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Migrating WooCommerce without downtime

A playbook for moving commerce workloads while orders keep flowing.

Olivia Peretz

Olivia Peretz

Solutions Architect

Oct 08, 2025

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6 min read

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Migrating WooCommerce without downtime

WooCommerce migrations usually involve downtime and stressed teams. We rely on event streaming and traffic shadowing to keep checkouts online.

Database sync strategy

Continuous replication mirrors orders to the new stack until the final cutover.

Traffic shadowing

Requests hit both clusters for a short window so we can validate responses.

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