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Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Aug 7, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's FaaS Platform for Content Distribution: Design and Implementation

Alibaba’s FaaS platform for Youku content distribution replaces traditional Java services with a gateway‑driven, containerized function runtime and one‑stop development/ops portal, delivering low‑cost development, isolated JVM execution, transparent monitoring, and rapid API and data‑source integration, dramatically speeding iteration while addressing classloader and lifecycle challenges.

AlibabaBackend DevelopmentContent Distribution
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Alibaba's FaaS Platform for Content Distribution: Design and Implementation
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jul 10, 2020 · Backend Development

How RocketMQ Cut Costs and Stabilized Alibaba Logistics During Double‑11

Facing soaring order peaks each Double‑11, Alibaba's logistics arm re‑engineered its architecture with RocketMQ, using asynchronous decoupling to handle payment‑order traffic, dramatically reduce hardware spend, and keep logistics QPS stable without sacrificing user experience.

AlibabaBackend ArchitectureCost reduction
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How RocketMQ Cut Costs and Stabilized Alibaba Logistics During Double‑11
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Jul 2, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Same‑Layer Rendering Powers Alibaba’s H5 Video Player for 618 Live Events

This article explains how Alibaba’s multimedia front‑end team built a same‑layer rendering video player for H5, detailing the architecture, performance advantages, degradation strategies, issues encountered during the 618 promotion, and future plans to improve playback experience across live and on‑demand scenarios.

AlibabaH5Multimedia
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How Same‑Layer Rendering Powers Alibaba’s H5 Video Player for 618 Live Events
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Jun 23, 2020 · Mobile Development

IPv6 Migration Architecture and Implementation for Xianyu Mobile App

Xianyu’s IPv6 migration, driven by China’s carrier upgrades, implements a dual‑stack architecture that uses NAT at the LVS layer to translate IPv6 to IPv4 while embedding the client’s IPv6 address in HTTP headers, enabling gradual gray‑release, comprehensive testing, and monitoring, resulting in about 55 % IPv6 daily active users.

AlibabaIPv6Mobile Development
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IPv6 Migration Architecture and Implementation for Xianyu Mobile App
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jun 23, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Alibaba’s Dragonwell JDK Is the Go‑To Choice for Enterprise Java

Alibaba Dragonwell is a free, production‑ready OpenJDK distribution offering long‑term support, performance boosts, and security fixes, fully compatible with Java SE and widely used across Alibaba’s e‑commerce, finance, and logistics services on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

AlibabaDragonwellEnterprise
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Why Alibaba’s Dragonwell JDK Is the Go‑To Choice for Enterprise Java
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Jun 19, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Video-based Temporal Event Detection Methods

In the fourth Alibaba Digital Media Technology Night Talk, algorithm engineer Liu Xiaolong presents an overview of video‑based temporal event detection, covering its problem background, representative prior works, and the latest research advances within the MEDIA AI Algorithm Challenge series.

AlibabaComputer VisionDeep Learning
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Video-based Temporal Event Detection Methods
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
Jun 9, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba's Autonomous Driving Technology: Principles, Levels, Challenges, and Future Directions

Alibaba is advancing cargo‑focused autonomous driving by building a fine‑grained scenario library and the AutoDrive platform to automate perception, planning, and control algorithms, targeting low‑speed L4 logistics robots while navigating sensor, hardware, and regulatory challenges and anticipating broader L2 adoption and tighter hardware‑software co‑design.

AIAlibabaAutoDrive
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Alibaba's Autonomous Driving Technology: Principles, Levels, Challenges, and Future Directions
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Jun 4, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba Scales Live Streaming Across Multiple Front‑End Platforms

This article details Alibaba’s live‑streaming technical architecture, describing the layered front‑end capabilities, the ALive open platform, mini‑program integration process, component types, cross‑platform communication, achieved results, and future roadmap for scaling live broadcasts across multiple apps and devices.

AlibabaMini ProgramOpen Platform
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How Alibaba Scales Live Streaming Across Multiple Front‑End Platforms
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Jun 4, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Live Streaming Across Apps with an Open Platform Architecture

This article explains how Alibaba's Taobao Live team built an open ALive platform that unifies SDK, Weex, and mini‑program integrations to broadcast a single live event across multiple apps, achieving millions of viewers and massive sales while outlining the architecture, open design, mini‑program workflow, results, and future roadmap.

