The structural reasons.
Need a deployment strategy for the code
Requires environment variables and secrets management
Need autoscaling to handle production traffic
Target stack. Defaults, not dogma.
These are the choices we'd recommend for most Windsurf migrations. The audit week is where we adjust for your specific constraints — compliance, team skills, existing infrastructure.
Windsurf gotchas. All known.
The patterns specific to Windsurf that catch teams trying to migrate themselves. We've seen each of these enough times to plan for them up front.
Environment variables
Properly injecting secrets rather than hardcoding them in the repo.
Containerization
Writing optimized Dockerfiles that keep image sizes small.
A typical Windsurf migration.
Yours will land within a few items of this. The line-item quote from the audit is what makes it specific.
- Dockerize the application
- Set up CI/CD pipeline
- Deploy to a managed container service
Other migrations we run.
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Audit week is where it gets specific. Five business days, fixed price, real plan.