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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 4, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Machine Reading Comprehension Revolutionizes E‑commerce: Alibaba’s XiaoMi and AI Models

This article reviews the background of Alibaba's XiaoMi chatbot, explores how machine reading comprehension can be applied to e‑commerce scenarios such as rule interpretation and product inquiries, surveys key datasets and SQuAD‑based models, and discusses practical challenges and solutions for deploying these technologies in real‑world business environments.

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Machine Reading Comprehension Revolutionizes E‑commerce: Alibaba’s XiaoMi and AI Models
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 23, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Guarantees High‑Availability Ops for New Retail

This article explains Alibaba's GOC‑driven operation‑assurance solution for new retail, covering the sector's evolution, unique reliability challenges, a four‑pillar support framework—including high‑availability, mobile ops, emergency response, and change control—and real‑world best practices from Hema Fresh.

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How Alibaba Guarantees High‑Availability Ops for New Retail
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 17, 2018 · Backend Development

Alibaba Joins Java Community Process Executive Committee: What It Means for Global Java Standards

On May 17, 2018, Alibaba became the sole Chinese representative on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee, giving China a voice in shaping global Java standards, highlighting its extensive Java deployment across e‑commerce, finance, and logistics, and its open‑source contributions like AlibabaJDK, Dubbo, and RocketMQ.

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Alibaba Joins Java Community Process Executive Committee: What It Means for Global Java Standards
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 16, 2018 · Cloud Computing

From Mall to Cloud: How Alibaba’s Tech Evolution Shaped Modern Cloud Computing

Senior Alibaba engineer Xiao Xie recounts his decade‑long journey from the early Taobao Mall project to leading the Cloud Computing “Flying‑Sky Eight” team, detailing pivotal initiatives like the Five‑Color Stone integration, full‑link stress testing for Double‑11, and the evolution toward self‑developed, distributed cloud technologies.

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From Mall to Cloud: How Alibaba’s Tech Evolution Shaped Modern Cloud Computing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 28, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Uses AI to Power the New Retail Ecosystem

Alibaba’s recent Search and Computing Open Day revealed how AI, big‑data algorithms and multi‑objective optimization are reshaping its e‑commerce ecosystem, boosting commercial efficiency, supporting diverse merchants, and driving innovative retail experiences for billions of users.

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How Alibaba Uses AI to Power the New Retail Ecosystem
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 13, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Built Its DevOps Automation Platform: Key Practices and Lessons

This article outlines Alibaba's DevOps transformation, describing the three operational stages, four foundations of automated operations, CI/CD implementation, essential system characteristics, development‑defined operations, config‑driven changes, and the tools that enable high‑availability, efficiency, and scalability.

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How Alibaba Built Its DevOps Automation Platform: Key Practices and Lessons
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 4, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Tsinghua and Alibaba Are Shaping the Future of Human‑Machine Natural Interaction

In April 2018, Tsinghua University and Alibaba launched a joint Natural Interaction Experience Lab to explore next‑generation human‑machine interaction, aiming to give machines five senses and emotional understanding, and to apply this research across retail, smart homes, autonomous driving, and other emerging AI‑driven scenarios.

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How Tsinghua and Alibaba Are Shaping the Future of Human‑Machine Natural Interaction
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 3, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Voice AI Is Powering Alibaba's IoT Revolution

In this keynote, Alibaba's chief scientist explains how voice AI serves as the natural interface for IoT, detailing the company's strategy to connect billions of devices through cloud infrastructure, AI-driven perception, and multimodal interaction across consumer and industrial applications.

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How Voice AI Is Powering Alibaba's IoT Revolution
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 26, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase: A Revolutionary Distributed Relational Database from Alibaba/Ant Financial

OceanBase, developed by Alibaba and Ant Financial, is a groundbreaking distributed relational database that replaced traditional IOE systems, achieved record‑breaking transaction throughput during China’s Double 11 shopping festivals, and showcases innovative use of Paxos, high availability, scalability, and cost‑effective cloud‑native architecture.

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OceanBase: A Revolutionary Distributed Relational Database from Alibaba/Ant Financial
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 19, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Smart Dialogue Platform Turns Search into AI‑Powered Conversations

This article details Alibaba’s Shenma Search intelligent dialogue system, covering its content taxonomy, platform architecture, TaskBot/QABot/ChatBot engines, knowledge‑graph infrastructure, production pipelines, and performance metrics that enable AI‑driven information services across devices like Tmall Genie.

