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Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Apr 21, 2023 · Fundamentals

Why Business Middle‑Platform Projects Often Fail: Lessons from Alibaba’s Reorganization

The article critiques Alibaba’s recent “1+6+N” reorganization and explains why many digital and business middle‑platform projects fail in enterprises, arguing that true middle‑platform capabilities must stem from existing IT assets and should be treated as a shared service aggregation rather than a standalone product.

AlibabaSOASoftware Engineering
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Why Business Middle‑Platform Projects Often Fail: Lessons from Alibaba’s Reorganization
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Apr 10, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Scenario-Adaptive and Self-Supervised Multi-Scenario Personalized Recommendation (SASS): Design, Training, and Deployment

This article presents a comprehensive study of multi‑scenario personalized recommendation, introducing a scenario‑adaptive and self‑supervised model (SASS) that jointly addresses data sparsity, domain adaptation, and recall‑stage deployment through a two‑stage training pipeline and extensive experiments on Alibaba’s Taobao platform.

AlibabaSelf-Supervised Learningmulti‑scenario modeling
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Scenario-Adaptive and Self-Supervised Multi-Scenario Personalized Recommendation (SASS): Design, Training, and Deployment
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Mar 8, 2023 · Industry Insights

How Alibaba’s Dynamic Compute Transforms Ad Engine Efficiency

This article details Alibaba Mama’s dynamic compute system—its architecture, offline and online tidal‑compute mechanisms, city‑level mutual backup, RT control, large‑scale promotion handling, metric integration, and recent infrastructure upgrades—showcasing concrete performance gains and future challenges in green, intelligent ad‑engine resource management.

AlibabaPerformance Optimizationad engine
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How Alibaba’s Dynamic Compute Transforms Ad Engine Efficiency
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Feb 20, 2023 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba’s Open‑Source LowCodeEngine Accelerates Front‑End Development

LowCodeEngine, an open‑source low‑code engine from Alibaba DingTalk, follows strict protocol specifications, supports major browsers, offers a rich ecosystem of components and plugins, and provides detailed usage examples, CDN options, and UI panels for rapid front‑end development.

AlibabaTypeScriptUI Development
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How Alibaba’s Open‑Source LowCodeEngine Accelerates Front‑End Development
macrozheng
macrozheng
Feb 18, 2023 · Frontend Development

Explore Alibaba’s LowCodeEngine: Features, Setup, and Real-World Use

LowCodeEngine, an open‑source low‑code engine from Alibaba’s DingTalk team, follows Alibaba’s backend‑frontend standards, supports modern browsers, offers a minimal core with rich ecosystem elements, detailed protocol specifications, multiple CDN integration options, extensive UI panels, schema editing, and real‑world case studies, all illustrated with code snippets and screenshots.

AlibabaEngineTypeScript
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Explore Alibaba’s LowCodeEngine: Features, Setup, and Real-World Use
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Feb 16, 2023 · Industry Insights

Why Alibaba’s DAC Strategy Revolutionized Data Center Networking

This article analyzes how Alibaba’s large‑scale deployment of Direct Attach Cables (DAC) transformed data‑center physical networking by cutting costs, reducing power consumption, improving reliability and latency, and driving architectural innovations that address past adoption barriers and future challenges.

AOCAlibabaDAC
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Why Alibaba’s DAC Strategy Revolutionized Data Center Networking
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Feb 5, 2023 · Frontend Development

Integrating Frontend Development with Data Intelligence to Optimize Consumer Experience at Alibaba

This article explains how Alibaba combines frontend development with data intelligence—covering massive internet data, market demands, three integration modes, key technologies like WhaleM, DataCook and PipCook, practical workflows, a k‑means clustering case study, and future directions such as WebNN, WebGPU and WASM—to enhance user experience and drive business growth.

AIAlibabadata intelligence
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Integrating Frontend Development with Data Intelligence to Optimize Consumer Experience at Alibaba
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
Feb 2, 2023 · Frontend Development

LowCodeEngine: An Open‑Source Low‑Code Engine from Alibaba DingTalk Team

LowCodeEngine is an open‑source low‑code engine released by Alibaba's DingTalk team that follows internal construction protocols, supports modern browsers, offers a minimal core with a rich ecosystem, provides TypeScript typings, and includes extensive UI panels, schema editing, and multiple CDN integration options for developers.

AlibabaEngineTypeScript
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LowCodeEngine: An Open‑Source Low‑Code Engine from Alibaba DingTalk Team
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jan 22, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Digital Supply Chain: From Digitalization to Intelligent Forecasting

This presentation outlines Alibaba's digital supply chain strategy, detailing the data, analysis, and decision challenges, the multi‑layer digitalization and intelligent solutions, the evolution of the Falcon forecasting technology, and the Alibaba DChain Forecast SaaS product, with case studies and a Q&A.

AIAlibabaSupply Chain
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Alibaba Digital Supply Chain: From Digitalization to Intelligent Forecasting
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Jan 16, 2023 · Frontend Development

Technical Overview of Alibaba's Taobao Web Engineering and Product Landscape

In 2022 Taobao’s front‑end team was reorganized into business‑line groups plus a central “big front‑end” unit, establishing a three‑layer map—Engineering, R&D, Application—and delivering platforms such as O2, JSTracker, PHA, Weex 2.0, ICE, Midway, low‑code builders, and consumer and back‑office apps, thereby unifying tooling, strengthening the technical ecosystem, and ensuring continuous engineering excellence.

