Case Study: Squarespace accelerates Spring Boot and Tyson upgrades at scale with Moderne

Squarespace cuts Spring Boot migration effort by 50–60% with Moderne

Squarespace, a company providing tools for building websites and online businesses, faced a significant challenge in managing upgrades for its internal Spring Boot-based framework, Tyson, across over 200 services. The manual process was error-prone, disrupted feature development, and often led to incidents. The vendor, Moderne, provided its platform to automate these complex migrations.

Moderne implemented a solution using automated recipes to handle the upgrade logic, including a composite recipe with over 3,471 transformation rules. This automated 50-60% of the migration steps for major upgrades, saving an estimated 1,106 developer hours. The result was a faster, more predictable modernization process that dramatically reduced effort and allowed Squarespace's platform team to maintain services within their support window for the first time.

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