MOMOLive Tech Team

Sep 24, 2019 · Backend Development

How Momo Live’s IM Architecture Scaled from V1 to V2

This article examines the challenges of high‑traffic live‑streaming instant messaging, presents the original V1 TCP‑based architecture, explains its performance bottlenecks, and details the redesigned V2 solution that adopts Netty, protobuf, compression, and RPC to dramatically reduce bandwidth and latency while supporting millions of concurrent users.