Fit over fashion
The simplest technology that meets the need and suits your team.
About Cruzata
Our Technology Approach: Pragmatic, Secure and Built to Last
We choose technology to fit the problem and the team that will own it, not to follow trends, and we engineer it to be secure, observable and maintainable.
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Principles behind our engineering
Secure by design
Threat modelling, least privilege and dependency hygiene from day one.
Quality is automated
Tests and pipelines make quality repeatable, not heroic.
Observable systems
Logging, metrics and alerts so problems are found early.
Documented decisions
Architecture records and readable code.
Built to evolve
Modular design so change is cheap.
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How we choose a stack
Product needs
Performance, scale, integrations and compliance.
What the system must do.Team and ecosystem
Skills, hiring pool and library maturity.
Who will maintain it.Time and budget
Delivery speed and total cost of ownership.
What you can afford over time.Risk
Vendor lock-in, security record and longevity.
What could go wrong.
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Engineering standards
- 1Version control and pull-request review for every change
- 2Automated build, test and deploy pipelines
- 3Infrastructure defined as code
- 4Secrets managed outside source code
- 5Performance and accessibility budgets
- 6Backups and tested recovery procedures
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Technologies we standardise on
Front end
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Back end
- Node.js
- Python
- Java
- PHP / Laravel
- PostgreSQL
Platform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
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Questions people ask us
You
How do you decide which technology to use?
Cruzata
We weigh product requirements, team skills, ecosystem maturity, cost and risk, and explain the trade-offs so you can decide with us.
You
Will you lock us into a vendor?
Cruzata
We favour open standards and portable architectures, and we tell you where lock-in exists.
You
How do you approach security?
Cruzata
Through secure development practices, access control, dependency scanning, encryption and regular reviews.
You
Do you adopt new technology quickly?
Cruzata
We evaluate new tools carefully and adopt them when they bring proven benefits.
Where to go from here
Next: Our Story
We started by doing one thing well: building fast, reliable WordPress websites. Today we build software, apps and AI for businesses and agencies worldwide.