ALiveAlibabaFrontend Architecture
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How Alibaba Scaled Live Streaming Across Apps with an Open Platform Architecture
macrozheng
macrozheng
May 28, 2020 · Backend Development

Boost Your Development Efficiency: 15 Must‑Use Alibaba Backend Tools

Discover a curated collection of 15 Alibaba developer tools—from Java diagnostics and IDE plugins to chaos engineering, performance testing, and serverless platforms—each explained with usage scenarios, tutorials, and acquisition links, helping backend engineers streamline development, enhance reliability, and accelerate deployment.

AlibabaBackendJava
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Boost Your Development Efficiency: 15 Must‑Use Alibaba Backend Tools
ITPUB
ITPUB
May 24, 2020 · Backend Development

Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know

This article introduces fifteen Alibaba open‑source and commercial developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, PTS, and more—detailing their core functions, typical usage scenarios, tutorial links, and acquisition methods to help backend engineers boost productivity and reliability.

AlibabaBackend DevelopmentJava
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Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 13, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AutoDrive Platform Is Revolutionizing Autonomous Driving

Alibaba’s AutoDrive platform tackles autonomous driving challenges by combining fine-grained scenario classification, targeted algorithm development, and cloud‑based automation to accelerate L4 and logistics‑focused self‑driving solutions, while outlining industry standards, sensor choices, and future research directions.

AI AlgorithmsAlibabaAutoDrive
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How Alibaba’s AutoDrive Platform Is Revolutionizing Autonomous Driving
Senior Brother's Insights
Senior Brother's Insights
May 12, 2020 · Backend Development

What the New Alibaba Java Development Manual Reveals About Clean Code Practices

The author reviews the newly released Alibaba Java Development Manual (Taishan edition), highlighting 34 new mandatory rules and 90 revisions, and explains how each guideline—from array syntax to monetary storage and concurrency locking—helps developers write cleaner, safer, and more maintainable backend Java code.

AlibabaJavacoding standards
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What the New Alibaba Java Development Manual Reveals About Clean Code Practices
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
May 11, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Interview with Alibaba Senior Algorithm Expert Ren Haibing on Intelligent Video Matting Technology

Ren Haibing, Alibaba’s senior algorithm expert, explains how deep‑learning AI matting—combining salient object detection, semantic and instance segmentation in a two‑stage hard‑then‑soft pipeline—replaces traditional methods, achieves hair‑level detail and temporal consistency, scores 84.3% on Cityscapes, powers large‑scale video‑person extraction, and relies on human review to meet growing industry demand.

AIAlibabaimage segmentation
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Interview with Alibaba Senior Algorithm Expert Ren Haibing on Intelligent Video Matting Technology
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 8, 2020 · Operations

From Tsinghua to Alibaba: A DevOps Veteran’s Journey and Lessons

This interview chronicles Dong Yue’s path from a curious Tsinghua student to a DevOps leader at Alibaba, highlighting his early fascination with software engineering, influential books, the creation of the Aone platform, the national DevOps maturity model, and practical advice for aspiring technologists.

AlibabaAoneContinuous Delivery
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From Tsinghua to Alibaba: A DevOps Veteran’s Journey and Lessons
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 27, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Kubernetes Is the Future OS: Expert Insights, Learning Path, and Real‑World Troubleshooting

This article shares an Alibaba technical expert's perspectives on Kubernetes—its role as the future operating system, practical learning strategies, detailed troubleshooting cases, and a free e‑book download—offering a comprehensive guide for engineers seeking to master cloud‑native orchestration.

AlibabaKubernetesLearning Guide
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Why Kubernetes Is the Future OS: Expert Insights, Learning Path, and Real‑World Troubleshooting
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 9, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Open‑Source Graph‑Learn Accelerates GNN Deployment

Alibaba’s open‑source Graph‑Learn framework brings industrial‑scale graph neural network capabilities to production by offering lightweight portability, modular extensibility, reusable interfaces, and seamless integration with major deep‑learning ecosystems, while showcasing real‑world security and e‑commerce applications and outlining future hardware and algorithmic directions.

AlibabaGNN FrameworkGraph-Learn
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How Alibaba’s Open‑Source Graph‑Learn Accelerates GNN Deployment
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Mar 31, 2020 · Backend Development

Hermes Push System: Architecture and Design Overview

The Hermes Push System at Xianyu separates push decisions into three coordinated services—Configuration Center for audience and material data, Task Center for timing and orchestration, and Matching Center for real‑time content ranking—leveraging MySQL, ODPS, Flink, SchedulerX, MetaQ and Alibaba’s TPP/IGraph to boost click‑through rates, double user coverage, and achieve record daily active users, while planning to add open‑page notifications and deeper AI personalization.

