SERVICES / 05 — Infrastructure & Security
Build it right. Then make it scale.
Architecture, deployment and security for applications that need to stay up, stay fast and keep data where it belongs. Palfora designs the infrastructure behind the software it builds, and reviews and hardens systems built by others.
What the work covers.
| No. | Capability | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SVC-05-01 | Data security | Encryption at rest and in transit, secret management, least-privilege access and a data model that limits what an attacker can reach. |
| SVC-05-02 | Scalable deployment | Deployments that handle a traffic spike without a war room: edge delivery, caching, queues and stateless services. |
| SVC-05-03 | Cloud architecture | Choosing managed services deliberately, keeping costs legible and avoiding lock-in where it would hurt. |
| SVC-05-04 | API integrations | Third-party and partner APIs integrated with retries, idempotency and monitoring, so a flaky upstream does not become your outage. |
| SVC-05-05 | Application architecture | Boundaries, data models and service design that keep a growing codebase understandable. |
| SVC-05-06 | Performance optimisation | Profiling and fixing the slow parts: database queries, render paths, bundle size, image delivery and cache strategy. |
| SVC-05-07 | Cloudflare deployment and edge infrastructure | Workers, static assets, D1, R2, KV, Turnstile, Access and DNS configured as a coherent platform, with local development that matches production. |
How the work gets done.
Security as an engineering discipline.
Security work is mostly unglamorous: threat modelling, dependency hygiene, careful handling of secrets, sensible defaults on every endpoint. We do it as part of building, not as a separate phase, and we document what was decided and why.
The edge, used properly.
Cloudflare’s platform lets a small team run infrastructure that used to need an operations department. We deploy static assets and pre-rendered pages to the edge, keep server code to the routes that need it, and use bindings for storage, queues and rate limiting instead of running servers to do the same job.
- Workers with static assets for sites and applications
- D1, R2, KV and Durable Objects for data, files, configuration and coordination
- Turnstile, rate limiting and Access for abuse prevention and internal tools
Reviews and hardening for existing systems.
Not every engagement starts from scratch. We review existing applications for performance, security and operational risk and deliver a prioritised plan your team can act on, with or without us.