The Zero 3AM Guarantee
Your backend hits the agreed latency and throughput targets — or we keep engineering until it does. No more pages at 3 AM.
For DigitalAlign (US SaaS), a Node.js gateway was hitting 800ms GC pause spikes at 18K RPS. We rewrote it in Go: 12ms P99 latency, single instance, 83% infrastructure cost reduction — on-call alerts for gateway performance dropped to zero. For Floqer (Canada CRM platform), SQS was causing data loss under multiple consumers. We deployed managed Kafka: 187K msg/sec, 1.2B events/month, zero data loss. Seven engagements total. We have never invoked this guarantee.
The Full Offer Stack
- → Free performance audit: we benchmark your P50/P95/P99 and current throughput before any engagement
- → Day 1: Two numbers agreed in writing. Target latency. Target throughput. Everything is measured against those.
- → Fixed-price sprint — no hourly billing, no surprise invoices
- → We profile your 10 most expensive operations first. No guessing, no generic optimization.
- → Clean, documented code. Not clever hacks your team can't maintain in 6 months.
- → Monitoring stack included: dashboards, alerting, on-call runbook
- → Load tested at 3x and 10x expected peak before handover
- → 30-day post-launch support included
Pricing & Investment
Fixed price after the technical audit. Optimization-only engagements (no new infrastructure) start lower — assessed case by case.
→ A senior backend engineer in the US costs $140–180K/year and takes months to onboard.
→ A contractor at $150–200/hour for 6 months runs $150–200K — with no guarantee on the outcome.
→ We deliver the target P99 in 90 days or we keep working for free.
What Happens If We Fail
If your P99 doesn't hit the target agreed on Day 1, you don't pay the final milestone. We continue engineering until it does — no additional charge.
What We Build
High-Throughput APIs
REST and gRPC APIs engineered for 100K+ req/s with caching, connection pooling, and query optimization built in.
Real-Time Data Pipelines
Kafka-based streaming pipelines with ClickHouse sinks — 200K events/sec sustained, zero message loss.
Database Architecture
Schema design, indexing strategy, sharding, and query optimization for PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Redis at scale.
Kubernetes Infrastructure
EKS deployments with Karpenter autoscaling, spot instances, and CI/CD pipelines that don't break on deploy.
Backend Rescue
We inherit existing backends, diagnose bottlenecks, and fix the 2-3 things actually causing 80% of your problems.
ClickHouse Migration
Migrate from Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery to ClickHouse. We've done this 15+ times. 60–82% cost reduction typical.
Stack We Work In
How It Works
Technical Audit (Week 1)
We map your current backend: query plans, infrastructure spend, failure patterns. You get a prioritized fix list with expected impact per item.
Build (Weeks 2–10)
We own implementation. You see every architectural decision in code reviews. Weekly check-ins, no surprises.
Handover
Runbook, monitoring dashboards, on-call playbook. Your team owns it from day one — we train them before we leave.
FAQ
What backend technologies do you specialize in?
Go, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Apache Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes on AWS EKS. We pick the stack that fits the workload.
Can you fix an existing backend, or only build from scratch?
Both. We frequently rescue existing backends. Most of the time it's 2-3 specific bottlenecks, not a full rewrite.
How much does it cost?
Engagements typically start at $30,000. We don't publish rates — scope determines price. Discovery call is free.
Do you handle DevOps and infrastructure too?
Yes. Backend code, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring. We don't hand you working code and leave you to figure out how to run it.
Related Services
All Offers at a Glance
| Service | Offer | Pricing | Proof | Guarantee Trigger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Product Development | The Zero-Hallucination Guarantee | $35–75K | 72% LLM cost reduction; 12+ shipped | Final milestone withheld until accuracy + cost targets met |
| Backend Engineering | The Zero 3AM Guarantee | $30–55K | 310K inserts/sec; 64% cost save; 12ms P99 | Final milestone withheld until P99 + throughput targets met |
| Technical Product Studio | The Technical Co-Founder Sprint | $45–85K | Lunagen MVP; full ownership model | Final milestone withheld until product operates independently |
| ClickHouse Consulting | The $47K Fix | $25–60K | 40+ deployments; $47K→$8.2K; 0 data loss | Final milestone withheld until cost + latency targets met |
| MVP to Production | Demo to Done Guarantee | $30–60K | 42% cost reduction; 93% reliability gain | Final milestone withheld until production readiness criteria met |
| Data Platform Modernization | Minutes to Milliseconds Guarantee | $35–65K | 187K msg/sec; 0 data loss; 200M events/day | Final milestone withheld until query time targets met |
Is Your Backend the Bottleneck?
Tell us what's breaking. We'll run a free technical audit and tell you exactly what's wrong and what it would cost to fix.
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