AlibabaBackendBig Data
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Hermes Push System: Architecture and Design Overview
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Mar 25, 2020 · Backend Development

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

This article introduces 29 notable Alibaba open‑source projects, ranging from distributed service frameworks and front‑end UI libraries to database connection pools, and monitoring tools, and cloud‑native solutions, providing concise descriptions and direct GitHub links for developers seeking reliable, community‑backed components.

AlibabaBackendFramework
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Explore 29 Must‑Know Alibaba Open‑Source Projects for Modern Developers
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Mar 23, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba’s 2019 Double‑11: Full Cloud Migration and Live‑Streaming Leap

In a landmark 2019 Double‑11, Alibaba’s new retail tech division, led by former iQIYI CTO Tang Xing, migrated its core transaction systems entirely to the cloud, scaled live‑streaming to record sales, integrated edge AI for billions of decisions, and outlined a multi‑phase strategy that blends cloud‑native infrastructure, serverless functions, and future 5G‑driven innovations.

AIAlibabacloud migration
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Alibaba’s 2019 Double‑11: Full Cloud Migration and Live‑Streaming Leap
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 23, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning Applications in Alibaba 1688 B2B E‑commerce Recommendation System: From Deep Match to Live Content Ranking

This article details how Alibaba's 1688 B2B platform leverages deep learning techniques—including Deep Match, DIN, DIEN, DMR, and heterogeneous network models—to evolve its product recall, ranking, and live‑content recommendation pipelines, highlighting system architecture, practical lessons, and online performance improvements.

AlibabaDeep Learninge‑commerce
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Deep Learning Applications in Alibaba 1688 B2B E‑commerce Recommendation System: From Deep Match to Live Content Ranking
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Mar 23, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's Cloud Migration and AI Strategies for Double 11

Alibaba migrated all core e‑commerce systems to the cloud for Double 11, using a phased, cloud‑native approach to overcome legacy challenges, while deploying AI that handled 140 billion operations to personalize the shopping experience, and now plans to integrate 5G, AR and further AI‑driven retail innovations.

AlibabaDouble 11Tech Strategy
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Alibaba's Cloud Migration and AI Strategies for Double 11
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 18, 2020 · Backend Development

A Curated List of 27 Open‑Source Alibaba Projects for Distributed Application Development

This article presents a comprehensive, English‑language overview of 27 Alibaba open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Ant Design, Druid, fastjson, Dubbo, JStorm, Sentinel, Nacos, and many others—detailing their core purpose, key features, and GitHub URLs for developers building distributed, cloud‑native Java applications.

AlibabaBackendJava
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A Curated List of 27 Open‑Source Alibaba Projects for Distributed Application Development
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Mar 10, 2020 · Operations

Big Drama Quality Assurance Process at Alibaba Entertainment

Alibaba Entertainment’s Big Drama Assurance framework applies automated and manual quality checks across production, operations, rights, playback, online monitoring, and emergency response, using a unified platform that detects and resolves issues before and after launch to protect revenue, uphold paid‑member rights, and ensure a seamless viewing experience.

AlibabaOperationscontent assurance
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Big Drama Quality Assurance Process at Alibaba Entertainment
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Mar 3, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Building a Quality Assurance System for Alibaba Video Search

To ensure stability and precision of Alibaba Youku’s massive video‑search platform, a three‑layer quality‑assurance framework was built—covering engineering regression and functional/effect monitoring, algorithmic data, UDF, feature‑column and index testing, effect baselines and impact assessment, plus user‑experience bad‑case mining and public‑opinion feedback loops.

Alibabaalgorithm monitoringquality assurance
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Building a Quality Assurance System for Alibaba Video Search
Java Captain
Java Captain
Mar 3, 2020 · Backend Development

A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects for Distributed and Enterprise Development

This article presents a comprehensive collection of Alibaba’s open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Ant Design, Druid, Dubbo, JStorm, Sentinel, and many others—detailing their core features and providing repository links to help developers build scalable, high‑performance backend and cloud‑native applications.

AlibabaBackend DevelopmentDistributed Systems
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A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects for Distributed and Enterprise Development
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Feb 26, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

User Growth, Full‑Stack Growth System, and Deep Learning Applications in Search at Alibaba 1688

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba 1688’s user‑growth strategy, full‑link growth system, intelligent coupon and push mechanisms, and the application of deep‑learning and optimization techniques in search and order‑aggregation, illustrating how data‑driven algorithms drive e‑commerce performance.

