Case study · anchor engagement
Seven years. One platform. Still running.
A commerce platform that started as a deliberately constrained build, scaled to enterprise revenue, and is now undergoing live modernisation without business discontinuity.
Operating record
Eighty-four months. Every one of them in production.
The brief
Designed to fit the stage of the business.
The original system was scoped to the business as it then was, not the business as a vendor wanted to invoice for. That decision is the reason it is still running seven years later.
Multi-storefront from day one. Multi-gateway payment routing. Commission and settlement workflows correct enough to be the source of truth.
The platform absorbed seven years of business growth, vendor changes, regulatory change, and an active modernisation onto Azure-native infrastructure, without a stop-the-world rebuild.
Currently in flight
Modernisation while the business stays online.
Operating record
What seven years actually looks like.
Initial build
Scoped to the business stage. Multi-storefront from day one.
Scale phase
Multi-gateway payment routing. Commission ledgers hardened.
Architecture review
Modernisation plan signed off, no stop-the-world cutover.
Live migration
.NET 10 + Azure-native infrastructure underway.