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ReadXSEVEN · Palermo
Products, platforms and infrastructure. Built to work.
From idea to production, XSEVEN builds digital solutions and the infrastructure that makes them reliable.
- Products & platforms
- Development & integration
- Infrastructure & delivery
Some of the companies we work with
All collaborations- years of industry experience
- 20+
- long-term clients
- 9
- projects delivered
- 50+
01 — Products & platforms
From field experience, products ready for production.
XSEVEN platforms are built on our experience in software development and infrastructure management to address practical needs. Discover what you can do with each product and who it is designed for.
- Problem solved
- Personal and work commitments are spread across different calendars. CalFuse connects them to reduce clashes and manual updates without exposing details that should remain private.
- Who it’s for
- Professionals, consultants and small teams coordinating multiple accounts and calendars.
- Calendar Sync and Mono — One-way or two-way connections, dedicated filters and a unified view of commitments.
- Scheduling Links and Quick Schedule — Shareable booking pages and an assistant that proposes calendar changes before explicit confirmation.
- Insights, Spaces and Contacts — Time analysis, Life Index, shared calendars and contacts for organising appointments.
Status: XCLOUD infrastructure · Developed by XSEVEN
- Problem solved
- Building a professional online presence means coordinating content, design, development and technical operations. CloudSpray gathers information confirmed by the client and turns it into a website proposal to review before publication.
- Who it’s for
- Companies and local businesses that want a bespoke website and independent control over their content.
- A proposal that fits the business — Structure, style, text and images are based on information confirmed by the client, with review before publication.
- Dedicated CMS and multiple sites — Update pages, content and images independently. One account manages multiple sites, each with its own environment and subscription.
- Hosting and publication — XCLOUD infrastructure, HTTPS and delivery through Cloudflare, using an existing domain or domain purchase and technical management with the client as registrant.
Status: XCLOUD infrastructure · Developed by XSEVEN
02 — From idea to production
Software and infrastructure, designed together.
Four steps, one team. Every software decision accounts for where and how it will run.
- 01
Understand the problem
We start from context: goals, constraints, existing systems and people involved. Before writing code, we understand what needs to change.
- 02
Design the solution
We design application architecture and infrastructure together, because each shapes the other.
- 03
Build and integrate
We build in short iterations, integrate existing systems and automate build and test from day one.
- 04
Ship and maintain
Automated release, observability and runbooks: the system stays understandable and governable after handover.
software ↔ infrastructure01 · Product
03 — Solutions
Expertise across the whole lifecycle of a system.
01
Product & platform development
Have a product idea or a system to integrate? We design it, build it and take it to production together with the infrastructure that runs it.
Learn more →02DevOps consulting
Slow releases, unclear ownership, hard-to-diagnose incidents? We assess the process and introduce automation that sticks.
Learn more →03Cloud & infrastructure
Unpredictable cloud costs or infrastructure that grew without a plan? We design, migrate and run cloud, bare-metal and hybrid environments.
Learn more →04CI/CD & automation
Is every release an event? We automate the path from commit to production, with tests, secret management and defined rollbacks.
Learn more →04 — Field experience
From AWS to bare metal: a cloud repatriation case.
Anonymous client · case documented on our blog
Context
- Production platform on AWS with EC2, RDS, S3 and managed services; monthly spend in the tens of thousands of euros, predictable traffic.
Decision
- Move to dedicated Leaseweb bare-metal servers without changing the application layer.
Approach
- Kubernetes on bare metal with the same images, Helm charts and CI/CD pipelines; parallel run before cutover.
Described benefits
- Spend down to a few thousand euros per month, faster incident diagnosis, full infrastructure-as-code, zero-downtime cutover.
Trade-offs
- High availability, backup and disaster recovery had to be built in-house: more operational responsibility for the team.
AWS → BARE METAL · LEASEWEB
- EC2
- Kubernetes · kubeadm
- EBS
- Longhorn
- S3
- MinIO
- RDS PostgreSQL
- PostgreSQL + Patroni
- ALB
- HAProxy + Keepalived
- CloudWatch
- Prometheus + Grafana
- VPC / NAT
- WireGuard
Project phases · about 3 months
Assessment · 2wBuild · 3wParallel run · 4wData · 2wCutover · 1d
05 — People
You talk to the people who design and run your system.
A small, focused team. The people who define the architecture are the ones who build it and answer for it.
About the company06 — Insights
Notes from daily work on AI, software and infrastructure.
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