Wazert El Saada — High-Volume WooCommerce & Catalog Architecture
High-throughput WooCommerce architecture handling large catalogs with custom database query caching, streamlined checkout, and automated shipping integrations.
Project Executive Summary
The Business Problem
A growing product catalog combined with concurrent marketing traffic led to slow server response times (TTFB > 3.5s), cart checkout abandoned sessions, and database locks during flash sales.
Architecture & Engineering Solution
Refactored the WooCommerce data access layer. Implemented Redis persistent caching for transients and product query transients, stripped heavy third-party plugins in favor of custom PHP actions, and optimized MySQL indexes on postmeta and order tables.
System Architecture & Data Flow
High-level sequence pipeline mapping store events to business operations: