PHP 5.6 ERP → Laravel 11
18 months parallel-run, zero downtime.
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A corporate system stuck on PHP 5.x, an end-of-life .NET Framework, an unusable Delphi app, legacy code "only one developer understands" — strangler-fig pattern, phased migration, parallel run. We modernise without breaking, without downtime, without taking risk.
Modernisation progress
Familiar symptoms
Adding this feature takes months.
There was one developer who knew it; they left.
Migrating to a new server / cloud is impossible.
Performance keeps degrading.
No security patches; vendor support has ended.
It doesn't fit the mobile era.
No documentation, no clear authorship.
Our vendor effectively holds us hostage.
Our approach
Never a big-bang ("rewrite everything overnight"). Instead the strangler-fig pattern: new features in the new architecture; old features migrated step by step. Production keeps running at every stage; rollback is always safe.
New features are written only in the new stack.
A reverse-proxy routes requests between new and old.
Two-way sync between the old DB and the new DB.
Pieces of the old system migrate one at a time.
Are the old and new returning the same answers to the same request?
Once all modules have moved, the old system is retired.
What we modernise
Target stack
Risk management
Old and new live at the same time; traffic shifts gradually to the new.
Every new feature lives behind a flag; turned off instantly on issue.
Production traffic goes to old + new; answers are compared.
At every stage, one-click return to the old system.
During migration, hourly encrypted backups in a separate region.
A working protocol with people who know the old system.
Process
Map of the old system, risks, module list.
Which module first, the parallel-run plan.
Reverse proxy, data bridge, feature-flag stack.
New modules in the new architecture in sequence.
Side-by-side compare under production traffic + sign-off.
Old system shut down, source handed over.
Stories
18 months parallel-run, zero downtime.
A 30-year-old Delphi system moved to the modern web.
600+ dealers unaffected, replaced piece by piece.
Cloud migration + auto-scale.
Modular architecture, GDPR-aligned.
Mobile-first, multilingual.
FAQ
In a 30-minute call we review your current system together; audit report in 2 weeks.