AlibabaFront-endNoslate
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Technical Overview of Alibaba's Taobao Web Engineering and Product Landscape
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Jan 3, 2023 · Information Security

Alibaba Mama Secure Data Hub Passes Trusted Privacy Computing Evaluation

Alibaba Mama’s Secure Data Hub, a privacy‑preserving data clean‑room platform that uses multi‑party computation and federated learning for secure advertising analytics, successfully passed the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s Trusted Privacy Computing evaluation, confirming its strong security, compliance and industry‑recognized capabilities.

Alibabadata clean room
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Alibaba Mama Secure Data Hub Passes Trusted Privacy Computing Evaluation
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Dec 28, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive Multi-Scenario Modeling for Taobao Personalized Recommendation

On January 9 at 7 p.m., Alibaba senior algorithm engineer Zhang Yuanliang will present a scenario‑adaptive, self‑supervised model for multi‑scenario personalized recommendation, discussing its background, technical details, experimental results, and real‑world deployment within Taobao’s recommendation system.

AIAlibabaPersonalized Recommendation
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Adaptive Multi-Scenario Modeling for Taobao Personalized Recommendation
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Dec 21, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

GBA: Global Batch Gradients Aggregation for Search Advertising Training

GBA (Global Batch Gradients Aggregation) introduces a training mode that seamlessly switches between synchronous and asynchronous learning for search‑advertising models by keeping a constant global batch size, using token‑controlled gradient aggregation and staleness management to retain synchronous‑level accuracy while preserving asynchronous efficiency and eliminating manual hyperparameter tuning.

AlibabaGBAtraining optimization
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GBA: Global Batch Gradients Aggregation for Search Advertising Training
Data Thinking Notes
Data Thinking Notes
Nov 21, 2022 · Big Data

Mastering Big Data Modeling: From ER and Dimensional to Data Vault and Alibaba’s OneData

This comprehensive guide explains why data modeling is essential for big‑data systems, compares relational and OLAP approaches, details ER, dimensional, Data Vault and Anchor methodologies, and walks through Alibaba’s multi‑stage data‑model practice, integration framework, dimension design, fact‑table strategies and aggregation techniques.

AlibabaData Modelingdata warehouse
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Mastering Big Data Modeling: From ER and Dimensional to Data Vault and Alibaba’s OneData
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Oct 27, 2022 · Mobile Development

GaiaX Open Source Interpretation | Cross-Platform Technology Based on Youku Business Characteristics

GaiaX is a cross‑platform template engine created for Alibaba’s Youku ecosystem that tackles multi‑terminal UI development bottlenecks by using a custom DSL with native rendering, offering high performance, dynamic updates, reusable components, containerized solutions, and integrated preview and design‑to‑code tools.

AlibabaDynamic TemplatingGaiaX
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GaiaX Open Source Interpretation | Cross-Platform Technology Based on Youku Business Characteristics
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 21, 2022 · R&D Management

From Craftsman to Director: Decoding Alibaba’s Tech Job Levels

This article uses vivid analogies—professional craftsman, orchestra conductor, and film director—to explain Alibaba's technical job level system (P5‑P10), outlining core responsibilities, skill expectations, and the differences between each tier for developers, testers, and ops professionals.

AlibabaR&D managementcareer-progression
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From Craftsman to Director: Decoding Alibaba’s Tech Job Levels
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Oct 19, 2022 · Backend Development

Mastering Application Layering: From Alibaba Specs to Practical Backend Architecture

This article examines common misconceptions about application layering, outlines Alibaba's multi‑layer architecture—including Open Interface, Terminal Display, Web, Service, Manager, and DAO layers—offers optimized layering practices, explains domain model transformations, and provides actionable guidelines for building maintainable, reusable backend systems.

AlibabaBackendController
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Mastering Application Layering: From Alibaba Specs to Practical Backend Architecture
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Sep 7, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI is Revolutionizing Chinese Font Design: Inside Alibaba’s Smart Font Lab

This article examines Alibaba’s AliMama “Smart Font” project, detailing how AI‑driven pipelines, few‑shot generation, and open‑source toolkits are used to create commercial Chinese typefaces, enable font subsetting, and explore dynamic and variable‑font technologies for modern digital media.

AIAlibabaTypography
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How AI is Revolutionizing Chinese Font Design: Inside Alibaba’s Smart Font Lab
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Sep 5, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s New Guide Boosts Live‑Stream Video Quality for Every Creator

Alibaba’s DaTaobao team unveiled a high‑definition live‑streaming guide that combines video processing algorithms, equipment recommendations, and standardized low‑cost solutions to dramatically improve picture quality for both top‑tier and novice streamers, while also offering free access and ongoing support.

AIAlibabaalgorithm
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How Alibaba’s New Guide Boosts Live‑Stream Video Quality for Every Creator
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Aug 19, 2022 · Big Data

Taobao Data Model Governance: Challenges, Analysis, and Solutions

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Taobao's data model governance, detailing the background and problems of the current data architecture, analyzing root causes, proposing a structured governance framework with DataWorks automation, and outlining future plans to improve efficiency, standardization, and product tooling.

AlibabaData ModelingDataWorks
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Taobao Data Model Governance: Challenges, Analysis, and Solutions
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Aug 17, 2022 · Big Data

Data Governance Practices and Frameworks: Insights from Alibaba

This article presents an overview of data governance concepts, common enterprise challenges, and Alibaba's comprehensive data governance framework, covering theory, demand layers, practical solutions for stability, quality, standards, security, cost control, and the supporting platforms and operational practices.

Alibababig datadata governance
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Data Governance Practices and Frameworks: Insights from Alibaba
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Aug 17, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Open Source Week 2022: Complete Schedule and Technical Forums

Alibaba Open Source Week 2022, held online from August 22‑24, offers a main forum and five specialized forums—Operating Systems, Databases, Cloud Native, Big Data & AI, and Terminal—featuring over 30 technical presentations by more than 40 global experts on open‑source ecosystem development, emerging technologies, and real‑world applications.