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How Alibaba’s Smart Dialogue Platform Turns Search into AI‑Powered Conversations
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 6, 2018 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Cuts Costs by 30% with Co‑Location Scheduling (Mix‑Deploy)

This article explains Alibaba's co‑location (混部) technology that mixes online services and batch compute on the same physical servers, detailing its background, key characteristics, scheduling architecture, resource isolation mechanisms, cost‑saving formulas, and future roadmap, showing how it boosts utilization and reduces expenses.

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How Alibaba Cuts Costs by 30% with Co‑Location Scheduling (Mix‑Deploy)
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 28, 2018 · Databases

How Alibaba’s Tair Cache Engine Scaled to 500M QPS for Double 11

Alibaba’s Tair, a high‑performance distributed key/value cache, evolved through multiple versions to support massive traffic during Double 11, employing multi‑region deployment, hotspot hashing, memory merging, user‑space networking, and client optimizations that dramatically cut latency, improve scalability, and reduce operational costs.

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How Alibaba’s Tair Cache Engine Scaled to 500M QPS for Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Feb 12, 2018 · Operations

Intelligent Network Practices for Alibaba's Double 11: Automation, Fault Detection, and Traffic Optimization

Alibaba senior technical expert Houyi explains how intelligent network automation, rapid fault detection, automatic isolation, and traffic‑optimizing technologies were applied during Double 11 to dramatically improve stability, reduce costs, and enhance overall network performance across millions of devices.

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Intelligent Network Practices for Alibaba's Double 11: Automation, Fault Detection, and Traffic Optimization
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 5, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AliMe Evolved in 2017: AI Architecture, Algorithms, and Real‑World Impact

In 2017 Alibaba's AliMe chatbot platform expanded from a single‑company solution to a multilingual, multi‑channel AI service, introducing platform‑level SaaS/PaaS capabilities, a seven‑layer front‑end architecture, modular back‑end design, advanced intent recognition, knowledge‑graph‑driven product management, reinforcement‑learning‑based recommendation, and machine‑reading comprehension for enterprise and consumer use cases.

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How Alibaba’s AliMe Evolved in 2017: AI Architecture, Algorithms, and Real‑World Impact
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jan 31, 2018 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce Platform: From LAMP to Distributed Architecture

This article traces Alibaba's e‑commerce technical evolution—from early LAMP‑based monoliths through Java‑centric 2.0 systems to a massive multi‑IDC, service‑oriented distributed architecture with HSF, Pandora, and advanced database sharding solutions—highlighting the challenges and innovations that enabled its massive scalability.

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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce Platform: From LAMP to Distributed Architecture
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jan 24, 2018 · Backend Development

Ace Alibaba Python Engineer Interview: Real Questions & Answers

This article shares Alibaba's Python engineer job requirements, detailed interview questions covering list operations, word frequency, GIL, multithreading, design patterns, and common Python concepts, along with concise answers to help candidates prepare effectively.

AlibabaCoding QuestionsGIL
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Ace Alibaba Python Engineer Interview: Real Questions & Answers
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 19, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Supply Chain Handles Double‑11’s Massive Surge

This article explains how Alibaba’s supply‑chain algorithms and data‑driven operations enable rapid order processing, accurate demand forecasting, dynamic inventory allocation, and efficient warehouse fulfillment during the massive traffic of Double 11, highlighting the challenges faced and the solutions implemented.

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How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Supply Chain Handles Double‑11’s Massive Surge
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 28, 2017 · Backend Development

Explore Alibaba’s 2017 Open‑Source Powerhouse: Dubbo, RocketMQ, Ant Design & More

The article reviews Alibaba’s 2017 open‑source contributions, highlighting nine major projects—including Dubbo, RocketMQ, Druid, Fastjson, ApsaraCache, Pouch, Dragonfly, Ant Design, and Egg—detailing their features, community impact, and how they advance high‑performance distributed systems, cloud‑native computing, and modern application development.

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Explore Alibaba’s 2017 Open‑Source Powerhouse: Dubbo, RocketMQ, Ant Design & More
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 27, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered UED Platform Transforms Design Outsourcing

Alibaba’s UED outsourcing platform integrates AI-driven image verification, DDD‑based architecture, CQRS, and API interfaces to streamline design task distribution, real‑time budgeting, automated settlement, and quality assessment, enabling efficient, controllable, and intelligent management of over 700 external designers across the group.

