CANTU

Hostile system transition

Stabilizing a brittle platform under live revenue while replacing the core execution path—without a planned outage that tanks trust.

A growth-stage operator inherited a system that could not tolerate the next product bet: frequent incidents, opaque deploys, and tribal knowledge concentrated in a few exhausted engineers.

We paired stabilization work with a sequenced strangler pattern so critical revenue flows stayed up while the new path earned traffic. The outcome was fewer Sev-1s, predictable releases, and a team that could explain risk to the board in plain language.

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