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Is your small company struggling to keep up with modern infrastructure demands? At Fulcrum, we specialize in bringing DevOps best practices to businesses like yours. Whether you’re migrating from a PaaS like Heroku to AWS or GCP or need to update your legacy infrastructure burdened with years of accumulated complexities, we’re here to help.

Our best practices encompass security-oriented cloud foundations and automated workflows using Git. Additionally, we excel at infrastructure automation through Slack bots, enabling faster execution of routine tasks that once required human intervention. Leave the mundane behind and focus on what truly matters.

Furthermore, our team can assist you with monitoring, metrics, and notifications, and expertly architect your Incident Management processes to ensure smooth operations.

Why Choose Fulcrum

Expertise: Our team has extensive experience in DevOps and cloud technologies.

Efficiency: Automate mundane tasks, save time, and increase productivity.

Security: Your infrastructure will have a strong security foundation.

Reliability: Proactive monitoring and incident management to keep your systems running smoothly.

Ready to take your infrastructure to new heights? Elevate your infrastructure. Contact us today.

About

Pete Emerson

Fulcrum Ops was founded in 2023 by Pete Emerson.

Pete has been automating infrastructure, monitoring, alerting and metrics collection since 2000. He has worked on bare metal, AWS, and GCP. Infrastructure as Code software has included CFEngine, Puppet, Ansible, Rundeck, and Terraform. Monitoring and metrics have included Cacti, Graphite, Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana, and numerous third party software, including New Relic, Datadog, Sumo Logic, Splunk, and more. Alerting has been done primarily with custom written software and Pager Duty.

Programming languages that Pete has used most recently include Go, Python, and Shell. Other languages such as Perl, C, C++, and Java are back somewhere in the cobwebs of his brain.

Previous projects and events include:

Migrating companies from Heroku to AWS

Convincing engineers that the overhead of Docker containers was not, in fact, the performance bottleneck they believed it to be

Writing a gh plugin to aggregate issues and PRs across many repositories

Writing a CLI to use Hashicorp Vault to sign SSH certificates and SSH into target infrastructure

Removing hardware load balancers in favor of custom global DNS round-robin

Using Perl to craft MySQL INSERT statements from logs in order to recover lost data

Writing ETL software to load data into Netezzas that stayed in production for far too long

Migrating companies from CVS to Subversion to Git

Panicking about loss of advertising revenue (dozens of pennies) when he really didn’t have to

Picking Gentoo for the company operating system and living with the decision

Net booting Red Hat for desktop workstations and keeping them all configured properly with CFEngine and custom Perl