AIAlibabae‑commerce
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User Growth, Full‑Stack Growth System, and Deep Learning Applications in Search at Alibaba 1688
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Feb 18, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Serverless Transformed Front‑End Development in Alibaba’s Wow Video Project

This article recounts the half‑year journey of migrating the Wow Video short‑video shopping feature to a Serverless Node FaaS architecture, highlighting high‑traffic challenges, development pain points, the upgraded R&D model, migration steps, monitoring tools, and the strategic decisions that shaped the front‑end team's evolution.

AlibabaFaaSNode.js
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How Serverless Transformed Front‑End Development in Alibaba’s Wow Video Project
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Feb 12, 2020 · Cloud Native

Explore the Latest Spring Cloud Alibaba Upgrades: Core Dependencies & New Features

Spring Cloud Alibaba’s latest release upgrades core dependencies like Spring Cloud Hoxton, Seata, Sentinel, and Dubbo, introduces numerous enhancements such as new health indicators, reactive discovery, refined configuration handling, and adds Nacos and Sentinel components to Spring Initializr for easier project generation.

AlibabaMicroservicescloud-native
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Explore the Latest Spring Cloud Alibaba Upgrades: Core Dependencies & New Features
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Feb 5, 2020 · Frontend Development

From Campus Coding to Alibaba Frontend Leader: Key Lessons for Developers

This article chronicles the author’s journey from early web development in university to senior frontend engineering at Alibaba, highlighting pivotal experiences, mindset shifts, productization of expertise, and practical insights on building scalable frontend solutions and fostering cross‑team collaboration.

AlibabaProduct DevelopmentSoftware Engineering
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From Campus Coding to Alibaba Frontend Leader: Key Lessons for Developers
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Feb 3, 2020 · Operations

Why ZooKeeper Is Not the Best Choice for Service Discovery: Design Considerations for Registration Centers

Based on a decade of Alibaba’s production experience, this article analyzes the requirements and design trade‑offs of service‑discovery registries, arguing that ZooKeeper’s strong consistency and coordination focus make it unsuitable as a primary registration center and proposing AP‑oriented, scalable alternatives.

AlibabaCAPZooKeeper
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Why ZooKeeper Is Not the Best Choice for Service Discovery: Design Considerations for Registration Centers
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jan 22, 2020 · Big Data

Real-Time Data Engineering Practices for Alibaba 1688 Business

This article explains how Alibaba 1688 achieves real‑time recommendation, advertising, and product statistics through a robust middle‑platform foundation, streaming engines like Blink, data synchronization tools, and scalable storage, illustrating three concrete engineering cases and the end‑to‑end real‑time data service pipeline.

AlibabaFlinkstream processing
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Real-Time Data Engineering Practices for Alibaba 1688 Business
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 20, 2020 · Big Data

Alibaba’s Secrets to High‑Throughput Full‑Load and Low‑Latency Search Processing

This article details how Alibaba migrated its massive Taobao‑Tmall search workload to the search offline platform, tackling challenges of massive data volume, one‑to‑many joins, and hotspot sellers through a series of performance optimizations—including local joins, salt‑based data sharding, dynamic aggregation jobs, and asynchronous processing—to achieve high‑throughput full loads and low‑latency incremental updates.

AlibabaBig DataFlink
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Alibaba’s Secrets to High‑Throughput Full‑Load and Low‑Latency Search Processing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 16, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba DAMO Academy Revolutionizes Anomaly Detection for Business and Machine Data

This article explains the evolution of Alibaba DAMO Academy’s time‑series anomaly detection technology, detailing its application to both machine and commercial data, the challenges of diverse data types, the new robust statistical models, automatic data classification, parameter recommendation, and real‑world case studies demonstrating improved accuracy and stability.

AlibabaData AnalyticsTime Series
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How Alibaba DAMO Academy Revolutionizes Anomaly Detection for Business and Machine Data
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jan 16, 2020 · Fundamentals

A Curated List of 29 Alibaba Open‑Source Projects

This article presents a comprehensive overview of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects spanning distributed application frameworks, front‑end design systems, database tools, JVM enhancements, monitoring solutions, and cloud‑native utilities, each described with its core purpose and a link to its repository.

AlibabaJavaframeworks
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A Curated List of 29 Alibaba Open‑Source Projects
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 3, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s DAMO Lab Revolutionizes Image Cutout with AI‑Powered Matting

Alibaba's DAMO Academy details its AI‑driven image cutout system, describing why automated matting is needed, the four‑module pipeline (filtering, classification, detection, segmentation), architectural innovations such as dual decoders and fusion networks, and how these advances enable product‑level batch background removal.

