Modern Cloud Infrastructure and UX Rebuild for a Legacy Platform
Decomposed a monolithic PHP codebase into modern cloud services with redesigned UX and CI/CD, stabilizing infrastructure and unlocking renewed growth.
A subscription media platform built on a monolithic PHP codebase had become increasingly unstable and difficult to scale. Infrastructure was tightly coupled, deployments were risky, and performance issues directly impacted subscriber engagement.
We decomposed the monolith into a modern cloud-based architecture, rebuilt critical services for scalability, and redesigned the user experience to align with contemporary discovery and content workflows.
The decision
The decision was to modernize architecture, release operations, and product experience as one connected problem. The monolithic PHP platform would be decomposed into cloud-ready services, supported by CI/CD and a redesigned user experience, so infrastructure and product improvements could support growth together.
Modernization scope
- Monolithic PHP refactor into modular, cloud-ready services.
- Cloud infrastructure deployment with improved scalability and reliability.
- CI/CD implementation to accelerate safe release cycles.
- Full UX redesign focused on engagement and discoverability.
- Performance optimization supporting higher concurrency and growth.
Insights Earned Across Industries
Every industry has its own language. But many of the hardest software problems repeat: messy workflows, disconnected systems, complex permissions, reporting gaps, and users who need better tools to do their jobs. Stratos works across healthcare, financial services, benefits, logistics, real estate, education, music technology, and other operationally complex sectors. That breadth gives us more than category familiarity. It gives us a working library of proven patterns. Clients benefit not only from what we understand about their industry, but from what we have already solved in others.
Reusable lessons. Faster decisions. Stronger software.