Enterprise Infrastructure

How we approach Enterprise Infrastructure

It is the layer everything else assumes is working

Infrastructure gets attention when it fails and funding after that. The consequence is estates where nobody can say with confidence what runs where, what depends on what, or what happens if a single elderly box is switched off. A current dependency map is not documentation overhead. It is the difference between a controlled change and an outage with a conference bridge attached.

Standardisation beats optimisation almost every time

Ten servers configured identically and slightly wrong are easier to run, patch and reason about than ten each tuned perfectly by a different engineer. Variance is the thing that makes an estate expensive, because every exception has to be remembered by somebody. We would rather move the whole fleet to a good standard than a fraction of it to an excellent one.

Capacity is a forecasting problem, not a hardware one

Sizing arguments are usually two people with different unstated assumptions about growth and peak. Write the assumptions down, size against the peak you can evidence rather than the one you fear, and agree the trigger that starts the next expansion. Most overprovisioning is not caution, it is an unresolved disagreement that somebody settled by buying more.