The Definitive Guide to Laravel Platform Modernisation

Secure, scalable, and future-ready platforms — helping UK businesses escape legacy Laravel debt and unlock growth.

The £28,000 Hidden Tax of Legacy Laravel

Across the UK, businesses are stuck with outdated Laravel systems that quietly bleed money and opportunity. Leaders feel the pain every day: sluggish performance, developer burnout, security risks, and features they simply can’t deliver. This isn’t just an IT issue — it’s a strategic threat.

  • On average, businesses waste £28,000+ each year on inefficiencies caused by legacy platforms.
  • 18 seconds — that’s how long it can take a legacy Laravel app to respond under a load of just 30 users.
  • 80% of developers report unhappiness working on legacy code, fuelling constant turnover and stalled projects.

The result? A downward spiral of lost revenue, wasted budget, frustrated staff, and missed opportunities while competitors sprint ahead.

Modernisation with Teque

At Teque, we don’t just upgrade code — we modernise entire businesses. Our role is to help you escape the legacy trap and build a secure, scalable platform designed for today and tomorrow.

We help you:

  • Close security holes that leave your data — and reputation — exposed.
  • Boost performance so growth doesn’t mean slower systems.
  • Deliver modern features your customers expect, from real-time updates to one-click payments.
  • Retain top talent by giving developers tools they want to work with.

Instead of costly “rip and replace” projects, we focus on pragmatic, integration-first steps that deliver quick wins and build confidence for bigger transformation.

The Laravel Modernisation Pathway

A practical, low-risk route from legacy Laravel to a secure, scalable, and maintainable platform. We move in short, evidence-based stages so value lands early and often.

Assess & Baseline

Codebase, dependencies and PHP version review, security posture, performance baseline, and infrastructure overview. Output: a risk register, upgrade map, and clear success metrics.

Stabilise & Upgrade

Move to supported Laravel & PHP, patch vulnerabilities, tame dependencies, and introduce CI/CD and smoke tests. Business continuity first; risk down immediately.

Modernise & Simplify

Refactor hot spots, remove dead code, standardise auth and payments, introduce APIs, queues and events. Use a strangler-pattern where needed to replace brittle modules safely.

Optimise & Scale

Tune for speed and resilience: caching strategy, queues/Horizon, Octane where appropriate, DB indexing, CDN, rate-limiting, logging and alerting with clear SLOs. Outcome: a platform that grows without slowing.

CASE STUDIES_

Teque clients come from many backgrounds. Here are some of our success stories.

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They return to us because we always deliver on time and within budget.

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