Beyond the Data Horizon: Flipkart’s Race to Cloud at Unmatched Scale

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Flipkart undertook an ambitious cloud migration, moving its Big Data platform to Google Cloud within six months while ensuring zero downtime and high data validation accuracy. Unlike typical phased migrations, Flipkart maintained over 10,000 active pipelines and critical analytics systems throughout the process. The company

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May 22, 2025•10m read time• From blog.flipkart.tech

Table of contents

Beyond the Data Horizon: Flipkart’s Race to Cloud at Unmatched Scale The Flipkart’s Expectation Reality Key Stats: Where Flipkart Stands w.r.t Scale How the Planning Was Done Tech Choices: Industry Benchmarks vs. Flipkart Decisions Strategy What You Didn’t Expect to Learn The “Impossible” Decisions We Had to Make Hidden Metrics No One Tracks (But should)War Stories: Behind the Scenes GCP Influences: When the Vendor Listens The Culture Shift: Data Engineering as a Movement Cost — The Elephant in Every Cloud Room The Flipkart Frameworks: Built Here, Reusable Anywhere What’s Coming Next in This Series Why This Series is Different