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Tech Debt Management Services

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  • UNBLOCK YOUR TEAM

    Remove the legacy drag that slows your engineers down. Refactor without disruption and let your team move with focus, speed, and confidence.

  • STABILIZE YOUR DELIVERY

    Hardwire quality into every release. Eliminate fragility at the infrastructure level and maintain performance, even as systems scale and complexity grows.

  • RECLAIM YOUR BUDGET

    Cut the hidden costs buried in old code. Free up engineering time, reduce rework, and reinvest in features that drive growth.

Why It Matters

The debt sinks. Quietly at first, then suddenly.

Every shortcut is temporary. But its consequences remain. One patch leads to the next. Then testing takes longer. Then, releases are delayed. Eventually, debt software delays them even further.

Cycle times are extended. Incidents crop up in product development. Engineers are reluctant to touch specific files. A debt management consultant can help streamline onboarding so new hires don’t get stuck in brittle modules. Roadmaps are based on the codebase’s capabilities rather than the business’s needs.

This is where the price of debt becomes apparent — not in theory, but in the form of a loss of velocity, depleted budgets, and teams that tread water instead of driving development forward.

Devox doesn’t stop delivery to fix the problem — we tackle it. We pinpoint the roadblocks, order the cuts, and rewire the delivery at the core. Feature delivery continues uninterrupted. Systems are streamlined. Teams gain influence and technical confidence.

What We Offer

Services We Provide

  • System-Wide Debt Audit

    See what is holding you back.

    The symptoms appear quickly — slow builds, mysterious outages, postponed releases. But the causes are deeper, entangled in outdated architectures, patterns, and half-documented workarounds that silently influence every deployment decision.

    Technical debt doesn’t just show up in code. It extends across your systems, CI/CD processes, testing strategies, infrastructure, and even your team’s behavior.

    We perform a full-spectrum audit that transforms fragmented areas of technical debt into a structured risk map, aligned with sig technical standards:

    • Visualize architectural dependencies, ownership boundaries, and defect chains with tools like CodeScene and Lattix.
    • Analyze CI pipelines and test coverage with SonarQube and Launchable to identify breakpoints in release security.
    • Detect runtime hotspots and hidden service coupling with profiling tools such as Pyroscope and Instana.
    • Compare incident history and deployment metrics to trace recurring issues to their technical origin.
    • Conduct targeted interviews with technical leads to uncover hidden debt clusters and unspoken constraints.

    Get a structured overview of the entire stack and the entire team. Our AI Solution Accelerator™ supports software debt management by delivering precise, actionable insights from a system-wide debt audit, enabling fast, confident modernization decisions.

  • Targeted refactoring and re-architecture

    Stabilize the core. Clear the way.

    Some parts of the code base resist every change. Releases break at the same points. Engineers carry the context instead of the systems. At some point, the team stops building and starts compensating.

    We explore these friction zones and align them with how the system is used and how your team operates.

    Refactoring, supported by debt elimination software, is not about cleanup. It’s a technical strategy linked to delivery performance, platform stability, and long-term cost control.

    Here’s how we do it:

    • Determine the radius of impact of unstable modules: Release blockers, rollback frequency, and high change frequency.
    • Identify convergence points where legacy logic overlaps with critical paths and API interfaces.
    • Prioritize remediation actions based on volatility, depth of dependency, and alignment with business processes.
    • Decompose monolithic clusters using domain-aligned boundaries (DDD, hexagonal, or event sourcing patterns).
    • Implement code transformations with automation tools such as OpenRewrite, AST matchers, and Semgrep.
    • Gradually replicate legacy subsystems — queue layers, I/O operations, service brokers — to reduce risk in live environments
    • Capture tribal knowledge during refactoring to eliminate single points of failure and increase team autonomy.

    All work is integrated into your current delivery rhythm. This approach accelerates development by up to 30%, reduces post-release bugs by 20%, and ensures full compliance without compromising security or data privacy.

  • Sustainable Quality Practices

    We develop quality practices that integrate incrementally into your delivery processes within a focused framework, ensuring they are always trackable. This is not a process for its own sake — it’s a debt management service framework your team can follow, with clear signals and no ambiguity.

