What the Client Was Facing
A SaaS company had a 500,000-line PHP monolith that had been in production for 12 years. New features took 6 months to deliver, the codebase was too large for any engineer to understand fully and scaling required scaling the entire application.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS applied the Strangler Fig pattern to incrementally migrate functionality to microservices on Azure AKS without disrupting production. An API gateway was deployed at the boundary with traffic gradually shifted to new services. Linkerd was deployed as the service mesh and each new service followed a golden path template.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
First 8 services extracted and running independently within 12 weeks
New feature delivery time reduced from 6 months to 3 weeks for extracted domains
Cloud cost reduced 42% through right-sized microservice containers vs monolith scaling
Strangler Fig migration on track — 60% of monolith extracted at 24-week milestone
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