In late 2021, the four of us were on a video call complaining about a Helm chart. Between us we had built this exact stack — Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog, Vault, an in-house audit log — at Scandit, Beekeeper, Sonar and ProtonMail. None of it was novel. None of it was a moat. And every time, the price of "we run our own infra" was four senior engineers who'd rather be shipping product.
We left those jobs in February 2022 and started Scalable in a one-room office on Calle Serrano. The first version deployed in thirty-eight seconds. We thought that was magic. The hundredth customer told us thirty-eight seconds was nice, but they'd switch for signed audit logs and EU residency. So we built that next.
Three years on we've kept the same shape: a small team, no vanity metrics, and a product that does the boring, regulated, multi-region production work — so the engineers using it can do the interesting work. We are profitable, founder-led, and not for sale.