Magento Migration

Composable Commerce Migration: From Magento Monolith to 21 Go Microservices

Answer-first: Decomposing a monolithic Magento deployment into 21 independent Go microservices reduces AWS infrastructure hosting costs from $200k/year to under $18k/year, eliminates EAV relational bottlenecks, and scales checkout throughput to 50,000+ RPS. This living playbook documents every architecture decision record (ADR), schema migration script, gRPC gateway pipeline, and zero-downtime Strangler Fig phase. 🎯 Series Overview & Problem Space Monolithic e-commerce engines like Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce impose severe operational, latency, and financial penalties on fast-growing retail enterprises: ...

Part 1: DDD & Bounded Contexts — Decomposing Magento into 21 Go Microservices

← Previous Chapter: Part 0: Executive Summary | Series Hub | Next Chapter: Part 2: Rush Monorepo Architecture → Answer-first: Decomposing Magento requires Domain-Driven Design (DDD) bounded contexts across 5 core domains: Catalog & Search, Order & Fulfillment, Customer & Identity, Marketing & Promotion, and Financial Accounting. Each microservice owns its private PostgreSQL database to eliminate coupling. Monolithic Magento tightly couples product catalogs, tax rules, user sessions, inventory locks, and payment processing within a single shared database. A schema change to customer addresses can inadvertently lock product catalog tables. ...