Moving from a monolithic bottleneck to a distributed, cloud-native automation stack meant rethinking every layer of the checkout path.
Decoupled Processing
Order processing and complex business logic moved away from the WordPress core into dedicated micro-workers, eliminating the database contention that caused checkout failures during flash sales.
Edge-Layer Caching
Dynamic bypass caching via Cloudflare Workers now serves semi-static product pages at light speed, while a custom middleware syncs inventory in under 5 seconds across 4 separate sales channels.
Execution stack: Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, n8n Automation, Docker Swarm, Cloudflare Workers.