App Rescue
Stabilise a slow, fragile or undocumented app, in any stack.
Who it's for
- Founders whose app keeps breaking and whose original developer has gone.
- Teams that inherited code nobody fully understands.
- Owners of apps built quickly with AI tools that now need to be trusted.
Problems it solves
- Pages are slow and nobody knows why.
- Jobs fail quietly, and users find out before you do.
- Every release feels risky because there are no tests.
- Only one person knows how it is deployed.
What you get
- A plain-language diagnosis of what is wrong and what is most urgent.
- Fixes for the problems that hurt most, with tests around them.
- A safer way to release, so deploys stop being scary.
- A modernisation roadmap, ordered by value, that you can act on with me or without me.
How an engagement runs
- 01A short diagnosis of the code, the data and the servers.
- 02We agree which problems to fix first.
- 03I stabilise the app and add tests around the repaired parts.
- 04I document how it runs and how to release it.
- 05I hand over a roadmap for what comes next.
In plain words
Your app works, mostly. But it is slow, fragile or nobody understands it. I look at it, tell you straight what is wrong, and make it safe to keep running.
It does not matter what it is written in. I work on any stack: Laravel, Next.js, React, Node (Express, Fastify, NestJS), Go, Rust and Python.
Under the hood
Stack
- Laravel, Next.js, React, Node (Express, Fastify, NestJS), Go, Rust, Python.
- Profiling, query analysis, queue and worker recovery
- Characterisation tests before refactoring
- CI/CD, staging, backups and rollback
Decisions
- Test the current behaviour first, then change the code.
- Fix the slowest queries and failing jobs before any rewrite is discussed.
- Prefer small releases behind safe rollbacks over one big migration.
- Rewrite only where the evidence says the code cannot be saved.
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