Part 0: Executive Summary — Why the $200K/Year Magento Trap Is Now Avoidable
Every engineering team that’s built seriously on Magento eventually hits the same three walls: the licensing wall, the scaling wall, and the developer velocity wall. The question is whether you hit them before or after they cost you real money and real customers. Answer-first: A Composable Commerce Platform built on 21 Go microservices, Kratos v2, and Dapr PubSub can replace Magento Enterprise — delivering the same commerce capabilities (multi-warehouse, payment saga, loyalty engine, real-time search) — at zero license cost, with the ability to scale individual services independently during peak traffic. ...