Feature Flags

Prerequisite: Familiarity with the concepts introduced in Part 5 — Eav Schema Migration. Review it first if the terminology in this part is unfamiliar. Phase 1 is the safest phase of the migration — by design. No write operation touches the new microservices. Magento remains the source of truth for all data modifications. The only thing Phase 1 does is prove that your microservices can serve reads faster and more reliably than Magento. ...

Prerequisite: Familiarity with the concepts introduced in Part 6 — Phase1 Strangler Fig. Review it first if the terminology in this part is unfamiliar. In Phase 1, both systems existed but only one wrote data: Magento. In Phase 2, both systems write data simultaneously. This is the most technically complex phase — and the one where most migrations introduce data corruption if they don’t have an explicit conflict resolution strategy. ...