Not Everything Needs a Rewrite
Your application works — sort of. It is slow, fragile, hard to change, and the original developer is long gone. The temptation is to rewrite everything from scratch, but that is usually the most expensive and risky option. We take a different approach: surgical fixes, incremental modernization, and strategic refactoring.
Common Problems We Fix
- Performance — slow queries, missing indexes, N+1 problems, unoptimized assets, no caching.
- Stability — random crashes, memory leaks, race conditions, unhandled errors that kill the server.
- Security — SQL injection, XSS, outdated dependencies with known CVEs, exposed credentials.
- Maintainability — spaghetti code, no tests, no documentation, framework stuck on an old version.
- Scalability — monolith that cannot handle growth, no horizontal scaling, single point of failure.
Our Rescue Process
- Code audit — we read the codebase, run static analysis, profile performance, and review the deployment setup. You receive a written report with findings and priorities.
- Quick wins — critical security patches, obvious performance fixes, and stability improvements. Immediate impact.
- Strategic refactoring — restructuring key modules, adding tests to critical paths, upgrading frameworks, and improving the deployment pipeline.
- Knowledge transfer — we document what we changed and why, so your team (or future developers) can maintain it.
When to Rewrite
Sometimes a rewrite is the right answer. We will tell you honestly if rescue is not worth it — for example, when the tech stack is completely obsolete, the data model is fundamentally wrong, or the codebase is so tangled that every fix creates two new bugs. In those cases, we plan the rewrite as a phased migration, not a big-bang replacement.
How We Engage
We work on an hourly / time-and-materials basis — one transparent rate, weekly reporting, and no agency overhead. Scope and effort are estimated after the discovery call, and you scale hours up or down as the project needs. Contracts run B2B through TEN INVENT S.R.L. (EU-based, VAT registered).
Every rescue engagement starts with the code audit, so priorities are grounded in evidence before you commit to anything.
Let Us Look Under the Hood
Share access to your codebase (we sign NDAs). We will review it and send you a prioritized action plan within 24 hours — before you commit to anything.