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How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered UED Platform Transforms Design Outsourcing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 22, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: Inside the Cloud Architecture Evolution

Over nine years, Alibaba transformed its Double 11 e‑commerce platform from a centralized system to a highly elastic, cloud‑native architecture, employing distributed design, multi‑active regions, unified scheduling, containerization with Pouch, and hybrid deployment to dramatically cut costs and boost peak throughput.

AlibabaContainerizationresource scheduling
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How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: Inside the Cloud Architecture Evolution
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 19, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba’s TPP Intelligent Scheduler Boosts Resource Utilization and Handles Double‑11 Traffic

The article details Alibaba's Taobao Personalization Platform (TPP) intelligent scheduling system, explaining its architecture, optimization algorithms, convergence logic, and performance results that dramatically improve CPU utilization and automate scaling during both regular operation and high‑traffic events like Double‑11.

AlibabaCloud Operationsauto-scaling
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How Alibaba’s TPP Intelligent Scheduler Boosts Resource Utilization and Handles Double‑11 Traffic
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 14, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s eXtreme Parameter Server Powers Billion‑Scale Machine Learning

Alibaba’s eXtreme Parameter Server (XPS) platform tackles the challenges of training models on billions of samples and trillions of features by employing streaming learning, feature hashing, dynamic sparsity, asynchronous checkpointing, and high‑performance communication, enabling efficient, fault‑tolerant distributed AI at massive scale.

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How Alibaba’s eXtreme Parameter Server Powers Billion‑Scale Machine Learning
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 8, 2017 · Operations

Alibaba Edge Network Traffic Optimization for Double 11: NetO System and BGP/SDN Strategies

The article explains how Alibaba’s Edge Network, using the NetO intelligent traffic scheduling system, combines real‑time internet quality monitoring, SDN‑enhanced BGP routing, and extensive peering to optimize both inbound and outbound paths for millions of global Double 11 shoppers, ensuring a seamless user experience.

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Alibaba Edge Network Traffic Optimization for Double 11: NetO System and BGP/SDN Strategies
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 8, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba’s ‘Ali Inside‑Out’ Uses Cloud‑Native Architecture for Collaboration

Alibaba’s internal collaboration platform, Ali Inside‑Out, evolved from a simple portal in 2013 to a cloud‑native, AI‑enhanced ecosystem that unifies search, feed, and global deployment, leveraging Alibaba’s tech stack—including Spring Boot, ISEARCH, NEO4J, and worldwide ADNS—to boost employee productivity and cultural engagement.

Alibabacloud-nativecollaboration
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How Alibaba’s ‘Ali Inside‑Out’ Uses Cloud‑Native Architecture for Collaboration
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 5, 2017 · Cloud Native

Why Alibaba’s Open‑Source Pouch Is Changing the Container Landscape

Alibaba has open‑sourced its lightweight container runtime Pouch under Apache 2.0, detailing its evolution from early LXC experiments to a million‑scale deployment, highlighting strong isolation, rich “rich container” features, P2P image distribution, and its integration with Kubernetes and other cloud‑native ecosystems.

AlibabaKubernetesP2P image distribution
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Why Alibaba’s Open‑Source Pouch Is Changing the Container Landscape
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 1, 2017 · Fundamentals

Alibaba's X86 CPU Customization Journey for Double 11: From Specification Selection to Feature Customization

The article explains how Alibaba tackled the slowdown of Moore's law and TCO constraints by progressively customizing X86 CPUs—from selecting vendor SKUs to requesting bespoke specifications and adding micro‑code features—to boost performance and efficiency for massive events like Double 11.

AlibabaCPU customizationPerformance Optimization
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Alibaba's X86 CPU Customization Journey for Double 11: From Specification Selection to Feature Customization
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 29, 2017 · Databases

Case Study: Resolving a One‑Cent Discrepancy Caused by Distributed‑Lock Timeout and Concurrency Issues in Alibaba’s Financial System

This article analyzes a real Alibaba internal financial‑system incident where a one‑cent accounting error arose from concurrent database writes after a distributed‑lock timeout, details the root‑cause investigation, and presents two remediation strategies—adjusting timeout settings and strengthening idempotent controls—to prevent similar issues.

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Case Study: Resolving a One‑Cent Discrepancy Caused by Distributed‑Lock Timeout and Concurrency Issues in Alibaba’s Financial System
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 27, 2017 · Backend Development

How a 0.01‑Yuan Mistake Exposed Distributed Lock Flaws in Alibaba’s Backend

A tiny 0.01‑yuan discrepancy in an Alibaba product revealed duplicate settlement records, exposing a distributed‑lock timeout and concurrency issue that led to double commits, and the article walks through the root‑cause analysis, reverse engineering of the process, and two remediation strategies focusing on timeout adjustments and idempotency controls.

