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Technical Debt Management for High‑Stakes Web Platforms

Technical Debt Management for High‑Stakes Web Platforms in Dubai

Stuck with a fragile codebase, slow releases or constant production incidents? Stralya helps you regain control of your technical debt with a rigorous, cloud-native approach that stabilises today and prepares you for tomorrow.

Service components

What Is Included in Our Technical Debt Management Service?

Our Technical Debt Management offer is structured as a set of clear, modular components. You can engage with Stralya for a full end‑to‑end programme, or start with an initial audit and extend progressively as you see measurable value.

Core deliverables

Comprehensive technical debt audit covering architecture, code, infrastructure, CI/CD and security.

Risk‑based classification of technical debt with quantified impact on stability, velocity and cost.

Prioritised remediation roadmap aligned with your business objectives and release constraints.

Fixed‑price remediation work packages targeting high‑impact areas first.

Refined architecture and coding standards to prevent uncontrolled debt from reappearing.

Governance practices, documentation and knowledge transfer to your internal teams.

Optional add‑ons

Performance and scalability testing tailored to peak‑traffic events common in the Dubai market.

Security hardening and compliance reviews for regulated sectors and governmental entities.

Cloud cost optimisation to reduce waste created by legacy infrastructure decisions.

Team coaching on clean code, architecture principles and cloud‑native best practices.

Selective senior staff augmentation to reinforce your internal team during critical phases.

Every engagement is designed around clarity and accountability: you know exactly what we will deliver, how long it will take and how it will reduce your operational risk. Our goal is simple – ensure your most strategic web platforms are reliable, maintainable and ready for the next phase of your growth in Dubai and across the GCC.

Outcomes You Can Expect from Structured Technical Debt Management

Increased platform stability

Fewer production incidents, clearer rollback strategies and improved observability mean your teams spend less time firefighting and more time delivering value to users.

Faster, safer releases

With cleaner architecture, automated tests and robust CI/CD, you can ship new features with confidence, even under tight timelines and high business pressure.

Lower long‑term maintenance costs

By reducing complexity and eliminating fragile shortcuts, you decrease the cost of change and make it easier for any competent team to work on your platform in the future.

Better alignment between business and technology

Technical decisions are prioritised based on business impact, ensuring that every remediation step supports your strategic objectives in the UAE market.

International‑grade engineering standards

Your platform and processes are aligned with modern global practices, making it easier to collaborate with international partners, auditors and future technology vendors.

How we work

A Structured, Fixed‑Price Approach to Managing Technical Debt

Technical debt cannot be solved with vague promises or endless time-and-materials contracts. Our methodology is built around clarity, prioritisation and controlled execution. We start by making your debt visible, then we agree on what truly matters for your business, and finally we execute a focused remediation plan with clear outcomes, timelines and responsibilities.

We meet with your CTO, product owners and key stakeholders to understand business goals, current pain points, release constraints and any regulatory or security requirements specific to your industry and to the UAE market.

Our senior engineers perform a structured review of your architecture, codebase, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and security posture. We identify concrete instances of technical debt, their causes and their impact on performance, reliability and delivery speed.

We translate findings into a pragmatic roadmap, ranked by business impact and risk. You receive a clear, actionable plan with phases, estimated effort, dependencies and expected benefits – all designed to fit your budget and operational reality.

We execute the agreed remediation work as fixed-price mini-projects: refactoring critical modules, simplifying architecture, improving test coverage, stabilising environments and modernising cloud configurations, all with minimal disruption to your users.

Once the immediate risks are reduced, we help you put in place coding standards, review practices, CI/CD policies and monitoring that prevent technical debt from silently accumulating again. We can stay on as a long-term partner via SLA or selective staff augmentation.

Find Commonly Asked Questions

Technical debt is the accumulation of sub‑optimal technical decisions over time: quick fixes, missing tests, outdated libraries, fragile architecture, manual deployments and unclear ownership. In web platforms, this translates into slow releases, repeated incidents, security risks and escalating maintenance costs. Our role is to make this debt visible, quantify the impact and reduce it in a controlled, business‑driven way.

Yes. Many of our engagements in Dubai start with platforms built by previous vendors. We are used to entering complex, partially documented environments, performing an independent assessment and then stabilising the system. Our focus is not on blaming past choices, but on giving you a realistic path forward with clear trade‑offs.

Our core expertise is cloud‑native web development on AWS, Azure and GCP. However, we frequently work with hybrid or partially legacy environments as part of a transition strategy. When full cloud‑native adoption is not immediately realistic, we design intermediate steps that still reduce risk and improve maintainability.

For a typical business‑critical web platform, an initial technical debt audit usually takes between one and three weeks, depending on size, complexity and documentation quality. At the end of this phase, you receive a written report, a prioritised backlog of issues and a proposed remediation roadmap with fixed‑price options.

Absolutely. We can operate as a specialised strike team focused on stabilisation and architecture, while your internal or external teams continue delivering features. We define clear interfaces, responsibilities and coding standards so that everyone works towards the same quality and reliability targets.

We avoid open‑ended time‑and‑materials models. Instead, we break remediation into clearly defined work packages with fixed prices, scope and acceptance criteria. This gives you financial predictability and ensures we remain accountable for delivering tangible improvements within agreed constraints.

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