Refactoring and scaling
We find what slows your product down or makes releases risky, then fix it step by step without a risky big-bang rewrite. Audit first, changes second.
Growth exposes shortcuts taken early. Common signs are pages that load slowly once customers have real data, a database that struggles at busy times, features that break other features, releases that everyone dreads, and a few people who are the only ones who understand the code.
Refactoring means improving the structure of existing code and infrastructure without changing what customers see. Scaling means making the product keep working as customers, data and traffic increase. Usually you need both.
We do not guess. We ask for read access to the code, the deployment setup and, where possible, monitoring and slow-query data. We then run the app, profile it and read the database schema. You receive a written findings list ordered by impact and effort, so you can decide what to fix first.
Where tenancy is part of the problem, we also review how customer data is separated, linked to multi-tenant architecture. We sign an NDA on request before seeing your code.
We prefer small, tested steps over rewrites, and we keep the product running throughout.
An audit is scoped first, and the fixing work is then quoted in writing. Some clients take a milestone project, others a dedicated engineer on retainer, typically $5,500 per month per engineer, for continuous improvement alongside new features. If the audit shows work as large as a new build, the production range of $18,000 to $35,000 is the closest reference. Ranges are typical, not offers, and the actual figure depends on what the audit finds. See pricing.
We cannot promise a specific speed-up or that incidents will never happen. Results depend on what is wrong, and some problems are only found once traffic grows. Sometimes the honest answer is that one part should be rewritten rather than patched, and we will explain why. Changing a live system always carries some risk, which is why we work in small steps with tests and a rollback plan.
Describe the product, the customers and the features that matter most.
You get the plan, the architecture outline and a written price range.
Working builds each sprint, then a tested production launch.
Rarely. Full rewrites take longer than expected and leave you running two products. We usually improve the existing code in stages and replace only the parts that cannot be saved. The audit gives you a reasoned recommendation instead of a guess.
Yes. We work in branches, agree on areas of the code so we do not collide, and release in small changes. A shared chat channel and regular check-ins keep your team informed of what is moving, and your engineers review what we change.
Read access to the repository, a staging copy of the app, and where possible read-only monitoring and database statistics. We do not need production write access for an audit, and we would rather not have it. We sign an NDA on request before seeing any code.
Often it is a major factor, but not always. Slow queries, missing indexes and connection limits are common, yet application code, external services and front-end weight can matter as much. The audit shows where time is actually spent before we change anything.
We can. Many clients mix cleanup with feature work on a monthly engineer, with the time split as you choose. Pure refactoring does not change what customers see, so it can be hard to justify on its own. We agree on both goals up front and review the split regularly.
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