The Challenge
A Large-scale FinTech had a 6-year-old PHP monolith that was preventing them from shipping features fast enough to compete. Deployments took 4 hours. Every release required manual testing. Their engineering team was spending 40% of their time on infrastructure incidents rather than product.
The Solution
We used the strangler-fig migration pattern to incrementally extract services from the monolith without requiring a big-bang rewrite. Over 9 months, we extracted 12 microservices, moved the entire infrastructure to AWS ECS (Fargate), implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD, and passed SOC 2 Type II audit.
The Results
9-month migration with zero production downtime
Deployment time reduced from 4 hours to 8 minutes
60% faster feature delivery cycles after CI/CD implementation
SOC 2 Type II certification achieved 6 months after project start
Engineering team now spends 15% of time on infrastructure (down from 40%)
