Photon

At Slice, we had a problem. Deploying microservices was painful. Too many steps, too much context-switching, too many opportunities for human error.

So we built Photon.

Photon automates microservices deployment through simple commands. No more jumping between consoles. No more copy-pasting configuration. Just tell Photon what you want, and it handles the rest.

Under the hood, it manages:

  • Logging — Centralized, searchable, and correlated across services
  • Tracing — Distributed tracing out of the box
  • Deployment patterns — Blue-green, canary, rolling updates

The results spoke for themselves. By February 2021, Photon had streamlined deployments across 50+ services. What used to take hours now took minutes. What used to require tribal knowledge now had a consistent interface.

The best internal tools feel invisible. They remove friction so completely that you forget the pain that existed before them.

That's what Photon became for us — not just a deployment tool, but a force multiplier for the entire engineering organization.