Modernization & Cloud Moves
A road out of the parts that hurt — without a rewrite.
The rewrite is the most expensive way to modernize a working system, and the least likely to finish. Our modernization work takes the other road: incremental, reversible steps that keep the business running on the system that already runs it — while steadily giving you a way out of the parts that hurt.
Paths we build
- Stabilize the foundation — supported PHP and MySQL versions, dependency management under Composer, configuration out of the code, secrets out of the repo. Modernization starts with a system that is safe to change.
- Incremental refactors — introduce a framework (or just a router and a DI container) at the edges of the legacy codebase, and move routes across one at a time. New code gets tests; old code gets replaced only when touching it pays.
- Strangler-pattern migrations — stand a new component beside the legacy application, route a slice of traffic to it, reconcile, expand. Big-bang cutovers are for systems nobody depends on.
- Containerization — the application in Docker with parity between a developer's laptop and production, which alone removes a whole class of "works on the old server" risk.
- Cloud moves — lift-and-shift to AWS (EC2, RDS for MySQL) when the goal is leaving a fragile server, or re-platforming onto managed services where it earns its complexity. We move state carefully, rehearse cutovers against restored backups, and keep DNS-level rollback until the new home is proven.
What we don't do
We do not open with "rewrite it in a modern stack." If a rewrite is ever the right answer, it will be obvious from the incremental work — not a leap of faith taken up front.
Hourly time and materials; each step scoped so it delivers value even if you stop after it. Tell us where the system hurts and we will sketch the first step.
Each step scoped to deliver value even if you stop after it.
Sketch the first step