AIAlibabaComputer Vision
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How Alibaba’s DAMO Lab Revolutionizes Image Cutout with AI‑Powered Matting
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 17, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Boosted Short‑Video Engagement with Advanced Recommendation Algorithms

This article explains the rapid growth of short‑video on Taobao, describes the video feature framework, details the RankI2V and RankV2V recall methods, outlines coarse and fine ranking models, and presents real‑time interest and business strategies that significantly improved click‑through rates and viewing time.

Alibabamachine learningranking algorithms
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How Alibaba Boosted Short‑Video Engagement with Advanced Recommendation Algorithms
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 14, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Scaled Service Mesh for Double‑11: Architecture, Challenges & Performance

This article details Alibaba's large‑scale Service Mesh deployment for Double‑11 core applications, covering the three‑plane architecture, key challenges such as SDK‑free mesh, complex routing, rate limiting, Envoy overhead, and the performance impact on latency, CPU and memory, while outlining future roadmap and open‑source collaboration.

AlibabaCloud NativeEnvoy
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How Alibaba Scaled Service Mesh for Double‑11: Architecture, Challenges & Performance
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 12, 2019 · Frontend Development

From Junior to P9: A Frontend Engineer’s 11‑Year Journey at Alibaba

This article chronicles an Alibaba front‑end specialist’s eleven‑year progression from a fresh graduate to a P9 senior engineer, detailing technical challenges, project leadership, system redesigns, and personal insights on growth, teamwork, and career development within a large tech organization.

AlibabaLeadershipSoftware Engineering
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From Junior to P9: A Frontend Engineer’s 11‑Year Journey at Alibaba
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 10, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Why GNNs Matter: Inside Alibaba’s AliGraph Platform for Scalable Graph AI

The article introduces AliGraph, Alibaba’s comprehensive Graph Neural Network platform showcased at NeurIPS 2019, explaining its layered architecture, scalable graph engine, extensible operators, and real‑world applications across e‑commerce, security and cloud services, while highlighting performance gains, supported algorithms, and the strategic focus on GNN research and development.

AI PlatformAlibabaScalable Graph Computing
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Why GNNs Matter: Inside Alibaba’s AliGraph Platform for Scalable Graph AI
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Dec 2, 2019 · Operations

Technical Architecture and Operational Practices of Alibaba's 2019 Double‑11 "Cat Evening" Live Show

Alibaba’s 2019 Double‑11 “Cat Evening” live show combined a unified codebase across Youku, Taobao and Tmall with synchronized clocks, latency‑measurement devices and SEI‑injected messages to guarantee fair, zero‑loss interactions, while employing dynamic routing, pre‑warming, peak‑shaving, downstream protection and rehearsed contingency plans to handle massive concurrency and ensure stable, high‑quality user experience.

AlibabaFairnessOperations
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Technical Architecture and Operational Practices of Alibaba's 2019 Double‑11 "Cat Evening" Live Show
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 28, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Achieved 100% Cloud‑Native Migration for Double 11: Lessons and Tech Insights

Alibaba’s 2019 Double 11 campaign saw a record 54.4 k orders per second and 970 PB of data, prompting a full cloud‑native transformation that migrated 100% of core applications to the cloud using Kubernetes, containers, the Shenlong bare‑metal servers, service mesh, and OAM, delivering scalable, resilient performance.

AlibabaBare MetalDouble 11
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How Alibaba Achieved 100% Cloud‑Native Migration for Double 11: Lessons and Tech Insights
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 26, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

The AI Talent Exodus: Why Alibaba Becomes the Top Destination

An in‑depth look at how AI experts are jumping between tech giants, with Alibaba emerging as the biggest winner, Baidu losing talent, and Microsoft serving as a major talent pipeline, illustrating the fierce competition for AI brilliance across the industry.

AI talentAlibabaartificial intelligence
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The AI Talent Exodus: Why Alibaba Becomes the Top Destination
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 21, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s ‘Guess‑Draw Treasure’ Game Powers Real‑Time Sketch AI

During the 2023 Lunar New Year, Taobao Live launched the real‑time interactive game ‘Guess‑Draw Treasure’, which lets users sketch on mobile devices and have AI instantly recognize their drawings to win cash rewards; this article reveals the underlying AI techniques, challenges, model choices, datasets, and future plans.

