Retail | Google Cloud Consulting Services

Pythian accelerates SQL to CloudSQL modernization with AI code conversion tool 

Wayfair bypassed years of modernization effort to immediately leverage Google’s AI ecosystem to enhance their global customer experience.

Wayfair is now empowered to deploy new features for customers and suppliers in a single day—a process that previously languished for months. By partnering with Pythian to migrate monolithic SQL Server databases to Google Cloud, Wayfair didn't just move data; they unlocked millions of dollars in operational savings and a massive surge in developer velocity. 

Wayfair migrated its monolithic database to Google Cloud to enhance agility and efficiency, leveraging AI tools to decrease code conversion work.

Customer

Industry

Retail

Location

Massachusetts, United States

AI CODE CONVERSION: MODERNIZING MONOLITHIC SQL SERVER DATABASES

Wayfair saved millions, scaled operational efficiency and speed to market for eCommerce success

From decades of technical debt—due to legacy databases and internal bottlenecks to daily deployments with CloudSQL 

By partnering with Pythian to migrate to Google Cloud, Wayfair transformed a 46-year manual migration effort into a few months, unlocking millions in savings and slashing feature release cycles from months to just 24 hours. 

82%

Reduction in major incidents 

Developers are empowered with self-service DBaaS, cutting infrastructure management to scale operational efficiency. 

95x

Faster migration deployment

AI tooling converted nearly five decades of legacy SQL logic in under six months. 

$8M+

Avoided labor costs

Wayfair avoided 45 years of maintenance on legacy systems, reallocating that budget toward immediate eCommerce innovation.

"Wayfair has thousands of SQL applications and petabytes of data across our architecture. As we thought about modernization and leveraging Google Cloud, we relied on Pythian to be the experts on how to do it from an architectural perspective and then execute with our data team in actually getting it done."
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Matt Ferrari

Head of Martech, Data and Machine Learning Platforms, and Infrastructure; Engineering and Product, Wayfair

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