HEX

The High-velocity Engineering eXperience: self-service Kubernetes and observability in your own environment, managed by Evil8.

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Each ticket, each PR to another team's repository, and each wait on the platform team slows delivery. HEX removes those handoffs: self-service Kubernetes and observability in your own environment, so your engineers own their work end-to-end.

How it works

Three phases take you from an empty AWS account to a platform your teams run on.

1. Deploy

We deploy the HEX platform in your environment. Kubernetes and observability, production-ready.

2. Onboard

Your teams get access. We train them on the platform. First applications go live.

3. Operate

We run the platform: upgrades, patches, and scaling. Your teams ship product.

Handoffs kill flow

Whether you're building a platform team or already have one, the pattern is the same:

• New app onboarding? PR to the platform team.
• Need a namespace? PR to the platform team.
• New dashboard? Ticket to observability.
• Production incident? Call the platform team. You don't have access.

Build your own platform and you create these handoffs. Hire a platform team and they become the bottleneck. Either way, your engineers wait.

HEX is self-service from the first day, with no approval queue between an engineer and production.

For CTOs

• Unlock your teams. Remove the bottlenecks. Let engineers ship without waiting.
• Skip the platform hires. No need to build a team that becomes the next bottleneck.
• Your engineers build product, not infrastructure. Let them focus on what matters.
• Proven at scale. We've built platforms for organisations with 50 to 1,500+ engineers.

For Engineers

• Real kubectl access. No portal abstractions.
• Grafana, Loki, Tempo you can actually customise. Build your own dashboards, set your own alerts.
• Push and it is live. No PR to another team's repository.
• Full production access when things break at 2am. Debug it yourself.
• Modern stack. Cilium, OpenTelemetry, LGTM. Tools you know and respect.

What's included

The runtime, the observability stack, and the people who run both.

Production Kubernetes

Multi-tenant Kubernetes with just-in-time node provisioning. Spot instances, ARM64, GPU workloads. Automatic scaling that optimises for cost.

LGTM Observability

Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry. Metrics, logs, and traces with near-unlimited retention. Auto-instrumentation included.

Managed & Monitored

24/7 platform monitoring. Upgrades, security patches, and scaling handled by us.

Direct Support

Shared Slack channel with the Evil8 team. No ticketing systems. Talk to the engineers who built and run your platform.

Supported environments

Available

Roadmap

Ready to eliminate handoffs?

Tell us about your platform challenges.

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