AlibabaConcurrencydistributed lock
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How a 0.01‑Yuan Mistake Exposed Distributed Lock Flaws in Alibaba’s Backend
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 26, 2017 · R&D Management

Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: Building a Global Research Powerhouse

Alibaba’s newly launched DAMO Academy, unveiled at the 2017 Cloud Expo, aims to invest 100 billion yuan over three years in frontier technologies—from AI and quantum computing to cloud services—by establishing global research centers, fostering academic partnerships, and aligning scientific breakthroughs with commercial growth.

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Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: Building a Global Research Powerhouse
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 25, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s NLP Team Dominated Global Entity Extraction and Chinese Grammar Competitions

Alibaba’s iDST NLP team, led by Dr. Si Luo, clinched the top spot in both the KBP2017 English entity discovery challenge and the 2017 Chinese Grammatical Error Diagnosis contest, showcasing cutting‑edge deep‑learning techniques, massive multilingual processing capacity, and innovative transfer‑learning methods.

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How Alibaba’s NLP Team Dominated Global Entity Extraction and Chinese Grammar Competitions
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 14, 2017 · Cloud Native

Dragonfly: Alibaba's P2P Large‑Scale File and Container Image Distribution System

Dragonfly is Alibaba's P2P‑based infrastructure that dramatically accelerates massive file and container image distribution by forming peer networks, applying smart compression and flow‑control, and reducing registry traffic by over 99%, enabling tens of thousands of servers to receive multi‑gigabyte files simultaneously during peak events.

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Dragonfly: Alibaba's P2P Large‑Scale File and Container Image Distribution System
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 8, 2017 · Information Security

How an Alibaba iOS Engineer Built a Mobile Anti‑Phishing Shield

An interview with Alibaba Security's iOS lead reveals his personal journey, the development of a global anti‑phishing feature for the 钱盾 app, and insights on KPI, product‑operation collaboration, and the broader challenges of delivering security innovations on mobile platforms.

AlibabaiOS developmentinformation security
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How an Alibaba iOS Engineer Built a Mobile Anti‑Phishing Shield
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 8, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI Designer “Luban” Generates 400 Million Double‑11 Banners in Seconds

Alibaba’s AI system “Luban” transforms massive Double‑11 banner creation by learning designers’ styles, using a three‑module architecture—style learning, actuator, and evaluation network—to produce up to 8,000 unique posters per second, while still relying on human‑AI collaboration.

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How Alibaba’s AI Designer “Luban” Generates 400 Million Double‑11 Banners in Seconds
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 3, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Built an EB-Scale, Real-Time Big Data Platform

Alibaba’s senior data expert Yao Bin Hui explains how the company constructed a standardized, end-to-end big-data ecosystem—from low-level data collection and AI algorithms to data services and product platforms—enabling petabyte-scale integration and second-level response times that power both internal operations and millions of external users.

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How Alibaba Built an EB-Scale, Real-Time Big Data Platform
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 23, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Built Its Full‑Domain Data Platform: Architecture & Lessons

In this detailed account, Alibaba senior technologist Zhang Lei explains the concept of a full‑domain data platform, its “four‑horizontal and three‑vertical” architecture, the OneData ecosystem, cost‑saving strategies, data quality tools, and practical challenges of building and operating massive big‑data infrastructure across the Alibaba ecosystem.

Alibabadata engineeringdata middle platform
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How Alibaba Built Its Full‑Domain Data Platform: Architecture & Lessons
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 15, 2017 · Information Security

How Alibaba’s Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM) Is Shaping China’s Data Protection Landscape

The article explains Alibaba's Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM), its partnership program, the involvement of 17 leading security firms, and how the model aims to improve data security capabilities across industries by establishing standardized assessment criteria and fostering ecosystem collaboration.

AlibabaDSMMbig data
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How Alibaba’s Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM) Is Shaping China’s Data Protection Landscape
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 15, 2017 · Cloud Native

Why Alibaba’s Pouch Container Runtime Is Shaping the Future of Cloud Native

At the 2017 Hangzhou Cloud Expo, Alibaba announced the open‑source release of its internally‑developed container runtime Pouch, detailing its seven‑year evolution, unique security and scalability features, collaborations with Zhejiang University, and the company’s strategy to foster an ecosystem‑driven, standards‑focused container technology future.

