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Digital Ocean Development
Digital Ocean hits a sweet spot: more flexible than a platform like Heroku, more approachable than hyperscalers built for enterprises with dedicated ops teams. Enough power for production workloads, without the overhead that turns simple deployments into month-long projects.
WAYF builds applications — React frontends, NestJS backends, React Native mobile apps. When we recommend Digital Ocean, it's because complexity would cost more than it saves. Your team's time is better spent on product than on fighting cloud interfaces.
Approachable infrastructure isn't limited infrastructure. Knowing the difference is part of what we do.
Where Digital Ocean Fits
Production workloads for startups and growing companies. Droplets for applications with predictable resource needs. Managed Kubernetes when you need orchestration without building a platform team. Managed databases when you want PostgreSQL or MySQL without the ops burden.
Also: App Platform deployments for teams who want Heroku-like simplicity with more control. Spaces for object storage that doesn't require deciphering S3 pricing. Migrations from AWS when the team realized they're not using 90% of what they're paying for.
What we deploy less of: applications requiring AWS-specific services with no equivalent — Lambda@Edge, DynamoDB, specialized ML infrastructure. Global deployments needing 20+ regions. Enterprises where AWS or Azure are mandated by policy. When the project needs hyperscaler capabilities, we say so.
How We Work
You bring the architecture, we bring the execution. Clear specs become running infrastructure — configured properly, documented thoroughly. We'll flag concerns, but you're driving.
You bring the problem, we bring the approach. Infrastructure architecture, cost modeling, migration planning. We figure out what should run where before provisioning anything — and push back when decisions would create problems later.
What stays constant: direct communication. If Digital Ocean isn't the right fit — if you genuinely need hyperscaler capabilities or global presence — we'll say so before we start. Honest advice early beats painful migrations later.
How We Build
Right-Sized from the Start
We deploy what you need now, not what you might need in two years. Digital Ocean makes it easy to resize — there's no penalty for starting small and scaling when metrics justify it.
Infrastructure as Code, Always
Terraform for provisioning, even when clicking through the UI would be faster. The discipline matters. When you need to recreate an environment or audit what's running, the code is the source of truth.
Security as Baseline
Firewalls configured properly, SSH keys only, VPC networks where appropriate, regular updates automated. Simple infrastructure doesn't mean lax security.
What We See Go Wrong
The AWS starting point. Founders pick AWS because that's what "serious" companies use. Six months later, a $300/month workload costs $1,500, nobody understands the IAM configuration, and the bill has 47 line items. The "scalable" choice became a tax on velocity.
Overcomplicating from day one. Kubernetes for an app with three containers. Load balancers for services with one server. Premature architecture for traffic that doesn't exist. Digital Ocean makes it easy to start simple and scale later — but teams import complexity they learned at previous jobs.
Ignoring managed services. Teams that would never run their own PostgreSQL on AWS happily do it on Digital Ocean to save $15/month. Then backups fail, upgrades get delayed, and recovery takes days instead of minutes. Managed databases exist for a reason.
No monitoring until it's urgent. Digital Ocean's simplicity breeds complacency. Basic metrics aren't enough. Teams discover this when the site is down and they have no idea why.
We fix these. But we'd rather help you avoid them.
Who We Work Well With
Teams who understand that infrastructure should serve the product, not the other way around — time spent fighting cloud complexity is time not spent on features.
Clients who want the honest answer about where to deploy, not the answer that sounds most sophisticated.
People who value clarity. Infrastructure that the team can understand and operate matters more than infrastructure that impresses other engineers.
Organizations that communicate directly and don't need layers of project management between us.
Who We're Not For
If you need AWS-specific services — Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Cognito, the whole ecosystem — Digital Ocean doesn't replicate those. Different model, different strengths.
If you need global presence across 25+ regions with data locality requirements, hyperscalers are built for that. Digital Ocean has good coverage but not AWS's reach.
If your enterprise requires AWS or Azure for compliance, procurement, or political reasons, we can work with that. But we won't pretend Digital Ocean was an option when it wasn't.



