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Answer-first: Phase 3 transfers write authority for Orders and Payments to the Go microservices. Once historical orders are reconciled and payment webhooks are repointed, the Magento PHP monolith is placed in read-only maintenance mode and subsequently decommissioned.

The Cutover Runbook Checklist:

  1. T-24h: Run full data reconciliation audit between MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  2. T-2h: Lower DNS TTL to 60 seconds on all retail domains.
  3. T-0: Flip Cloudflare routing rule for /checkout to Go order-service.
  4. T+1h: Verify zero failed payments in Stripe / PayPal webhooks.
  5. T+48h: Terminate legacy Magento EC2 instances.