Fewer outages, shorter nights, clearer systems.
Sslip Systems helps small companies run their own infrastructure with confidence: reviewing what exists, fixing what is fragile, and leaving behind systems the team can operate on its own.
- Practice
- Sslip Systems
- Established
- 2021
- Scope
- Infrastructure and reliability
- Blog
- 6 published
- Revised
What we do
- Cost review
- A line-by-line reading of the cloud bill against what the system actually needs, with changes ordered by savings and risk.
- Incident support
- Help during an outage, and the slower work after it: a blameless write-up, the follow-up tasks, and the runbook that was missing.
- Observability
- Metrics, logs and alerts sized to the team. Fewer pages, each with an owner and an obvious first step, and dashboards that answer the questions people actually ask.
- Migrations
- Moving between providers, or from hand-built servers to reproducible configuration, in small reversible steps with a rehearsed way back at every stage.
- Delivery pipelines
- Builds that finish in minutes, deploys that can be rolled back, and a release process the whole team understands rather than one person remembers.
From the blog
Schema changes without a maintenance window
The expand and contract pattern, and the handful of operations that lock a busy table when you least expect it.
Connection pooling for PostgreSQL, without the folklore
Why more connections rarely mean more throughput, and how to size a pool from the numbers your database already gives you.
Pin your dependencies, then build the habit of updating them
Lockfiles make builds reproducible. A small weekly routine keeps them from turning into a two-year upgrade project.