AIAlibabaCloud Computing
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Alibaba Open Source Week 2022: Complete Schedule and Technical Forums
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 13, 2022 · Big Data

How Alibaba Uses Flink to Power Massive Real‑Time Risk Control

This article explains how Alibaba leverages Flink to handle over 40 billion events per second across all business units, detailing risk‑control concepts, rule types, architectural stages, resource tuning, dynamic CEP, shared computing, and the FY23 roadmap for large‑scale streaming risk management.

AlibabaCEPFlink
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How Alibaba Uses Flink to Power Massive Real‑Time Risk Control
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jul 25, 2022 · Big Data

Taobao Data Model Governance and Intelligent Modeling with DataWorks

This article summarizes Guo Jinshi's presentation on Taobao's data model governance, covering the current data landscape, identified problems, analysis of root causes, proposed governance solutions—including DataWorks intelligent modeling—and future plans, while also providing a Q&A session on practical implementation.

AlibabaData ModelingDataWorks
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Taobao Data Model Governance and Intelligent Modeling with DataWorks
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Jul 9, 2022 · Big Data

Alibaba's One‑Stop Real‑Time Data Warehouse: Hologres Architecture and CCO Implementation Experience

The article reviews the shift of big‑data computing from batch to real‑time, outlines the evolution of one‑stop real‑time data warehouses, introduces Alibaba's Hologres solution and its technical advantages, and shares the CCO department’s three‑generation architecture upgrades and practical use cases.

AlibabaHologresdata engineering
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Alibaba's One‑Stop Real‑Time Data Warehouse: Hologres Architecture and CCO Implementation Experience
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 22, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Evolved Envoy Gateway from 1.0 to 3.0: A Cloud‑Native Journey

This article chronicles Alibaba's three‑stage evolution of Envoy Gateway—from the 1.0 incubation that powered Double‑11 traffic, through the 2.0 growth phase adding north‑south routing and hybrid‑cloud support, to the mature 3.0 release that unifies traffic and micro‑service gateways with high performance and community‑driven extensions.

AlibabaEnvoyKubernetes
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How Alibaba Evolved Envoy Gateway from 1.0 to 3.0: A Cloud‑Native Journey
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
May 11, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

PICASSO: An Industrial-Scale Sparse Training Engine for Wide-and-Deep Recommender Systems

PICASSO, Alibaba’s GPU‑centric sparse training engine for wide‑and‑deep recommender systems, merges identical embedding tables, interleaves data and kernel operations, and caches hot embeddings on GPU, eliminating the parameter server and delivering up to tenfold speedups over TensorFlow‑PS while maintaining model quality.

AlibabaGPU optimizationmachine learning
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PICASSO: An Industrial-Scale Sparse Training Engine for Wide-and-Deep Recommender Systems
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
May 10, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing Fliggy Search Ranking with Product Inclusion Relationships: The DIRN Model

This article presents the DIRN model, which leverages product inclusion graphs and graph‑based embeddings to address the challenges of ranking both single‑item and complex travel products on Fliggy, demonstrating significant CTR, CVR, and GMV improvements through offline experiments and online A/B testing.

AlibabaDIRNGraph Neural Networks
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Optimizing Fliggy Search Ranking with Product Inclusion Relationships: The DIRN Model
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Apr 27, 2022 · Cloud Native

XQUIC: High-Performance Open-Source QUIC Transport Library and Summer Open Source Project

The XQUIC project, Alibaba’s high‑performance open‑source QUIC transport library that powers mobile Taobao and large‑scale gateway services with up to 20 % latency reduction, offers a standards‑compliant stack (QUIC‑Transport, QUIC‑TLS, HTTP/3, qlog) and multi‑path XLINK, and invites students in the Open Source Summer program to extend the code, improve diagnostics, and earn mentorship and rewards.

AlibabaHigh PerformanceOpen-Source
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XQUIC: High-Performance Open-Source QUIC Transport Library and Summer Open Source Project
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 26, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking Vision AI: Inside Alibaba’s EasyCV All‑in‑One Self‑Supervised & Transformer Framework

EasyCV is Alibaba’s open‑source, PyTorch‑based visual modeling platform that unifies self‑supervised learning and Transformer techniques, offering a comprehensive algorithm suite, pre‑trained models, high‑performance training/inference optimizations, extensible architecture, and seamless cloud deployment for a wide range of computer‑vision tasks.

AI FrameworkAlibabaSelf-Supervised Learning
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Unlocking Vision AI: Inside Alibaba’s EasyCV All‑in‑One Self‑Supervised & Transformer Framework
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Apr 15, 2022 · Cloud Native

OpenSergo Open Background

OpenSergo, launched by Alibaba Cloud, bilibili, ByteDance and major open‑source communities, seeks to create a language‑agnostic, technology‑agnostic service‑governance specification and implementation that unifies control and data planes for heterogeneous microservices, easing enterprise complexity, reducing developer burden, and encouraging open‑source contributions.

AlibabaBilibiliOpenSergo
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OpenSergo Open Background
macrozheng
macrozheng
Apr 13, 2022 · Frontend Development

Create a Powerful Low‑Code Platform in 5 Minutes with Alibaba LowCodeEngine

This article introduces Alibaba's open‑source LowCodeEngine, outlines its key features, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for quickly building a low‑code development platform that generates React front‑end code, configures components, connects data sources, and exports the resulting code.

