Reinventing WeChat’s Distributed Storage with Paxos: Inside the Memory Cloud Upgrade
This article details how WeChat transformed its massive memory‑cloud storage by replacing the QuorumKV NWR protocol with a non‑lease Paxos design, optimizing PaxosLog, adopting DirectIO on HDDs, and implementing operational safeguards, resulting in dramatically lower latency, higher availability, and reduced failure rates.
