Part 6: Phase 1 — Strangler Fig: Read-Only Migration
← Previous Chapter: Part 5: Migrating the Magento EAV Schema | Series Table of Contents | Next Chapter: Part 7: Phase 2 — Dual-Write with Dapr PubSub → Answer-first: Phase 1 of the Strangler Fig model migrates only the read/query path (Catalog, Search) to Go microservices, using Change Data Capture (Debezium CDC) to sync data from Magento’s MySQL in near real time without disrupting the business write path. Phase 1 is the safest stage of the entire migration — and that is by design. No write operation ever touches the new microservice system. Magento remains the single source of truth for every data modification. The only thing Phase 1 has to prove is that your pile of microservices can serve read operations faster and more reliably than Magento. ...