Case Study: Yahoo Sports achieves platform modernization and faster innovation with Toptal

Yahoo Sports modernizes platform in under a year with Toptal

Yahoo Sports, a leading digital sports media platform, faced the challenge of modernizing two decades of legacy code and migrating its sports data platform in under a year. To stay on track, they needed to rapidly scale their engineering team. They partnered with Toptal for application modernization and migration services.

Toptal assembled a lean team of experienced developers within 48 hours to integrate with Yahoo's staff. This foundational team updated legacy code, rebuilt API architecture, and transitioned feeds for 13 distinct sports. The outcome was a fully modernized and standardized codebase, enabling easier future maintenance and accelerating innovation across Yahoo Sports' ecosystem. The unified team delivered over 65,000 lines of new code.

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