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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 25, 2016 · Backend Development

How Xianyu Scaled from Zero to Millions: Architecture Secrets of Alibaba’s Community Marketplace

In this talk, Alibaba senior wireless expert Sun Bing details Xianyu's journey from a small startup to a massive P2P community, revealing the evolving technical architecture, key design principles, dynamic front‑end/back‑end integration, service‑bus implementation, and data‑driven strategies that powered its rapid growth.

AlibabaMobile AppXianyu
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How Xianyu Scaled from Zero to Millions: Architecture Secrets of Alibaba’s Community Marketplace
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 17, 2016 · Operations

Evolution of Alibaba's Application Operations System

The talk traces Alibaba's application operations journey from the early script‑driven era through tool‑centric development, DevOps adoption, automation, and emerging intelligent operations, highlighting organizational challenges, quality issues, standardization efforts, and future directions such as Docker and SRE practices.

AlibabaDevOpsIntelligentOps
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Evolution of Alibaba's Application Operations System
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 13, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Evolved Its Application Operations: From Scripts to DevOps

Alibaba’s application operations journey, detailed by researcher Lin Hao, traces the shift from early script‑based practices through tool‑centric phases to a full DevOps transformation, highlighting challenges, automation efforts, and the emerging push toward intelligent, data‑driven operations.

AlibabaDevOpsInfrastructure
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How Alibaba Evolved Its Application Operations: From Scripts to DevOps
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 11, 2016 · Mobile Development

How Weex Powered Alibaba’s Double 11: Architecture, Performance & Scaling

During Alibaba’s 2016 Double 11 shopping festival, the Weex framework was deployed at massive scale, covering over 99% of pages, delivering high‑performance native‑like experiences, supporting complex interactions, ensuring stability through memory management, pre‑loading and extensive testing, while outlining architecture, tooling, and optimization strategies.

AlibabaMobile DevelopmentPerformance
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How Weex Powered Alibaba’s Double 11: Architecture, Performance & Scaling
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 8, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI Powers Data‑Driven Merchant Success

In this Alibaba Tech Forum talk, senior expert Wei Hu explains how machine learning and big‑data technologies are used to empower merchants with personalized storefronts, intelligent posters, and AI‑driven headlines, boosting their efficiency and sales performance.

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How AI Powers Data‑Driven Merchant Success
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 8, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Double 11 Media Dashboard Leverages Cutting‑Edge Data Technology

Alibaba senior technologist Luo Jinpeng explains how the company’s Double 11 media big‑screen platform evolved from chaotic early implementations to a robust, real‑time data system, detailing architectural redesigns, model refactoring, resource scheduling, and link reliability strategies that underpin its massive e‑commerce event.

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How Alibaba’s Double 11 Media Dashboard Leverages Cutting‑Edge Data Technology
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba Handled Real‑Time Billions of Events During Double 11

This article outlines Alibaba Cloud's big‑data platform challenges and solutions during the 2016 Double 11 event, covering sub‑second real‑time processing, multi‑million‑records‑per‑second throughput, full‑day high availability, and massive offline workloads exceeding hundreds of petabytes.

AlibabaMaxComputedistributed systems
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How Alibaba Handled Real‑Time Billions of Events During Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Automates Its Network for Double 11 Traffic Surges

This article outlines Alibaba researcher Zhang Ming’s presentation on the network automation system that enables Alibaba’s infrastructure to handle the massive traffic and rapid fault recovery required during the Double 11 shopping festival, highlighting the challenges, detection methods, and automated tools used across routers, switches, and L4‑L7 devices.

Alibabafault detectionlarge-scale systems
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How Alibaba Automates Its Network for Double 11 Traffic Surges
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Online AI Transforms Search and Recommendation Systems

At Alibaba's 2016 Double 11 Tech Forum, researcher Xu Yinghui presented how online AI technologies enhance search and recommendation on the e‑commerce platform, turning massive user behavior data into actionable insights that improve traffic allocation and maximize welfare for consumers, sellers, and the platform.

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How Online AI Transforms Search and Recommendation Systems
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 16, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Double 11 Turned Big Data into a Retail Game‑Changer

The MIT Technology Review article highlights how Alibaba leveraged massive, high‑quality big data, AI, and cloud computing during its Double 11 shopping festival to set new e‑commerce benchmarks, improve personalization, ensure data security, and showcase its ambition to build global digital infrastructure.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceE‑commerce
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How Alibaba’s Double 11 Turned Big Data into a Retail Game‑Changer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 14, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Boosted Double 11 Sales with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Alibaba’s Double 11 event shattered sales records by leveraging deep reinforcement learning and adaptive online learning in its search and recommendation systems, which increased click‑through rates by 10‑20% and dramatically improved the real‑time shopping experience for hundreds of millions of users.

