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 SCENARIOS 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 rapid scaling and your infrastructure reflects it
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
Modernisation that moves at your pace, not ours.
We help engineering teams modernise messaging infrastructure without stopping the business. That means working within your constraints, your team’s capacity, your production environment, your risk tolerance, and finding the path that delivers the most improvement with the least disruption.
What this looks like in practice:
LEGACY ASSESSMENT
Understanding what you’ve got, what it’s costing you, and what the real risks of changing it are
INCREMENTAL MODERNISATION
Sequencing changes so you’re improving continuously without a high-risk big-bang release
TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE SUPPORT
Moving to newer versions or configurations of your existing stack without breaking what works
PARALLEL RUNNING & CUTOVER
Where a newer technology needs to run alongside an existing one before full transition
Why Seventh State?
We’ve seen what breaks during modernisation
Most modernisation problems aren’t technical. They’re sequencing problems, changes made in the wrong order, or without accounting for how production systems behave under real load. We’ve seen enough of these to know what to avoid.
We help you not need us
Your team walks away understanding the system better than before we arrived. That’s what modernisation should deliver.
No dependency created.
Honest about risk
We’ll tell you which changes are straightforward and which carry genuine risk. You make the calls with full information.
“Where your modernisation involves technologies beyond our in-house expertise, we bring in vetted specialist partners from our Trifork network so you don’t hit a wall when the problem moves beyond RabbitMQ.“ Josh | Head of Sales
Let’s talk…
Whether you know what needs to change or you’re not sure where to start, we’ll help you work it out.
How do you modernise a messaging system without taking it offline?
Incremental modernisation, making targeted, sequenced improvements to a live system rather than replacing it wholesale. This involves careful change sequencing, parallel running where necessary, and thorough testing at each stage. Seventh State specialises in this approach for RabbitMQ and broader messaging environments.
When should you modernise versus migrate to a new messaging technology?
Modernisation is usually the right choice when the underlying technology is still fit for purpose but the configuration, version, or implementation has drifted. Migration becomes worth considering when the technology itself is the constraint, when your workloads have genuinely outgrown what it can do. The honest answer is that most teams modernise first, then reassess.
What are the most common causes of messaging system technical debt?
The most common causes are: configuration decisions that made sense at one scale but haven’t been revisited as the system grew; version lag due to avoided upgrades; and undocumented changes made under pressure that nobody has gone back to review. Each of these is addressable without a full rebuild.
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