Software boutique · Zürich, est. 2007
Since 2007, companies bring us the projects that are too hard, too critical, or too new for a normal agency.
Tell us what you’re up againstStill in production
What we do
Product thinking, architecture, implementation, production. One team from the first sketch to the thing your customers use. Our engineers think like product managers, which is hard to hire for and the reason the rest of this holds together.
We write software the ordinary way, and we build AI workflows and agents where they do real work rather than demos. Both are engineering: version control, tests, review, and something running at the end of it.
Kubernetes, containers and infrastructure as code. What we build runs on Azure, on AWS, or on one virtual machine, because we do not wire your product into a single provider. That portability is why there is something for you to open in the first days.
Self-healing, monitoring and alerting go in from the start, not after the first bad night. Operating our own systems taught us where a team loses its week, so we automate it: build pipelines, deployments, the boring parts.
A team that only knows one answer will give you that answer. We have shipped in .NET, in Go, in TypeScript, and in whatever else the work asked for.
Much of DevCloud is proven products, wired together and configured so they behave as one thing and a developer never has to think about them. Knowing what not to build is most of the work.
Track record
Where we go deep Streaming Platform FinOps Connected products Consumer scale AI
Downtime Uptime monitoring where several networks vote. A service is down when the probes agree it is, not when one of them says so.
Vibe Coder AI coding agents as Kubernetes workloads, with an LLM gateway and a media stack behind them. Internal, in preprod.
Kubesight A Kubernetes dashboard for engineers who ship. Fast, visual, no bullshit.
Emporium An experiment in a self-hosted app store for Kubernetes. We stopped it. The registry it produced still runs.
Artifacts Docker, Helm, npm, Maven and NuGet, every protocol written by us. Hundreds of builds a day run through it inside DevCloud.
DevCloud An environment took weeks and now takes hours, for 2,000+ daily users and 40 vendors, with what they spend visible per project.
Microsoft wrote a case study about it (opens in a new tab) Julius Baer’s own engineers wrote about it (opens in a new tab) Julius Baer on the platform behind its agile transformation (opens in a new tab)
Mammut Connect NFC and QR give every jacket and rope an identity, a history and a line back to the customer.
Cloud-native for the federal government Cloud-native engineering inside the federal administration, and the training to run it without us.
Swisscom myCloud Consumer cloud storage for a nation. Sync, share, privacy, hosted in Switzerland.
Monostream Flux Hundreds of channels recorded in parallel on commodity hardware, and upgrades that never interrupt a stream.
Swisscom TV 2.0 Middleware and architecture for a national TV platform. Over a million households, no tolerance for downtime.
Swisscom TV Air Live TV, sport and video on demand on the iPhone and in the browser, among the first anywhere.
Vismolog Worldwide monitoring of industrial climate installations, years before anyone called it IoT.
How we work
A Swiss private bank wanted DevCloud operated for them, so we have run it since 2018. Swisscom wanted its own people on the controls, so we ran TV Air and myCloud at the start and then handed them over, with a transition long enough for their engineers to learn the system. Day two is part of the work either way.
Architects, backend and frontend engineers, UX, and the people who keep production up. Two decades of shipped systems stand behind every decision, and the critical parts of your project are never someone’s first attempt.
Our success is the thing that ships. We are not a staffing agency with a website.
From the first days of a project there is a running version of your software that you can open at any time. You watch progress happen instead of reading status reports: no hidden surprises, and feedback flows while it is still cheap to act on.
The manifesto, not the ceremony. No SAFe theater.
We take on a handful of projects at a time, and we finish every one.
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