Schedule a meeting, or use a one-week Platform Roadmap Workshop to determine what your platform needs to deliver first.
Platform Engineering and developer platforms
SUE designs and builds Internal Developer Platforms: a self-service layer that enables development teams to build, test, and deploy on their own, following golden paths and staying within security and cost guardrails. We have built platforms and CI/CD environments for companies including Booking.com, Tilaa, Tidalis, and Deltares. At Booking.com, the deployment time for SAP environments went from days to less than an hour.
If you don't want to build it yourself, SUE offers Multistax, a ready-to-use platform that we also manage.
A platform that developers actually use
A platform that developers have to work around costs more than no platform at all. That’s why we start with the task that currently takes your developers the most time, and we track whether teams are using the platform starting with the first release.
To learn when a platform is worth it, what it entails, and how to measure its effectiveness, check out our guide on Platform Engineering.
When should you bring in SUE?
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Your developers spend too much time on infrastructure, pipelines, and tickets, and not enough on the application.
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Each team has its own pipelines, clusters, and tools, and no one has an overview of security and costs.
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You already have a portal or platform—such as Backstage— but teams hardly ever use it.
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Your developers use AI assistants and agents, and you want to define what they’re allowed to build and deploy.
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You're a software company transitioning to SaaS and need a platform that supports multiple customers and environments.
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Your platform team is small and can't handle both management and further development at the same time.
What does SUE do in Platform Engineering?
From strategy to operations. Start with a Platform Roadmap Workshop, build on Kubernetes, and have Multistax manage the platform for you if you don't have your own platform team.
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Platform strategy and roadmap
Product vision, target audience, and priorities, with measurable goals.
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Internal Developer Platform
Developer portal and service catalog, golden paths, and templates. We build on the tools your teams are already using.
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CI/CD and GitOps
Pipelines with tests and security scans, deployment via Git. Using your own CI/CD tools, or tools such as GitLab and Argo CD.
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Kubernetes as a foundation
Clusters in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge, deployed as code.
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Security on the platform
Single sign-on, secrets management, image scanning, and policies, so developers can deploy securely without any extra steps.
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Observability and metrics
Monitoring, logging, and tracing by service, plus your teams' DORA metrics.
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Costs per team
Cost allocation and guardrails in the platform.
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AI in the platform
AI assistants and agents are granted access through the platform, with their own identity, limited permissions, and logging.
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Multistax
A ready-to-use, cloud-agnostic platform for software teams without in-house platform expertise, managed by SUE.
How does SUE approach Platform Engineering?
We operate according to the principle “Show. Do together. Do yourself.” Your platform team learns alongside us and retains ownership of the platform.
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Analysis and design
In the Platform Roadmap Workshop, we work with two consultants over the course of one week to define your platform’s product vision, target audience, and roadmap. → Platform Roadmap Workshop
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Laying the foundation
We build the foundation as code: Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, observability, and policies.
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Enabling self-service
We create golden paths and templates that allow a team to set up a new service or environment without opening a ticket, within the agreed-upon guardrails. We start with the task that currently holds developers back the most.
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Manage and further develop
We measure adoption and time-to-deployment, improve the platform with each release, and can take over management. → Managed Kubernetes
Build it yourself, build it together, or buy it?
| Build it yourself | Building Together with SUE | Multistax | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Related services | Large organizations with a dedicated platform team | Teams that want to become owners but lack the knowledge or speed | Software teams without their own platform expertise |
| Starting Point | In-house assessment and design | One-Week Platform Roadmap Workshop | The SUE Platform |
| Need an in-house platform team | Yes | Yes, it grows with you | No |
| Management | Our team | Our own team or SUE | SUE |
| Freedom in Tooling | Maximum | High | Within the platform |
Customer results
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Engineers deploy AWS environments themselves. With CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, the deployment time for SAP environments has gone from days to less than an hour. SAP engineers no longer need specialized AWS knowledge.
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A Cloud Application Platform on Kubernetes. SUE provided the Kubernetes expertise for Nexaa, the platform product of the Dutch cloud provider Tilaa: a highly available Kubernetes foundation with fully automated deployments.
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A platform without its own platform team. Two applications deployed to Kubernetes on AWS, managed via Multistax, with managed databases and automatic scaling.
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Booking.com
"Our engineers can now effortlessly deploy AWS resources, thanks to SUE’s streamlined configuration management and IaC tools."
About SUE
Modernize the code. Optimize the cloud. Run the platform.
SUE is a Dutch cloud native solutions partner that modernizes mission-critical applications, reduces cloud costs, and manages your platform. Specialists in Linux, Kubernetes, and the cloud.
29+
Years Experience
150+
Engineers and consultants
1.150+
Certifications
ISO
9001 & 27001
500+
Projects
75+
Research papersFrequently asked questions
All frequently asked questionsWe use the tools your teams are already using, whenever possible. Where something is missing, we use GitLab for CI/CD and Argo CD for GitOps, among other tools. Kubernetes usually serves as the foundation, whether on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, a European cloud, or in your own data center. For developers, the platform looks the same everywhere.
Treat an agent as an additional user of the platform. SUE grants agents access through the platform itself, with their own identity, only the permissions required for the task, and logging of every action. Changes made by an agent go through the same pipeline, scans, and reviews as those made by developers.
Ownership. Your team determines the roadmap, the standards, and what the platform delivers. SUE collaborates on the development, contributes its expertise, and can take over the day-to-day management of clusters and tooling, freeing up your team’s time for the developers.
Platform Engineering involves building and managing an Internal Developer Platform: a self-service layer that enables development teams to build, test, and deploy on their own, following golden paths and staying within guardrails. Teams save time because they no longer need to submit a ticket to request an environment or pipeline. At Booking.com, the deployment time for SAP environments went from days to less than an hour.
Discuss your developer platform with a platform engineer
Discuss your developer platform with a platform engineer
Schedule a meeting, or use a one-week Platform Roadmap Workshop to determine what your platform needs to deliver first.
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