    And that’s how we do it:

    • Define operational non-functional requirements (NFRs) with your team, such as latency targets, recovery time objectives, defect thresholds, and traceability coverage.
    • Refine the test suite with mutation tests, coverage heatmaps, and priority zones tied to system-critical processes.
    • Integrate real-time linting and pre-merge enforcement with Semgrep, Danger, and a custom policy engine.s
    • Rework CI to reduce cycle time and detect faulty tests before they reach production.
    • Normalization of logs and traces for all new features, supported by OpenTelemetry and structured logging standards.
    • Integrate validation during deployment and post-release sanity checks with canary deployments and observability hooks.
    • Foster a team habit of “fix it as You go”, making minor improvements during day-to-day work.

    Our AI Solution Accelerator™ embeds automated quality gates and observability into your delivery pipeline, ensuring fast feedback, fewer production issues, and a culture of continuous improvement without added complexity.

  • Platform Stability and Observability

    Detect failures before they occur — and pinpoint exactly where they begin.

    Most incidents begin quietly, with subtle signals that are easily missed. Left alone, these fragments become outages. And when observability is low, recovery becomes a game of guesswork.

    What we focus on:

    • Track system reliability patterns — from alert fatigue to hidden retries — and isolate failure points.
    • Instrument key workflows with distributed tracing and correlation IDs to track causality, not just symptoms.
    • Set actionable SLIs/SLOs that relate to the impact on users and not just the state of the infrastructure.
    • Optimize alerting pipelines with severity filters, escalation policies, and runbook hooks to minimize noise and false urgency.
    • Profile GC behavior, I/O throughput, and service latency under load with tools like eBPF, Grafana, and k6.
    • Capture and log system states before, during, and after release cycles to detect slow degradation.

    Our AI Solution Accelerator™ integrates advanced observability and automated alert optimization into your platform, enabling early detection of latent failures and actionable SLO enforcement. Get a platform that stands up under pressure — and tells you what happens when it doesn’t.

  • Data Migration & Integrity

    Back up every byte — no loss, no surprises.

    Data moves fast, but so do risks — just like in finance, where an American debt management service would track liabilities, we track technical risks: lost records, mismatched schemas, and hidden errors that can bring operations to a standstill. We secure your data pipeline with watertight controls and uninterrupted validation so You can migrate with confidence.

    We manage every step with surgical precision:

    • Profile and catalog each data set with automated lineage tools to uncover hidden structures.
    • Map & transform schemas in custom ETL pipelines that preserve business logic.
    • Encrypt & secure data streams end-to-end and enforce role-based access controls.
    • Run parallel migrations migrations with live validation and instant fallback snapshots to avoid downtime.

    Automated reconciliation and checksum verification to detect and resolve discrepancies before they reach production.

    Our AI Solution Accelerator™ embeds integrity checks into your delivery pipeline—real-time checks, anomaly alerts, and self-checks — to ensure your data arrives intact and your business stays on track.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization

    Harness the power of the cloud — resilient, automated, limitless.

    An outdated infrastructure slows you down and devours your budget. We bring your platform into a container-orchestrated, code-defined reality where resilience and scalability are built, not bolted on.

    • Replatforming the architecture: Seamlessly lift-and-shift or refactor to Kubernetes and serverless frameworks to minimize friction when making changes.
    • Infrastructure as code: Define your entire environment in Git — repeatable, auditable, and versioned for bulletproof consistency.
    • Auto-scaling and resiliency: Integrate dynamic capacity controls and self-healing policies that adapt to spikes in demand without manual intervention.
    • Cost optimization: Automate rightsizing, spot-instance strategies, and policy-driven shutdowns to reduce waste and maximize ROI.
    • Global delivery fabric: Deploy your services in multi-region clouds with traffic shaping and geo-routing to ensure low latency and high availability worldwide.

    Our AI Solution Accelerator™ provides intelligent provisioning, anomaly detection, and drift correction in your pipeline. Your infrastructure scales intelligently, stays secure, and performs flawlessly under any load.

  • Governance & Team Development

    Master the platform — culture, processes, and policies in lockstep.

    Modern architectures require more than code. You need clear guardrails and empowered teams. We provide governance frameworks and hands-on support so your engineers can confidently steer the ship.

