BitscorpSKU · 4 weeks or retainer
Realtime Rescue
Extract one hot path into Elixir or Go. Leave the rest of the company alone.
Four weeks to pull a realtime, payments, or concurrency-critical node out of Python or Ruby and into Elixir or Go. €12,000 (50% up front) or €3,000/mo with a three-month minimum.
The wound
What this is for
The node that takes the traffic — lobby, matching, payments, fan-out, live board — is still in a request/response stack that was never built for 10k concurrent users. Rewriting the product is a year. Pulling the hot path is a month.
- SaaS or marketplace with a websocket, queue, or payment path that pages people at peak
- A Ruby/Python/Node API that is fine at 500 users and ugly at 10,000
- A founder who has already been told “just add Redis” and it did not hold
Rescue (4 weeks)
€12,000
50% to start, 50% at week-4 demo. Written SOW required.
Realtime retainer
€3,000/mo
Monthly in advance, three-month minimum. Capacity for the same class of work, not a blank cheque.
Cap: two concurrent retainers studio-wide. Written SOW. No handshake starts.
Four-week Rescue
What the weeks look like
Week 1
Instrument and cut the contract
Trace the hot path, agree the API/websocket contract, freeze scope in writing. If the path is not isolatable in five days, we stop and you keep the deposit unused beyond that week’s work.
Week 2
Stand up the Elixir or Go node
Build the replacement behind a feature flag. Same external contract. Load script on the new node, not on production users.
Week 3
Cut over
Shadow traffic, then switch. Rollback is a flag, not a prayer. We do not invent features on the side.
Week 4
Soak and hand over
Runbook, dashboards, on-call notes for your team. Demo of p99 and error budget vs the old node.
In
Included
- One named hot path (API, websocket lobby, matching, or payments gateway)
- Elixir or Go implementation, tests, and a rollback flag
- Load note: what the node actually holds
- Slack, one business-day response on that path
- Weekly demo slot (Tue or Thu)
1 business day on the Rescue channel
Out
Not included
- Rewriting the rest of the product
- New product features unrelated to the hot path
- 24/7 on-call
- LocaleOps, mobile apps, or design
Questions
Before you book
Because you have a business to run. Rescue is one node, four weeks, a flag, and a number. A rewrite is a different company.
Elixir or Go — whichever matches the job and your team’s ability to own it. Seventeen years of poker engines and fintech gateways is the proof, not the religion.
We say so in writing. You do not pay the second 50%. You pay for the week of instrumentation you already received.
Named SKUs. Pick one. Do not invent a new one on the call.
Rescue (4 weeks) €12,000 · Realtime retainer €3,000/mo. Written SOW. 100% up front unless the offer says otherwise.