Part 8: Phase 3 — Full Cutover: Zero Downtime + ArgoCD GitOps

Phase 3 is the final act: 100% of traffic moves to microservices, Magento becomes a passive archive, and the platform runs entirely on Go microservices via GitOps. No PHP in the critical path. No Magento license renewal needed. Answer-first: Customer and Catalog services cut over at 100% immediately (they’ve been stable through all of Phase 2). Order Service uses a graduated 25%→50%→75%→100% ramp over 10 days, with a monitoring hold at each step. Magento stays alive as a hot standby for 30 days — an archive-service syncs microservice data to Magento hourly (one-way, for regulatory compliance). All deployments use ArgoCD + Kustomize; a git commit triggers a production deployment within minutes. ...

May 27, 2026 · 9 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

PayPay Architecture: Scaling Payments to 70M Users

Answer-first: PayPay handles 7.8B annual transactions using a cloud-native architecture centered on TiDB for distributed ACID transactions, Kafka for event streaming, and Kotlin/Go microservices. GitOps-driven deployments and continuous chaos engineering ensure high availability and disaster recovery. What You’ll Learn That AI Won’t Tell You Running chaos engineering scripts in TiDB payment systems. How event sourcing with Kafka isolates PayPay checkout routes from legacy bank outages. PayPay launched in October 2018 and grew to 10 million users in just 3 months — a growth rate that no Japanese fintech had ever seen. By 2025, the platform had crossed 70 million registered users and processed 7.8 billion payments per year. Behind this growth is an engineering team that has had to scale not just their infrastructure, but their entire engineering culture: from service standardization and GitOps-driven deployments to chaos engineering and AI-powered fraud detection. ...

June 1, 2026 · 13 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Autonomous Hybrid-AI Pipeline: Cron to State-Machine

Answer-first: Transition from fragile, expensive cron jobs to a resilient, state-based Finite State Machine (FSM) for autonomous content pipelines. Dramatically reduce LLM API fees by employing a tiered hybrid routing strategy—using local models for routing and frontier models only for editing—and implement Wake-on-LAN to control GPU server utility costs. What You’ll Learn That AI Won’t Tell You How to structure MinHash thresholds to filter out syndicated duplicates without dropping minor updates in high-frequency feeds. A complete breakdown of Wake-on-LAN (WOL) sleep scheduling that cut local GPU server idle power consumption by 92% in production. It’s easy to write a cron job that pings an API, hands a URL to OpenAI, and publishes a markdown file. It’s significantly harder to orchestrate a distributed swarm of AI agents that can read deeply from diverse sources, deduplicate state across time, evaluate article quality through a multi-layer gate, safely publish via GitOps, and optimize its own power footprint—all without human intervention. ...

May 18, 2026 · 14 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Tech Radar, May 3, 2026: Dapr AI, R3F WebGPU, and Argo CD 3.4

Today’s Tech Radar tracks three massive architectural shifts occurring simultaneously across the backend, frontend, and infrastructure ecosystems in 2026. On the backend, the Dapr project has stabilized its Agents v1.0 framework for Agentic AI. On the frontend, React Three Fiber (R3F) has successfully bridged the gap to WebGPU via the Three Shading Language (TSL). At the infrastructure layer, the upcoming Argo CD 3.4 release introduces critical “Day 2” operational safety mechanisms for Kubernetes GitOps. ...

May 3, 2026 · 4 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Tech Radar, May 2, 2026: 24-Hour TechTask Signals - Commerce Modernization Is Becoming an Operations Problem

The strongest TechTask signal in the last 24 hours is not a single framework release. It is the way several platform updates are converging on the same message: commerce modernization is no longer mainly about decomposing a monolith. It is about operating the decomposed system safely. That matters directly for the engineering profile behind this site: Strangler Fig migration from Magento/PHP into a 21-service Golang ecosystem, Dapr Pub/Sub for distributed workflows, Saga compensation for checkout and payment failure, Transactional Outbox for reliable events, GitOps through Kubernetes and ArgoCD, and performance work that pushed p95 latency from 1.2s to 120ms under high-traffic commerce load. ...

May 2, 2026 · 8 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Tech Radar, April 23, 2026: Kubernetes v1.36 Haru Ships 18 GA Features and Closes the Lifecycle Gap

Kubernetes v1.36 “Haru” shipped on April 22, 2026, one day ago. The release carries 70 enhancements: 18 to stable, 25 to beta, 25 to alpha. After reading the full release notes and the detailed pre-release analysis directly from the source material, the picture that emerges is not a flashy feature drop. It is a release that closes several long-standing lifecycle gaps, hardens the security model in ways that matter for production, and makes a meaningful architectural bet on Dynamic Resource Allocation as the future of GPU and AI workload management. ...

April 23, 2026 · 10 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Tech Radar, April 18, 2026: Argo CD Turns GitOps Into a Full Lifecycle Discipline

The selected items for pipeline run 32 all revolve around GitOps, but they do more than repeat the same story. After fetching and reading the full source material directly from the original URLs, a clear pattern emerges: GitOps in 2026 is no longer just about syncing manifests from Git to Kubernetes. It is becoming a disciplined lifecycle model for platform operations, with deletion safety, stronger reconciliation semantics, clearer governance boundaries, and increasingly explicit tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized control planes. ...

April 18, 2026 · 8 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

GitOps at Scale: Kubernetes & ArgoCD for Microservices

Answer-first: Eliminate manual deployment errors and drift by implementing split-repo GitOps with ArgoCD. By configuring the selfHeal: true policy, ArgoCD automatically corrects cluster mutations. Structure configurations using Kustomize overlays and the App-of-Apps pattern, enabling safe, auditable rollbacks via simple git revert commands. What You’ll Learn That AI Won’t Tell You The security risks of running kubectl apply in production and how the App-of-Apps pattern eliminates credential exposure. Practical steps to configure annotation-based sync filtering in ArgoCD to isolate multi-tenant microservices deployments. Building 21 well-architected Go microservices is only half the battle. If your deployment process relies on an engineer running kubectl apply from their laptop on a Friday afternoon, you haven’t built an enterprise platform — you’ve built a ticking time bomb. ...

April 12, 2026 · 10 min · Lê Tuấn Anh