    • Policy-as-code: Code security, compliance, and operational policies directly into your CI/CD pipelines to enforce them automatically.
    • Live Playbooks: Deploy versioned runbooks and decision flows in your repo so every incident follows the same best practices.
    • Expert-led workshops: Hands-on sessions on secure coding, cloud best practices, and observation patterns to educate every engineer.
    • Capture tribal knowledge: Automate the extraction of architectural insights and feed the learnings from each sprint into living documentation.
    • Cross-functional guilds: Establish dedicated groups for resilience, performance, and security champions that drive continuous improvement.

    Our AI Solution Accelerator™ integrates governance reviews, policy validations, structured coaching, and expert-led reviews into your delivery pipeline, ensuring your platform remains compliant, your team stays ahead, and innovation never stops.

  • AI-Augmented Engineering

    Extend Your Team’s Reach

    Engineering speed often slows at the review stage, the test suite, or the legacy zones no one wants to touch. The blockers aren’t strategy — they’re time and cognitive load, which company debt management services are designed to reduce through structure and automation:

    • AI-powered static analysis to detect hidden logic flaws, unreachable paths, and structural complexity.
    • PR summarization and change scoring to surface dangerous diffs before they merge.
    • Test suite extension based on observed gaps in coverage, edge case behavior, and runtime patterns.
    • Context-aware duplication and coupling analysis across services and libraries
    • Fine-tuned prompts for refactoring proposals that align with your coding standards and architecture vision.
    • Internal knowledge search trained on your incident postmortems, changelogs, and service docs.

    We keep your team focused on what matters most, by letting machines handle the routine, the repeatable, and the easy-to-miss.

Our Process

Our Approach

We work closely with your team to understand how sig technical debt slows delivery, complicates decision-making, and increases risk. Together, we define the scope, prioritize the points of friction, and develop an actionable remediation strategy that fits into your roadmap.

01.

01. Define strategic goals

We align on what tech debt means in your context, whether it’s time-to-release delays, high churn on core modules, or risks hidden in vulnerable integrations. The goal is clarity on where we need speed, stability, or structure, and what that requires technically.

02.

02. Allocation and prioritize of system deficits

As part of our debt management consulting, we analyze the architecture, codebase, and delivery flows based on commit history, incident data, and runtime metrics. With the help of engineers who understand the root causes of the issues, each high-friction area is identified, categorized, and linked to business-critical systems.

03.

03. Identify structural gaps

We uncover what's holding your team back: unreliable tests, weak boundaries, code You don't own, and deployment roadblocks. Using tools like CodeScene, SonarQube, and Launchable, we get a data-driven view of system complexity, regression risk, and change instability.

04.

04. Evaluate change areas

Not all debt can be addressed at once. We determine what can be safely improved now, what needs to be isolated, and what needs to be implemented incrementally. Your supply flow remains uninterrupted while gaining structural resilience.

05.

05. Deliver a roadmap

You get a plan to eliminate technical debt with precise actions, tracked metrics and prioritized workstreams. Each step supports long-term technical stability and contributes to consistent tech debt reduction without slowing down work already in progress.

  • 01. Define strategic goals

  • 02. Allocation and prioritize of system deficits

  • 03. Identify structural gaps

  • 04. Evaluate change areas

  • 05. Deliver a roadmap

Value We Provide

Benefits

01

Reliable and fast delivery

We provide debt management services that improve your software delivery mechanisms. Every refactor runs behind feature flags, every release goes through hardened CI/CD pipelines, and every commit triggers automated checks before it goes into production. You don’t have to wait for clean code — software debt management is integrated into the workflow. Speed no longer depends on individual effort. It becomes systemic.

02

Infrastructure that absorbs impact

We don’t strive for stability — we engineer it. Runtime alerts track anomalous patterns before they reach thresholds. Contract tests enforce behavior between services. Rollbacks are executed as policies, not patches. Traffic spikes, edge cases, third-party outages — your platform withstands the pressure without you having to intervene. The system reacts faster than your team.

