Alibaba’s Perspective on Software‑Defined Networking (SDN) and Its Deployment in Data Centers

In an interview at the DCD Shanghai conference, Alibaba’s network planning expert Cao Jie explains how the company views Software‑Defined Networking, its benefits for operational efficiency and flexibility, and its roadmap for deploying SDN across Alibaba’s data‑center infrastructure to support cloud computing and e‑commerce workloads.

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Alibaba’s Perspective on Software‑Defined Networking (SDN) and Its Deployment in Data Centers

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Apr 23, 2015 · Operations

Interview with Zhao Haiping on Asynchronous Processing and Performance Optimization in Distributed Systems

In this interview, Zhao Haiping discusses his work on HipHop at Facebook, the challenges of scaling Alibaba's infrastructure, the importance of profiling and monitoring, and offers advice to Chinese developers on communication, language skills, and tackling large‑scale system performance problems.

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Interview with Zhao Haiping on Asynchronous Processing and Performance Optimization in Distributed Systems

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Apr 20, 2015 · Operations

Alibaba’s Multi‑Active Data Center Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

In this interview, Alibaba’s Lin Hao (aka Bi Xuan) explains the motivations, deployment details, technical challenges such as latency, routing consistency, and data consistency, and the solutions behind the company’s multi‑active disaster‑recovery data‑center architecture that powers its massive e‑commerce platform.

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Alibaba’s Multi‑Active Data Center Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

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Apr 13, 2015 · Operations

Alibaba's Multi‑Active Data Center Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

This interview with Alibaba's Lin Hao (aka Bi Xuan) explains why the company pursued a multi‑active, geographically distributed data‑center architecture, how it was deployed for the 2014 Double‑11 event, and the technical challenges—including latency, routing consistency, and data synchronization—that had to be solved to achieve high availability and low‑cost disaster recovery.

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