AlibabaKubernetesPouch
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Why Alibaba’s Pouch Container Runtime Is Shaping the Future of Cloud Native
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 11, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: 10 Top Scientists Powering AI & Quantum Research

Alibaba’s newly launched DAMO Academy, announced at the 2017 Cloud Expo, brings together ten distinguished scientists—including three Chinese academicians and five U.S. Academy members—to spearhead groundbreaking research in AI, quantum computing, security, chip technology, and other frontier fields, aiming to outlast the company itself.

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Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: 10 Top Scientists Powering AI & Quantum Research
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Oct 1, 2017 · Operations

Alibaba Global Operations Center Wins DRI International Award for Business Continuity Management Innovation

Alibaba's Global Operations Center (GOC) was honored with the DRI International "Best BCM Innovation Practice" award for its industry‑leading, end‑to‑end business continuity solution that ensures 99.99% service availability through proactive fault prevention, rapid detection, automated recovery, and thorough post‑incident analysis.

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Alibaba Global Operations Center Wins DRI International Award for Business Continuity Management Innovation
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 30, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba’s Global Operations Center Achieved 99.99% Uptime and Won the DRI Award

Alibaba’s Global Operations Center (GOC) showcases a comprehensive business continuity solution that combines fault prevention, AI‑driven detection, rapid recovery, and automated post‑mortem processes, enabling 99.99% service availability and earning the DRI International Annual Best BCM Innovation Practice Award.

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How Alibaba’s Global Operations Center Achieved 99.99% Uptime and Won the DRI Award
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 12, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba’s New Quantum Chief Scientist on Bringing Quantum Computing to Cloud AI

Professor Shi Yaoyun, now Alibaba Cloud’s chief quantum scientist, discusses his move from academia to industry, the company’s ambitious quantum computing and quantum cryptography initiatives, their integration with cloud services, potential impacts on AI and big data, and the broader challenges and future directions of quantum technology.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceQuantum Cryptography
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Alibaba’s New Quantum Chief Scientist on Bringing Quantum Computing to Cloud AI
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 6, 2017 · Operations

How Mixed Offline/Online Scheduling Boosted Alibaba’s Data Center Utilization by 30%

The article explains how rapid internet growth has expanded data centers, why traditional operations fall short, presents a simple utilization formula, shows Alibaba’s mixed offline‑online scheduling experiment that raised server usage from 10% to over 40%, and announces an open dataset for academic research.

Alibabacluster-managementdata center utilization
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How Mixed Offline/Online Scheduling Boosted Alibaba’s Data Center Utilization by 30%
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 1, 2017 · R&D Management

From Shanghai to Alibaba: Leadership Lessons, Accountability, and Continuous Growth

Qian Lei’s nine‑year journey from a Shanghai ERP manager to an Alibaba senior engineer reveals how embracing responsibility, aligning technology with business, constantly summarizing work, and fostering curiosity can accelerate personal and team growth while avoiding the pitfalls of KPI‑obsessed management.

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From Shanghai to Alibaba: Leadership Lessons, Accountability, and Continuous Growth
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 19, 2017 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce: From LAMP to Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture

This article traces Alibaba's e‑commerce platform evolution from a simple LAMP stack through Java migration, distributed caching, custom middleware, and multi‑active global deployment, highlighting the technical challenges, solutions like HSF RPC, TDDL sharding, and the high‑availability practices that now power Alibaba Cloud services.

Alibabaarchitecturee-commerce
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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce: From LAMP to Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 19, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba’s 11 IJCAI 2017 Papers: Cutting‑Edge AI Research Highlights

Alibaba secured 11 paper acceptances at IJCAI 2017, showcasing advances in visual odometry, facade parsing, object tracking, optical flow, co‑saliency detection, zero‑shot learning, factorization machines, recommendation, multitask similarity learning, and AI applications in e‑commerce, reflecting its growing AI research footprint.

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Alibaba’s 11 IJCAI 2017 Papers: Cutting‑Edge AI Research Highlights
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 18, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Inside Alibaba’s Global Data Center Strategy: From Silicon Valley to a World‑Wide Cloud

Alibaba’s Tech Open‑Day in Silicon Valley showcased its global data‑center architecture, energy‑efficient designs, white‑box hardware, high‑speed networking, and software platforms that together power the company’s massive e‑commerce, cloud, and financial services while driving a shift toward technology‑first growth.

