FrenchFarmers

The Challenge

Took over France's largest Chia farming pool in production, with a legacy codebase and critical services such as claiming, payouts, and notifications that needed to stay reliable 24/7 for roughly 100 active farmers.

The Approach

The takeover combined two tracks: rewriting critical services to regain control of the stack, and rolling those changes out conservatively in production:

• took ownership of the critical Python services and rewrote the claimer, payer, and Discord bot
• maintained the rest of the inherited stack during the transition
• handled production operations with proactive monitoring and fast intervention on infrastructure issues
• implemented immediate rollback paths by keeping previous application versions and Python virtual environments
• ongoing work on multi-machine duplication to improve resilience

The Result

No notable incident since the takeover. The pool remains an active hub for the French-speaking Chia community despite the market downturn. The project demonstrates the ability to stabilize a live inherited system, incrementally rewrite critical services, and operate with uptime as the primary constraint.