Highlights of the First Tongcheng Technology Conference in Suzhou: Serverless, Microservices, Go, NewSQL, Hybrid Cloud, and Ticket Search Architecture

The inaugural Tongcheng Technology Conference was held at the Tongcheng Building in Suzhou, attracting over 600 technology enthusiasts. The event opened with CTO Ben emphasizing the importance of high‑performance computing architecture for business stability.

Session 1: Serverless Architecture – Presented by Chief Architect Wang Xiaobo, who discussed the challenges of traditional service architectures and introduced Tongcheng's serverless platform, where a code script becomes a microservice launched within nanoseconds, supported by a comprehensive ecosystem including WebIDE, version control, dynamic load balancing, CI/CD, anti‑scraping, and static caching.

Session 2: Microservices and Go Language – Go Foundation Chair Xie Mengjun explained Go’s features, multi‑threading and high concurrency advantages for microservices, and described the full Go microservice ecosystem from architecture to monitoring, positioning Go as an ideal language for building scalable services.

Session 3: Facebook Development Tools Practice – Tool expert Ge Jun shared Facebook’s unified development environment, where all teams share a single database and production access, emphasizing efficiency and risk awareness, and described Facebook’s continuous integration approach that aligns with DevOps and agile practices.

Session 4: NewSQL Database Practice – PingCAP co‑founder and CEO Liu Qi introduced TiDB, a distributed HTAP database built on RocksDB that combines relational and NoSQL capabilities, covering storage, scalability, fault tolerance, and replication details of the TiKV‑TiDB solution.

Session 5: Sina Weibo Hybrid Cloud Management – Technical expert Fu Wen detailed how Sina Weibo handles massive traffic spikes using a hybrid cloud that can automatically provision 1,000 public‑cloud servers within 15 minutes, enabling rapid scaling, load balancing, and comprehensive monitoring, with open‑source OpenDCP supporting multiple cloud providers.

Session 6: Qunar Ticket Search Architecture – International Ticket Director Zhu Shizhi described the challenges of real‑time flight inventory, complex supplier rules, and high‑traffic demand, and explained Qunar’s high‑availability, high‑performance, large‑scale search system that delivers accurate, low‑price quotations through on‑demand computation.

The conference concluded with reflections on the value of sharing practical engineering experiences and an invitation to continue following the Tongcheng Technology Committee for future technical talks.