AlibabaGlobal NetworkingInfrastructure as a Service
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Inside Alibaba’s Global Data Center Strategy: From Silicon Valley to a World‑Wide Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 17, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Tech Open-Day in Silicon Valley Showcases Global Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Innovations

The Alibaba Tech Open-Day held in Silicon Valley highlighted the company's global data‑center network, energy‑efficient designs, high‑speed networking, custom hardware, advanced system software, middleware solutions, and its ambitious NASA research program, while also recruiting top engineering talent for both US and China operations.

AlibabaInfrastructureSilicon Valley
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Alibaba Tech Open-Day in Silicon Valley Showcases Global Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Innovations
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 3, 2017 · Fundamentals

How X‑Paxos Transforms Distributed Consensus for High‑Performance Databases

X‑Paxos is Alibaba’s high‑performance, independently designed Paxos library that extends the classic consensus algorithm with multi‑threaded architecture, pluggable logging, adaptive batching and pipelining, and flexible node roles, delivering strong consistency, high availability, and low latency for global distributed databases and services.

AlibabaDistributed ConsensusHigh Performance
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How X‑Paxos Transforms Distributed Consensus for High‑Performance Databases
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jul 19, 2017 · Fundamentals

A Curated List of Notable Alibaba Open‑Source Projects

This article presents a comprehensive overview of prominent Alibaba open‑source projects spanning frontend frameworks, mobile cross‑platform solutions, backend systems, databases, testing tools, and UI components, each with brief descriptions and GitHub links for developers seeking robust, enterprise‑grade resources.

AlibabaBackendDevTools
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A Curated List of Notable Alibaba Open‑Source Projects
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 17, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Turns Big Data into ‘Data New Energy’ with Automated Tagging and Distributed Knowledge Graphs

Alibaba's senior algorithm expert Yang Hongxia explains how the company fuses massive, heterogeneous data sources into a unified platform, builds automated tag‑production pipelines and large‑scale distributed knowledge graphs, and applies these technologies to drive smarter business decisions and AI‑enabled services.

Alibabaautomated taggingbig data
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How Alibaba Turns Big Data into ‘Data New Energy’ with Automated Tagging and Distributed Knowledge Graphs
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jun 14, 2017 · Operations

Scaling Alibaba's Operations: Inside StarAgent, Qingteng & Normandy

This article details Alibaba's evolution of its operations platform, describing the design, features, and performance of StarAgent, the Qingteng P2P file distribution system, and the Normandy application‑deployment platform, highlighting how these tools enable high‑availability, automation, and massive scalability across global data centers.

AlibabaDevOpsautomation
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Scaling Alibaba's Operations: Inside StarAgent, Qingteng & Normandy
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 8, 2017 · R&D Management

How Youku Streamlined Demand Analysis: A Data‑Driven Process Overhaul

This article details how a Youku team, together with Alibaba's PMO, redesigned their demand analysis workflow in 2016‑2017 by introducing data‑driven standards, product planning, decentralized reviews, and unified tooling, resulting in clearer timelines, higher efficiency, and measurable quality improvements.

AgileAlibabaDemand Management
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How Youku Streamlined Demand Analysis: A Data‑Driven Process Overhaul
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jun 8, 2017 · R&D Management

Optimizing Demand Analysis Process for Youku Mobile App: An Agile Coaching Case Study

Through agile coaching, this case study details how the demand analysis workflow for Youku’s mobile app was redesigned, standardized in Alibaba’s RDC platform, and evaluated, resulting in clearer product planning, decentralized reviews, data‑driven management, and measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and cross‑team collaboration.

AgileAlibabaDemand Management
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Optimizing Demand Analysis Process for Youku Mobile App: An Agile Coaching Case Study
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 1, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Engineers Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Load Testing for Massive Sales Events

This article explains Alibaba's four‑step capacity‑planning methodology, the various single‑machine load‑testing techniques, the design of a full‑link load‑testing platform for Double‑11, and the dynamic flow‑control framework that together ensure system stability during extreme traffic spikes.

AlibabaLoad Testingcapacity-planning
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How Alibaba Engineers Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Load Testing for Massive Sales Events
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 25, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Blink Engine Redefines Real‑Time Big Data Processing

This article explains how Alibaba’s Blink, built on Apache Flink, transforms batch‑oriented big‑data platforms into a unified, high‑performance real‑time computing engine, detailing its architecture, state management, checkpointing, and successful deployment in e‑commerce, search, recommendation, and online machine‑learning scenarios.

AlibabaFlinkReal-Time Computing
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How Alibaba’s Blink Engine Redefines Real‑Time Big Data Processing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 20, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI‑Driven Information Retrieval Is Shaping E‑Commerce Futures

The second “Frontiers and Future of Information Retrieval” forum, co‑hosted by the Chinese Computer Society, Alibaba and academic committees, showcased how massive, structured e‑commerce data and AI algorithms are revolutionizing search, customer service, and research collaborations across the industry.

