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This article recounts Tencent's journey from its legacy TFS storage to the cloud‑native YottaStore system, detailing the technical challenges, strategic decisions, team dynamics, and the impressive scalability, reliability, and cost benefits that now power major Tencent services and external customers.
This interview with Tencent Cloud CTO Wang Huixing traces a ten‑year journey from consumer‑internet services to industry‑focused cloud, covering open‑source collaboration, serverless, low‑code, distributed cloud, future full‑real internet visions and sustainability initiatives.
This article details how Sohu Changyou’s data team, together with Tencent Cloud engineers, planned and executed a seamless migration of over one petabyte of game data to Elastic MapReduce, Elasticsearch Service and Oceanus, achieving zero service impact and dramatically improving analytics performance.
Tencent’s machine‑translation teams clinched five first‑place wins in the WMT2021 news track—covering Chinese‑English, Japanese‑English and English‑German limited‑resource tasks—outperforming 82 competing teams and showcasing the impact of its AI‑driven translation engine across its products.
Two Tencent Cloud database papers—Spitfire’s three‑tier buffer manager and a high‑performance strong‑consistency engine for distributed systems—were accepted at ACM SIGMOD 2021, showcasing innovative use of NVM, AI‑driven tuning, and cloud‑native architecture to boost performance and cost efficiency.
Tencent’s new wheel‑legged robot Ollie combines a compact 35 cm frame with advanced nonlinear control, whole‑body dynamics and trajectory planning to perform high‑speed skating, 360° flips and impressive jumps, a breakthrough showcased at ICRA2021 and promising future service applications.
This article explains how neural networks work, walks through the step‑by‑step training process of a convolutional model, showcases vivid visualizations of each layer, and demonstrates how tiny adversarial perturbations can dramatically alter predictions, highlighting the importance of AI security.
The article explains how China’s seventh national census, covering 1.41 billion people, was conducted using fully electronic data collection, self‑service mini‑programs, massive cloud‑native infrastructure, and high‑performance databases to achieve real‑time processing and unprecedented scale.
Tencent Cloud's TDSQL team systematically proves that data anomalies are infinite, defines them formally, classifies them into three core types and detailed sub‑types, and releases an open‑source mini‑program for precise detection, advancing concurrency control theory and practice.
JDK 16, released on March 16, introduces the Vector API—a set of Java interfaces that translate scalar operations into SIMD instructions, dramatically reducing operation counts and delivering 2‑5× speedups for matrix multiplication and up to 14‑16× for vector dot products, with notable contributions from Tencent’s Kona JDK team.