AlibabaLowCodeEngineReAct
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Create a Powerful Low‑Code Platform in 5 Minutes with Alibaba LowCodeEngine
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Apr 6, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Interview Preparation Guide for Alibaba Mama Algorithm Positions

This guide from an Alibaba Mama algorithm team member outlines the six focus areas—recruitment emphasis, interview stages, concise résumé writing, pre‑interview setup, in‑interview conduct, and typical assessment topics such as machine‑learning fundamentals and ad‑system knowledge—to help candidates secure offers.

AlibabaInterview PreparationResume Writing
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Interview Preparation Guide for Alibaba Mama Algorithm Positions
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Mar 22, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Online Learning for Real‑Time Ranking in Alibaba's Home‑Decor Channel

The article details Alibaba’s end‑to‑end online‑learning pipeline for real‑time ranking in the Taobao home‑decor channel, covering UT log parsing, full‑feature extraction, ODL sample creation, xDeepCTR model training, and deployment, which yielded up to 7.8% CTR improvement and demonstrates the value of rapid model adaptation.

Alibabamodel trainingonline learning
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Online Learning for Real‑Time Ranking in Alibaba's Home‑Decor Channel
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Mar 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

NextRPC: Multi‑Stage RPC Model for Scalable Transaction and Recommendation Services

NextRPC is a multi‑stage RPC model that delivers partial responses over multiple network channels, improving latency and conversion in Taobao’s transaction and recommendation services; it employs a hybrid asynchronous streaming and parallel execution architecture with client‑side orchestration and server‑side sub‑request handling, achieving over 5% UV lift and up to 25% recommendation uplift.

AlibabaAsynchronous StreamingPerformance Optimization
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NextRPC: Multi‑Stage RPC Model for Scalable Transaction and Recommendation Services
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Mar 11, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s MNN Engine Achieves 350% CPU Speedup and Sparse Acceleration

Alibaba’s MNN, a lightweight high‑performance deep‑learning inference engine, earned top honors in China’s 2022 “Science & Innovation China” awards, and delivers impressive gains such as 350% speedup on X86 CPUs, 2.1‑2.3× acceleration on ARM with sparse models, plus integrated OpenCV/Numpy functionality for edge AI deployment.

AI DeploymentAlibabaInference Engine
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How Alibaba’s MNN Engine Achieves 350% CPU Speedup and Sparse Acceleration
IT Services Circle
IT Services Circle
Mar 10, 2022 · Backend Development

Using the Alibaba Java Coding Guidelines Plugin in IntelliJ IDEA

This article introduces the Alibaba Java Coding Guidelines plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, explains its rule set and detection modes, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing and using the plugin to automatically enforce coding standards in Java projects.

AlibabaIDE pluginIntelliJ IDEA
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Using the Alibaba Java Coding Guidelines Plugin in IntelliJ IDEA
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Mar 9, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

How Edge AI Powers Alibaba’s Local Life Services: Architecture and Real‑World Wins

This article explains how Alibaba’s local‑life platforms leverage edge‑side AI to run machine‑learning inference on users’ devices, detailing the concept, advantages, technical architecture, and concrete implementations such as user feature extraction, intelligent recommendation, and smart push, while outlining future directions.

AlibabaEdge AIlocal services
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How Edge AI Powers Alibaba’s Local Life Services: Architecture and Real‑World Wins
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Mar 8, 2022 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba’s JS AOT Supercharges Web Performance: Design, Implementation, and Results

This article explains Alibaba's JavaScript Ahead‑of‑Time (AOT) technology, detailing the performance challenges of dynamic JS, the three compilation strategies evaluated, the chosen hybrid approach with profile‑guided and rule‑based optimizations, and the measurable speed gains achieved in production.

AOTAlibabaJavaScript
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How Alibaba’s JS AOT Supercharges Web Performance: Design, Implementation, and Results
DaTaobao Tech
DaTaobao Tech
Mar 1, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Cold‑Start Optimization for Content Recommendation on Alibaba’s Home‑Decor Platform

Alibaba’s home‑decor platform introduced a two‑stage cold‑start pipeline—Uniform Guarantee and Boost Amplification—combined with a Wide & Deep content‑potential model that predicts new item popularity, dramatically reducing exposure latency, boosting click‑through rates by ~8 % and overall exposure by 13 %.

A/B-testingAlibabaContent Distribution
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Cold‑Start Optimization for Content Recommendation on Alibaba’s Home‑Decor Platform
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Feb 23, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Meta‑Network Based Multi‑Scenario Multi‑Task Model (M2M) for Alibaba Advertising Merchants

The paper introduces a Meta‑Network based Multi‑Scenario Multi‑Task (M2M) model for Alibaba’s advertising merchants, combining a transformer‑driven backbone with scene‑aware meta‑learning modules to jointly predict spend, clicks and activity across diverse ad scenarios, achieving up to 27 % error reduction offline and over 2 % lifts in merchant activity and ARPU online.

AlibabaMeta-Learningmulti-task learning
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Meta‑Network Based Multi‑Scenario Multi‑Task Model (M2M) for Alibaba Advertising Merchants
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Feb 23, 2022 · Backend Development

How NextRPC’s Multi‑Stage Payload Boosted Alibaba’s Double‑11 Conversion by 25%

NextRPC introduces a multi‑segment payload RPC model that streams responses through successive "Next" stages, enabling parallel processing and decoupling of core and non‑core logic, which improved Alibaba’s Double‑11 transaction conversion rates by over 5% overall and more than 25% for optimal‑product selection scenarios.

AlibabaNextRPCPerformance Optimization
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How NextRPC’s Multi‑Stage Payload Boosted Alibaba’s Double‑11 Conversion by 25%
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Feb 18, 2022 · Mobile Development

How Alibaba’s Mobile Team Built a Full‑Stack Observability System to Boost App Performance

This article details Alibaba's mobile engineering team's original approach to full‑link observability, describing the challenges of the Taobao app architecture, the evolution of monitoring to observability, the Falco OpenTracing model, and practical performance optimizations that improve issue‑resolution efficiency and user experience.

