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title: Platform update — May rollups
sort: 99999529
tags: [platform, release]
author: Ali
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# Platform update — May rollups

Three things shipped this month that are worth knowing about even if you don't work on the
platform team.

## Build pipeline cut to under 6 minutes

The platform team rewrote the test sharding for `zephyrcart/platform`. Cold builds now finish in
5m40s p50 instead of 12m. The savings come from running integration tests in parallel against
per-shard ephemeral PostgreSQL containers. Detail: `PR #14228`.

## Frankfurt region capacity doubled

Customer growth in DACH pushed Frankfurt utilisation above 60 % at peak. We doubled the API tier
and the PostgreSQL read replicas. No customer-visible change; latency p99 dropped from 92 ms to
71 ms.

## Lucene index for product search rebuilt

The new schema indexes `metadata.*` fields if their key starts with `searchable_`. Catalog teams,
you may now ship the metadata-as-facets work that was blocked on this.

— Ali