Modernize your backend
without betting on a rewrite
Build new services alongside your existing system and migrate functionality at your own pace. Encore gives every new service a complete development and deployment workflow, with infrastructure automatically provisioned in your AWS or GCP.
Start with one service
Modernization doesn’t need to begin with a multi-year migration plan. Start with the next feature, a high-change domain, or a performance-critical workload. Run it alongside your existing backend and expand only when it proves valuable.
Don’t pay a platform tax to split up a monolith
Extracting a service usually introduces new Terraform, pipelines, environments, IAM, and observability. Encore provides that foundation automatically, so teams can modernize the application without first building a microservices platform.
Every new service gets its infrastructure
A new service declares the databases, queues, and buckets it needs and Encore provisions them, locally and in every environment. There is no separate infrastructure repo to extend before the service can run.
- Databases, queues, and buckets provisioned automatically
- Real infrastructure locally, not mocks
- Its own infrastructure in every preview environment
- Traced across services from the first deploy
Declared in the service, provisioned by Encore.
Keep production under your control
Deploy into your existing AWS or GCP environment. Platform teams retain control over networking, scaling, security, and approvals while developers can independently build and ship new services.
- Deployed into your existing cloud account
- Networking, scaling, and security stay yours
- Approval gates where you want them
- No proprietary runtime to migrate off
us-east-1Practical modernization paths
Teams arrive at modernization from different directions. These are the ones we see most often.
Build all new functionality on Encore
Leave the existing system in place and route new development to Encore, the way Groupon does.
Extract high-change domains
Pull the parts of the monolith that change most often into their own services first.
Move performance-critical workloads
Migrate the workloads that outgrew Rails or Node.js to Go, as Bookshop.org did with inventory.
Replace batch jobs with events
Turn nightly batch processing into event-driven services with queues and retries handled for you.
Standardize a microservices estate
Bring services with hand-rolled Terraform and pipelines onto one automated infrastructure workflow.
Introduce AI-built services safely
Let agents build new services against real infrastructure without touching the legacy system.
“What used to take days or weeks of back-and-forth between developers and infra teams is now automated and completed in minutes.”
Josef Sima, Engineering Director at Groupon
Modernize with the next service, not a rewrite
Bring one new service to Encore and see how it fits alongside your existing stack.
Paste into your coding agent to install Encore and scaffold an app.