Service
Platform & Backend Engineering
This is where ProteaByte lives. For 25+ years we've designed, built, and operated the backend platforms businesses actually run on — the ones that have to stay up, stay correct, and keep scaling. The systems we engineer and run today process hundreds of millions of transactions a month at 99.99% uptime.
What we deliver
The capabilities that make up a ProteaByte platform engineering engagement.
Scalable, high-throughput backends
Distributed services, event-driven architectures, caching, and data partitioning designed for real production load — not a demo. We plan for 10x before you need it.
High availability & resilience
Redundancy, graceful degradation, idempotent processing, and tested failover. 99.99% uptime is an engineering discipline, not a hosting checkbox.
Bespoke enterprise platforms
When the process is your competitive advantage, we build the platform around it — ERP, CRM, workflow, and line-of-business systems — rather than forcing your business into someone else's product.
Legacy modernisation
Strangler-fig migrations from VB6, classic ASP, on-prem SQL, or monoliths to modern, observable services — without a risky big-bang rewrite.
Observability & operations
Metrics, tracing, alerting, and runbooks baked in from day one, so problems are found by dashboards rather than customers.
Audit, security & compliance
Audit trails, role-based access, encryption, and POPIA/GDPR considerations — with the reporting layer to prove it all works.
Technologies we use
We pick tools to fit the problem — not the other way around. For platform engineering work, you'll typically see:
Industries we've delivered platform engineering for
Sectors where we've shipped real platform & backend engineering work.
Talk to us about your platform engineering project
Cape Town-based, 25+ years engineering business-critical systems. Tell us what you're trying to build and a senior engineer will come back with a realistic plan.
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