AI sketch recognitionAlibabaCNN
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How Alibaba’s ‘Guess‑Draw Treasure’ Game Powers Real‑Time Sketch AI
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Oct 31, 2019 · R&D Management

Alibaba Infrastructure PMO Wins Best Enterprise Practice Award and Presents Strategic Project Management Framework

The 2019 China Project Management Development 20‑Year Achievement Forum highlighted Alibaba Infrastructure's award for Best Enterprise Practice, where its PMO shared a layered strategic project management framework that translates departmental strategy into executable projects, offering insights for organizations facing rapid market changes.

AlibabaBest Practice AwardCase Study
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Alibaba Infrastructure PMO Wins Best Enterprise Practice Award and Presents Strategic Project Management Framework
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 29, 2019 · Operations

How Xiami’s SRE Team Revamped Monitoring to Cut Alert Noise by 90%

Xiami’s SRE team overhauled its monitoring system by categorizing alerts, introducing fault, generic, and basic monitoring, optimizing alert paths with stream processing, and leveraging Alibaba’s traffic scheduling platform, dramatically reducing daily noise from thousands of alerts to a manageable few hundred critical notifications.

AlibabaSRETraffic Scheduling
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How Xiami’s SRE Team Revamped Monitoring to Cut Alert Noise by 90%
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 22, 2019 · Operations

How Alibaba Masters Full‑Chain Performance Testing for Double 11

Alibaba’s seven‑year journey of full‑chain performance testing for its Double 11 shopping festival reveals a comprehensive, production‑environment‑based workflow—including environment transformation, data preparation, traffic safety, test execution, and intelligent analysis—designed to ensure system stability under massive traffic spikes and guide external customers.

AlibabaPerformance Testingcapacity planning
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How Alibaba Masters Full‑Chain Performance Testing for Double 11
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Oct 17, 2019 · Big Data

Understanding Alibaba's Data Middle Platform: Concepts, Architecture, and Differences from Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

The article explains Alibaba's data middle platform—its definition, methodology, organizational structure, key tools, and how it differs from traditional data warehouses and data lakes—while highlighting its role in supporting scalable, business‑centric data services and digital transformation.

AlibabaBig DataData Architecture
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Understanding Alibaba's Data Middle Platform: Concepts, Architecture, and Differences from Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 16, 2019 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Built Its Scalable Business Middle Platform: Architecture & Lessons

This article outlines Alibaba's middle‑platform strategy, detailing the layered IT architecture, the evolution from IOE to distributed services and platformization, the practical methodology for building, governing, and evolving a business middle platform, and key takeaways for enterprises seeking large‑scale system governance.

AlibabaBackend ArchitectureDistributed Systems
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How Alibaba Built Its Scalable Business Middle Platform: Architecture & Lessons
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 26, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Unveils 10 Trillion Daily AI Calls and Record‑Breaking Hanguang 800 Chip at Cloud Expo

At the Cloud Expo, Alibaba revealed it processes over 10 trillion AI calls daily, unveiled its record‑breaking Hanguang 800 chip, detailed its massive AI cloud infrastructure, and highlighted breakthroughs in AI platforms, algorithms, and industry applications, underscoring its leadership in Chinese artificial intelligence.

AIAlibabaCloud AI
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Alibaba Unveils 10 Trillion Daily AI Calls and Record‑Breaking Hanguang 800 Chip at Cloud Expo
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 25, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Unveils Hanguang 800: The World's Fastest AI Chip Shattering Benchmarks

At the Hangzhou Cloud Expo, Alibaba introduced its first self‑developed AI processor, the Hanguang 800, which delivers up to 78,563 inferences per second on ResNet‑50—four times faster than leading chips—and demonstrates remarkable energy efficiency, powering internal services and upcoming AI cloud offerings.

AI ChipAI accelerationAlibaba
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Alibaba Unveils Hanguang 800: The World's Fastest AI Chip Shattering Benchmarks
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Sep 20, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Announces Open‑Source “Fangsheng” Project for Next‑Generation Cloud Server Architecture

At the ODCC 2019 Open Data Center Conference in Beijing, Alibaba server architect Guo Rui unveiled the open‑source “Fangsheng” project, detailing a new cloud‑server architecture that addresses ultra‑large scale, diverse customer needs, and intense competition by improving cooling, power efficiency, modularity, and deployment flexibility for Chinese cloud data centers.

AlibabaData centerFangsheng
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Alibaba Announces Open‑Source “Fangsheng” Project for Next‑Generation Cloud Server Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 16, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

From Classroom Dreams to AI Breakthroughs: Inside Alibaba’s Qingcheng Award

Alibaba’s DAMO Academy launched the Qingcheng Award, granting nine sub‑35 researchers a million‑yuan prize and extensive resources, and this article shares their diverse journeys—from distributed optimization and edge‑computing to AI and quantum research—highlighting how they balance scientific ambition, societal impact, and personal life.

