Services

Focused database work with a defined result

Every engagement starts from one agreed question and ends with a written result your team can act on, or with the agreed build handed over to your team. A performance diagnostic is the usual starting point.

Choose by the decision you need to make

Main offer

MySQL & Aurora Performance Diagnostic

A focused investigation of your database problem. Written findings, prioritised next steps, and a technical handover to your team.

One environment and one principal question, with the scope, fee, and schedule agreed before work begins. Fixed fee, agreed after a short scope review.

MySQL · MariaDB · Aurora MySQL

MySQL & Aurora Performance Diagnostic

Investigate a defined MySQL, MariaDB, or Aurora MySQL performance question within an agreed, fixed scope.

Output

  • Findings with their supporting evidence
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • A plan for validating changes
  • Technical handover to your team

Architecture and design

Design, review and build work for MySQL, MariaDB, Aurora MySQL and ClickHouse: topology, failure handling and growth, planned with your team.

See architecture services

Supporting services

For the MySQL family (MySQL, MariaDB and Aurora MySQL).

Availability & Recovery Review

Review an agreed database availability or recovery question and get the assumptions, risks, and validation steps in writing.

Output

  • Risks and assumptions, written down
  • Recovery considerations
  • Validation recommendations

Team Workshops

Build your team's skills around an agreed database topic and the platform you actually run.

Output

  • A session tailored to your team
  • Practical material
  • Agreed learning outcomes

Working on a client project?

Agencies and consultancies can bring in a diagnostic for a client while keeping the client relationship and the implementation work.

Working with agencies

What these services are not

  • Not managed services, on-call cover or emergency response.
  • Not open-ended troubleshooting or general DevOps ownership.
  • Not a guarantee of a particular improvement or outcome.

Have a database question worth investigating?

Describe the system, the problem, and what you need to find out. We can then establish whether a focused engagement is the right next step.