We will bring your Yii 1.1 application to a modern Laravel stack, or keep it running on disciplined life support when the product is mission-critical and migration has to wait.
Two responsible paths
A migration is not automatically safer just because the destination is newer. We choose the path that protects the business now and leaves it in a better position next.
Move forward
We replace the framework without throwing away the product knowledge inside it. The migration is sequenced around real business risk, with working software and verifiable behavior at every stage.
Hold the line
Some systems are too critical, too entangled, or too busy to migrate today. We stabilize the application, reduce its exposure, and keep it operating while the business decides when modernization is safe.
We map the application, business-critical workflows, extensions, integrations, runtime constraints, and operational risks before recommending migration or continued support.
The rules that make your product valuable move forward deliberately. We document hidden behavior, edge cases, permissions, and scheduled work instead of replacing them with guesses.
Yii controllers, models, commands, and components become an idiomatic Laravel application with clear boundaries, current conventions, and code the next developer can understand.
We preserve production data, plan schema changes, rehearse the migration, validate the result, and define a rollback path before the final cutover.
We capture current behavior with characterization tests, then add feature and unit coverage around the workflows that cannot be allowed to regress.
Infrastructure, observability, backups, deployment configuration, and operating notes are part of the work. The modernized product remains yours, with no proprietary lock-in.
We begin by understanding the product, the code, and what failure would cost. Then we recommend the honest path: migrate, stabilize, or sequence both, with a written scope before the larger work begins.
Migration without the cliff
Old applications carry years of decisions nobody wrote down. The process is designed to surface them before they become launch-day surprises.
Common questions about this service.
Yes. For mission-critical systems that cannot move yet, we provide managed life support: incident and bug handling, monitoring, backups, infrastructure care, dependency and runtime risk management, and documentation. The objective is controlled continuity, not pretending an aging stack has no risk.
Laravel gives the product a current, widely understood foundation with strong conventions, testing tools, queues, authentication options, and a larger hiring market. The value is not novelty; it is making the application easier to operate, change, and staff for the next chapter.
We read the code and production behavior together, interview the people who use the system, and write characterization tests around critical workflows before replacing them. Those tests become an executable record of what the old application actually does, including edge cases that never made it into a specification.
Yes. We map the current schema and data quality, define any changes the Laravel model needs, rehearse transformations against a safe copy, and validate counts and critical records before cutover. The launch plan includes backups and a rollback path.
When the business needs them and the risk is acceptable, yes. We will be direct about whether a feature is sensible to build in Yii, better used as the first Laravel migration slice, or likely to deepen a dependency you are trying to escape.
It starts with a focused technical assessment. We review the codebase, infrastructure, database, integrations, operational history, and business constraints, then recommend a migration, stabilization, or combined plan with a written scope and quote.
We do not force unlike problems into the same package. We understand the outcome, assemble the right senior capability, and give you a clear quote for the work in front of us.
You work directly with the engineers actually doing the build, the people who know your codebase, reachable by email.
We shape the team, timeline, and engagement around the actual problem, then put it in a written quote before work begins.
All the code, all the configuration. No proprietary tools that create a dependency on us. Any developer can pick it up after we're gone.
Tell us the outcome you need, the obstacle in the way, and what is at stake. We will come back with our honest read, a clear approach, and a quote shaped around the work.