E‑commerce Architecture Sessions at the China Software Developer Conference (Nov 18‑20)

The Double 11 shopping frenzy set new records in sales and user experience, requiring stable and efficient system architecture. To support this, the China Software Developer Conference held an e‑commerce architecture track from Nov 18‑20, covering topics such as International E‑commerce Infrastructure, Global Regional Deployment, Large‑scale Product Systems, Startup‑scale Million‑order Platforms, Cloud Migration for Traditional E‑commerce, Smart Pharma E‑commerce, and Platform Governance.

Speaker: Zhang Ligang – 1号店技术部, E‑commerce Cloud Platform Technical Director

Guest introduction: Joined 1号店 in July 2012, led core transaction systems (order, inventory, shipping, third‑party platforms), drove SOA governance, service‑oriented order processing, horizontal sharding, Oracle‑to‑MySQL migration, wireless performance optimization, and fee system reconstruction. Deep experience in high‑availability, high‑concurrency e‑commerce core systems and SOA architecture.

Speaker: Wang Haibo – Vipshop Senior Architect

Guest introduction: Senior architect responsible for data architecture and governance, former IBM and Teradata experience, focuses on data storage, access, application, and governance, with interest in application architecture.

Talk Title: Vipshop E‑commerce Platform Architecture Governance

Topic Overview: Presents Vipshop's architecture, challenges, and governance measures from business, application, and data perspectives, emphasizing data governance.

Current state and evolution of Vipshop's platform

Goals and principles of architecture governance

Methods of governance

Key business pain points

Business architecture governance

Application architecture governance

Audience Benefits: Understand characteristics of large‑scale e‑commerce architecture, common problems, early planning and prevention strategies, and the multi‑faceted nature of successful governance (technology, process, management).

Speaker: Sang Zhi – Alibaba AliExpress Senior Technical Expert

Guest introduction: Works on AliExpress website architecture, previously built performance platform and front‑end optimization, now focuses on global regional deployment solving capacity cost, cross‑region data consistency, data protection, and latency issues.

Speaker: Xu Xiaobin – Alibaba AliExpress Senior Technical Expert

Guest introduction: Middleware and micro‑service architect for AliExpress, author of “Maven in Practice”, maintained Maven Central Repository.

Talk Title: Foundations of International E‑commerce Infrastructure and Global Regional Deployment Practices

Topic Overview:

Architecture background

Principles: user routing tables, access layer routing, service layer routing, DB write protection, DB sync layer, message routing

Applications: regional disaster‑recovery switching, DNS failover, rapid traffic allocation during Double 11, data protection solutions

Audience Benefits: Learn the basics of international e‑commerce infrastructure, challenges and solutions for cross‑region disaster recovery, and principles of regional deployment architecture.

Speaker: Yi Bing – Independent Technical Consultant

Guest introduction: 10+ years experience at Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba; expertise in development, design, architecture; now builds enterprise internet infrastructure.

Led Tencent wireless ad platform serving 33 services with 10 billion daily ad requests, built 800 million user profiles and dynamic interest clustering.

Re‑architected Taobao transaction service platform, advancing it to version 2.0.

Filed a quality‑assurance invention patent at Alibaba.

Focus on technology/product/business coordination, quality, SOA/PAAS platforms.

Talk Title: Cloud Computing Path for Traditional E‑commerce Architecture

Topic Overview: Discusses middleware (cache, distributed DB, messaging) for high availability and rapid iteration, challenges of high operational cost and quality bottlenecks, and how container technology revitalizes traditional e‑commerce systems.

Background of container technology

Micro‑service architecture concepts, challenges

Cloud‑based upgrades for traditional e‑commerce architecture and associated technical benefits

Speaker: Wang Chunming – JD Search Platform Lead

Guest introduction: Leads JD search platform, responsible for search engine R&D, multiple architecture upgrades, expertise in high‑performance services and distributed systems.

Talk Title: JD Search Architecture Evolution

Search is a critical entry point for e‑commerce; this talk covers JD’s search technology and architecture evolution, addressing key difficulties and handling massive request volumes and traffic spikes.

Differences between e‑commerce search and general search

JD search technology and architecture evolution

System handling of massive requests and burst traffic

Speaker: Fan Wei – Senior Development Engineer, Taobao

Guest introduction: Works on product publishing and management, deep knowledge of Taobao’s product system, currently handling category‑related work.

Talk Title: History and Evolution of Taobao’s Product System Architecture

Double 11 highlighted challenges in system flexibility, scalability, and stability; this session shares Taobao’s product system characteristics, historical evolution, and metadata‑driven exploration.

Characteristics of Taobao’s product system

History and evolution of the system

Metadata‑driven product system exploration

Speaker: Xie Maosen – Architect, Weimob Mengdian

Guest introduction: Formerly at 1号店 handling inventory and order processing; now architect for Weimob’s mobile social e‑commerce platform, responsible for infrastructure, application architecture, and overall technical planning.

Talk Title: Architecture Evolution of a Startup‑scale Million‑order Mengdian Platform

Topic Overview: Describes Mengdian’s growth from PHP/.NET to Java, building monitoring and SOA governance from scratch, supporting 2.5 million users and 1 million daily orders, and provides practical guidance for similar startups.

E‑commerce business splitting and SOA governance relationship

Technology selection for service governance

SOA‑PROXY bridging non‑Java and Java services

Key points of SOA governance: configuration center, service management, monitoring

Implementation details: overall goals, organizational structure, governance handbook

Building a comprehensive monitoring system

Speaker: Huang Zhekeng – Vice President of Technology, Gangling Group

Guest introduction: Author of “Technical Management Summit”, former CTO of Agricultural E‑commerce at Haier, Technical Director at 1号店, experienced in large‑scale e‑commerce architecture and team management.

Talk Title: Exploration and Practice of Smart Pharma E‑commerce Systems

Topic Overview: Shows how big‑data‑driven architecture at 1药网 and 1号药城 enables personalized recommendation, intelligent drug search, and precise enterprise purchasing lists, illustrating the construction of large‑scale e‑commerce systems with smart applications.

Audience Benefits: Master the architecture of large‑scale e‑commerce platforms and the use of big data to create intelligent shopping and precise purchasing solutions.

Welcome! Join us to explore the ocean of e‑commerce architecture technology at SDCC 2016 Beijing. Early‑bird tickets are on sale with an 20% discount, and group purchases of five or more receive an additional ¥800 off. Read the original article and register to attend.