isn't a tooling problem you fix by buying a CI server. It's the engineering discipline that closes the gap between shipping daily without drama and fearing every deploy.

127×

Shorter change lead time for elite performers, with a change-failure rate of about 5% versus 64%.

DORA / Google Cloud, 2024 ↗

$300K+

The cost of a single hour of downtime for over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises.

ITIC, 2024 ↗

Where it does the work

Where DevOps does the work — and what each piece delivers.

A set of capabilities, each removing a specific source of release risk or operational toil.

01

CI/CD pipeline automation

Builds, tests, and packages every commit, then promotes it through staging to production along one defined path.

Releases get smaller, more frequent, and far less risky.

02

Progressive delivery & safe rollback

Ships a change to a slice of traffic first — canary or blue-green — and rolls back automatically if metrics degrade.

A bad release affects 1% of users for 90 seconds instead of everyone for an hour.

03

Infrastructure-as-code for environments

Defines build, staging, and production environments in version-controlled code so they're identical and reproducible.

Environment drift and "it passed in staging" failures disappear.

04

Observability & monitoring

Instruments the system with metrics, logs, and traces, and wires alerts to the signals that predict user pain.

Problems surface as an alert, not a customer complaint.

05

Incident response & reliability (SRE)

Sets up on-call, runbooks, error budgets, and post-incident review so failures are handled fast and don't recur.

Recovery goes from a frantic scramble to a rehearsed procedure.

06

Managed DevOps & day-2 operations

Runs the pipeline and platform after launch — patching, scaling, capacity, backups — as an ongoing operation.

The platform stays healthy and fast without a fire drill.

Every deploy Routine

Faster and safer — not a trade. Elite teams run a ~5% change-failure rate while shipping 127× faster. Frequent, small, reversible releases are safer than rare, big, manual ones — that's the discipline, not the CI server.

As of June 2026 · revisit quarterly

What DevOps does to those processes — the measured impact.

Independent industry findings — third-party evidence, not Silicon Prime's own client results.

127×

Throughput and stability together. Elite performers ship with a change lead time ~127× shorter than low performers and a ~5% change-failure rate versus 64%.

DORA / Google Cloud, 2024 ↗

50–75%

Faster time to market. McKinsey reports DevOps adoption delivers a 25–30% capacity increase, a 50–75% reduction in time to market, and a >50% drop in failure rates.

McKinsey, DevOps & IT agility ↗

$300K+

The cost of the doom loop. ITIC's 2024 survey of 1,000+ firms found a single hour of downtime now exceeds $300,000 for over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises.

ITIC, 2024 ↗

What's included

What our DevOps services cover.

The pipeline that carries code to production — it runs on the cloud foundation we build and pairs with the security controls we embed.

01

Delivery assessment & pipeline design

We map how code moves to production today and design the pipeline that fits your stack and cadence — run as a readiness assessment scoped to delivery.

02

CI/CD pipeline engineering

We build the automated build–test–release pipeline — quality gates, artifact management, progressive delivery — on your existing CI/CD platform.

03

Infrastructure-as-code & environment automation

We define your environments in version-controlled IaC so build, staging, and production are identical — and a new environment is a pipeline run, not a manual rebuild.

04

Containers, Kubernetes & release orchestration

Where it fits, we containerize workloads and run them on Kubernetes with sane defaults — autoscaling, rolling and canary deployments, health checks.

05

Observability, monitoring & incident response

We instrument metrics, logs, and traces, wire alerting to the signals that predict user pain, and set up on-call, runbooks, and post-incident review — with human-in-the-loop judgment where a call needs one.

06

Managed DevOps & enablement

We run the pipeline as an ongoing day-2 operation — or train your team to: dashboards, deploys, rollbacks, environment recovery from code — so you own the capability, not a black box.

What you get — all assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP

An automated CI/CD pipeline in your own stack
The complete infrastructure-as-code repository
Progressive-delivery and rollback wired in
Observability dashboards and an alerting setup
On-call runbooks and a post-incident process
A trained team under full work-for-hire IP

How it runs

How a DevOps services engagement runs.

The same model behind all our engineering work — one accountable lead, fixed scope, no handoffs.

STEP 01

Assess

Map how code reaches production today and baseline the four delivery metrics.

Output: a target pipeline & the metrics

STEP 02

Automate

Build the CI/CD pipeline with quality gates and progressive delivery, and codify your environments as IaC.

Output: a working automated path from commit to production

STEP 03

Stabilize

Add observability, alerting, and a rehearsed rollback, then prove it under real conditions.

Output: early problem detection & a recovery procedure that works

STEP 04

Operate & enable

Run it in production — or train your team to — with the four metrics reported weekly.

Output: a reliable delivery operation & a team that owns it

Track record

The release cadence we've actually sustained in production.

