Migration and modernization company
0
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of legacy migration projects exceed budget or timeline. We are the other 27%.

Migration and Modernization

The migration and modernization company that ships on schedule. Legacy systems replaced without rewriting history.

We replace legacy monoliths, outdated infrastructure, and brittle codebases with cloud-native architecture, zero-downtime deployments, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Every migration starts with an assessment before any code moves.

Current engagement
Monolith Migration • Phase 3 of 6
In progress
Assessment
Done
Architecture
Done
Decompose
0%
Data migration
Queued
CI/CD build
Queued
Cutover
Queued
On time
Sprint 14
Services split
6 / 18
Downtime
Zero
Engineering team reviewing a side-by-side legacy-monolith vs new-microservices architecture diagram on large monitors
The migration failure pattern

Legacy systems do not fail all at once. They fail incrementally, one missed deadline at a time.

0%
of migrations exceed original budget
Most caused by under-scoped data complexity and undocumented integration dependencies.
0x
more expensive to rearchitect in production versus designing it right from Sprint 1
The cost of discovering architectural flaws post-launch is not linear.
0%
of developers report reduced productivity on legacy codebases each year technical debt compounds
Staying on legacy is not free. It has a compounding cost that grows faster than migration.
Undocumented dependencies
Nobody mapped what the legacy system actually connects to before the migration started. Discovery happens mid-build, after budget is committed.
No rollback plan
The cutover happens as a single large event. When something fails at go-live, there is no documented path back to the old system.
Big-bang migration
The entire system is moved at once. No incremental traffic shifting. No parallel validation. One high-risk cutover weekend that everyone dreads.
Architecture before and after

Drag to reveal the exact difference between what you have and what you get.

This is not a concept diagram. This is a representative sample of the architecture and deployment pipeline we ship. Drag the divider left to see the legacy state, right to see the modernized state.

Legacy monolith architecture
# app/controllers/orders_controller.rb
classOrdersController<ApplicationController
defcreate
# validate, inventory check, payment,
# email, logging - all inline
@order = Order.create(params)
InventoryService.deduct(@order)
PaymentGateway.charge(@order)
Mailer.send_confirmation(@order)
Logger.log(@order)
end
end
Single deploy unitTightly coupledManual deploysOne failure = full outage
Cloud-native microservices architecture
# order-service/src/handlers/create.ts
export constcreateOrder = async (ctx) => {
const order = await OrderRepo.create(ctx.body);
// Publish event, services handle their own concerns
await eventBus.publish({
topic: 'orders.created',
payload: order
});
return ctx.ok(order);
};
Independent servicesEvent-drivenZero-downtime deploysIsolated failures
Legacy
Modernized
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Deploy frequency
Weekly at bestMultiple/day
Recovery time
4+ hoursUnder 7 min
Scale unit
Whole appPer service
Test suite
Fragile / slowFast / isolated
Migration and modernization capabilities

Four migration types. One consistent approach: assess before you move anything.

Developer reviewing data-migration validation output in VS Code with a green successful migration run in the terminal
Monolith to microservices
01

Monolith to microservices migration

We use the strangler fig pattern: extract the highest-value service domain first, run it in parallel with the monolith, then route traffic incrementally. We do not attempt a full rewrite. We migrate service by service with zero downtime at each phase.

Strangler figEvent-drivenKubernetes
Monolith to microservices migration →
Migration Progress • Strangler Fig Phase 2
Orders ServiceLive100% traffic
Inventory ServiceRouting60% traffic
Payments ServiceBuilding0% traffic
Legacy MonolithStrangled40% remaining
Cloud migration
02

On-premises to cloud migration

Lift-and-shift gets you to the cloud. Cloud-native refactoring makes it cheaper to run there. We do both in sequence: move first, optimize second. We define the target cloud architecture, provision infrastructure as code, and migrate workloads in stages with rollback gates at every phase.

AWS / Azure / GCPTerraform / BicepZero-downtime cutover
Cloud migration services →
Cloud Migration Tracker
Migrated
14 / 22
workloads
Est. savings
$8.4k
per month
All environments reproducible from Terraform • Zero portal drift
Legacy modernization
03

Legacy application modernization

PHP 5 to PHP 8. Rails 3 to Rails 7. .NET Framework to .NET 8. We upgrade and modernize legacy applications by replacing deprecated libraries, refactoring anti-patterns, adding automated test coverage, and shipping continuous integration and delivery pipelines so every future change is safe and fast.

