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Enterprise IT5 months

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration

Migrated a legacy on-premise platform to a multi-region cloud architecture with no scheduled downtime window.

Client & Context

Enterprise IT engagement, 5 months in scope.

Technical Challenge

The client's legacy platform had a 6-year-old monolith with no staging parity, and the business could not accept a maintenance window.

Engineering Solution

Introduced a strangler-fig migration pattern: new services deployed behind a traffic-shifting gateway, validated against shadow traffic before any customer request touched them.

Quantifiable Impact
  • Migrated with zero customer-facing downtime
  • Rollback path preserved at every stage of the cutover
  • Infrastructure cost re-architected around actual peak load
Stack
KubernetesCloudscape SystemsTerraformPostgreSQL
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