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Engagements usually start with an assessment and continue with whichever of these the system actually needs. No step requires stopping feature work or freezing the codebase.
A fixed-scope review of the application: runtime and dependency risks, architecture, test coverage, deployment, and the realistic upgrade path. You receive a written report with prioritized steps and effort estimates, whether or not we work together afterwards.
Moving applications from PHP 5.x or 7.x to a supported 8.x release. Static analysis to find breaking changes before production does, replacement of removed extensions and abandoned packages, and a release plan that keeps the system running throughout.
Migrating from custom, Zend, Kohana, Yii, CodeIgniter or early Symfony and Laravel versions to a current Symfony or Laravel. Old and new code run side by side; routes move over one at a time, and each step can ship on its own.
Characterization tests around the behavior that matters, then clear boundaries, dependency injection, removal of dead code and duplicated logic. The goal is measurable: changes that used to take weeks take days, and fewer regressions reach production.
For systems that are failing in production: error monitoring, a reproducible local environment, a repeatable deployment, and root-cause fixes for the bugs that keep coming back. First make it stop hurting, then make it better.
Retained capacity for a business-critical system after the modernization work: security updates, dependency upgrades, performance fixes, and small features, delivered by the same person who already knows the codebase.
Describe the system and I will tell you where I would start. The case studies show what these look like in practice.