Scale-ups
The rebuild that has to happen without stopping the business.
A product that found its market usually did it on decisions taken when nobody knew whether it would work. Scaling is the bill for those decisions: the data model that groans, the deploy nobody dares run on a Friday, the feature only one person understands.
What goes wrong
- The architecture that got you here will not take the next order of magnitude
- Releases have become risky, so they happen less, so they get riskier
- Knowledge sits with one or two people and the bus factor is frightening
- Support load grows faster than revenue
What we do about it
Change the engine while it runs
Incremental migration with the old path live until the new one has proven itself. No big-bang rewrite weekend.
Make releases boring
Pipelines, environments and tests until shipping on a Friday is an unremarkable thing to do.
Write down what is in people’s heads
Documentation and tests around the parts only one person understands, so the business is not one resignation from trouble.
Cut the support load at source
The top support tickets are product bugs in disguise. We fix the cause rather than staffing the symptom.
Questions
Can you work alongside our existing team?
Yes, and usually that is the right shape: we take a workstream, and we leave the capability behind rather than making you dependent on us.
Do we have to rewrite?
Usually not. We will tell you plainly when a rewrite genuinely costs less than the repairs, and that answer is rarer than consultants suggest.
Services behind this
Let’s build aproduct thatlasts.
Whether it’s a first product or an established platform, we bring the research, the design and the engineering.