PHP modernization.NET upgradeTest coverage
Legacy application modernization →
Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline • Post-modernization
✔ php-lint .......................... 4s
✔ unit-tests (847 passed) ........... 38s
✔ integration-tests ................ 62s
✔ sast-scan (0 critical) ........... 14s
✔ build-image ...................... 28s
✔ deploy:staging .................. 12s
Software migration
04

Platform and data migration

Ecommerce platform changes, database engine migrations, content management system replacements. We build migration scripts with dry-run capability, run parallel validation against both systems, and define a clear cutover point with a documented rollback path. We do not migrate without a verified rollback plan.

Dry-run scriptsParallel validationRollback plan
Software migration services →
Data Migration Validator
users284,719 / 284,719
orders1,847,221 / 1,847,221
media_assets14,832 / 14,850 • checking
Dry run complete • 0 data loss • Rollback verified
Client result

SaaS platform modernization: legacy monolith to cloud-native microservices on AWS in 20 weeks.

Product and engineering leads reviewing a healthy green uptime monitoring dashboard after a successful cloud migration
SaaS PlatformCloud-native migration
A business-to-business SaaS platform required modernization of a legacy monolithic application to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment speed. The objective was to transition to a cloud-native architecture supporting faster releases and resilient operations without disrupting existing users.
0x
faster deployment velocity
0%
unplanned downtime post-launch
Architecture delivered
AWS EKSDockerContinuous integration and delivery pipelinesMicroservicesRolling updates
Migration timeline • 20 weeks
Weeks 1-2
Migration readiness assessment
Codebase audit, dependency mapping, and target architecture defined. 47 integration points documented before any code moved.
Architecture Decision Record approved
Weeks 3-6
Service boundary extraction
Authentication, billing, and user management extracted first. Docker containers built. AWS EKS cluster provisioned via Terraform.
3 services extracted, zero downtime
Weeks 7-14
Core domain migration and continuous integration and delivery
Core application domains migrated with parallel validation. Continuous integration and delivery pipelines with automated testing and rolling deployments built per service.
Deploy frequency: weekly to 8x per day
Weeks 15-18
Traffic migration and cutover
Incremental traffic routing: 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%. Each increment validated for 48 hours before the next. Rollback tested and confirmed at each gate.
Zero unplanned downtime
Weeks 19-20
Legacy decommission and handover
Legacy system decommissioned after 30 days of parallel operation. Full runbook, monitoring dashboards, and on-call playbook handed to client team.
Full ownership transferred
Why hire migration and modernization experts

Three reasons to hire a migration and modernization consultant here when migrations fail elsewhere.

01: Architecture first
🗺

We document the full system before moving anything

Every migration starts with a 2-week assessment: codebase audit, dependency map, integration inventory, and target architecture. Most migrations fail because undocumented dependencies are discovered mid-build. Our assessment removes that risk before any code moves.

Legacy modernization →
02: Incremental delivery
🔄

No big-bang migrations. Value in every sprint.

We use the strangler fig pattern for application migration and incremental traffic routing for cutover. Each phase delivers something in production and has a documented rollback path. You are not waiting 6 months to see results. Sprint 1 ships to production.

Software migration services →
03: Rollback as a first-class deliverable
🛡

We test the rollback before we test the cutover

Every data migration script has a dry-run mode and a verified rollback. Every traffic routing phase is validated against the rollback path before advancing. The cutover weekend is not the moment you discover whether rollback works. It should already be tested and boring.

Monolith to microservices →
Common questions

What chief technology officers and engineering leads ask before a migration engagement.

We handle legacy application modernization, monolith to microservices migration, cloud migration, database migration, and platform re-architecture. See the full list of migration services at software migration services and monolith to microservices migration.

We use a strangler fig pattern for most migrations: build the new system alongside the old one, route traffic incrementally, and decommission legacy components only after the new system is proven. Zero-downtime deployments are enforced through blue-green or rolling update strategies from the first production release.

A legacy application modernization typically takes 3 to 6 months depending on codebase size, integration count, and data complexity. A monolith to microservices migration typically runs 4 to 8 months. We scope the timeline against your actual codebase during the assessment before quoting, and deliver value in every sprint rather than at the end.

Data migration is scoped as a separate workstream from application migration. We build migration scripts with dry-run capability and a rollback path, run parallel validation against both systems, and define a clear cutover point with zero data loss. We do not migrate data without a validated rollback plan.

Staying on legacy compounds. Developer productivity on legacy codebases degrades 10 to 30 percent per year as technical debt accumulates. Unplanned outages on monolithic systems cost 3 to 8 times more to recover from than on distributed architectures. Most clients recover migration costs within 12 to 18 months through reduced ops overhead and faster release velocity.

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Rollback
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Engineering team reviewing all-green monitoring dashboards on a wall display after a successful migration cutover
Your legacy system does not have to be a liability. With the right migration and modernization company, it can be your next competitive advantage.

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