Case Study: Database of Religious History modernizes its research platform with Pieoneers Software

Database of Religious History modernizes 10x faster with Pieoneers Software

The Database of Religious History (DRH), a research nonprofit associated with UBC and the London School of Economics, faced data overload from aging architecture. Their platform, built over a decade, had become slow and costly to update due to outdated dependencies and complex state management. Pieoneers Software was engaged to modernize the full-stack web application.

Pieoneers Software executed a comprehensive modernization of the DRH's framework, state management, and data layer without interrupting service. By leveraging senior engineers to direct AI tools, they converted the entire React component model, removed legacy libraries, and introduced a modern GraphQL data layer. The results included a 10x faster application, a dramatically streamlined expert onboarding process, and a future-proof, type-safe codebase that reduced development costs and eliminated production incidents.

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