2024 - Year in review

Who We Are

We’re cloud-native specialists based in Zwolle, delivering advanced Kubernetes and cloud architecture solutions. Our expertise lies in building and managing cloud-native infrastructure (mainly based on Kubernetes), with a particular focus on complex, technology-intensive projects.

Our 2024 Milestones

This year marked significant growth and evolution for our team. Key highlights include:

1. Rick joined the team as our new DevOps Engineer in june
2. Relocated (twice) to our new office in central Zwolle to accommodate our growing team
3. Onboarded new clients and expanded our managed Kubernetes service

Infrastructure and Operations

We currently manage 10+ Kubernetes clusters across various cloud providers including Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Our infrastructure handles millions of requests monthly, maintaining high availability with only one notable incident ¹.

Technical Achievements

• Enhanced our monitoring capabilities using Grafana Alloy and Incident.io
• Successfully adopted IaC (Infrastructure as Code) for all existing and new projects
• Adoption of Bazel for our build system, dramatically improving build times and developer experience

Open-Source

This year, we contributed to 10+ open-source projects on Github although our contributions were quite limited. We’re going to release more open-source projects related to BrainPod in the upcoming year.

Looking Ahead to 2025

Our vision for 2025 focuses on two primary objectives:

1. Scaling Operations: We’re expanding our managed Kubernetes service to accommodate new clients while maintaining our high standards of service quality.
2. Product Release: We’re continuing development of our cloud platform BrainPod, with exciting new features and an alpha release.

Footnotes

1. We successfully mitigated a targeted DDoS attack with minimal service impact, implementing enhanced security measures as a result ↩