Digital Power Tools

Performance and Cost Optimization for Existing Projects

Rising cloud bills or sluggish performance? I deliver measurable improvements to latency and spend while preserving reliability and developer velocity.

Who it’s for

This engagement is for teams frustrated by rising cloud bills, slow builds, and inconsistent performance, or those wrestling with unpredictable scaling costs. If you need tangible, near‑term improvements without destabilizing your stack, this is designed to deliver measurable wins fast.

Good fit indicators

This is a good fit if you’re seeing unexplained bills, scaling incidents under load, customer complaints about speed, or slow, fragile deploys. If you want concrete, measurable improvements without a ground‑up rewrite, we focus on the work where it matters most.

What you get

You get an end‑to‑end performance and cost review that looks across the application, database, caching, networking, and storage layers. I right‑size and tune autoscaling to match real demand, streamline build and image pipelines for speed, and set FinOps guardrails—budgets, anomaly alerts, tagging, and dashboards—so improvements are sustained over time.

Typical activities

Work typically includes targeted profiling and tracing across the app and database, shaping cache behavior and eliminating N+1 patterns, and right‑sizing compute with the right instance families, ARM/Spot where it makes sense, and sensible resource requests/limits. We speed up delivery by improving multi‑stage builds, layering, pruning dependencies, and using minimal base images, while database tuning focuses on indexes, pooling, partitioning, replicas, isolation levels, and pragmatic query rewrites.

Deliverables

You’ll receive a clear findings report with a heatmap of the top opportunities and estimated ROI, alongside pull requests or configuration changes for quick wins with rollback plans. We include a load test plan and results, updates to runbooks, and cost/performance dashboards so you can track the impact over time.

Timeline

2–4 weeks for assessment and quick wins; optional follow‑on for deeper refactoring.

Pricing models

Choose a fixed‑fee assessment with an optional outcome‑based bonus (a share of the first months’ savings), or go time‑and‑materials if you prefer flexibility. We can extend into a follow‑on implementation phase for deeper refactoring after the initial quick wins.

Outcomes/KPIs

Expect focused gains: 20–60% cost reduction in targeted services within ~60 days is typical, with P95 latency improvements in the 25–70% range and reductions in error rates. Build times often drop by 30–80%, images by 50–90%, and alert noise by at least half—while maintaining or improving SLO adherence.

How engagements run

We begin by aligning on outcomes and gathering the telemetry and access needed to spot quick wins versus structural work. From there, we produce a prioritized roadmap with ROI estimates and a clear risk register, then execute in short, visible sprints with weekly demos and updates. We wrap up with handover and enablement—docs, updated runbooks, and dashboards—and can continue with a light support retainer if helpful.