AlibabaFull‑Link TracingPerformance Optimization
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How Alibaba’s Mobile Team Built a Full‑Stack Observability System to Boost App Performance
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 19, 2022 · Information Security

Why Is the U.S. Targeting Alibaba Cloud Over National Security Concerns?

The Biden administration is scrutinizing Alibaba's cloud services for potential national security risks, focusing on data storage practices, possible Chinese government access, and the broader impact on U.S.-China tech relations, while Alibaba's shares dip amid regulatory pressure.

AlibabaCloud ComputingUS-China Relations
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Why Is the U.S. Targeting Alibaba Cloud Over National Security Concerns?
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Jan 7, 2022 · Backend Development

How XQUIC’s Lightweight QUIC Library Boosts Mobile and Cloud Networking

XQUIC is Alibaba's open‑source, standards‑compliant QUIC implementation that delivers lightweight binaries, high‑performance transport, and cross‑platform support, enabling faster, more reliable data transfer for mobile apps and cloud services while fostering community collaboration through open source.

AlibabaHigh PerformanceMobile Networking
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How XQUIC’s Lightweight QUIC Library Boosts Mobile and Cloud Networking
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Jan 3, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Exploration of Alibaba's Feizhu Recommendation Algorithms and Full‑Space CVR Estimation Models (ESMM, ESM², HM³)

This article presents an in‑depth overview of Alibaba's e‑commerce and travel recommendation systems, covering the evolution of full‑space CVR estimation models such as ESMM, ESM² and HM³, their architectural components, challenges, and practical applications in the Feizhu platform.

AlibabaCVR estimationFull‑Space Modeling
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Exploration of Alibaba's Feizhu Recommendation Algorithms and Full‑Space CVR Estimation Models (ESMM, ESM², HM³)
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Dec 9, 2021 · Interview Experience

From Test Engineer to QA Leader at Alibaba: A Real‑World Interview Journey

This article shares a former Alibaba test‑development graduate’s path—from choosing the QA role, preparing for the interview, and navigating the first year’s challenges to leading large‑scale projects—offering practical insights and advice for aspiring QA professionals.

AlibabaInterview PreparationQA
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From Test Engineer to QA Leader at Alibaba: A Real‑World Interview Journey
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Dec 3, 2021 · Big Data

How Big Data Tech Evolved: Lessons from Alibaba, JD, and Didi

This article traces the evolution of big data technologies from early concepts and Google research papers through the rise of Hadoop, examines the platform transformations of Alibaba, JD.com, and Didi, and offers practical stack‑selection guidance for medium‑ and small‑scale enterprises.

AlibabaDidiJD.com
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How Big Data Tech Evolved: Lessons from Alibaba, JD, and Didi
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Dec 3, 2021 · Fundamentals

How XLINK’s QoE‑Driven Multi‑Path QUIC Transforms Video Streaming on Weak Networks

This article explains how Alibaba's XLINK multi‑path QUIC solution, built on a user‑space QUIC stack and QoE feedback, overcomes weak‑network challenges in video streaming by simultaneously using 5G/4G and Wi‑Fi, achieving lower latency, higher bandwidth utilization, and reduced traffic costs.

AlibabaMultipath QUICNetwork Transport
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How XLINK’s QoE‑Driven Multi‑Path QUIC Transforms Video Streaming on Weak Networks
macrozheng
macrozheng
Nov 12, 2021 · Backend Development

Explore Alibaba’s Top Open‑Source Java Projects: From Canal to Compileflow

This guide compiles a curated list of actively maintained Alibaba open‑source Java projects—including Canal for MySQL binlog replication, EasyExcel for memory‑efficient Excel handling, Arthas diagnostic tool, FastJson, Druid, Sentinel, Nacos, RocketMQ, Dubbo, Seata, P3C, Alink, COLA, TestableMock and Compileflow—providing brief overviews, core features, and useful links for developers.

AlibabaJavaTools
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Explore Alibaba’s Top Open‑Source Java Projects: From Canal to Compileflow
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 21, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Exploration of Alibaba's Feizhu Recommendation Algorithms and Full‑Space CVR Estimation Models (ESMM, ESM², HM³)

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's recommendation algorithm practice for the Feizhu travel platform, covering the evolution of e‑commerce recommendation frameworks, full‑space CVR estimation models such as ESMM, ESM² and HM³, and the specific challenges and solutions for travel‑centric recommendation scenarios.

AlibabaCVR estimationE‑commerce
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Exploration of Alibaba's Feizhu Recommendation Algorithms and Full‑Space CVR Estimation Models (ESMM, ESM², HM³)
macrozheng
macrozheng
Oct 14, 2021 · Backend Development

Discover Alibaba’s Top 10 Open‑Source Projects That Supercharge Your Backend

This article introduces ten Alibaba open‑source projects—including Druid, fastjson, Dubbo, RocketMQ, Arthas, Nacos, EasyExcel, Sentinel, Otter, P3C and Spring Cloud Alibaba—detailing their key features, advantages, usage scenarios, and Maven dependency configurations to help developers quickly adopt them in backend systems.

AlibabaJavabackend development
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Discover Alibaba’s Top 10 Open‑Source Projects That Supercharge Your Backend
Su San Talks Tech
Su San Talks Tech
Oct 6, 2021 · Cloud Native

Top 10 Alibaba Open‑Source Projects Every Java Developer Should Know

This article introduces ten powerful Alibaba open‑source projects—including Druid, fastjson, Dubbo, RocketMQ, Arthas, Nacos, EasyExcel, Sentinel, Otter, P3C, and Spring Cloud Alibaba—detailing their key features, advantages, usage scenarios, and Maven dependencies, providing developers with essential tools for building robust, cloud‑native Java applications.

