Migration and modernization specialists
0
%

of legacy migration projects blow the budget or timeline. We are the other 27%.

Legacy System Migration

Your legacy system is slowing your team down. We fix that. On schedule. Without downtime.

We migrate legacy monoliths to cloud-native architecture, ship zero-downtime cutovers, and build CI/CD pipelines that let your team release the same day code is ready. Every engagement starts with a two-week assessment — no code moves without a signed-off architecture plan.

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
Why migrations fail

Most legacy migrations fail before the first cutover. The patterns are predictable. So are the fixes.

0%
of migrations run over budget or timeline
Under-scoped data complexity and undocumented integration dependencies account for most overruns.
0x
more expensive to rearchitect after go-live than before Sprint 1
Architectural flaws discovered in production cost exponentially more to fix than the same flaws caught in the assessment.
0%
of developers lose productivity each year they stay on a legacy codebase
Staying on legacy is not free. Technical debt compounds faster than a migration costs.
Undocumented dependencies
The legacy system maps no one memorized become the hidden landmines of every migration. When discovery happens mid-build, you have already committed the budget.
No rollback plan
When the cutover fails and there is no documented rollback path, the only option is to push forward into a broken state. Most teams do not know their rollback does not work until go-live.
Big-bang migrations
Moving the entire system at once with no incremental traffic shifting and no parallel validation turns a technical cutover into an organizational crisis. One failure takes down everything.
Architecture before and after

The gap between your current system and what it should be — made visible in one drag.

This is a representative sample of the architecture and deployment pipeline we deliver. Drag left to see where most teams start. Drag right to see where they finish.

Legacy monolith — single deploy unit
# 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 — independent services
# 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
Current state
After migration
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Deploy frequency
Weekly (or less)Multiple times per day
Recovery time
4+ hours (P1 alert)Under 7 minutes
Scale unit
Whole app scales or failsScale only what's under load
Test suite
Slow, brittle, blocks releasesFast, isolated, runs per service
Migration and modernization capabilities

Four migration types. One consistent approach: no code moves without a signed-off architecture plan.

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

Break the monolith. Keep the business running.

We use the strangler fig pattern: extract the highest-value service domain first, run it alongside the monolith, then shift traffic incrementally. We never attempt a full rewrite. We migrate service by service. At no phase does a user see downtime. Your team ships new features into the new architecture while the old system is still serving traffic.

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

Move to the cloud first. Cut infrastructure costs second.

Lift-and-shift gets you to the cloud. Cloud-native refactoring cuts your monthly infrastructure bill. We do both in the right order: move first, optimize second. We write your target architecture, provision infrastructure as code, and migrate workloads in stages. Each stage has a tested rollback gate.

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

PHP 5. Rails 3. .NET Framework. We have seen them all.

PHP 5 to PHP 8. Rails 3 to Rails 7. .NET Framework to .NET 8. We replace deprecated libraries, refactor anti-patterns, and add automated test coverage. Then we ship CI/CD pipelines so your team can release on the same day code is ready — not after a two-week manual QA cycle.

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
Platform and data migration
04

Platform and data migration

E-commerce platform switches, database engine changes, CMS replacements. We write migration scripts with dry-run mode, run parallel validation against both systems, and define a hard cutover point with a verified rollback path. We test the rollback before we schedule the cutover. No exceptions.

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: B2B SaaS

From weekly deploys to 8x per day: legacy monolith to cloud-native microservices on AWS. 20 weeks. Zero downtime.

Product and engineering leads reviewing a healthy green uptime monitoring dashboard after a successful cloud migration
SaaS PlatformCloud-native migration
A B2B SaaS company serving enterprise customers ran its core platform on a monolithic Rails application. Every deploy took 3 hours and required a freeze window. A single service failure brought down the entire platform. The team needed to move to microservices without a cutover that would disrupt paying customers. We delivered the migration in 20 weeks with zero unplanned downtime and 47 integration points documented before the first line of new code was written.
0x
faster release cadence after migration
0%
unplanned downtime across the entire cutover
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.
47 integration points mapped. Zero surprises after week 2.
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 CI/CD build
Core application domains migrated with parallel validation. Continuous integration and delivery pipelines with automated testing and rolling deployments built per service.
Deploy frequency jumped from weekly to 8 times 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 full 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

Other migrations fail mid-build. Here is why ours do not.

01: Architecture first
🗺

No undocumented surprises. Every dependency mapped before Sprint 1.

Every migration starts with a 2-week assessment: codebase audit, dependency map, integration inventory, and target architecture sign-off. Most migrations blow the budget because hidden dependencies surface mid-build. Our assessment removes that specific risk before any code moves.

Legacy modernization →
02: Incremental delivery
🔄

Sprint 1 ships to production. You see results in weeks, not months.

We use the strangler fig pattern for application migration and incremental traffic routing for cutover. Each phase puts something real into production and maintains a tested rollback path. You are not waiting 6 months for a big-bang launch. Sprint 1 ships to production.

Software migration services →
03: Rollback is a deliverable, not an afterthought
🛡

We test the rollback before we schedule 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 the next phase starts. The cutover weekend is not the moment you discover whether rollback works. By that point, it is already tested and boring.

Monolith to microservices →
Questions we get every time

The questions CTOs and engineering leads ask before they sign off on a migration.

We handle legacy application modernization, monolith to microservices migration, cloud migration, database migration, and platform re-architecture. For the full service list, see software migration services and monolith to microservices migration.

We use the strangler fig pattern for most migrations: build the new system alongside the old one, route traffic incrementally, and remove legacy components only after the new system handles 100% of traffic without errors. We enforce zero-downtime deployments through blue-green or rolling update strategies from the first production release — meaning your users never see a maintenance window.

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.

We treat data migration as a separate workstream from application migration. We write migration scripts with a dry-run mode and a verified rollback path, run parallel validation against both the old and new systems, and define a hard cutover point with zero data loss. We do not begin a data migration without a tested rollback plan. If a dry run reveals data integrity issues, we fix them before the production run — not during it.

Yes, over 12 to 18 months. Developer productivity on legacy codebases drops 10 to 30 percent per year as technical debt builds. Unplanned outages on monolithic systems cost 3 to 8 times more to recover from than failures in distributed architectures. Most clients recover their full migration investment within 12 to 18 months through lower ops overhead and faster release cadence. The cost of staying on legacy compounds. The cost of migration is finite.

Book a migration assessment

Your legacy system is a known risk. A two-week assessment tells you the exact cost to fix it.

You get a full migration readiness report. We respond within two business days. No commitment until you see the plan.

Your team spends 3 to 5 hours per sprint on review and sign-off. We own the migration architecture, write the data migration scripts, run the parallel validation, and manage the cutover.

Form

Send brief today. Call within 48 hours. Migration readiness assessment in 3 days. Sprint 1 starts week 2.

48 hours
First response
Zero
Downtime at cutover
Week 2
Sprint 1 in production
Rollback
Tested before cutover
Engineering team reviewing all-green monitoring dashboards on a wall display after a successful migration cutover
Your legacy system is a known problem. Most teams stay on it because migration feels risky. We remove the risk. We fix the system.

No commitment. No pitch. Response within 48 hours.

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