Application Continuity Management

Keep the application running. Remove the operational burden.

StackExpress assumes ongoing responsibility for the production environment around applications that remain important—even when growth slows, development ends or the original team moves on.

Request a continuity assessment
When software outlives its original operating model

The application still creates value. Its infrastructure should not consume the value.

Mature applications often remain profitable or business-critical while cloud costs rise, operational knowledge narrows and routine production work continues.

We document the environment, establish operational ownership and create a sustainable path to keep the application available, secure and recoverable.

A good fit when:

The product is profitable but no longer growing.
Little or no new development is planned.
Cloud and DevOps costs keep increasing.
The original developers or operators are moving on.
The application was acquired without a long-term operations team.
One accountable operating function

What StackExpress manages

Production infrastructure

Cloud, virtual machines, containers, networking, certificates and capacity.

Monitoring and response

Application and infrastructure visibility, alert triage and first response to production incidents.

Data protection

Database operations, backup monitoring, recovery procedures and restore testing.

Lifecycle maintenance

Security updates, dependency planning and controlled platform changes.

Deployments

Documented releases, controlled migrations, rollback preparation and occasional change support.

Knowledge continuity

Architecture records, operating runbooks, access controls and reduced dependency on one person.

No migration without a business case

Manage in place, optimize, or move to OPSPI.

Application Continuity Management begins with an assessment—not a predetermined migration.

1. Manage in place

Keep the current AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or other environment when it remains appropriate.

2. Optimize first

Reduce unnecessary services, improve observability and establish a sustainable operating baseline.

3. Standardize on OPSPI

Migrate compatible workloads when a managed, standardized environment delivers worthwhile savings and continuity.

Experienced production operators

Built on decades of infrastructure and DevOps operations.

StackExpress has supported production environments since 2012, including 24/7 operations for Runnable's Docker-based platform. Our team also builds and operates two live production services: WireGress, a dedicated multi-data-center egress platform, and LeadQAI, a business communications and lead-management platform.

“The StackExpress team provides us 24x7 coverage on our AWS production environment, proactively patching and resolving issues so fewer incidents are escalated to our engineering team.”
A controlled transition

How continuity is established

01

Assess

Map architecture, costs, dependencies, risks and recovery readiness.

02

Stabilize

Close critical gaps and document the operating environment.

03

Transition

Establish monitoring, access, runbooks and production responsibility.

04

Operate

Maintain, monitor, respond and periodically review cost and risk.

Does an important application need a long-term operating home?

Start with a continuity assessment. We will tell you whether to manage it in place, optimize it, or migrate it.

Talk directly with our team