The Infrastructure Tax
Engineers are paying a hidden tax you don't see. Every day, engineering teams worldwide sacrifice thousands of hours to the "Infrastructure Tax" — the cost of managing deployment pipelines, cloud resources, and operational complexity instead of building products.
"Infrastructure complexity is the most underestimated tax on engineering productivity today."
— State of DevOps Report, 2024
Infrastructure complexity has exploded in the last decade. What started as simple deployment scripts has evolved into complex orchestration systems that can consume up to 80% of engineering time.
But it doesn't have to be this way. A new generation of tools and approaches is emerging that can reduce or eliminate this tax, freeing engineers to focus on building remarkable products.
Global Impact
Teams reporting infrastructure impacts on delivery timelines
Economic Cost
Engineering time at risk of being lost to infrastructure
Innovation Impact
CTOs reporting infrastructure as a barrier to innovation
Calculate Your Infrastructure Tax
See exactly how much the Infrastructure Tax is costing your organization in both time and money.
01Your Engineering Profile
02Your Infrastructure Tax Bill
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Companies That Eliminated Their Tax
Real organizations that have reclaimed engineering hours and capital by addressing infrastructure complexity.
Bookshop.org
Moved from Ruby on Rails to Go microservices, enabling rapid product innovation without infrastructure overhead.
"We would never have been able to build our ebooks product in the time we did without modern infrastructure tools."
Quiqup
Built a scalable logistics platform without hiring dedicated DevOps engineers.
"Not hiring dedicated DevOps engineers is $180k per year in cost savings. Using Encore is a no-brainer."
Carla
Scaled to $50M+ ARR without hiring dedicated DevOps engineers by adopting modern infrastructure automation.
"Encore lets us scale our infrastructure footprint, without hiring DevOps engineers. The ROI we've seen is outstanding, easily 10x."
Modern Infrastructure Automation
The key to eliminating the Infrastructure Tax is adopting modern infrastructure automation that handles the undifferentiated heavy lifting for you.
By using tools like Encore, engineering teams can automate over 90% of the manual work traditionally associated with infrastructure management.
Reduced time-to-market
Ship new features in days instead of weeks or months, allowing your team to iterate faster and respond to market opportunities.
Smaller team requirements
Scale your application without proportionally scaling your team, making your engineering organization more efficient and cost-effective.
Focus on innovation
Engineers spend time on features that differentiate your product, driving real business value instead of maintaining infrastructure.
