Skills and stack

Use the right stack without adding unnecessary complexity

Port60’s technical story is rooted in enterprise Java, Spring, cloud platforms, integration, and the kind of engineering work that helps complex organisations modernise without losing control of delivery.

The point of the stack is not to create a wall of logos. It is to show that the consultancy is credible in the environments where legacy applications, live delivery, and platform change meet.

Abstract technical stack illustration featuring Java, Spring, AWS, Azure, Oracle, Python, Messaging, and related platform services.

Technology areas

Technology choices shaped around real delivery

This is a curated view of the technology Port60 is most likely to use, advise on, or step into quickly when a client needs to modernise, stabilise, or scale an existing platform.

Core engineering

  • Java 8/11/17+
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Security
  • Hibernate
  • JEE
  • RESTful services
  • Microservices

Frontend and UI support

  • React
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Redux
  • JSF
  • Backbone
  • Micro-frontends

Cloud and platform

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway

Data and integration

  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • MS SQL Server
  • DB2
  • Kafka
  • JMS
  • Active Directory
  • Keycloak
  • Rule engines

Delivery and quality

  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCI
  • Azure DevOps
  • Maven
  • Gradle
  • Jenkins
  • TDD/BDD

Consulting strengths

Technical depth that translates into delivery outcomes

Port60 is strongest where the stack is tied to difficult delivery questions: how to modernise, how to simplify, how to integrate better, and how to improve confidence without stopping the business.

Enterprise Java depth

Strong grounding in Java and the surrounding enterprise ecosystem, including older estates that still matter and newer Spring Boot services that need to be designed for cleaner change.

Cloud-native transition

Comfortable shaping the move from on-prem or tightly coupled hosting models towards AWS and Azure patterns that improve deployability, resilience, and observability.

Integration-heavy platforms

Experienced with systems where APIs, messaging, data boundaries, authentication, and third-party services all need to align for the wider platform to behave well.

Delivery under real constraints

The strongest technical work often sits inside regulated, multi-team, or politically sensitive programmes where communication and judgement matter as much as code.

Ways of working

Work in a way teams can absorb

The aim is not to introduce more process theatre. It is to improve architecture, delivery, and engineering confidence in a way teams can sustain after the engagement ends.

  • Architecture reviews and modernisation planning
  • Hands-on implementation and technical problem solving
  • Mentoring, developer enablement, and shared platform thinking
  • Agile delivery, TDD, and release pipeline improvement
  • Stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical groups
  • Security-conscious engineering in regulated environments

Typical platform themes

Strongest in estates that need modernisation, not novelty

These are the platform themes where Port60 tends to add the most value: older systems, regulated change, cloud transition, and services that need clearer boundaries.

Legacy Java applications Spring Boot services AWS migration Azure identity and services Secure document handling Payments and financial workflows Shared services and platform enablement Integration and orchestration Rule engines
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