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How Alibaba Boosted Double 11 Sales with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 3, 2016 · R&D Management

China’s R&D Surge Leads Global Innovation Rankings in 2016

The 2016 Global Innovation 1000 report by PwC’s Strategy& reveals that Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, dramatically increased R&D spending, boosting their share of global innovation and shifting from cost competition to technology‑driven growth.

AlibabaChinaCorporate Spending
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China’s R&D Surge Leads Global Innovation Rankings in 2016
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 22, 2016 · Cloud Computing

How Cloud Computing Is Turning Cities into Data‑Driven Smart Hubs

In his Yunxi Conference keynote, Alibaba’s Wang Jian explores how cloud computing, data liberation, and AI breakthroughs like AlphaGo are reshaping innovation, bridging distant technologies, and enabling smart city solutions such as data‑driven traffic control across China.

AlibabaCloud Computingdata innovation
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How Cloud Computing Is Turning Cities into Data‑Driven Smart Hubs
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Oct 9, 2016 · Backend Development

Overview of Alibaba's Open‑Source Frameworks, Components, Engines, Databases, Platforms, Solutions, Tools, Middleware and Web Servers

This article provides a comprehensive catalog of Alibaba's open‑source frameworks, components, engines, databases, platforms, solutions, tools, middleware, and web servers, describing each project's purpose, features, and typical use cases for developers across front‑end and back‑end domains.

AlibabaFrameworksJava
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Overview of Alibaba's Open‑Source Frameworks, Components, Engines, Databases, Platforms, Solutions, Tools, Middleware and Web Servers
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 30, 2016 · Mobile Development

Weex Project Overview and Technical Insights from the WOT2016 Mobile Internet Technology Summit

The article summarizes Wu Zhihua's presentation at the WOT2016 summit, detailing the Weex cross‑platform framework, its ecosystem, performance optimizations, competitive advantages, challenges faced during Alibaba's Double‑11 promotion, and the project's future development goals for the next one to two years.

AlibabaMobile DevelopmentPerformance Optimization
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Weex Project Overview and Technical Insights from the WOT2016 Mobile Internet Technology Summit
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 29, 2016 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑commerce Business Platform Over 13 Years

This article recounts Alibaba's 13‑year journey from a simple e‑commerce site to a sophisticated business middle‑platform, detailing the architectural evolution, technical challenges, and strategic solutions that enabled massive scale, agility, and global expansion.

Alibababusiness middle platforme-commerce
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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑commerce Business Platform Over 13 Years
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 8, 2016 · Big Data

Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng Explains Alibaba’s Big Data Strategy and Technology Stack

In a Seattle tech forum, Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng highlighted the company’s reliance on high‑quality data, large‑scale computing platforms, and efficient algorithms, describing why Alibaba positions itself as a big‑data company and outlining its current and future technology initiatives across cloud, AI, and IoT.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceData Platforms
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Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng Explains Alibaba’s Big Data Strategy and Technology Stack
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jun 24, 2016 · Backend Development

Overview of Alibaba's Open Source Projects

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's numerous open‑source projects, ranging from high‑performance service frameworks and databases to messaging middleware, frontend tools, testing platforms, and infrastructure utilities, highlighting their key features and typical use cases.

AlibabaBackendbig data
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Overview of Alibaba's Open Source Projects
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
May 7, 2016 · Fundamentals

Overview of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects and Tools

This article provides a comprehensive overview of numerous Alibaba open‑source projects, ranging from service frameworks like Dubbo and database tools such as Druid and OceanBase to front‑end libraries, distributed systems, testing platforms, and cloud utilities, each briefly described with links for further reference.

AlibabaJavabig data
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Overview of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects and Tools
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
May 4, 2016 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Zeus Resource Scheduling System: Architecture, Virtualization, and Operational Practices

The article examines Alibaba's Zeus resource scheduling platform, detailing its background, problem analysis, container‑based virtualization, distributed architecture, strategies for improving resource utilization such as overselling and hybrid deployment, as well as stability measures and automation for large‑scale operations.

