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Education & training · 2023
Rescue and rebuild of a stalled membership platform
Took over an abandoned build, stabilized it for existing members, then replaced it module by module with zero downtime.
- Client
- Professional training provider
- Engagement
- 16 weeks · 2 engineers
- Services
- Technical consultancy, Custom web applications
99.9%
Uptime through enrollment peaks
4 hrs → 6 min
Release time after CI
9,000
Member records migrated intact
The challenge
A previous supplier had left an unfinished platform with no tests, no documentation and a login that failed under load every enrollment period. Nine thousand members depended on it for certification records.
What we did
A two-week audit producing an honest risk register and a costed rescue plan Stopped the bleeding first: fixed authentication, added monitoring and automated backups Strangler-pattern replacement, shipping one module at a time behind feature flags A full test suite and CI pipeline so releases stopped being an event Documentation and a hand-over so the client is never locked to one supplier again
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