Overview
Skyscrapers reviews, builds, and manages cloud platforms so SaaS teams can focus on product development. They offer platform assessments, expert sparring, fully managed DevOps-as-a-Service, and custom consulting and engineering for infrastructure and platform problems.
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- AI agents are becoming part of the engineering workflow. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁. We’re experimenting with Claude taking a GitHub issue from initial analysis to a draft pull request, with an engineer approving the plan before implementation begins. The opportunity? • Work keeps moving without engineers driving every step. • More time goes to architecture and customer challenges. • Technical judgement and accountability stay with the team. The agent handles more of the groundwork. Engineers remain in control of the
- Scaling a SaaS platform is exciting. Owning all the platform complexity? Less so. LemonSwan wanted to grow its user base while improving stability, scalability, security and operational excellence. With Skyscrapers’ DevOps-as-a-Service and the Reference Platform for SaaS, their developers could keep building while we handled the platform foundations. As Devin Gray, CTO at LemonSwan, put it: “With Skyscrapers, it was peace of mind from day one.” Read the full LemonSwan case: https://lnkd.in/g6hNpijK #SaaSPlatform #DevOps #AWS
- Simon R. put his thoughts on paper. Not because he has a finished answer, but because the way SaaS teams build and run platforms is changing. And we need to adapt with it. 👇
- Almost 11 years of growing with Skyscrapers, and plenty still ahead. 💚 Congratulations, Simon R., on becoming our Chief Technical & Product Officer. We’re proud of what you’ve helped build here and excited to keep building it together. #TeamSkyscrapers
- A logical next step for Simon R., a major step for Skyscrapers: I'm proud to announce that he has taken up the role of Chief Technical & Product Officer. Our story together started almost 11 years ago, when Simon joined as a cloud engineer. Since then I've watched him grow into a technical expert with a sharp, customer-focused vision. He is someone who takes roadmap items like our new DR/BC Add-on all the way to completion, who has been the driving force behind bringing AI into our operations and ensuring the reliability of our
- AI can write the documentation. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘁? Writing is not just about recording what we know. It forces us to structure ideas, spot gaps and understand a subject more deeply. When AI takes over that process, the document may be finished faster while less knowledge actually sticks. That creates what we call internalisation debt: the information exists, but the understanding behind it is thinner. That does not make AI-generated documentation a bad idea. It does mean that saving time on writing
- 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗸. We recently asked customers what works, what helps, and what should improve. The main signal was clear: speed and trust. And the best compliment of all: “𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯-𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘚𝘙𝘌 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴.” Proud of that? Absolutely. Done learning? Not even close. #SaaSPlatform #DevOps #CustomerFeedback
- 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. For a customer running multiple environments on AWS EKS, Skyscrapers used 𝗸𝘂𝗯𝗲-𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 to scale staging and test workloads down outside working hours. The setup keeps environments available when teams need them, while cutting idle capacity when nobody is using them. In one pilot window, the cluster went from 𝟮𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟯 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀. After rollout, the AWS bill 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
Wouter ReyntjensCloud engineer→Co-Founder & CTO at CloudSisters
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