AlibabaCloud Computingcontainer virtualization
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Alibaba Zeus Resource Scheduling System: Architecture, Virtualization, and Operational Practices
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 28, 2016 · Frontend Development

Weex – Alibaba’s High‑Performance Mobile Front‑End Framework: Architecture, Performance, and Usage

The article introduces Alibaba’s Weex framework, announced at QCon 2016, detailing its motivation, cross‑platform architecture, performance benchmarks, testing strategies, and three deployment modes—full‑page, native component, and H5 component—aimed at balancing performance and dynamic capabilities in mobile development.

AlibabaMobile FrontendPerformance
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Weex – Alibaba’s High‑Performance Mobile Front‑End Framework: Architecture, Performance, and Usage
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 21, 2016 · Mobile Development

Alibaba Mobile Technology: Architecture, Scaling, and Future Trends

The 2016 ATF Alibaba Technology Forum presented a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's mobile e‑commerce platform, detailing massive scale challenges, user‑experience driven innovations, container‑based client architecture, the Weex framework, and future directions such as live video, VR/AR, and high‑performance mobile networking.

AlibabaWeexarchitecture
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Alibaba Mobile Technology: Architecture, Scaling, and Future Trends
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 18, 2016 · Backend Development

Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform

The talk details how Alibaba transformed its monolithic e‑commerce systems into a large‑scale distributed architecture using shared services, middleware, caching, database sharding, capacity planning, and cloud elasticity to support the massive traffic of the annual Double 11 shopping festival.

AlibabaCloud Computingcapacity-planning
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Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform
Architect
Architect
Apr 13, 2016 · Backend Development

Understanding Diamond: Alibaba’s Distributed Persistent Configuration System

The article explains Diamond, Alibaba’s internal distributed configuration management system, covering its purpose, core features, persistence and disaster‑recovery mechanisms, architectural diagram, and detailed client‑side implementation including subscription workflow and key code components.

AlibabaJavadistributed systems
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Understanding Diamond: Alibaba’s Distributed Persistent Configuration System
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Feb 25, 2016 · Databases

How Alibaba Migrated from Oracle to MySQL: Lessons from the IOE Transition

This article recounts Alibaba’s journey from Oracle‑based IOE architecture to a home‑grown MySQL/DRDS solution, detailing the motivations, challenges, technical choices, performance pitfalls, and operational practices that shaped the migration and the lessons learned for large‑scale database engineering.

AlibabaDRDSMySQL
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How Alibaba Migrated from Oracle to MySQL: Lessons from the IOE Transition
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 25, 2016 · R&D Management

Alibaba's Continuous Delivery Model and Practices for High‑Quality Software Delivery

The article explains Alibaba's continuous delivery theory, tools, and best‑practice pipeline—including integration, testing, deployment, and release—illustrated with diagrams and a detailed description of how the platform improves software quality, collaboration, and operational resilience in large‑scale cloud environments.

AlibabaCloud ComputingContinuous Delivery
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Alibaba's Continuous Delivery Model and Practices for High‑Quality Software Delivery
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 25, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Pora Powers Real‑Time Personalization at Massive Scale

Pora (Personal Offline Realtime Analyze) is a high‑throughput, low‑latency platform that captures user behavior in real time, enabling Alibaba’s search engine to deliver personalized results, support online learning, and run 24/7 with massive data volumes.

AlibabaPoraReal-time Analytics
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How Alibaba’s Pora Powers Real‑Time Personalization at Massive Scale
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 25, 2016 · Product Management

Why Uber Outshines Alibaba: Rethinking Platform vs. Company Strategy

The article argues that Uber’s consumer‑centric, supply‑demand integration and its new Operator shopping service illustrate why a true company focused on creating value for customers outperforms platform‑only giants like Alibaba, which risk becoming mere market managers.

AlibabaBusiness ModelOperator app
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Why Uber Outshines Alibaba: Rethinking Platform vs. Company Strategy
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 22, 2016 · Mobile Development

Scaling Billion-User Mobile Apps: Alibaba Taobao Architecture Insights

In this talk, Alibaba wireless expert Xu Zhao outlines the evolution of the massive Mobile Taobao app—from early webview tools to a component‑based, containerized architecture—detailing challenges such as PC‑mobile migration, device fragmentation, heavy client complexity, and the strategies employed to achieve scalable, flexible, and high‑performance mobile services.

AlibabaAndroid developmentComponentization
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Scaling Billion-User Mobile Apps: Alibaba Taobao Architecture Insights
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 16, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Dual-Path Real-Time Computing Powers Search During Double 11

This article explains Alibaba’s dual‑link real‑time computing framework, detailing its micro‑ and macro‑level pipelines, key components such as Pora, iGraph and SP, online learning architectures, pointwise and pairwise ranking models, bandit‑based strategy optimization, PID‑controlled traffic balancing, and the impressive performance gains achieved during the Double 11 shopping festival.

