Description
What this service covers
Once the people who built an application have left, every release starts to feel risky. We bring it back under control: it runs on a developer laptop, dependency versions are locked, smoke tests exist, secrets are removed from the repository and the path to production is documented. Automated tools speed up the inventory, and a specialist reviews every finding before it goes into the report. You also receive an honest view of which parts are worth keeping, with estimated cost ranges for each option.
What you receive
- Containerised local development setup with step-by-step written instructions
- Version check on every dependency and framework, with a suggested upgrade path
- Smoke tests for login and the five most important user journeys
- Secrets moved from the repository into environment settings
- Full written release process, including how to roll a release back
- Risk register rating each item for severity, effort and likely cost
- Recorded architecture walkthrough for your engineering team
The work in 4 stages
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Stage 1: Codebase review
We study the code, the database and any existing deployment setup.
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Stage 2: Stabilisation
Local setup, pinned dependencies and smoke tests are sorted out first.
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Stage 3: Write-up
We describe the system design, how data moves and how deployment works, all in plain language.
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Stage 4: Findings
You receive the scored risk list and a recommendation ready to put before whoever holds the budget.
Who it suits, and what we need from you
Ideal for
- Businesses that can no longer contact the developer or agency behind their system
- Applications stuck on framework releases no longer supported
- Founders weighing up whether to keep the current system or rebuild
What we need from you
- Full repository access and credentials for staging or production
- An hour with anyone who remembers why earlier decisions were made
- Database access, or a cleaned database dump we can restore
You share these through the brief on your order page after checkout.
What changes for your team
- Your developers can run and change the application with confidence
- Obvious security gaps are found and closed
- The keep-or-rebuild decision rests on evidence, not frustration
Questions about this service
What if the code turns out worse than we thought?
Which programming languages can you handle?
Will you fix bugs as part of this?
This is a remote service: nothing is shipped physically, and the work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery and handover and refunds and cancellation for the full terms.
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