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Infrastructure that holds. Games that ship.

Senior DevOps and SRE for Magento stores and online products, plus game development on Godot. We keep checkout up on the busiest day of the year, and we push updates to our own game most days of the week.

Send us your store URL Play our game

Our own game, commit by commit

Panda Idle RPG, from the first line of code on 7 July to the build that is live today.

commits
1,415
days with a push
59
languages
9

Black Friday is on 27 November

A fixed-price readiness check for Magento and Adobe Commerce stores, done before the traffic arrives.

  • Load test of home, category, search and checkout at your expected peak
  • Full-page cache, Varnish, Redis and database review
  • CDN, image and static asset setup
  • A written runbook for the weekend: who watches what, and what to do if it breaks
  • On-call cover for the Black Friday weekend on request
$900 fixed, 5 working days
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Who you’ll work with

You work directly with a senior SRE who has run production hosting since 2014: the engineer doing the work, not an account manager.

  • Magento in productionBuilt and ran a cloud hosting platform with Magento stores in production, from provisioning to on-call.
  • PCI DSSStandardized and maintained a hosting platform to PCI DSS, including central access control with FreeIPA.
  • High availabilityCompany-owned CDN and HA infrastructure across 30+ dedicated servers for enterprise clients.
  • ObservabilityCentral logging on Kafka and Elasticsearch; Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Mimir.
  • PlatformsDocker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, SaltStack, Jenkins and GitLab CI.

What we do

DevOps, live-ops and e-commerce

For stores and products that cannot afford to go down.

  • Magento and Adobe Commerce hosting, tuning and upgrades
  • High-traffic readiness: Black Friday scaling and load checks
  • Zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines
  • Kubernetes and container platforms
  • Monitoring, alerting and on-call
  • Cloud cost reviews and security audits
$90–130per hour

Game development

From prototype to a live game with a backend, on web and Android.

  • Prototypes and MVPs in Godot
  • RPG and idle game systems, economy and balance simulation
  • Web export, performance and Android builds
  • Game backends: saves, leaderboards, analytics
  • Automated tests and release checks on every build
$60per hour
Panda Idle RPG at stage 120: the panda and a red panda partner face the Boar Shogun in a temple courtyard, with five techniques and the forge below

Panda Idle RPG

Our in-house idle RPG, built end to end by the same people who would run your infrastructure.

A Godot client for web and Android, a Python backend with server saves and leaderboards, an AI-assisted art pipeline and nine languages. It runs on a hardened VPS behind Cloudflare. Every build goes through automated UI smoke tests, export checks and release checks before it reaches players.

Platforms
Web, Android, Linux
Stack
Godot 4, Python, Caddy, Cloudflare
Releases
Several a week, through a scripted pipeline with gates
Play the beta Play our action RPG

Pricing

Black Friday readiness check

Load test at your expected peak, cache and database review, and a written runbook for the weekend.

$900 fixed, 5 working days
Book the check

Infrastructure audit

Full review of your infrastructure, with a security and cost report and a prioritized action plan.

$1,500 fixed, 7–10 days
Request an audit

Hourly

Game development from $60, DevOps and SRE from $90, Magento and e-commerce from $130. Weekly progress reports.

$60–130 per hour
Start a project

RetainerBest value

60 hours a month, about $67 an hour: 26% below our DevOps rate. Reserved capacity, on-call incident response, architecture input.

$4,000 per month, from
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How we start

  1. Send a URL or a repoYour store, product or game, and a line about what worries you.
  2. Get an answer in one business dayAn honest estimate, or the scope of an audit if we need to look deeper first.
  3. Work in weekly stepsChanges land through your pipeline, with a written report every week.

Questions clients ask

How do you prepare a Magento store for Black Friday?

With a fixed-price readiness check: $900, 5 working days. We load-test home, category, search and checkout at your expected peak, review the full-page cache, Varnish, Redis and the database, check the CDN and static assets, and hand over a written runbook for the weekend. On-call cover for the weekend is available on request.

How much does an infrastructure audit cost?

A fixed $1,500. It takes 7–10 days and covers a full review of your infrastructure, a security and cost report, and a prioritized action plan.

Do you work with Magento and Adobe Commerce?

Yes. We host, tune and upgrade Magento and Adobe Commerce stores, and prepare them for traffic peaks such as Black Friday. Our lead engineer has run Magento stores in production on a PCI DSS hosting platform.

What are your hourly rates?

Game development from $60 an hour, DevOps and SRE from $90, Magento and e-commerce from $130. A retainer of 60 hours a month starts at $4,000, about $67 an hour.

What do you need to start?

A URL or a repository and a line about what worries you. We reply within one business day with an estimate, or with the scope of an audit if we need to look deeper first.

Do you build games as well as infrastructure?

Yes. We develop games in Godot for web and Android, including backends with server saves and leaderboards. Our own idle RPG is live at pandamoose.com/idle_beta.

Have a project in mind?

[email protected]

Tell us what you’re building. We reply within one business day.