AlibabaPID controlReal-Time Computing
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How Alibaba’s Dual-Path Real-Time Computing Powers Search During Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 15, 2016 · Information Security

Alibaba’s Full‑Site HTTPS Deployment for E‑Commerce: Challenges, Architecture, and Performance Optimizations

The article examines Alibaba’s large‑scale rollout of full‑site HTTPS across its e‑commerce platforms, detailing the technical hurdles of performance, compatibility, and operational planning, and describing the architectural solutions and optimizations that enabled secure, high‑performance user experiences.

AlibabaFull‑Site EncryptionHTTPS
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Alibaba’s Full‑Site HTTPS Deployment for E‑Commerce: Challenges, Architecture, and Performance Optimizations
Architect
Architect
Dec 21, 2015 · Databases

Alibaba's Massive Data Architecture: Sharding, Multi‑Data‑Center Synchronization, and Caching Strategies

The article describes how Alibaba scaled its massive data platform by horizontally sharding Oracle tables to MySQL, employing multi‑data‑center synchronization tools such as Erosa, Eromanga, and Otter, and designing multi‑level caching and proxy solutions like Cobar to ensure high availability and performance.

AlibabaCachingdata synchronization
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Alibaba's Massive Data Architecture: Sharding, Multi‑Data‑Center Synchronization, and Caching Strategies
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 18, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's Evolution to Geo‑Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons

The article details Alibaba's three‑stage evolution from same‑city active‑active to two‑site three‑center disaster recovery and finally to geo‑distributed multi‑active architecture, explaining its motivations, technical challenges such as latency and data consistency, the solutions implemented, and the resulting scalability and fault‑tolerance benefits.

AlibabaMulti-Activecloud architecture
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Alibaba's Evolution to Geo‑Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Dec 4, 2015 · Databases

Scaling Massive Data at Alibaba: From Oracle to MySQL Sharding and Distributed Solutions

The article details how Alibaba tackled explosive data growth by migrating from a single Oracle instance to a multi‑source architecture using horizontal and vertical sharding, MySQL clusters, KV stores, and proprietary tools such as Erosa, Otter, and Cobar to achieve high availability, consistency, and performance across multiple IDC sites.

AlibabaData ScalingMySQL
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Scaling Massive Data at Alibaba: From Oracle to MySQL Sharding and Distributed Solutions
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Nov 9, 2015 · Mobile Development

Technical Evolution and Architecture of Mobile Taobao (Alibaba's Super App)

The article chronicles the evolution of Alibaba’s Mobile Taobao super‑app, detailing its growth from a simple WebView tool to a complex, component‑based mobile platform, and discusses the architectural, deployment, fragmentation, and quality challenges faced in building a large‑scale mobile ecosystem.

AlibabaCrossPlatformMobileApp
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Technical Evolution and Architecture of Mobile Taobao (Alibaba's Super App)
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 25, 2015 · R&D Management

The Legend of Alibaba’s Solo Engineer: How ‘Duo Long’ Built Core Systems Alone

A former Alibaba insider recounts how the enigmatic engineer known as ‘Duo Long’—a non‑technical graduate turned P11 senior leader—single‑handedly designed and maintained critical systems like TFS, Tair, cache, and search, embodying relentless focus, self‑learning, and a true craftsman spirit.

AlibabaCareerR&D
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The Legend of Alibaba’s Solo Engineer: How ‘Duo Long’ Built Core Systems Alone
Architect
Architect
Aug 6, 2015 · Backend Development

Design and Optimization of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ Distributed Message Middleware

The article explains how Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ middleware achieve high‑performance, reliable distributed messaging and final consistency for massive e‑commerce transactions, detailing their architecture, design principles, scalability, fault‑tolerance, and the specific optimizations applied for the Double‑11 shopping festival.

AlibabaMetaQfinal-consistency
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Design and Optimization of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ Distributed Message Middleware
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jun 19, 2015 · Operations

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.

AlibabaSDNdata center
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Alibaba’s Perspective on Software‑Defined Networking (SDN) and Its Deployment in Data Centers
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
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.

AlibabaProfilinghiphop
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Interview with Zhao Haiping on Asynchronous Processing and Performance Optimization in Distributed Systems
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
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.

AlibabaMulti-Active
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Alibaba’s Multi‑Active Data Center Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
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.

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