Approach
Measure first, change second, write it down.
Hourly, transparent, no packages
We bill hourly time and materials — senior US engineers, as project engagements or staff augmentation. Scope, staffing, and timeline are agreed through an initial conversation and revisited openly as work proceeds. No fixed-price packages, no milestone games, no published rate card standing in for a real scoping discussion.
Senior engineers, not a bench
The person you talk to in the first call is the kind of person who does the work. We don't sell a partner and staff a rotation of juniors; Cassandra work rewards pattern recognition that only comes from having operated real clusters through real incidents.
Measure before changing
Cassandra offers a hundred knobs and most of them are the wrong one to turn. We start from evidence — partition-size histograms, tombstone counts, compaction backlogs, repair ages, driver metrics — and change the thing the data implicates. Every recommendation in a review names its evidence.
Runbooks over heroics
Upgrades and migrations get written plans with rollback points at every phase, agreed before the first node moves. Incidents get write-ups. The goal is that your team can run the next one without us — retention through competence, not dependency.
Honest about fit
Cassandra is a superb store for high-write, always-on, known-query workloads. It is the wrong tool for ad-hoc analytics, relational joins, and small datasets that just wanted Postgres. If your problem is one of those, we'll say so in the first conversation — it costs us an engagement and saves you a year.
Your stack, your repos, your keys
We work in your repositories, your monitoring, and your cloud accounts, under your access controls. Reviews run read-only. Anything we build is documented and handed over — there is no proprietary tooling wedge to keep you attached.