AlibabaInformation Retrievalbig data
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How Alibaba’s AI‑Driven Information Retrieval Is Shaping E‑Commerce Futures
21CTO
21CTO
May 19, 2017 · Backend Development

How Alibaba’s “Five‑Color Stone” Project Reshaped E‑Commerce Architecture

This article examines Alibaba’s multi‑phase “Five‑Color Stone” initiative, detailing how the integration of Taobao and Tmall product, transaction, and store systems created a shared‑service, service‑oriented architecture that underpins the company’s modern, scalable e‑commerce platform.

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How Alibaba’s “Five‑Color Stone” Project Reshaped E‑Commerce Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 17, 2017 · Databases

How Alibaba Tackles the Massive Challenges of Time‑Series Data Storage

This article details Alibaba's middleware team's exploration of time‑series data characteristics, real‑world monitoring scenarios, the limitations of traditional databases, and the evolution of their custom HiTSDB solution that combines inverted indexing, high‑compression algorithms, and distributed aggregation to meet massive write and query demands.

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How Alibaba Tackles the Massive Challenges of Time‑Series Data Storage
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 15, 2017 · Fundamentals

China Unveils World's First Light-Based Quantum Computer Surpassing Classical Machines

On May 3, China announced the creation of the world’s first optical quantum computer that outperforms early classical machines, highlighting breakthroughs by the University of Science and Technology of China, Alibaba‑CAS quantum lab, Zhejiang University and others, and outlining rapid advances in photonic and superconducting qubit technologies.

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China Unveils World's First Light-Based Quantum Computer Surpassing Classical Machines
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 12, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Engineers Fault Governance and Chaos Engineering for E‑commerce

This article recounts Alibaba's middleware team's QCon Beijing 2017 presentation on fault governance and fault‑drill practices, covering distributed‑system dependency failures, strong/weak dependency concepts, multi‑stage technical evolution, and the design of their chaos‑engineering platform for large‑scale e‑commerce.

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How Alibaba Engineers Fault Governance and Chaos Engineering for E‑commerce
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 4, 2017 · Operations

From Taobao to the Cloud: Proven High‑Availability Strategies for Massive Traffic

In this talk, Alibaba expert Mu Jian shares how the massive Taobao e‑commerce platform achieved high availability through layered networking, cache design, OS‑level tuning, rate limiting, disaster‑recovery planning, and cloud‑native architectures, offering practical guidance for building resilient systems at scale.

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From Taobao to the Cloud: Proven High‑Availability Strategies for Massive Traffic
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 28, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Design Platform “Luban” Revolutionizes Mass Creative Production

Alibaba unveiled its AI‑driven design platform Luban, which leverages massive data and machine‑learning algorithms to automatically generate high‑quality, personalized graphics at double‑digit scale, reshaping design workflows, boosting efficiency, and prompting a strategic shift for designers in the new commercial era.

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How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Design Platform “Luban” Revolutionizes Mass Creative Production
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 24, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Is Pushing the Limits of Optical Communication in the Cloud

Alibaba senior technology director Xie Chongjin explains the company's ambitious roadmap for optical communication networks, tracing their historical roots, current technical challenges such as the Shannon limit, and future standards that aim to accelerate data‑center bandwidth while keeping costs under control.

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How Alibaba Is Pushing the Limits of Optical Communication in the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 21, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Tackles Real-Time Stream and Graph Computing at Scale

In his ASPLOS keynote, Alibaba’s Vice President Zhou Jingren detailed the company’s large‑scale stream and graph computing platforms, highlighting fault‑tolerance innovations, real‑time data challenges, and upcoming advances in graph analytics and massive machine‑learning workloads.

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How Alibaba Tackles Real-Time Stream and Graph Computing at Scale
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 29, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Built the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ Full‑Link Stress Test for Double 11

This article chronicles Alibaba's evolution of the full‑link pressure testing platform—from its 2013 inception tackling massive Double 11 traffic, through data construction, isolation, traffic generation, and platform upgrades—to a mature, automated, cloud‑native solution that safeguards large‑scale e‑commerce stability.

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How Alibaba Built the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ Full‑Link Stress Test for Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 24, 2017 · Databases

Alibaba’s Secrets to Scaling HBase for PB‑Level Big Data

This article explains how Alibaba built, customized, and operated a massive HBase platform—covering its architecture, high‑availability design, asynchronous and synchronous replication, multi‑link data flow, cost‑aware redundancy, cross‑cluster migration, performance optimizations, and future directions for the distributed NoSQL database.