03

Teams that scale without delay

We build capacity, not just code. New engineers commit in their first sprint. Existing employees stop using the same brittle modules. Documentation becomes actionable, test suites enforce discipline, and the architecture learns. The cost of change is reduced, training time is shortened, and talent is no longer focused on firefighting but moving forward. You don’t just move faster — You accelerate further.

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Australia

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United Kingdom

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is technical debt, and how does it affect software performance over time?

    Technical debt is the hidden cost a team incurs when prioritizing speed over structure, opting for a quick fix over a permanent design. In the moment, this shortcut feels harmless — the feature is delivered, the sprint is complete — but the underlying compromise begins to accumulate like interest. Months later, once-simple modules become tangled and difficult to change, where each call creates additional hops and each query consumes more cycles. Latency increases from release to release; servers work harder to hide inefficiencies; cloud bills swell to support bloated workloads. Engineers notice it first: onboarding drags on, even small changes can cause unexpected ripple effects, and confidence in each deployment dwindles. Eventually, users feel it too: slow responses, sporadic glitches, and an experience that once felt crisp now drags on. Technical debts that goes unpaid turn yesterday’s victory lap into tomorrow’s performance bottleneck, slowing the product’s momentum just when it should be accelerating.

  • How can we identify and prioritize technical debt in our codebase?

    To identify technical debt, whether on your own or working with debt managers services, perform static analysis to uncover complexity and code smells, then use runtime profiling to identify slow or vulnerable components. Compare these results with version control data — files with frequent changes or hotfixes often indicate deeper problems.

    Prioritize based on impact. Measure how each debt item affects release velocity, defect rate, or cloud spend. Then rate them in terms of effort-to-impact ratio and include the most essential items in your backlog. This will give you a ranked, ROI-driven remediation plan — not just a list of buggy code, but a roadmap to get faster.

  • What are the best methods for managing and reducing technical debt?

    The first step in managing technical debt is making it visible and measurable. Perform regular code scans, track hotspots in your CI pipeline, and link each issue to a specific business metric, such as slower releases, increasing cloud spend, or higher defect rates. This turns cleanup from an abstract task into a strategic priority — an essential shift if You want to manage technical debt effectively.

    Bug fixing will then be treated as part of the delivery. To refactor without breaking the flow, use proven patterns like Strangler Fig and Branch-by-Abstraction. Wrap the improvements in automated tests and observe the gain in cycle time and stability.

    Most importantly, ensure discipline. Enforce code standards, lock down PRs with policy-as-code, and review architecture quarterly. When technical debt is tracked, prioritized, and contained, your team can deliver faster and scale without regret.

  • How do technical debt management services integrate into existing development workflows?

    Technical debt management services fit seamlessly into your existing workflows — they don’t replace how you work but enhance it.

    We integrate static analysis, test coverage, and runtime profiling into your current CI/CD pipeline. Every time you commit, merge, or deploy, you can see what code is adding complexity, what tests are missing, and what areas are impacting performance or cost: no need to learn new tools — just stronger signals in the systems your team is already using.

    Next, we synchronize the blame items into your issue tracker — Jira, Azure Boards, Linear, and tag and prioritize them alongside regular product stories. The refactors run as part of the regular sprints, behind the behind the feature flags if necessary, so the releases stay in flow. The engineers remain in the flow, and the product doesn’t stall.

    Pull requests follow extended guidelines: Gates for code quality, test coverage, and SLOs — all automated and reportable. We feed dashboards that not only show the burndown but also its impact — faster builds, fewer bugs, lower costs.

  • What tools or metrics are used to measure technical debt accurately?

    To accurately measure technical debt, we need to connect the dots between the complexity of the code and the actual impact on the business. Static analysis tools such as SonarQube or CodeClimate help quantify the internal quality of your codebase by identifying duplications, deeply nested logic, and untested branches. These tools estimate the effort, usually expressed in developer hours, required to bring the code up to standard.

    But numbers alone are not meaningful. To make these metrics actionable, you need to include signals for delivery: test coverage trends, CI build durations, change failure rates, and the frequency of production incidents attributable to specific modules. Technical debt is no longer invisible when this data flows into your dashboards. You can see where it is slowing down releases, driving up costs, or increasing risk, and you can prioritize fixes that deliver measurable benefits.

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