High‑Availability Architecture Sessions at the China Software Developers Conference (Nov 18‑20)

In response to the massive traffic generated by the recent Double‑11 shopping festival, a high‑availability architecture track was held from November 18‑20 at the China Software Developers Conference, focusing on performance‑driven design, RPC framework resilience, big‑data platform evolution, MySQL cluster consistency, and cloud infrastructure.

Speaker lineup and topics:

Shen Jian (Technical Director, 58 Daojia) – Introduction to the high‑availability track.

Lin Wei (Chief Architect, Alibaba Big Data Computing Platform) – "How to Continuously Release and Evolve a Highly Available Big Data Computing Platform"; challenges of large‑scale system iteration and Alibaba's MaxCompute solutions.

System iteration for big‑data platforms.

Online testing for massive systems.

Necessary conditions for online testing.

Chen Junchao (Senior Engineer, Tencent WeChat Backend) – "PhxSQL: Strongly Consistent and Highly Available MySQL Cluster"; building MySQL clusters on Paxos for strong consistency and high availability.

Root causes of MySQL’s inability to guarantee both strong consistency and high availability.

Principles, architecture, and implementation of PhxSQL achieving ZooKeeper‑level consistency and availability.

Li Jun (Senior Data R&D Engineer, 58 Ganji Group) – "Systematized and Highly Available Big Data Architecture for ZhaiZhai Second‑Hand Trading Platform"; data platform design supporting rapid business growth.

Business characteristics of second‑hand trading platforms.

Overall data platform architecture.

Systematized data and high‑availability technical architecture.

Platformization of data services.

Challenges and future outlook.

Zhou Qianwei (Senior Engineer, Daojia Platform Architecture Department) – "High‑Availability Practices for RPC Frameworks"; design points for server‑side, client‑side, and service governance.

Nie Yong (Technical Expert, Sina Weibo) – "Performance‑Driven Mode for Massive System Health"; case study of an online chatroom supporting millions of users with performance‑test‑driven development.

Ensuring system health during iterative development.

Understanding and applying performance‑driven methodology.

Accelerating team growth and technical capability.

Zou Hui (Technical Lead, Tencent Cloud IaaS) – "Design Principles of Tencent Cloud Architecture"; insights into high‑performance system design and Tencent Cloud implementations.

Key considerations and solutions in designing high‑performance systems.

Overview of Tencent Cloud architecture and design.

Chen Lin (Architect, Baidu Waimai Infrastructure) – "High‑Availability Practices for Baidu Waimai Transaction System"; evolution of the O2O transaction system to support rapid business growth.

Design ideas for large‑scale O2O transaction systems.

Ensuring high availability in online business systems.

Reducing high‑availability risks in development and testing processes.

Attendees will gain practical knowledge on building and maintaining highly available backend systems across big‑data, RPC, database, and cloud environments.