Espresso extraction

The Rehbein Method

Our process mirrors a pour-over ritual. Three phases, executed with care. It's slower than spinning up a template — and dramatically faster than rebuilding a year of accumulated technical debt.

[01]

Extraction

Discovery and requirement saturation. We map your domain, identify constraints, and surface the technical risks that will define the project — before a single line of code is written.

[02]

Roasting

The heavy lifting. Rapid prototyping followed by disciplined development, code reviews, automated testing, and architectural decisions documented as we go.

[03]

Serving

Deployment via CI/CD, hand-off of extensive documentation, and ongoing performance monitoring. We don't disappear at launch — we make sure the system stays healthy.

Operating
principles

/ 01

Boring tech, sharp execution

We choose tools for longevity and community support, not novelty. The interesting work happens at the architectural seams, not in the framework wars.

/ 02

Documentation is the deliverable

Code that no one else can extend is a liability. Every project ships with the architectural decisions written down — for your team, not just ours.

/ 03

Cloud-native by default

Over a decade of AWS in production — EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, and the supporting cast. Infrastructure-as-Code via CloudFormation means your environment is a file in the repo, not a memory in someone's head.

/ 04

Small team, full ownership

We work on a limited number of engagements at a time. You talk to the people writing the code.