Server farms
Composable, repeatable infrastructure for teams that need dependable capacity across heterogeneous hardware and cloud environments.
Opinionated infrastructure
Build the system your idea deserves.
Off-the-shelf products should accelerate your work, not dictate your architecture. We map the technical landscape, reveal where bespoke tooling creates leverage, and build the infrastructure products that close the gap.
Opportunity landscape
Commodity foundations beneath differentiated, purpose-built layers.
The landscape shapes the work.
A Wardley Map is not just a diagram. It is a way to decide what to buy, what to adapt, what to build, and what to leave alone. Better positioning creates better products and more honest engineering.
- Map firstFind the evolutionary position of every component before choosing a technology.
- Compose deliberatelyCombine proven foundations where they help, not where they merely feel familiar.
- Build the differenceSpend bespoke effort on the parts that create product advantage or remove real friction.
- Keep it inspectableInfrastructure should remain legible, automatable, and owned by the people who operate it.
Infrastructure products, not black boxes.
Every engagement starts with the problem, not a product catalogue. From that position, we assemble the smallest dependable system that can evolve with you.
Server appliances
Focused infrastructure products that turn a complex operational problem into a compact, maintainable and supportable service.
Bespoke tooling
Specialised automation and integration work for the gaps between products, built with Groan and eventually the Glamorous Toolkit.
From landscape to working system.
Architecture is a sequence, not a grand gesture. We move from evidence to a working implementation, with each layer able to explain itself.
Understand
Clarify the workload, constraints, operating model and real measure of success.
Position
Map the landscape to distinguish commodity foundations from valuable differentiation.
Shape
Design the smallest complete architecture, including the bespoke layer that earns its place.
Deliver
Build, document and hand over systems that remain understandable after the engagement ends.
Built to be inspected.
Angelic Infrastructure favours systems that expose their moving parts. The goal is not automation for its own sake, but infrastructure your team can understand and change.
Declarative foundations
Configuration is data, schemas catch mistakes early, and environments can be reproduced with confidence.
- NixOS and Talos for immutable, API-driven infrastructure
- Pkl and Nickel for composable, typed configuration
- ZFS for data integrity and operational confidence
Focused automation
Tools should fit the problem, expose safe defaults, and make the dangerous path explicit rather than magical.
- Groan for hierarchical, composable command-line tools
- Rootless Podman for isolated and reproducible workloads
- Glamorous Toolkit for the next generation of tooling
Bring us the awkward part.
The integration nobody enjoys, the product that almost fits, or the infrastructure still held together by folklore. That is where useful work begins.