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Alibaba’s Secrets to Scaling HBase for PB‑Level Big Data
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 21, 2017 · Information Security

Smart Intelligent Defense and Big Data Capabilities in Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance Anti‑Attack Product

The article describes Alibaba's smart defense model that uses real‑time traffic analysis and big‑data insights to automatically adjust DDoS mitigation strategies, outlines the system's capabilities such as attacker identification and traffic quantification, and discusses future challenges in handling increasingly complex and large‑scale attacks.

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Smart Intelligent Defense and Big Data Capabilities in Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance Anti‑Attack Product
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 17, 2017 · Information Security

Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance DDoS Defense Product AliGuard: Development History, Architecture, and Capabilities

This article reviews the 2016 Dyn DDoS incident, explains why DDoS attacks remain a critical security challenge, and details Alibaba's internally built high‑performance DDoS mitigation solution AliGuard, covering its development timeline, multi‑user architecture, scalability from 40 Gbps to over 400 Gbps, and deployment models.

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Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance DDoS Defense Product AliGuard: Development History, Architecture, and Capabilities
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 16, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Harnesses Deep Reinforcement Learning for E‑Commerce Innovation

This interview with Alibaba researcher Xu Yinghui reveals how the company built large‑scale deep reinforcement learning systems for search, recommendation, logistics and online advertising, detailing team structures, technical breakthroughs, training challenges, and future directions such as multi‑agent learning and GAN integration.

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How Alibaba Harnesses Deep Reinforcement Learning for E‑Commerce Innovation
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AntTech
Feb 28, 2017 · Databases

The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks

OceanBase, a homegrown distributed database developed by a small Ant Group team, overcame technical and cultural challenges to power Alibaba’s record‑breaking Double‑11 payment peaks, earning international recognition and illustrating China’s push to break the Western monopoly on core database technology.

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The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 12, 2017 · Databases

Inside Alibaba’s Database Hacks That Quadrupled Double‑11 Query Speed

The article details how Alibaba’s database team engineered multiple breakthroughs—PK_Access query optimization, a high‑performance Memcached plugin, batch‑processed inventory hotspot handling, full‑scale SQL collection, and an upgraded Data Replication Center—to dramatically boost Double‑11 transaction throughput, cut latency, and enhance overall system resilience.

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Inside Alibaba’s Database Hacks That Quadrupled Double‑11 Query Speed
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 4, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Powered Double 11 with Real‑Time Big Data Processing

Alibaba’s Double 11 live‑data dashboards required ultra‑high‑precision, low‑latency real‑time processing of billions of events, and the article explains the end‑to‑end architecture—including DRC, TimeTunnel, Galaxy, OTS, XTool, and OneService—used to achieve million‑plus QPS, fault‑tolerance, and flexible data collection.

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How Alibaba Powered Double 11 with Real‑Time Big Data Processing
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 3, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Real-Time Content Risk Monitoring for Alibaba Live Streaming during Double 11

Alibaba's security team leveraged deep‑learning‑based porn detection and sensitive‑face recognition together with a highly optimized multimedia processing cluster to automatically filter and control risky live‑stream content for thousands of concurrent streams during the Double 11 shopping festival, dramatically reducing manual review effort while maintaining high accuracy.

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AI-Powered Real-Time Content Risk Monitoring for Alibaba Live Streaming during Double 11
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 30, 2016 · Operations

Zero‑Point Battle: Evolution of Alibaba's Double 11 High‑Availability Architecture

The talk details how Alibaba tackled the massive technical challenges of Double 11 over eight years by evolving a highly available, scalable architecture through capacity planning, distributed middleware, hybrid‑cloud deployment, online stress testing, and fine‑grained traffic control to balance cost, performance, and user experience.

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Zero‑Point Battle: Evolution of Alibaba's Double 11 High‑Availability Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 26, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba’s SunFire Powers Real‑Time Monitoring for Billion‑Scale Transactions

Alibaba’s SunFire platform delivers massive‑scale, real‑time log collection, processing, and visualization for e‑commerce spikes like Double 11, using low‑overhead agents, asynchronous Map/Reduce pipelines, fault‑tolerant task scheduling, and shared inputs to ensure accurate, low‑latency monitoring across billions of transactions.

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How Alibaba’s SunFire Powers Real‑Time Monitoring for Billion‑Scale Transactions