Secure, scalable services on Microsoft Azure: orchestrated with .NET Aspire and Azure Container Apps so your platform is runnable, monitorable, and ready to grow without secrets and connection strings scattered in config.
We favour identity-first defaults, right-sized hosting, and local-to-cloud parity so product engineers can ship without a permanent platform babysitter: whether you are greenfield or recovering a system that never had a production home.
Founder-led senior delivery. Fixed scope. Ownership left with your team.
Azure provides every building block: and enough options to create fragile delivery. Without deliberate boundaries, identity, messaging, and monitoring, teams end up with secrets in configuration files, one-off environments nobody can rebuild, and services that only the original author can deploy. Cloud-native delivery means the platform enforces good defaults so product work stays product work.
The consequences show up as stalled releases, surprise bills, and security debt: connection strings in source control, environments that diverge from production, and outages that take hours to diagnose because nothing is instrumented end to end. Product velocity suffers because every change is a platform risk. We put a coherent, identity-first shape around the services you actually run so the cloud stops being the bottleneck.
Foundations in your systems, not a report you cannot act on.
Local and cloud parity for multi-service systems: dependencies, configuration, and health wired consistently from laptop to Azure. A new engineer runs the whole system on day one, and what works on the laptop is what deploys, so environment drift stops being a source of production surprises.
Right-sized, scalable hosting without paying a full Kubernetes operational tax when you do not need it. You get autoscaling, revisions, and managed ingress without a platform team babysitting a cluster, so hosting cost and cognitive load both stay proportionate to the product.
Managed identity, Key Vault, and RBAC over connection-string sprawl, so credentials do not live in source control. Services authenticate as themselves through Azure, so a leaked config file is no longer a breach and rotating a secret is a setting change, not a redeploy.
Service Bus, storage, and data access patterns that match real workload shapes rather than demo topologies. Queues, retries, and data access are sized for how the system actually behaves under load, so throughput and cost hold when traffic is real rather than a walkthrough.
Fixed-scope technical work. Senior engineers in the repository and pipeline with your team.
We design and ship the platform slice you need, not a generic cloud checklist. Recovery and greenfield both benefit: the same Aspire and Container Apps patterns we use when realigning AI-built systems that never had a production home. Scope is bounded to the services and paths that unblock delivery first.
In the first week we map the current estate, secret and identity posture, and deploy path, then agree the minimum viable platform shape. Work lands in infrastructure-as-code and application wiring you own, with pairing so your team can operate and extend the footprint after the engagement ends.
Share the current state of your cloud estate and what needs to change. We will reply with a direct technical read: free, no obligation.
Or email info@mayordomo.co.uk with a short outline.