AlibabaToolscloud-native
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Top 10 Alibaba Open‑Source Projects Every Java Developer Should Know
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Sep 29, 2021 · Interview Experience

New Alibaba Mama Graduates Share Their First‑Year Challenges, Growth Paths, and Job‑Hunting Advice

Seven recent Alibaba Mama hires recount why they chose the company, the biggest obstacles they faced transitioning from school to work, a typical day in their roles, the mentorship they receive, proud moments, and practical advice for future candidates, offering a comprehensive view of early‑career life in a leading ad‑tech organization.

AlibabaGraduatesInterview Experience
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New Alibaba Mama Graduates Share Their First‑Year Challenges, Growth Paths, and Job‑Hunting Advice
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 23, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Dubbo 3.0 Became Alibaba’s Unified Cloud‑Native Service Framework

The article explains how Alibaba merged its proprietary HSF framework with the open‑source Dubbo, outlines the technical challenges of cloud‑native migration, describes Dubbo 3.0’s new features such as the Triple protocol and Service Mesh integration, and shares a large‑scale production case from DingTalk.

AlibabaHSFcloud-native
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Why Dubbo 3.0 Became Alibaba’s Unified Cloud‑Native Service Framework
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 15, 2021 · R&D Management

What Makes a Successful CTO? Lessons from Alibaba’s Tech Evolution

This article shares a senior CTO’s journey through Alibaba and Ant Group, detailing how commercial goals and technology co‑evolve, the pivotal architectural decisions, risk‑management practices, organizational design, and leadership principles that shape effective technology leadership.

AlibabaCTOCloud Computing
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What Makes a Successful CTO? Lessons from Alibaba’s Tech Evolution
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Sep 15, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Combining Knowledge Distillation, Exposure Forecasting, and Pacing to Guarantee Brand Exposure on Alibaba's Advertising Platform

Alibaba's advertising platform combines knowledge distillation to score traffic, exposure forecasting via GBDT, and PID-based pacing to guarantee contracted impression volumes while improving CTR/CVR, handling delayed exposure and traffic selection, achieving near‑perfect delivery in large promotions.

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Combining Knowledge Distillation, Exposure Forecasting, and Pacing to Guarantee Brand Exposure on Alibaba's Advertising Platform
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Aug 28, 2021 · Backend Development

A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools for Backend Development

This article introduces a collection of Alibaba‑released open‑source tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, PTS, Druid, and more—detailing their usage scenarios, tutorials, and acquisition methods to help backend developers improve efficiency, debugging, monitoring, and reliability of their services.

AlibabaJavaPerformance Monitoring
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A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools for Backend Development
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 22, 2021 · Operations

High Availability Practices: From Taobao to Cloud Migration

This talk shares practical high‑availability design experiences from Alibaba’s e‑commerce platform to its cloud services, covering traditional IDC stability mechanisms, cache and disaster‑recovery strategies, cloud‑native fault handling, capacity planning, traffic shaping, and lessons learned from real incidents.

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High Availability Practices: From Taobao to Cloud Migration
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Aug 20, 2021 · Operations

From Taobao to the Cloud: Secrets of Building Ultra‑High‑Availability Systems

This talk shares practical high‑availability strategies learned from Alibaba’s Taobao platform and Alibaba Cloud, covering traditional IDC stability, cache and disaster‑recovery designs, cloud‑native fault‑tolerance, performance‑capacity trade‑offs, traffic shaping, multi‑region replication, and lessons from real‑world incidents like GitLab failures.

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From Taobao to the Cloud: Secrets of Building Ultra‑High‑Availability Systems
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Aug 3, 2021 · Mobile Development

How Xianyu Overcame Early Flutter Hurdles to Build a Successful Mobile Platform

This article recounts Xianyu's pioneering adoption of Flutter since 2017, detailing the technical, organizational, and cultural challenges they faced, the lessons learned from hybrid architecture and open‑source efforts, and why rumors of abandoning Flutter are unfounded as they continue to invest in the technology.

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How Xianyu Overcame Early Flutter Hurdles to Build a Successful Mobile Platform
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 2, 2021 · Operations

How Alibaba Scales Massive Big Data Engines with an SRE Framework

This article describes Alibaba’s comprehensive SRE system for managing ultra‑large‑scale big data engines, detailing stability metrics, resource cost management, and intelligent operation productization, and introduces speaker Fu Tianyuan, a senior operations expert leading the MaxCompute and DataWorks SRE team.

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How Alibaba Scales Massive Big Data Engines with an SRE Framework
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jul 31, 2021 · Big Data

Alibaba's Data Platform Evolution: Four Stages, Core Challenges, and Future Trends

The article outlines Alibaba's twelve‑year journey building a data middle‑platform, detailing four development stages, the four major technical challenges faced, and emerging trends such as lake‑warehouse integration, autonomous data‑warehouse operation, natural‑language query, and AI‑driven data engineering.

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Alibaba's Data Platform Evolution: Four Stages, Core Challenges, and Future Trends
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jul 23, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Ad Fraud Detection and Risk Control Practices at Alibaba Mama

This article explains Alibaba Mama's ad fraud risk control workflow, defines invalid traffic types, describes perception, insight, and disposal mechanisms, and outlines the AI‑driven detection models, evaluation metrics, and future research directions for large‑scale advertising security.

