Application Modernization
Lifting an application into the cloud unchanged usually makes it more expensive, not better. We work out which applications repay the effort of real change, and — just as usefully — which ones should be left alone.
Outcomes we hold ourselves to.
- A shortlist of the applications worth changing, with the reasoning written down
- The first one or two actually delivered, not just designed
- An honest list of what to leave exactly as it is
What we usually find.
Not a sales pitch — these are the things that turn up again and again when we open the estate. If two or three sound familiar, you are in normal territory.
The monolith is not really the problem. The database every service still writes to is.
Three services were already extracted. All three still read and write the same tables.
The application that gets blamed for everything turns out to change twice a year and work fine.
Nobody owns the batch job that runs at 3am, but everything downstream depends on it.
None of this is unusual, and none of it means anyone did a bad job. Estates accumulate. The work is finding out what is actually there before deciding what to change.
How we deliver it.
Portfolio assessment
Per-application scoring on value, debt, change rate and return.
Containerization
Hardened images, health probes, twelve-factor config and a secure registry.
Monolith decomposition
Domain analysis, strangler-fig sequencing and data separation.
Serverless & managed services
Event-driven design, with honest analysis of when not to.
Data platforms
Lakehouse architecture, ingestion, orchestration and governance.
Tools & platforms
Senior engineers, start to finish.
The engineer who scopes this work delivers it. You will know the team by name, they will sit in your standups, and they will still be there at the handover.
How we workReady to move on this?
Book thirty minutes with a senior engineer and get a straight answer on scope and cost.