Magento Migration

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. ...

Prerequisite: Familiarity with the concepts introduced in Part 7 — Phase2 Dual Write. Review it first if the terminology in this part is unfamiliar. 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: Phase 3 cutover executes an immediate 100% traffic shift for stable read services and a graduated ramp over 10 days for transactional services. Legacy Magento remains a hot standby for 30 days while automated ArgoCD gitops pipelines handle production deployments. ...