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Ad Fraud Detection and Risk Control Practices at Alibaba Mama
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Jul 21, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Ad Fraud Detection and Risk Control Practices at Alibaba Mama

Alibaba Mama combats the roughly 8.6 % abnormal traffic in China’s online ad market by distinguishing low‑quality from cheating clicks, employing a proactive perception layer, high‑dimensional visual analytics, and a dual‑stage real‑time and batch filtering system that also freezes fraudulent affiliate commissions and is continuously evaluated with precision‑recall and AUC metrics.

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Ad Fraud Detection and Risk Control Practices at Alibaba Mama
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jul 16, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba’s Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Initiatives and Immersive Liquid‑Cooling Practices

The article reports on Alibaba’s recent efforts to build green, low‑carbon data centers—including large‑scale immersion liquid‑cooling deployments, open standards, and ambitious carbon‑neutral goals—within the broader context of China’s new data‑center action plan and industry trends.

AlibabaCloud InfrastructureLow Carbon
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Alibaba’s Green Low‑Carbon Data Center Initiatives and Immersive Liquid‑Cooling Practices
Java High-Performance Architecture
Java High-Performance Architecture
Jun 20, 2021 · Backend Development

Explore 29 Must‑Know Alibaba Open‑Source Projects for Modern Development

This article presents a curated list of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects spanning distributed services, frontend frameworks, database tools, monitoring solutions, and cloud‑native platforms, each with a brief description and a link to its GitHub repository, helping developers choose the right tools for their needs.

AlibabaJavamicroservices
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Explore 29 Must‑Know Alibaba Open‑Source Projects for Modern Development
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Jun 16, 2021 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of the AMB Asynchronous Message Bus for Alibaba Advertising Platform

To solve the scalability, visibility, and debugging challenges of heterogeneous asynchronous calls after Alibaba Momma’s advertising services shifted to micro‑services, the team created the AMB (Alibaba Momma Application Message Bus), a console‑driven, bus‑style platform with layered connectors, reusable components, isolated JStorm topologies, and centralized monitoring that turns hours‑long coding into rapid visual workflow configuration.

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Design and Implementation of the AMB Asynchronous Message Bus for Alibaba Advertising Platform
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
Jun 10, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Overview of Recent Alibaba Mama Research Papers Presented at KDD 2021 on Advertising and AI

At KDD 2021, Alibaba Mama presented six papers that introduced a unified constrained‑bidding solution, a deep‑learnable auction mechanism, real‑negative training for delayed‑feedback CVR, a contextual‑bandit advertising strategy recommender, a multi‑agent cooperative bidding game, and an uncertainty‑aware exploration model, all of which have been deployed to boost platform revenue and advertiser performance.

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Overview of Recent Alibaba Mama Research Papers Presented at KDD 2021 on Advertising and AI
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Jun 8, 2021 · Big Data

Longgong Data Analysis Platform: Architecture and Solutions for Large‑Scale Structured Data

The Longgong Data Analysis Platform enables Idle Fish to capture, store, and analyze billions of structured product attributes in real time across more than 8,000 categories, using TableStore, MySQL, ODPS, and a distributed scheduler to achieve over 50% query speedup, 80% category coverage, and rapid support for search and recommendation teams.

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Longgong Data Analysis Platform: Architecture and Solutions for Large‑Scale Structured Data
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Jun 3, 2021 · Product Management

How Thinking Differently Accelerated My First Year at Alibaba: Lessons for PMs

In this reflective piece, the author shares how deliberate thinking, balancing technology with business, maintaining stable performance, fostering transparent team incentives, and practicing proactive risk communication and technical judgment transformed a year of rapid growth at Alibaba into actionable lessons for product managers.

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How Thinking Differently Accelerated My First Year at Alibaba: Lessons for PMs
Alimama Tech
Alimama Tech
May 20, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI Powers Brand Risk Detection: Models, Data, and Results

This article details Alibaba's AliMama brand risk identification system, covering the challenges of counterfeit detection, the construction of large‑scale brand datasets, the design of classification, logo detection, and variation models, their optimization, evaluation metrics, and future directions for AI‑driven brand protection.

AIAlibabaObject Detection
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How Alibaba’s AI Powers Brand Risk Detection: Models, Data, and Results
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
May 14, 2021 · R&D Management

Alibaba Business Middle Platform Architecture Overview

This article compiles the key insights from several Alibaba technology experts, presenting a concise 13‑page summary of business middle‑platform concepts, global architecture, product forms, data and technology stacks, organizational structure, construction methodology, and strategic upgrades for enterprise digital transformation.

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Alibaba Business Middle Platform Architecture Overview
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Apr 22, 2021 · Backend Development

A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools for Backend, Cloud, and Mobile Development

This article introduces a selection of Alibaba‑open‑source developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, PTS, KT, AHAS, EasyExcel, HandyJSON, EDAS Serverless, Druid, and Dragonwell—detailing their purpose, typical usage scenarios, tutorials, and where to obtain them, helping developers improve efficiency and reliability across various technology stacks.

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A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools for Backend, Cloud, and Mobile Development
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 15, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Turns Service Mesh Experiments into Real Business Value

This article recounts Alibaba's year‑long Service Mesh journey, highlighting how the team shifted from large‑scale rollout to delivering incremental business value, adopted non‑intrusive sidecar designs, integrated Dubbo 3.0, and applied software‑lifecycle thinking to create scalable, low‑overhead traffic management solutions.

AlibabaDubboTraffic Management
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How Alibaba Turns Service Mesh Experiments into Real Business Value
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Apr 7, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba's Advances in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation: Research and Practice

This article presents Alibaba's comprehensive research on multilingual neural machine translation, covering motivations, model architectures, intermediate language modules, data‑augmentation strategies such as repair translation, integration of pre‑trained models with adapters, and engineering optimizations that enable a production‑ready system supporting over 200 languages.

