thoughtbot Limited
Ruby on Rails / Rails / Python Cloud DevOps
Our experienced engineers meet your needs with solutions throughout the software development lifecycle including legacy/brownfield. Using tools such as Python & Ruby on Rails we implement scalable solutions or AWS/Azure cloud migrations in line with technology and GDS standards, incorporating fully secure API management, B2B and B2C access as required.
Features
- Agnostic development Ruby on Rails Python Javascript React
- Mobile development React, React Native and Native (iOS, Android)
- Technical Direction, Architecture & Management
- Best practices for agile methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban etc.)
- Follows GDS - Alpha, Beta, Production apps using agile development
- Continuous integration, application deployment, management, monitoring SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
- Cloud aggregation solving complex business problems including open APIs
- Effective manual and automated testing strategies and solutions
Benefits
- Consistent Applications Architecture services for better capability and capacity
- Microsoft expertise with Azure
- Agile developments including Alpha & POC applications
- User needs / outcome-based development following GDS Standards
- Secure by design with emphasis on security, governance/compliance
- Automated Delivery process throughout the project-lifecycle, including CI
- Knowledge and skills transfer to build client's team capabilities
- Enterprise level developments, web, mobile & Internet of Things(IoT) apps
- Deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes
Pricing
£85 to £200 a unit an hour
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 7 2 0 1 4 2 0 7 5 6 3 2 7 0
Contact
thoughtbot Limited
Kirsten Hurley
Telephone: 0 20 3807 0560
Email: kirsten@thoughtbot.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Our comprehensive planning service supports the effective implementation of cloud hosting or cloud software. First, we seek to understand your unique business requirements through a variety of discovery techniques, data analysis and input from your team. Once we understand your business needs and context, we will create a comprehensive plan to help you transition from your legacy system to cloud hosting and/or software services - with minimal impact to your daily business operations. We use design thinking to focus on increasing the value of the technology to the business and your users by eliminating old processes. Our solutions are secure, scalable, and built on best practices. thoughtbot delivers substantial, realisable, and transformative benefits to your business. We preform any needed upgrades to the tech stack or architecture as well as conduct regular code audits and make improvements or recommendations. Automate security audits and update dependencies as necessary.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Working closely with our clients to understand their needs, our consultants offer a wealth of knowledge and experience. Whether you are looking to explore cloud based technology for the first time, are looking to change elements of your current set-up, or are looking to migrate to a completely new environment, we can provide the support necessary to ensure a rounded approach is taken. Cloud services are complex and it is crucial to consider the implications of actions for the duration of the process and product life. Our services include sharing learnings and best practices to level up your team, and we can offer full training of the service if necessary along with supporting media.
- Training is tied to specific services
- Yes
- Services the training service works with
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- We have delivered desktop and infrastructure transition and transformation programmes to multiple clients. With a human-centered approach and as Ruby on Rails experts, we’re here to help transform your systems, processes and data infrastructure. Our comprehensive setup and migration service supports your transition to cloud hosting or cloud software. We follow a proven multi-stage migration path that ensures safe migration with minimal disruption to operational services. We have a strong understanding of the technologies, suppliers, procurement routes, and challenges + lessons learned. We ensure these are identified as part of our migration strategy. We track risks, issues and dependencies and manage the various suppliers through the migration process, from setup to configuration and operational readiness review.
- Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- Yes
- List of supported services
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
- We continually monitor the quality of our cloud support and cloud migration services. We measure ourselves against an agreed set of deliverables, which we will report and confirm with you at regular stand up meetings. Throughout the entire lifecycle of our partnership, we provide our clients with robust, secure, and scalable solutions to meet their needs. We measure the quality of the implementation through our extensive experience of the various technologies and baseline measurements from other engagements. We use best practices such as Test-Driven Development to prevent regressions, isolated staging environments to test new versions, and SRE ensures that sites remain available and responsive.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
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- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
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We provide operational remote service support including initial triage, problem solving, and fault resolution. We will manage your suppliers in accordance with the agreed SLAs of their service and align our SLAs to theirs. We will meet regularly and record satisfaction levels so that we can track service improvements. We will take ownership of any issues and deliver a solution to the issues.
For clients that meet our prerequisites, we can provide full around the clock monitoring and support for their applications to make sure the applications are always available.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Support is remotely available
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Depending on the agreement with the client, we will intervene on service alerts, outages, bugs, and all other issues affecting the reliable operation within 12 hours. Intervention may include applying bug fixes, workarounds, restarting or fixing services.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- All our services are supported, at no additional cost, by a project advisor with first class supplier management and communication skills. The advisor is the client's first point of contact for any service issues, with an escalation route to our Managing Director available, if required The project advisor will meet with you on a regular basis to track our service deliverables against the requirements and to ensure your satisfaction. Depending on the agreement with the client, we will intervene on service alerts, outages, bugs, and all other issues affecting the reliable operation within 12 hours. Intervention may include applying bug fixes, workarounds, restarting or fixing services.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our team is actively looking for opportunities to partner with companies in the Green Tech Space. Most recently, we partnered with BeeODiversity, a Belgian startup committed to helping companies preserve biodiversity and reduce on-site pollution.Covid-19 recovery
thoughtbot primarily supported the architecture and implementation of the application (front and backend) as well as the creation of the corresponding APIs powering the new loan schemes. Given the amount of activity expected from the many businesses applying for loans, ensuring our product could scale to meet demand from the lending banks was essential.
In April 2021, thoughtbot moved on to supporting the rollout of the Recovery Loan Scheme, the successor to the three COVID-19 schemes. In all, the COVID-19 and RLS schemes have resulted in British Business Bank offering financial support to nearly 80% of the UK's SME market.
In parallel to our loan scheme and application development efforts, thoughtbot also supported a cloud migration from UK cloud to Azure. thoughtbot worked closely with BBB's operations partners to reconfigure the application and seamlessly migrate to the new Azure platform with minimal downtime and disruption.Tackling economic inequality
thoughtbot services enable companies and organizations to meet business goals including operating profitably or meeting other fiscal responsibilities, creating business growth, or improving efficiency. This in turn drives continued employment and growing employment opportunities with in the industry, geography, and/or supply chain.Equal opportunity
When working with our clients, we set out to be true partners. That means being proactive about asking questions, making recommendations, and raising concerns. Although our primary focus is building great software, how we do that and the relationships we grow along the way are greatly impacted by DEI. DEI best practices are another area we are happy to discuss, and through those honest conversations, we build mutual trust as a collective team.Wellbeing
One of our core values at thoughtbot is to do client work at a sustainable pace, which ultimately allows increased productivity, and a happier team. In addition to supporting the holistic well-being of the team through a variety of policies, our client work has been often focused well being. We have done work with many fitness, healthcare, and wellness clients. This includes UK-based clients Samaritans, Be Inspired, and Steel Warriors.
Pricing
- Price
- £85 to £200 a unit an hour
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
Request an accessible format
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