PHP2Shell, two critical PHP engine flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), went public with fixes on October 21, 2026, and an exploit attempt was recorded four days earlier. In a large monolith, one unpatched runtime exposes every feature, and PHP 8.1 or older gets no official fix. Most monoliths reach patched PHP 8.4 with a first service live in 7 days. Read the latest report.
PHP to microservices migration services are for US products that have outgrown a single PHP codebase. When one deploy can break checkout, search and invoicing at once, smaller services owned by small teams can bring back release speed and safety.
The split skips the big-bang rewrite. It follows the strangler fig pattern: a gateway goes in front of the monolith, then one business area at a time, such as payments, notifications or search, moves out as its own service with its own database, and traffic is routed to it. The rest of the PHP app keeps running on patched PHP 8.4 until each piece is replaced or deliberately left alone.
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When splitting a PHP monolith pays off
Two things justify a split: teams blocking each other's releases, or one feature outgrowing the rest. Messy code alone does not.
Deploy one part at a time
An invoicing change ships on its own, so a bug there cannot take the whole site down with it.
Scale the busy parts
Search or image processing runs on more containers while the admin area stays small, so you stop paying to scale everything.
Right tool per job
Services can stay on Laravel or Symfony, or move to Go, Node.js or Python where the workload calls for it.
What each phase delivers
- Domain map of the monolith with clear service boundaries
- Monolith upgraded to patched PHP 8.4 so it stays safe while it shrinks
- API gateway or reverse proxy that routes traffic per path
- First service extracted with its own API and data store
- Events and messages through RabbitMQ, Kafka or Amazon SQS
- Docker images and deployment to Kubernetes or Amazon ECS
- Central logging, tracing and health checks across services
- CI pipelines so each service builds, tests and deploys alone
The first 7 days of the split
Day 1: Find the seams
Mapping modules, tables and traffic picks the first service to extract, and you approve this phase's price.
Days 2-4: Patch and extract
The monolith moves to PHP 8.4, the gateway goes in, and the first service is built with its own API and data.
Days 5-6: Shadow traffic
On real requests, the new service's answers are diffed against the monolith's and each mismatch fixed.
Day 7: Route live
The gateway sends real traffic to the new service, with instant rollback to the monolith if anything looks wrong.
PHP monolith vs microservices
What splitting the system gains you, and what it costs.
| PHP monolith | Microservices | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploys | Everything ships together | Each service ships on its own schedule |
| Failure impact | One bug can stop the whole app | Faults are contained to one service |
| Scaling | Scale the whole app or nothing | Scale only the busy services |
| Data | One shared database | Each service owns its own data |
| Running costs | One app to host and watch | More moving parts, needs good monitoring |
| Team fit | Fine for one small team | Suits several teams working in parallel |
Why choose us to break up your monolith
A service is extracted only when it earns its keep in deploy speed or scaling.
Small steps, always reversible
Every extraction can be rolled back at the gateway, so the business never rests on a half-finished rewrite.
Fixed price per phase after an architecture review.
NDA signed on request before repository or infrastructure access.
Microservices migration for product teams in the USA
This service is meant for SaaS companies and digital product teams in the United States whose PHP monolith now slows every release. Calls overlap US Eastern hours, and your engineers get answers within one business day.
You keep one technical lead as your contact, a written roadmap, an NDA on request and fixed dates for each phase. Delivery record: 5,000+ projects for 3,460+ clients.
Official sources: PHP supported versions · Microservices on AWS
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about our PHP to Microservices Migration service.
Most small and medium monoliths reach PHP 8.4.27 and have the first service extracted and live in 7 days. A full split of a large system is phased, the first part still goes live inside those 7 days, and each later phase gets its own price and date.
No. Many services stay in PHP with Laravel, Symfony or Slim on PHP 8.4. Switching language needs a clear reason, such as Go for a high-throughput API.
Gradually. A new service reads through an API or a synced copy, then takes ownership of its tables. The design keeps two services from writing to one table.
No. A small team or modest app does better with a modular monolith on PHP 8.4, which costs less to run. Microservices make sense only when deploy pain or scaling needs justify the extra cost.
At minimum, containers, a gateway, a message queue and central logging. Amazon ECS or Kubernetes is the usual home, sized to your traffic so idle clusters do not cost you money.
Yes. US product teams work remotely with one technical lead, an NDA on request and a fixed price per phase, with calls that overlap US Eastern hours.
Is your PHP app still on an old version?
Send the URL or repository, under NDA if needed. The audit checks for the PHP2Shell flaw and outdated code and shows what a 7-day migration looks like.
Request a migration audit