Urumi Blog
Deep dives into WooCommerce performance optimization, infrastructure scaling, and e-commerce best practices from the Urumi engineering team.
MariaDB 10.5 to MySQL 8.4 Migration: How We Moved a 600 GB WooCommerce Database
By Vedanshu Jain | May 5, 2026
A real 600 GB WooCommerce migration from MariaDB 10.5 to MySQL 8.4 using MySQL 5.7, MySQL 8.0, replication, checksums, and a short cutover.
Self-Healing WooCommerce Hosting: Why Your Hosting Costs Should Decrease Over Time
By Vedanshu Jain | May 2, 2026
Every other host tells you to upgrade when things slow down. We do the opposite — we monitor your store, fix the code, and measure success by whether your hosting costs go down over time. Here’s how.
How We Made WooCommerce Downtime Invisible (And Scale Effortless)
By Vedanshu Jain | May 2, 2026
Most hosts recover from downtime. We made it invisible. Here’s the architecture behind instant automatic failover, read-only immutable images, and scaling that needs no pre-planning.
The Network Architecture That Makes WooCommerce Load Before Customers Notice
By Vedanshu Jain | May 2, 2026
Fast hardware means nothing at the end of a poorly designed network. Here’s how we engineered every layer of the data path — from physical CDN connections to three levels of caching — to make WooCommerce load before customers notice.
Why No Self-Respecting Host Should Run WooCommerce on an Intel i9
By Vedanshu Jain | May 2, 2026
We benchmarked every modern processor for WooCommerce workloads. Two stood out. Here’s why one was a non-starter — and why no serious host should be running stores on consumer-grade hardware.
Why JIT Compilation Makes WooCommerce Slower (And What We Do Instead)
By Vedanshu Jain | March 26, 2026
JIT compilation is supposed to make PHP faster. For WooCommerce, it does the opposite. Here’s why – and how we configured PHP from the inside out using our knowledge as WooCommerce core contributors.
How We Built the Fastest WooCommerce Hosting (And the advent of self healing software)
By Vedanshu Jain | March 26, 2026
How we built the fastest WooCommerce hosting from the ground up – the hardware, PHP configuration, network architecture, failover, and the AI-powered secret sauce no other host offers.
Agentic AI for E-Commerce: Beyond Chatbots and Content Generation | Urumi.AI
By Vedanshu Jain | January 5, 2026
Learn how we at Urumi.AI we are building agentic AI eCommerce that can be used beyond chatbots and creating content.
Using AI safely for WordPress/WooCommerce
By Vedanshu Jain | August 3, 2025
We have been using AI extensively to build Urumi.AI, but this blog post is not about that. We will see more and more AI tools come up that promise the world (including us). It’s important to understand what guardrails these…
We are removing the update button from WordPress
By Vedanshu Jain | July 30, 2025
Urumi.AI’s intelligent plugin management removes the update fatigue (and button) from WordPress!
Fixing race condition for 25 percent of all eCommerce sites
By Vedanshu Jain | July 25, 2025
WooCommerce powers 25% of all eCommerce sites, but it once it had a race condition bug in maintaining stocks. See the story on how we fixed it for 25% of the internet.
WooCommerce supporting 60k product updates per hour
By Vedanshu Jain | July 8, 2025
One of the common setups with e-commerce is you have both channels-physical shop and online site, and they usually share the same inventory. This means every time there’s a sale in either channel, the inventory needs to be updated. For…
Built by ex-WooCommerce core developers
We're ex-WooCommerce core developers and ex-Google/Meta engineers who've scaled systems handling millions of requests per minute. We built the parts of WooCommerce that matter in production: performance, payments, and reliability. That's why we can operate your store end-to-end, not just host it.