AIAlibabaEdge Computing
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From Classroom Dreams to AI Breakthroughs: Inside Alibaba’s Qingcheng Award
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 10, 2019 · Backend Development

Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know

This guide curates fifteen Alibaba‑originated developer tools—from Java diagnostics and IDE plugins to cloud‑native services, performance testing, and database utilities—detailing their core features, typical use cases, tutorial links, and where to obtain them, helping engineers boost productivity and code quality.

AlibabaBackend DevelopmentJava
0 likes · 14 min read
Top 15 Alibaba Developer Tools Every Backend Engineer Should Know
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Aug 20, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Xianyu Boosted Sales with an AI-Powered Auto-Reply Chatbot

Xianyu tackled slow seller responses, inconsistent answers, and bargaining friction by building an AI-driven auto-reply system that extracts product attributes, generates knowledge bases, and uses intent recognition and response generation models, resulting in faster replies, higher conversion rates, and reduced seller workload.

AIAlibabaChatbot
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How Xianyu Boosted Sales with an AI-Powered Auto-Reply Chatbot
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Aug 19, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Showcases AI Innovations in Entertainment and Security at IJCAI 2019

At IJCAI 2019, Alibaba’s MoKu Lab unveiled the Beidou Star platform and an intelligent conversational video search system for end‑to‑end content creation, while its Turing Lab demonstrated security AI such as Green Net, IP Brain, facial‑recognition and Tianyan, complemented by multiple research papers, academic collaborations and new hiring drives.

AIAlibabaComputer Vision
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Alibaba Showcases AI Innovations in Entertainment and Security at IJCAI 2019
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 7, 2019 · R&D Management

How Understanding Business Can Accelerate Your Tech Career

The article shares a senior Alibaba engineer’s journey from a pure technical role to a business‑savvy tech leader, offering practical advice on why business insight is essential for developers, how to acquire it, and the impact it has on career growth and R&D effectiveness.

AlibabaCareer DevelopmentR&D management
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How Understanding Business Can Accelerate Your Tech Career
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Aug 3, 2019 · Cloud Native

Spring Cloud Alibaba Graduates: What the New Release Means for Your Projects

Spring Cloud Alibaba has officially graduated after a year of incubation, releasing its first post‑graduation version with updated components, migration guidelines, release notes, a roadmap for future features, and a new committer mechanism, all of which impact how developers integrate and maintain their microservice projects.

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Spring Cloud Alibaba Graduates: What the New Release Means for Your Projects
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 17, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Halved BERT Latency for Real‑Time Search

This article details Alibaba's technical challenges with BERT's high resource consumption in online search, analyzes memory and compute bottlenecks using TensorFlow profiling, and presents both TensorFlow‑based tweaks and a custom CUDA implementation that together double throughput and cut latency by about 50%.

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How Alibaba Halved BERT Latency for Real‑Time Search
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 11, 2019 · Cloud Native

Unlock Alibaba’s Cloud‑Native Secrets: 15 Essential Lectures

This page introduces Alibaba’s free‑downloadable book “Alibaba Cloud‑Native Practice: 15 Lectures,” which compiles key insights from nine years of cloud‑native engineering, covering Kubernetes migration, large‑scale container reliability, serverless, GPU sharing, image distribution, and other real‑world solutions for developers.

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Unlock Alibaba’s Cloud‑Native Secrets: 15 Essential Lectures
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jul 11, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Retail's Intelligent Recommendation System: Business Background, Architecture, Matching and Ranking Models

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba Retail's B2B2C intelligent recommendation platform, detailing its business context, three core recommendation scenarios, system architecture, matching algorithms such as item‑CF, graph embedding and user‑CF, as well as the evolution of ranking models and feature engineering practices.

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Alibaba Retail's Intelligent Recommendation System: Business Background, Architecture, Matching and Ranking Models
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jul 5, 2019 · Operations

Practices of Chaos Engineering in Distributed Service Architecture

This article presents a comprehensive overview of chaos engineering, covering its definition, value, principles, implementation steps, enterprise adoption strategies, the open‑source ChaosBlade tool and AHAS Chaos platform, and two detailed case studies demonstrating fault injection experiments in a distributed service environment.

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Practices of Chaos Engineering in Distributed Service Architecture
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jun 28, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Evolution of Alibaba's Technical Architecture and Lessons for Enterprise Systems

The article reviews Alibaba's architectural evolution from early PHP and JavaBean systems through EJB, Spring, and service‑oriented transformations using EDAS, DRDS, and ONS, highlighting challenges such as maintenance, data silos, database limits, and the resulting enterprise‑grade cloud‑native solutions.

