Case study/Modernization
Rewriting and migrating a legacy platform onto .NET Core (Global On Media)
unicrew rewrote Global On Media's legacy code and migrated its servers onto .NET Core, React, and Stencil.js in one engagement.
Global On Media set out to transform legacy code and infrastructure to new technology. unicrew ran a complete rewrite and migration, moving both the servers and the codebase onto .NET Core, React, and Stencil.js. In the COO's account, the site came back much more stable, with performance highly improved. The engagement began in 2020 under our former Artelogic brand.
- Client
- Global On Media
- Focus
- Modernization
- Market
Israel- Engagement
- Complete rewrite and migration
- Stack
.NET Core
React
Stencil.js
Outcome at a glance
What this project delivered.
- 01The site was migrated and rewritten onto .NET Core, React, and Stencil.js
- 02The new system is much more stable than the one it replaced
- 03Performance highly improved after the rewrite
The challenge
Global On Media is an internet company in Israel with several online assets. The goal it brought to us was to transform legacy code and infrastructure to new technology, and the deciding factor in choosing unicrew was a complete rewrite implemented in .NET Core. That set the shape of the work: the application and the servers underneath it, in one engagement. Where only the application is rewritten, the new code goes live on the old environment and inherits its limits, which is how a modernization budget gets spent for a fraction of the benefit.
Our approach
unicrew took the work on as Global On Media’s legacy-modernization partner. The codebase was rewritten on .NET Core at the back end with React and Stencil.js at the front, and the servers were migrated in the same engagement rather than left in place. Five people ran it: a CTO, a project manager, and three full-stack developers, working in sprints, managed by the project manager, over Slack, Git, and Jira.
Results
The COO gave the outcome in one sentence: the site migrated and rewritten, the new system much more stable, performance highly improved. What made that possible was moving the two halves in step, new code on infrastructure that moved with it.
Modernization work splits across those two halves in different proportions. The cloud migration and DevOps study is the same problem weighted toward infrastructure, and the client reviews page has the rest, in the clients’ own words.
“They were highly committed to the project and business goals.”
Efrat Kalmar, COO, Global On Media
What the client says
Site was migrated and re-written, the new system is much more stable, and performance highly improved. Excellent technological level. highly responsive and communicative. They are highly committed to the project and business goals.
04/Technologies
Technologies on this project
Frontend
- React
- Stencil.js
Backend
- .NET Core
05/Quick answers
The questions behind the project
What did unicrew do for Global On Media?
unicrew ran a complete rewrite and migration. Global On Media set out to transform legacy code and infrastructure to new technology, and the deciding factor in choosing unicrew was a complete rewrite implemented in .NET Core. Both the servers and the codebase moved, with unicrew as the legacy-modernization partner. The COO's summary afterwards was that the site had been migrated and rewritten, the new system was much more stable, and performance had highly improved.
What stack did the platform get rewritten onto?
.NET Core on the back end, with React and Stencil.js on the front end. The scope covered servers as well as code, so the application and the environment underneath it moved in the same engagement. That pairing is the point of a rewrite at this scale: new code deployed onto the old environment inherits whatever that environment imposes on it, and the gain is smaller than the effort suggests.
Who worked on the rewrite and how was it run?
Five people in total: a CTO, a project manager, and three full-stack developers. They worked in sprints, managed by the project manager, using Slack, Git, and Jira. The scope covered both halves at once, the codebase rewritten on .NET Core, React, and Stencil.js, and the servers migrated. Global On Media's COO said the team was highly committed to the project and business goals.
Does unicrew take on full rewrites, or only incremental modernization?
Both, and this project is the full-rewrite example: the deciding factor was a complete rewrite implemented in .NET Core, and unicrew took the code and the server migration together rather than one at a time. That judgement, what to rewrite, what to keep, and how to move an application and its environment in step, is the legacy modernization work our .NET engineers do. For the same problem weighted toward infrastructure, see the cloud migration and DevOps study.