Express 42

Express 42 is a DevOps consultancy in Russia, and it helps organisations get better at building and delivering software. Its website is in Russian, and the firm describes its work as improving the software development lifecycle through practices, platforms and cloud infrastructure.

Services

• Diagnostics: benchmarking of the software development lifecycle, DevOps and DevSecOps assessments, and reviews of practices, infrastructure and internal developer platforms.
• Implementation: setting up engineering practices, cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines and developer platforms, including Deckhouse Kubernetes rollouts.
• Modernisation: moving applications to Kubernetes distributions that do not depend on imported software, and between public clouds.
• Strategy: digital production strategy, plus plans for digital sovereignty and operational resilience.
• Research: the annual State of DevOps Russia study, held since 2020.

Customers and markets

Client letters on the firm's site include one from Bonasource about moving test environments to AWS.

Key facts

• Method: the firm delivers projects through its own Express Framework.
• Project tracking: project management runs on P3.express.