Legacy application modernization services that fix before they rebuild

Because we will tell you when you do not need a rebuild. Most systems we are asked to replace need a fix: better hosting, one slow query, an unsupported dependency. When a rebuild is the cheaper path, we say why in writing, then do it piece by piece so the system stays live. The code sits in your repository from the first commit, and every URL that works today still works afterwards. We are a legacy software modernization company in India, with our own team in Mohali, and we agree the overlap hours with you before the work starts.

Usually, yes, and we check that first. A slow system is more often than not a hosting, image or database index problem, and that is days of work, not months. We ask for three numbers before anything else: time to first byte, the largest asset on the page and the slowest query in the log. A rebuild only makes sense when two or more of the five signs on this page apply.

In phases. Each PHP module is put behind an API and replaced by a Node.js service one at a time. The database is not migrated in the same step: the new services read and write the existing schema first, and schema changes come later, once traffic has moved. The application stays live throughout, and that is why we can say in advance which URLs will still work afterwards: all of them.

Our published migration receipt is a framework move of our own 10,723-page site, timezones.in, rebuilt on Next.js with no URL lost, counted from its sitemap before and after the move. For PHP the method is wrap, replace and switch, and the URL check is the one we ran on timezones.in. Much of our client work sits under NDA, so on the call we walk you through the module order, the data plan and the way back for your own system.

Probably not. Microservices let separate teams deploy separately, and they cost you more servers, more monitoring and more ways to fail. A team of fewer than about ten developers is usually better served by one well-organised codebase with the one or two areas that change most split out. We will tell you if yours is the exception.

The first replaced module usually goes live in four to six weeks, and the whole job depends on the size of the codebase and how many of its parts need replacing. We run it as a scoped project, or on the retainer if the system will keep changing after the move. Either way you see working software every few weeks, not a status report.

Tests on the logic that matters, a deployment anyone on your team can run, and notes a new developer can read in an afternoon. Every system ages, whatever it is built on. What makes one legacy is nobody being able to change it safely, so what we hand over is the ability to change it: the code, the tests and the accounts, all in your name.

It takes software that has become hard or risky to change and makes it workable again, by fixing it, upgrading what it runs on, or replacing it piece by piece. A good one starts by telling you which of those you need and what each costs. The work is done remotely, the code stays in your repository, and the old system keeps running until its replacement is proven.

Boffin Coders' legacy application modernization services include an assessment of the current system, a fix-or-rebuild recommendation with the reasons, the migration itself, URL and data preservation, and a cut-over plan with a way back. PHP or .NET to Node.js is the common path. Priced from the published rates and scoped once, so you know the number before the work starts. The URL check is the one we ran on timezones.in, our own 10,723-page site, when we moved it to Next.js.