Rivet
Rivet: Delivery that treats production as a hard boundary.
Most teams can build new systems. Far fewer can safely change the ones already in production. Rivet is where XRiley takes ownership of modernization, refactors, platform shifts, and live rollouts—work where correctness matters more than speed and failure carries real user impact. We design changes where production is not an afterthought but the governing constraint.
Why Change Fails in Production
High‑risk changes often fail because systems behave differently under real load than teams expect. Migrations are rushed, rollouts exceed operational tolerance, legacy behavior is poorly documented, and dependencies drift in ways no one anticipates. Fallback plans are theoretical rather than practiced, and teams rarely have a safe environment to rehearse change before it impacts customers.
The Four Stages of Rivet Delivery
1. Discovery of operational reality
- Map what the system actually does under load.
- Identify brittle behavior, hidden consumers, and side effects.
- Define the true risk surface.
2. Migration path design
- Versioning and compatibility plans.
- Shadow traffic, dual writes, and temporary shims.
- Safety nets for rollback without data loss.
3. Live execution choreography
- Sequenced rollouts aligned with real operational patterns.
- Canarying and statistical validation.
- Controlled cutovers with immediate reversibility.
4. Stabilization and handover
- Observability aligned with the new system shape.
- Removal of temporary scaffolding.
- Documentation so your team fully owns the solution.
Where Rivet Works Best
Rivet is most effective in environments where change must happen without disruption—replacing legacy components, replatforming infrastructure, delivering new services into production, or consolidating systems after acquisitions. Anywhere correctness matters more than velocity, Rivet ensures changes land cleanly and predictably under real load.
What Teams Gain
Teams gain a dramatic reduction in production incidents, predictable migration outcomes, meaningful rollback capability, and a system that behaves correctly after transition. Most importantly, they get a delivery process grounded in operational truth—one that brings confidence, not hope, on launch day.
If your system needs to change without breaking, Rivet is the work that protects everything else.
For teams facing critical migrations, refactors, or platform transitions under real load, Rivet delivers measured, reliable change.
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