What type of system was improved?

A mission-critical, real-time collaboration and incident management platform.

What were the major engineering initiatives?

Version upgrade (2.6→3.5), Python migration (2→3), DevOps scaling, and performance optimization.

What scale/performance goal was stated?

The case mentions increasing performance from 10K users to 50K users.

How was load/performance testing addressed?

The case mentions building a stress-testing framework using Locust and Asyncio.

Can UVIK support mission-critical delivery standards?

Yes. UVIK delivers with governance, testing discipline, and security alignment suitable for high-availability systems.

Building Real-Time Team Collaboration Platform With Mission-Critical Command and Control and Incident Management Capabilities

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About the client

Drakontas, a leading provider of command-and-control software for US Federal and State agencies, faced a pivotal scalability crisis. Their flagship platform, DragonForce, needed to evolve from a tactical tool (Version 2.6) to a mass-deployment ecosystem (Version 3.5). The Bottleck: The legacy Python 2 architecture hit a hard ceiling at 10,000 users, risking failure during large-scale public safety incidents. The Risk: In emergency response, "downtime" isn't just lost revenue—it puts lives at risk. They needed a partner capable of executing a high-risk Python 2 to 3 migration on a live, mission-critical system.

Request

Drakontas required a high-trust 'Mirror Team' of senior engineers to integrate with their US-based R&D center and execute a critical Python 2-to-3 migration for their emergency response platform.

Indusrty

Public safety

Status

Work in progress

Location

Bluebell, Pennsylvania

Team

4 Senior Python developers, 2 React developers, 1 React Native developer, DevOps engineer

Challenges

01

Developing the product from version 2.6 to 3.5

02

Scaling the team from 2 to 6 engineers

03

Python 2 to Python 3 migration

04

Both web and mobile software development

05

DevOps scaling

06

DevOps downscaling

07

Increasing performance from 10K users to 50K

08

Performance optimization

09

Developing stress test framework using Locust and Asyncio

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"Their work has been deployed in mission-critical environments. We've been extremely satisfied with the results of their work. The team is completely self-sufficient, and I haven’t needed to dedicate anyone to oversee them. They’ve become a mirror team to my developers in the US."

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