Reliability, engineered at hyperscale.
Ashfield works with engineering teams building and operating infrastructure at the scale of the world's largest platforms — as software engineers, and as independent advisors on the systems underneath them.
Get in touch- Compute fabrics
- Control planes & orchestration
- Observability & telemetry
- Failure-domain design
- Capacity & demand modeling
- Incident response
- Migration to hyperscale platforms
Three ways we work with you
Software engineering
We write the software that sits closest to the infrastructure — control planes, schedulers, provisioning tooling, observability pipelines, and the internal platforms that keep large fleets coherent under load.
Infrastructure consultancy
Independent architectural advice for organizations operating — or planning to operate — at hyperscaler scale: compute fabrics, storage systems, network topology, and the trade-offs between them.
Reliability & operations
SLOs and error budgets, failure-domain design, capacity and demand modeling, incident response, and the operational discipline that turns a fast system into a dependable one.
How we think about scale
Scale is a design constraint, not an afterthought.
A system that works at moderate load and is later “scaled up” usually carries assumptions that don't hold at ten times the traffic, let alone a hundred. We design for the target scale from the start.
Design for failure, not just for load.
A capacity plan answers how much a system can carry. Failure-domain design answers what happens — and to whom — when part of it stops carrying anything at all.
Measure what the system does, not what it's supposed to do.
Dashboards built from intent drift from what's actually running. We build observability from the scheduler and the wire, not the architecture diagram.
Operate what you build.
Advice that has never been run against a live on-call rotation is theory. We stay close to operations, not only to architecture.
“You cannot operate what you cannot see. Instrumentation is part of the system, not an accessory to it.”
Why Ashfield
Ashfield takes its name from Fraxinus, the ash tree: a species valued for timber that bends under load rather than breaking, and for a root system that spreads wide before it spreads deep. That's the property we design for — in software, in infrastructure, and in the teams that operate both: capacity to absorb stress without failure.
We work as engineers and as independent advisors, alongside teams operating platforms at hyperscaler scale — cloud providers, large-scale SaaS platforms, and the infrastructure layer underneath them.
Get in touch
For engineering and advisory engagements, reach us directly — there's no form to fill in.
Now taking on a small number of engagements# reach us directly company: Ashfield Technology GmbH email: hello@ashfield.ch location: Switzerland