Let’s be honest, technical debt is more than just a nuisance, it’s a crippling pain that doesn’t get any smaller. Sometimes you can’t be sure if you have control over it, or even know what debt you have and who you have to pay to relive it. The final ignominy, it can be a bottleneck to innovation, as the saying goes “you spend so much time shooting at crocodiles that you forgot the job was to drain the swamp”.(1)
You might be struggling with deprecated modules, libraries, frameworks. You might not know the last time your servers were updated, patched, tested for security. Maybe in the ever-evolving needs of your business you ended up with unrecognizable codebases and you no longer have domain knowledge or authority. Have you ever had an objective review of your system. Who owns these changes? Who is responsible if there are mistakes?
Time and again we have seen how this holds people back from pursuing their core work. You are too busy trying to stop being bitten by swamp sharks that you didn’t notice how far you sunk into the creek and how close the water has come to drowning you.
Modernization is a key to unlocking your potential and getting your core tasks back on track.
Shadowcat Systems specializes in transforming the way software is built and maintained. We have had decades of experience with what is gently termed ‘Legacy Systems’ and what we would call gnarled nests of long-dead spider empires. From Perl to Python, Rust, and TypeScript, our technical competence spans the languages that power business. We combine this development expertise with industry-standard practices:
- Configuration Management.
- Infrastructure hosting, including containerisation.
- Best practices development, integration and deployment.
- Rigorous pull request reviews backed by decades of experience and utilising modern machine automated learning.
- A thorough obedience to data protection and the changing regulation environment with a passion for knowing digital rights.
Don’t let the choices of the past hold your business back. Let us help you adapt for the future.
(1) Here at Shadowcat we call this the “Wild Bill Protocol” in honour of a former colleague who used these wonderful aphorisms all the time and is sadly missed.
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