Solution 06 · Legacy modernisation
We refactor your system piece by piece while the old one keeps running alongside. Neither today’s software nor its database is touched, so going back is always possible.
You do not need all four. With two, the cost of doing nothing usually already exceeds the cost of starting.
The server, the framework or the runtime stopped receiving updates. From that point it is not a matter of convenience: it is a security problem and, the moment there is an audit, a compliance one.
Why it is urgent: every month without patches is another month of accumulated exposure.
Deployment is manual, happens overnight and keeps the system offline while it runs. That has a cost you already know, and it is what makes you deploy rarely, so every release carries more risk.
Why it is urgent: the less you deploy, the larger and more dangerous each change becomes.
What used to take an afternoon now takes a week. Not because the team got worse, but because each addition sits on top of the previous one and nobody holds the whole map in their head any more.
Why it is urgent: the curve does not flatten on its own; it only steepens.
Slowness the team has come to treat as normal, and crashes fixed by restarting. You live with it until it coincides with a peak.
Why it is urgent: instability shows up in front of your customers before it shows up in your charts.
The question people arrive with is not whether we can write code. It is whether we can touch their system without breaking their business on the way. This is the method, and it is why the answer is yes.
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One piece is chosen, built new and swapped in. The rest of the system carries on alongside without noticing. It repeats in phases, each with its own scope and fixed price.
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A background worker clones the information to the new system as it is produced, so both stay current throughout the transition. There is no migration day with everything stopped.
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Neither the existing software nor its database is modified at any point. This is what separates this method from a conventional migration, and it is deliberate.
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If a phase goes wrong, the new part is switched off and the old one is exactly where it was. There is nothing to undo, because nothing was ever undone.
In 30 minutes we look at it and tell you which piece we would start with, what the risk is and what happens if nothing is done this year.
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