Highlights of the CCF TF Architecture SIG Microservices Practice Seminar

The CCF TF (Tech Frontier Committee) is a collaborative platform created by the China Computer Federation for enterprise computer professionals, with founding members from 25 well‑known companies and seven Special Interest Groups (SIGs) covering architecture, security, frontend, systems, big data, intelligent interaction, and engineering culture.

On July 29, the Architecture SIG organized the first "Microservice Practice" seminar in Beijing. Although the venue was intended for 200 people, nearly 300 professionals attended, including CCF TF members, recommended technical backbones, and many paid listeners.

CCF TF Chair Zhang Wensong, Senior Vice President of Didi, opened the event, emphasizing the rapid business growth in industry, the resulting technical challenges, and the need for deeper interaction between academia and enterprises.

The session was hosted by Yang Weihua, Vice President of Technology at Weibo and Chair of the Architecture SIG. He explained that each company sent its leading experts to share their most valuable knowledge, allocating 45 minutes per topic to present a decade of architectural experience.

Microservices, a hot topic in architecture, are presented as a mature, stable, fully distributed platform that addresses the complexity of monolithic systems as businesses scale, offering principles, patterns, practices, and tools essential for modern engineers.

The first talk, by Weibo technology expert Yao Sifang, titled "Weibo Service Discovery with Multi‑DataCenter High Availability," described the proprietary Vintage framework used instead of ZooKeeper or etcd, detailing its strategies for high‑availability service discovery and handling sudden traffic spikes caused by social events. The presentation slides are available for download.

Yao Sifang also provided a diagram of Vintage's distributed deployment architecture.

Next, Meituan‑Dianping senior expert Zhang Xi shared "Meituan‑Dianping Microservice Architecture Practice," explaining how the company transitioned to microservices and used the large‑scale distributed communication framework and service governance system OCTO to achieve high performance, high availability, and standardization at a trillion‑scale level.

Mobike chief architect Fan Tongxiang discussed the rapid growth of the shared‑bicycle platform and showed the early service architecture, emphasizing the adoption of the mature open‑source solution Spring Cloud.

360 Enterprise Security Committee head Zuo Wenjian presented numerous real‑world cases to illustrate his thoughts and experiences with microservice implementation.

LinkedIn principal engineer Wei Jia concluded the session by detailing the architecture of their open‑source service framework rest.li.

Only a portion of the presentation slides are shown here; the full content can be accessed via the download link provided at the end of the article.

Speakers included Zhang Wensong, Yao Sifang, Zuo Wenjian, Fan Tongxiang, Wei Jia, and Liu Jiang.

The panel discussion continued past 7 p.m., with many attendees eager to explore technical details further.

CCF Enterprise Working Committee Director and CCF TF Secretary‑General participated throughout and chaired the panel.

Reference reading links and a download URL for the full slides are provided for interested readers.

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