Hokstad Consulting Ltd

Development, DevOps, Advice, Architecture - More than 20 years of development and operations excellence at your service Developing for a connected world is nothing like developing standalone applications. We learned that for the first time 20 years ago. Understanding the differences is important. In our experience many developers lacks experience of what it truly means to develop distributed, scalable, reliable platforms. Developers still often develop on a single machine, with a single-machine mindset, and see high availability scalability and reliability as an operational concern. Then they have to deploy, and face the operational realities of dealing with hardware failures (even in the cloud!), software failures, network failures, and - if they are lucky - scalability. Costs skyrocket, or high risk sacrifices are made because sorting out these issues after the fact is far harder to designing for it from the outset.