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Legacy Application Rescue Sprint

Two weeks spent making an inherited codebase safe to work on again, with the risks written down honestly.

Price incl. GST
₹24,999
Timeline
10 working days
Deliverables
7 listed below

Overview

About this service

Someone left, and now nobody wants to deploy on a Friday. We take an application you have inherited and make it workable: get it running locally, pin the dependency versions, add a smoke test suite, remove the credentials sitting in the repository, and document how a change actually reaches production. You also get an honest assessment of what is salvageable and what should be rewritten, with cost ranges attached. We do not recommend a rewrite unless the numbers support it.

Deliverables

What you receive

7 items
  1. 01 Working local development setup with containers and a written guide
  2. 02 Dependency and framework version audit with an upgrade path
  3. 03 Smoke test suite covering login and the five most critical journeys
  4. 04 Secrets removed from version control and moved to environment config
  5. 05 Deployment process documented end to end, including rollback
  6. 06 Risk register with severity, effort and cost estimate per item
  7. 07 Recorded architecture walkthrough for your team

Benefits

Why it is worth doing

  • Your team can run and change the application without fear

  • Security gaps that were sitting in plain sight are closed

  • A rewrite decision based on evidence rather than frustration

Process

How the work is carried out

  1. 1

    Inventory

    We read the codebase, the database and whatever deployment exists

  2. 2

    Stabilise

    Local setup, dependency pinning and the smoke tests come first

  3. 3

    Document

    Architecture, data flows and deployment written up plainly

  4. 4

    Report

    Risk register and a recommendation you can take to a budget holder

Best suited to

  • Companies whose original developer or agency has gone
  • Applications running on framework versions past end of life
  • Founders deciding between maintaining and rebuilding

What we need from you

  • Full repository access and production or staging credentials
  • An hour with anyone who remembers why decisions were made
  • Database access, or a sanitised dump we can restore

You can share these from your order page after checkout. The timeline starts once they are received.

FAQ

Questions about this service

Then the report says so, with numbers. We have never had to abandon a rescue, but we will tell you early if the scope needs to change.

PHP, JavaScript, Python and Java in practice. Tell us the stack at checkout and we will confirm before taking the order.

Only those blocking the smoke tests. Broader fixes are quoted once the risk register exists.

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This is a professional service delivered remotely; nothing is physically shipped. See the Delivery Policy and Refunds & Cancellation for how delivery, delays and refunds are handled.

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