AdapterAlibabaNeural Machine Translation
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Alibaba's Advances in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation: Research and Practice
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Apr 7, 2021 · Backend Development

Xianyu User Growth Task System Architecture and Implementation

Xianyu’s growth team built a modular user‑task system that abstracts diverse growth playbooks into a unified model defined by five dimensions, manages task lifecycles through dedicated services for periods, benefits, and scheduling, and uses strategy and template patterns to enable rapid, reusable, and efficient user‑engagement experiments.

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Xianyu User Growth Task System Architecture and Implementation
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Mar 19, 2021 · Backend Development

Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know

This article presents a curated list of fifteen Alibaba‑originated developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, Docsite, and more—detailing their purpose, typical use cases, tutorial links, and acquisition methods to help backend engineers boost productivity and reliability.

AlibabaDeveloper ToolsJava
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Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 12, 2021 · R&D Management

What Makes a Great System Architect? Lessons from Alibaba’s Double‑11 Architecture

The article shares a senior Alibaba engineer’s reflections on system architecture design, the evolving role of architects, essential skills such as problem discovery, definition and solution, and how continuous learning, technical breadth, and business understanding enable architects to tackle complex, high‑scale challenges like Double 11.

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What Makes a Great System Architect? Lessons from Alibaba’s Double‑11 Architecture
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 8, 2021 · Cloud Native

Xianyu’s Cloud‑Native Journey: Scaling a Trillion‑Dollar Marketplace with Serverless

Xianyu, Alibaba’s C2C platform, transformed its massive legacy system into a cloud‑native, serverless architecture—integrating Flutter, a unified development framework, and a suite of tools like Nexus API and GCLI—to dramatically cut development cycles, lower operational costs, and support a GMV of over 2 trillion yuan.

AlibabaFlutterarchitecture
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Xianyu’s Cloud‑Native Journey: Scaling a Trillion‑Dollar Marketplace with Serverless
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 24, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s ICBU Algorithm Team Transformed E‑Commerce in 2020

This article reviews the 2020 achievements of Alibaba.com’s ICBU algorithm team, explaining the evolving role of algorithm engineers, the fundamentals of e‑commerce algorithms, the team’s three‑pillar workflow of Understanding, Growth, and Matching, and the technical breakthroughs that drove business impact and future directions.

AlibabaOptimizationalgorithm
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How Alibaba’s ICBU Algorithm Team Transformed E‑Commerce in 2020
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Feb 15, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Tree Matching (TDM): Evolution and Practice in Large-Scale Retrieval at Alibaba

This article explains Alibaba's Deep Tree Matching (TDM) technology, covering the challenges of large‑scale match retrieval, the progression from classic two‑stage recall to tree‑based indexing, max‑heap tree modeling, beam‑search retrieval, and the joint model‑index learning across TDM 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, highlighting significant offline and online performance gains and future research directions.

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Deep Tree Matching (TDM): Evolution and Practice in Large-Scale Retrieval at Alibaba
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Feb 7, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Interactive Recommendation and Travel Theme Recommendation in the Fliggy App

This article explains how Fliggy combines interactive recommendation with travel‑theme recommendation, detailing the underlying algorithms, user‑demand classification, real‑time interest capture, recall strategies, multi‑task learning for CTR prediction, and engineering tricks that improve personalization and click‑through rates.

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Interactive Recommendation and Travel Theme Recommendation in the Fliggy App
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
Jan 27, 2021 · Backend Development

TransmittableThreadLocal Practice: Solving Multi-Country Business Context Propagation in E-commerce

The article explains how to reliably propagate country‑specific context across request handling, database access, and asynchronous thread pools in multi‑country e‑commerce by replacing simple ThreadLocal and InheritableThreadLocal with Alibaba’s TransmittableThreadLocal, demonstrating its integration with Spring MVC/Boot, MyBatis, Dubbo, and custom executors for both sharded and non‑sharded databases.

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TransmittableThreadLocal Practice: Solving Multi-Country Business Context Propagation in E-commerce
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 20, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Kaola Achieved Rapid Cloud‑Native Migration: Strategies, Challenges, and Lessons

This article details Kaola's cloud‑native transformation from 2019 to 2024, covering product integration, permission and messaging schemes, RPC migration, SchedulerX scaling, environment isolation, high‑availability components, Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices, automation strategies, and the measurable performance and cost benefits realized.

AlibabaIaCcloud-native
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How Kaola Achieved Rapid Cloud‑Native Migration: Strategies, Challenges, and Lessons
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Jan 18, 2021 · Backend Development

Spring Cloud Alibaba 2.2.4 Released: New Features, Bug Fixes, and Upgrade Guide

Spring Cloud Alibaba 2.2.4.RELEASE is now available via Maven, bringing updated core dependencies such as Spring Boot 2.3.2, Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR8, Nacos 1.4.1, Seata 1.3.0, and Sentinel 1.8.0, along with numerous optimizations, security enhancements, and bug fixes, while noting incompatibility with Spring Cloud 2020 and Spring Boot 2.4.

AlibabaJavaSpring Cloud
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Spring Cloud Alibaba 2.2.4 Released: New Features, Bug Fixes, and Upgrade Guide
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Jan 13, 2021 · R&D Management

Why Alibaba Is Dismantling Its Middle Platform – Insights on Agile Innovation

Alibaba’s senior leader Zhang Yong admits the company’s middle‑platform has become too slow, announcing a shift toward a thinner, more agile architecture and explaining how this change reflects the limits of combinatorial innovation versus disruptive innovation in large enterprises.

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Why Alibaba Is Dismantling Its Middle Platform – Insights on Agile Innovation