Optimizing a Low-Code Platform for Speed and Efficiency

CHALLENGE

A fast-growing healthcare service provider specializing in radiological safety and compliance faced a critical operational challenge: its core management platform was struggling to meet the demands of a rapidly expanding client base. This platform was essential for coordinating the cleaning, repair, inventory tracking, and compliance management of X-ray protective garments used in hospitals and clinics — services vital to the safety of healthcare professionals and patients.

Despite being actively used across multiple healthcare facilities, the platform suffered from slow performance, with key operations taking minutes instead of seconds. The mounting backlog of feature requests further hampered staff productivity. Built on the low-code Anvil framework, the system’s limitations became increasingly apparent as the business scaled.

To address these challenges, the company brought in Six Feet Up to improve performance, add critical features, and resolve long-standing bugs.

Implementation Details

Six Feet Up developed a strategic plan focused on three critical areas: boosting performance, improving system architecture, and delivering high-impact features that scale with the business.

Boosting Performance

Six Feet Up tackled the most urgent issue first: speed. Built on the low-code Anvil framework, the platform relied heavily on proprietary boilerplates and a tightly coupled architecture across multiple applications. Our engineering team optimized SQL queries and streamlined database interactions.

Strengthening Architecture

Behind the scenes, the legacy codebase suffered from poor structure and repetition. It lacked adherence to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principles, making the system brittle and difficult to maintain. We consolidated redundant sections into reusable components, laying the groundwork for long-term maintainability and scalability.

To improve observability, real-time error tracking was implemented using Sentry. This gave stakeholders visibility into failures and performance issues — and allowed developers to respond quickly with fixes and improvements.

Delivering Scalable Features

With performance stabilized and architectural challenges addressed, Six Feet Up added functionalities that improve usability and support operational scale:

Damage Tracking & Status Updates: To streamline garment cleaning turnaround times, users can now flag damaged items as “held back.” This enables the prompt return of all undamaged garments in a batch, ensuring customers receive their usable items more quickly.
Role-Based Access Control: To improve security, the team implemented role-based logins, giving administrators full control while ensuring other users, like operations teams, only see relevant menus and functions.
Background Task Automation: To keep the system responsive for real-time interactions, long-running processes like generating reports and managing data exports were shifted to background tasks, freeing up system resources and maintaining responsiveness.

RESULTS

The results of Six Feet Up’s work were both immediate and impactful, giving the company more time to look for their next platform:

A Faster, More Reliable Platform: Core operations that once took minutes now complete in under five seconds — freeing up team members to focus on higher-value tasks.
Empowered Teams: Role-based access and background automation streamline user experience, reduce friction, and minimize interruptions. Operations teams no longer have to navigate irrelevant menus, and essential processes run seamlessly in the background.
Operational Efficiency = Business ROI: Accelerated workflows allow the organization to operate with fewer slowdowns, creating a clear business advantage.

What Does This Mean for Your Business?

Technical debt, inefficient workflows, and platform sluggishness aren’t just IT problems — they’re business risks.

Whether you're in healthcare, manufacturing, or another industry, Six Feet Up can help you streamline operations, modernize legacy platforms, and build systems that scale.

If you’re ready to eliminate technical bottlenecks and build a platform that scales with your business, let’s talk.