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Evolution of Alibaba's Technical Architecture and Lessons for Enterprise Systems
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 25, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Inserts Marketing Cards to Boost Recommendation Revenue

This article explains how Alibaba's App recommendation pipeline integrates marketing scenario cards using weak personalization and machine‑learning models, detailing the metrics, feature engineering, recall and ranking strategies that together raise exposure revenue and click‑through performance.

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How Alibaba Inserts Marketing Cards to Boost Recommendation Revenue
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
May 29, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

General‑Domain Conversational QA: Technologies, Challenges, and Alibaba UC’s Practice

This article reviews the evolution, architecture, and key technical challenges of general‑domain conversational QA systems, describing Alibaba UC’s search background, dialogue bot types, data pipelines, and advanced methods such as transfer learning, few‑shot learning, and multi‑dimensional dialogue management.

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General‑Domain Conversational QA: Technologies, Challenges, and Alibaba UC’s Practice
Java Captain
Java Captain
May 14, 2019 · Backend Development

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

This article introduces a curated selection of Alibaba’s open‑source and cloud‑based developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, EasyExcel, Druid, Dragonwell and more—detailing their use cases, tutorials, and acquisition methods to help developers improve efficiency and code quality.

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A Curated List of Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools for Backend Engineers
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 26, 2019 · Backend Development

Top 15 Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools Every Engineer Should Know

This article presents a curated list of fifteen Alibaba open‑source and cloud‑based developer tools—including Java diagnostics, IDE plugins, chaos engineering, monitoring, static site generators, mobile compilation, and database utilities—detailing their usage scenarios, tutorials, and acquisition methods to boost development efficiency.

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Top 15 Alibaba Open‑Source Developer Tools Every Engineer Should Know
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 25, 2019 · Databases

How OceanBase Overcame the Odds to Become China’s Homegrown Distributed Database

OceanBase, Alibaba’s home‑grown distributed relational database, survived early skepticism and near‑disbandment to replace Oracle in Ant Financial’s core systems, achieve record‑breaking transaction throughput, and now powers dozens of Chinese banks, illustrating the challenges and triumphs of building a modern DBMS.

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How OceanBase Overcame the Odds to Become China’s Homegrown Distributed Database
AntTech
AntTech
Apr 8, 2019 · Backend Development

Seata: From Fescar to an Open‑Source Distributed Transaction Solution

The article explains the renaming of the open‑source distributed transaction framework Fescar to Seata, outlines the background and evolution of distributed transactions at Alibaba and Ant Financial, and shares recent community milestones and future plans for the project.

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Seata: From Fescar to an Open‑Source Distributed Transaction Solution
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Mar 19, 2019 · Operations

Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Stress Testing for Alibaba Double 11 Promotion

The article explains how Alibaba introduced full‑link stress testing and a four‑step capacity‑planning process for the Double 11 shopping festival, detailing traffic‑prediction, system‑capacity evaluation, fine‑tuning via production‑environment load tests, and dynamic flow‑control mechanisms that together ensure system stability during massive traffic spikes.

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Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Stress Testing for Alibaba Double 11 Promotion
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 14, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Automates Cloud‑Native Operations at Massive Scale

This article explains Alibaba's intelligent, automated approach to managing large‑scale cloud‑native applications, covering challenges of scale, safety, and efficiency, and how AI‑driven decision making improves stability while reducing operational costs.

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How Alibaba Automates Cloud‑Native Operations at Massive Scale
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 5, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Semantic Human Matting Achieves Fully Automatic High‑Precision Image Cutouts

This article introduces Alibaba’s intelligent matting editor and its Semantic Human Matting (SHM) algorithm, detailing the integration of semantic segmentation and deep matting networks, the fusion module, training strategy, experimental results, and the deployment of an online fully‑automatic cutout tool for designers.

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How Alibaba’s Semantic Human Matting Achieves Fully Automatic High‑Precision Image Cutouts
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Mar 2, 2019 · Operations

How Alibaba’s ‘MonkeyKing’ Uses Chaos Engineering to Strengthen System Reliability

Alibaba’s MonkeyKing, inspired by Netflix’s Chaos Monkey, employs intentional fault injection—from random node kills to simulated network outages—to test and improve system robustness across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers, offering a comprehensive model for reliability engineering in complex distributed environments.

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How Alibaba’s ‘MonkeyKing’ Uses Chaos Engineering to Strengthen System Reliability