Most legacy systems aren’t broken. They’re just holding you back.
The systems that slow teams down are rarely the ones falling over in production. They’re the ones that work well enough to keep running but cost more to maintain, constrain every new feature, and quietly accumulate technical debt that compounds year on year.
A full rebuild feels like the answer. But it’s rarely the right one. Rebuilds are expensive, high-risk, and often deliver a new system with the same structural problems as the old one, because the underlying decisions were never questioned.
IF ANY OF THESE SOUND FAMILIAR, IT’S TIME TO TALK…
You’re running a messaging setup that was built for a different scale
Your team spends more time maintaining the current system than improving it
You’ve grown through acquisition or scaling faster than your infrastructure
You want to adopt a newer technology without starting from scratch
“The right answer for one team isn’t the right answer for another. So before we suggest anything, we make sure we understand what was built, why it was built that way, and where you need it to take you next.“ Lajos | Senior Engineering Consultant
What We Do
Architecture design that starts from your reality, not a blank sheet
We don’t arrive with a preferred stack and work backwards. We start with where you are – your team, your product, your constraints – and design the architecture that gives you the most forward momentum with the least unnecessary complexity.
What this looks like in practice:
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW
Understanding what you’ve actually got, how it’s performing, and where the constraints are
FIT ASSESSMENT
Matching your workloads to the right messaging technology or technologies
FUTURE-STATE DESIGN
Architecture that can grow with your ambitions, without locking you into decisions that are hard to reverse
DECISION DOCUMENTATION
Clear rationale for every architectural choice, so your team understands what they’ve built and why
Why Seventh State?
Built on real systems, not theory
Our recommendations come from pattern recognition across hundreds of production environments not from vendor documentation or industry frameworks applied without context.
We help you not need us
Your team walks away with an architecture they understand and the rationale behind every decision.
No dependency created.
Honest about the full landscape
We’re not tied to a single technology or vendor. Through Trifork and our partner network, we give you a complete picture of your options.
One relationship. A full capability map behind it.
“The best thing someone can say at the end of an engagement is ‘we’ve got it from here.’ That’s what we’re working towards from day one.” Frederic | Senior EngineeringConsultant
Let’s talk…
Whether you’re planning something new, questioning something existing, or trying to make sense of what you’ve inherited, start here.
What does a messaging architecture review involve?
A messaging architecture review starts by mapping what you’ve actually got, every component, every queue, every integration, and how it’s performing under real load. From there it identifies constraints, risks, and the decisions that need to be made. Seventh State conducts these reviews across RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar, and hybrid environments.
How do I know if my messaging architecture needs redesigning?
The most common signal is that every new feature or infrastructure change takes longer than it should. Other indicators include: unclear ownership of messaging decisions, multiple technologies running without a clear rationale for each, and performance problems that keep reappearing despite fixes.
What’s the difference between architecture design and consultancy?
Consultancy typically addresses a specific problem in an existing system. Architecture design is about the overall structure, making sure the right technologies are doing the right jobs, that the system can scale in the direction the business is going, and that future decisions have a clear foundation to build on.
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