● Finance·fintech
Cost & performance turnaround on an undocumented legacy system
−0%
monthly infra cost
0×
response speed
architecture map
legacy restored
● THE CHALLENGE
Why it was hard.
Years of staff turnover left a system nobody fully understood in production. There were no docs, and with no idea what a change might break, both cost and performance were left untouched. The bill grew every month, yet where it leaked was unclear.
Constraints
- Analyze without any downtime
- No docs or owners — reverse engineering was a given
- Cutting cost without root cause risks outages
● OUR APPROACH
What we did.
01
Measure & reverse-engineerTrace traffic, billing, and dependencies to rebuild the real structure
02
Find bottlenecks & leaksQuantify cost drivers and performance bottlenecks
03
Safe improvementNarrow blast radius, resize and rebuild in stages
04
Docs & guardrailsLeave an architecture map and cost guardrails to prevent recurrence
● OUTCOME
Outcome.
Reverse engineering redrew the scattered system, clearing the leaks and unblocking bottlenecks. Monthly infra cost fell sharply and response times improved — and we left structure docs the next person can actually read.
● STACK
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