Notes on development and products

How Vpodarok evolved from a monolith built on Yii1 to a service‑oriented architecture with its own processing.

The Vpodarok project started as a regular online store selling gift certificates using Yii1. Over time, it evolved into an ecosystem with B2B showcases, APIs, and complex business logic. We’ll tell you how the team gradually moved the core into a separate service called Processing, why the Data Connector was needed, and what compromises had to be made when transitioning to a service‑based model.