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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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- It's exciting to see how mature our platform operations have become! Also a great foundation to build agentic platform operations on, just like we are doing 🤖. Nice work from the Skyscrapers team, and work we're happy to share if your interested.
- 𝗔 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗸𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲! It caught a platform regression before it reached customers; and potentially became an on-call incident. We’ve integrated end-to-end tests into our CI/CD workflow to catch problems early and reduce manual testing. As AI takes on more platform work, that feedback becomes even more important. Our engineers define what the checks need to cover and investigate failures. Sometimes, stopping a change is exactly what keeps things moving. #AgenticDevOps #PlatformEngineering
- 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗽. 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝘆? Changes in usage, new workloads or unused capacity can all affect your monthly spend. Finding the cause often means digging through Cost Explorer and comparing numbers yourself. Our automated monthly FinOps report does that groundwork for you. It shows where last month’s AWS spend went and highlights where savings may be possible. The report lands as a GitHub issue in your repository, giving your team a clear view of cost changes and a practical starting
- 𝗔 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘂𝗽 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸. 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. Backups are part of our DevOps-as-a-Service baseline. They protect you when something goes wrong, like accidentally deleting data or running a script that causes unexpected damage. But what if your entire environment goes down? That’s where disaster recovery comes in. It answers the bigger questions: How quickly can you get back online? How much data could you lose? And how
- A new direction. 🚀 Ready for what’s next! Our fall retreat in the Flemish Ardennes was about more than spending time together. It was about preparing Skyscrapers for what's ahead. With AI, agentic technologies and a changing geopolitical landscape reshaping the digital product world, we explored our new strategy and turned ambitions into concrete next steps. As a 100% remote team, we also made time for honest conversations, good food, fun activities and stronger connections. We returned with a clearer direction and confidence
- This year’s fall retreat comes at a pivotal moment for Skyscrapers. The beautiful Flemish Ardennes, vulnerable talks and good vibes were exactly what we needed to get ready for a fundamental shift in how we operate. 🎯 Together with Simon R. (our CTPO) we started with a deep dive into the completely new strategy for the future. Then, guided by our team coach Ben Poelmans, we went deeper into how our individual needs and company needs can be aligned to make us all succesful. We ended the retreat with our COO Koen Heyns taking the
- Your AI’s instructions deserve a code review too. We’ve just shipped our internal plugin marketplace for Claude Code, bringing the team’s coding guidelines and security rules into one shared setup. A new team convention now takes three steps: 1. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 through a pull request. 2. 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘁 before it reaches anyone’s AI session. 3. 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 to the whole team automatically. The best part? One engineer’s improvement can benefit everyone, without another
- Be careful with production” is not an access policy. When an AI coding agent deleted PocketOS’s production database earlier this year, one question stood out: why could it carry out that action in the first place? That is where guardrails need to go beyond instructions. In our own Claude Code sessions, an agent can investigate within approved access limits and propose a fix. Direct changes to infrastructure are blocked. Those changes go through a pull request, human review and our automated pipeline. Before the AI can run a command,
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Wouter ReyntjensCloud engineer→Co-Founder & CTO at CloudSisters
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