IT Services
Database design & optimization
The layer everything else depends on, and the one most projects get wrong quietly.
Delivered for companies in the United States and in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. How we work
What this includes
- Schema design and normalization
- Index and query optimization
- Data migration and cleansing
- Reporting-friendly modeling
- Backup and recovery strategy
- Replication and scaling
What it is
Applications rarely slow down because of the code. They slow down because a schema designed for a thousand rows is now holding ten million, because the right index does not exist, or because a report runs a query that was never intended to. This work fixes the layer underneath — and is often the cheapest performance gain available.
What is included
- Schema design and normalization
- A data model that reflects your business rules, with constraints in the database so invalid data cannot be written by any route.
- Index and query optimization
- Profiling real queries against real data volumes, then adding the indexes that matter and removing the ones costing write performance for nothing.
- Data migration and cleansing
- Moving years of data out of legacy systems and spreadsheets, including the duplicate, malformed and contradictory records that always exist.
- Reporting-friendly modeling
- Structuring data so analytical queries do not fight the transactional workload — often the reason a dashboard slows down the whole application.
- Backup and recovery strategy
- Automated backups plus tested restores. An untested backup is a hope, not a strategy, and most teams discover this at the worst moment.
- Replication and scaling
- Read replicas, connection pooling and partitioning where the workload justifies them, and plain advice when it does not.
Constraints are documentation that cannot rot
Foreign keys, unique constraints and check constraints keep bad data out permanently, in a way application-level validation never quite manages once a second service, an import script or a manual fix gets involved.
Migrations without downtime
Schema changes on a live system with real users need a staged approach — add, backfill, switch, remove — so a deployment never requires a maintenance window your customers notice.
What happens next
From inquiry to work starting.
No obligation at any point before the scope is signed, and nothing you receive along the way is withheld if you decide not to continue.
Book a 30-minute call- 1
A 30-minute call
You talk to the people who would do the work. We ask what you are trying to achieve, what exists today and what your constraints are. No sales screening call first.
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A written scope and a price
We review your requirements with the engineers who would build it, work out what delivery actually takes, and send a scope with a number attached. Usually a few days, not an hour.
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A small first commitment
Most engagements open with a paid discovery sprint or a defined first release — enough to prove how we work before anything larger. What the sprint produces is usable on its own, whether or not we continue.
Proof, not promises
Work our team has delivered.
Each one is written up in full, with the figures that were measured. We would rather be specific than impressive.
5sales channels in one order queue
In-house product. A grocery business selling through five channels at once, where the real cost was not selling — it was the nightly reconciliation between a register, a spreadsheet, a phone and an online store that never quite agreed.
Read the case study2portals — customer and operations — from one codebase
In-house product. A recurring-delivery business where the operational load is not the deliveries themselves but the arithmetic around them — who gets what today, who paused, who owes, and what changes when one customer skips a week.
Read the case study6service lines, each with its own page
A facility-management company. Its buyers are procurement teams comparing vendors on paper, so the site has to make the single-vendor argument itself — and then make the inquiry effortless.
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Before you ask
Common questions
What does this cost?
Dedicated teams are priced monthly by team makeup; project work is priced from a written scope. We quote after a requirements conversation with our technical lead rather than from a rate card, so the number reflects what your work actually takes. Most relationships start with a paid discovery sprint, which is small enough to say yes to and gives us both something real to price from.
How does communication work during a project?
You get a named delivery lead, a demo of working software every week rather than a written status report, and a board and repository you can open at any time. We work across US and Gulf hours, so meetings happen at a normal hour for you — and we are a US company, so when you want to shake hands before committing, we meet you in person.
Who owns the code?
Your contract sets this out before work starts. Where it assigns the code, infrastructure configuration and design files to you, we work in your accounts and repositories wherever possible, and you get a working handover if you bring the work in-house or move to another vendor.
Do you only work in certain programming languages?
No. The stacks listed on our service pages are the ones we reach for by default, not the limit of what we take on. We work in whatever language and framework the job calls for — and when you already have systems running, we work in what they are built in rather than arguing for a rewrite. If your own team will maintain the result, that settles it: we build in what your team knows.
Often paired with
Related services
Platform & infrastructure
For systems that are already live, already have users, and can no longer be taken down for a rewrite.
Performance & speed optimization
Slow costs you customers before they ever contact you.
Custom software development
Software built around your business, not the other way around.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
A 30-minute call with the people who would do the work — not a sales team. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right team for it.
- On the call
- Your goals, what exists today and the first steps. No account manager in between.
- Afterwards
- A written scope and a price within days — or a straight answer that we are not the right team.
- No obligation
- Nothing is committed until a scope is signed, and anything we send you is yours to keep.
We reply to every inquiry within one business day. Prefer email? info@sparqweb.com