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Vantas Cloud is a Cloud consultancy based in Bristol that aims to get your business to a zero-ops state.
Zero-Ops/NoOps (no manual operations) is the philosophy to get your IT environment so automated and abstracted from the underlying infrastructure that you can reliably assert these mechanisms can be entrusted to deliver your software and significantly reduce the time your in-house teams spend managing how your software is delivered to your customers and users.
Two main drivers behind Zero-Ops are adopting automation and cloud computing. Zero-Ops allows you to better focus your team's resources on quality of delivery through automation to increase time efficiency and reduce business overhead.
Our appraoch is to break down the key deliverables.
At Vantas Cloud we can help you evolve yours ideas into an achievable development strategy for delivering a Minimum-Viable-Product (MVP), the architecture and technology stack for running your idea operationally, how the application and technology stack will to scale with your business demands and how the application and technology stack will satisfy your business needs.
We have over 10 years experience working with start-ups in proof-of-concept to Go-Live MVP phases and MVP to a Commercially-viable-Product (CVP). We also help start-ups meet KPIs of stakeholders and pre-seed angle investors as well as help identify areas of R&D to document for potential tax relief.
We are experienced in a wealth of technologies and believe in delivering the right technology solution that delivers your business needs.
At Vantas, we can support your existing development projects, take on complex development beyond your in-house skillset, troubleshoot code, and advise you how best to approach your design and development practices going forward.
We can also help you upskill your developers and identify ways to retain good developers so that you can continue to deliver your business needs.
We can help you refactor areas of your tightly-coupled and monolithic application architecture to an Event-Driven microservice architecture to decouple your dependencies and give your application workflow separation of concerns as an initial building block to making your application scale, without radically compromising on your business delivery needs.
We can assist you with understanding the benefits of Event-Driven architecture and messaging mechanisms that suits your needs, whether you’re looking for simple message queueing, topic subscription (pub/sub) or realtime message streaming through asynchronous messaging HTTP/RPC.
We can also assist you with API standardisation, automate documentation and consumable API clients to keep your API consumers loosely coupled to your API.
We can help you implement an orchestration architecture that allows you to scale and distribute units of work out of process to improve efficiency and reduce resource costs.
Applying orchestration logic with distributed process logic allows you to take advantage of parallel processing across your compute resource as you scale.
We can help you understand what it means to go Serverless, how to approach and embrace Serverless development philosophy and how Serverless allows you to focus on your application and business logic without needing to worry about how the infrastructure behind your application scales
We can help you automate your application and project development by embracing full CI/CD workflow with infrastructure provisioning, shortening the time-to-market of your development roadmap.
As you build out more abstracted services onto microservices architecture, infrastructure resource becomes harder to manage across all your deployed environments. This is where CI/CD and DevOps really comes into its own, allowing you to define the Cloud environment that your application runs in, as configuration, and then orchestrating that environment as part of the deployment process.
This is particularly helpful when deploying updates to applications that are already running at scale.
We can help you implement identity management covering all the standard practices, Single Sign On (SSO) and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) via enterprise Identity services (Active Directory/Azure AD), Commercial Identity services (OpenIdC) or an authentication solution built into your application.
These authentication mechanisms mean you don't have to think about storing credentials in your application stack freeing you to focus on authorisation logic once users have authenticated. The information from your authorisation logic can then be passed down your application stack wherever Identity state is needed.
We can help you identify where your application and infrastructure is weak on security and mitigate associated risk.
We can help you understand the benefits of threat modeling, and incorporating it into your CI/CD process allowing you to define policies which reduces risk of vulnerabilities being introduced before your application deploys.
Standard penetration testing generally focuses on a generic suite of known vulnerabilities across your application environment and these are valuable and informative. But where it doesn't necessarily give you insight on, is what information your application leaks as users interact with it, that may even violate GDPR, OWASP, ISO3100 accreditation and data protection or even information that is commercially sensitive.
Threat modeling allows you to build acceptance testing into your CI/CD process and only deploy when your threat model is satisfied.
We can help you identify areas of your application architecture that can benefit from abstracted cloud stage. From blob storage, key value table storage, NoSql, Cold-to-Cache state, geographically distributed storage, or even custom abstracted datalayers, we can help you build the right solution for each of your needs.
We can help you simplify logging methodologies across your application and infrastructure stack so that event logs can be easily collated end-to-end. We can also help you understand the benefits of visualising these event logs, particularly to indicate events that are business critical.
A big part of Zero-Ops is being able to quickly Identify events that are issues requiring human intervention as or close to when they happen and know where to find automated solutions for these issues if and when they occur in the future.
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