A Stanford-rooted Responsible AI lab, founded 2011, run by founder Kelvin Tran — 20+ years of production engineering. We'll tell you plainly when your release problem is three fixes, not a year-long rebuild.

Sustained delivery · 200+ locations · 4+ years

BJ's Restaurants — a 200+ location chain whose operations are software-critical. When we started, releases went out roughly every two weeks — the doom loop. By restructuring how work flows through their pipeline, cadence moved to twice a week with zero critical defects sustained across 4+ years — and maintenance cost went down, not up.

Why build your DevOps practice with us.

You end up with a delivery capability your own team operates, not a pipeline you depend on us to touch.

01

Proven release cadence, not a promise. A multi-year record of taking a non-tech enterprise from every-two-weeks to twice-a-week releases with zero critical defects.

02

Faster and safer, by design. Progressive delivery, quality gates, and rehearsed rollback give you both throughput and stability, not a trade.

03

Tool- and cloud-neutral. We build on your existing CI/CD platform across AWS, Azure, or GCP, never a tool we resell.

04

Founder-led, built to transfer. No account managers — the pipeline, IaC, runbooks, and trained team are assigned to you.

Where it earns its keep first

Where reliable delivery earns its keep first.

Questions buyers ask before they build.

DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE — which do we need?+
Three distinct jobs, and we'll scope which one your problem calls for. DevOps is delivery velocity and operations — the CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and the day-2 practices that let you ship fast and reliably. DevSecOps is the security evolution of that pipeline — scanning and policy gates in the same flow. SRE is the reliability discipline — error budgets, on-call, incident response — that we fold into the operate phase here.
Will faster releases make us less stable?+
The opposite, when it's engineered right — and that's the most important thing the data shows. In the 2024 State of DevOps research, elite performers ship far more often than low performers and run a change-failure rate of about 5% versus up to 60%, recovering in under an hour. Frequent, small, reversible releases are safer than rare, big, manual ones: each change is tiny, the path is automated and identical, and a bad one rolls back on its own.
How do we choose the right DevOps services partner?+
Weigh proven delivery outcomes over long tool lists, insist the partner builds in your own cloud and CI/CD platform instead of reselling one, and confirm who is actually accountable and how IP transfers. Gartner projected 90% of DevOps initiatives would fail to fully meet expectations — from management and culture, not technology (Gartner, through 2023). Most failures trace to how work flows and who owns the outcome, not the tooling — so favor a founder-led team that puts one accountable lead on your engagement, works inside your own cloud tenant under an NDA and security review, and transfers the pipeline, IaC, and runbooks to your team, so you own the capability rather than a black box.
How do you measure whether DevOps is paying off?+
The four DORA metrics, baselined at the start and reported weekly: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change-failure rate, and time to restore service. We agree the targets at kickoff, and payment is tied to the ROI they represent — faster, safer, more frequent releases — not to billable hours. You watch the trend lines every week, so the value is a number, not a claim you take on faith.
Do you do day-2 operations, or just set up the pipeline and leave?+
Both are on the table; the choice is yours. We can run the pipeline as an ongoing managed DevOps operation, or build it and train your team to operate it — dashboards, deploys, rollbacks, environment recovery from code. The engagement is built around the handover either way: keep us on a reduced retainer, or take the keys. There's no black-box pipeline only we can touch.
How do you handle security in the pipeline?+
At the delivery layer we build the pipeline with sane access controls, scoped credentials, and an NDA and security review at the start of every engagement. Embedding active security testing — SAST, dependency and secrets scanning, DAST, signed-artifact policy gates — is its own discipline, which we cover under DevSecOps services. If shipping fast without shipping vulnerabilities is the real goal, we scope both together.
Who owns the pipeline when you're done?+
IP ownership is defined in each engagement's contract; our standard arrangement assigns what we build to you. The CI/CD pipeline, the infrastructure-as-code for your environments, the runbooks, dashboards, and incident process transfer under terms agreed at kickoff, and your team is trained to operate and extend them. There's no proprietary tooling locked to us — just your own platform, automated on the stack you already run.
What does it cost and how long does it take?+
Most DevOps engagements reach steady state in 4–8 weeks under a fixed-scope arrangement with one accountable lead, and payment is tied to the delivery outcomes we agreed to. Build cost depends on the state of your pipeline and the size of your estate — our development cost guide covers how we scope and price — and we weigh it against a documented downside: a single hour of downtime now exceeds $300,000 for most large firms (ITIC, 2024).

Thirty minutes · no pitch deck

Ready to make every deploy a non-event?

Bring your release process and the deploys that scare you — we'll baseline the four delivery metrics, tell you honestly what to fix first, and build the pipeline that makes shipping routine.