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JD.com Experience Design Center
JD.com Experience Design Center
Jul 23, 2015 · Game Development

How Monument Valley Merges Minimalist Architecture with Game Design

Monument Valley’s minimalist aesthetic draws on real‑world architecture—from Islamic domes to Ricardo Bofill’s La Muralla Roja—and on M.C. Escher’s impossible spaces, shaping a puzzle‑game experience that emphasizes pure visual journeys, simple mechanics, and an isometric projection that reflects 1970s architectural drawing techniques.

M.C. EscherMonument Valleyarchitecture
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How Monument Valley Merges Minimalist Architecture with Game Design
Architect
Architect
Jul 21, 2015 · Cloud Computing

A Summary and Speculation on Google’s Overall Architecture

This article summarizes publicly available information and personal experience to outline Google’s product portfolio, design principles, workload categories, and the distinction between its giant and medium‑sized data centers, providing a speculative view of the company’s overall architecture.

Data CentersGooglearchitecture
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A Summary and Speculation on Google’s Overall Architecture
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jul 16, 2015 · Industry Insights

How Leading O2O Platforms Engineer Scalable, Low‑Cost Architecture – Insights from Meituan, 58 Daojia & Didi

The article summarizes the Meituan Technology Salon where experts from Meituan, 58 Daojia and Didi shared their O2O architecture strategies, covering supply‑chain system design, order‑dispatch and data analysis, CRM automation, and low‑cost architectural evolution to support rapid business growth and operational efficiency.

O2OSupply Chainarchitecture
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How Leading O2O Platforms Engineer Scalable, Low‑Cost Architecture – Insights from Meituan, 58 Daojia & Didi
Architect
Architect
May 17, 2015 · Backend Development

Weibo’s Third-Generation Technical Architecture Overview

The article presents a comprehensive overview of Sina Weibo’s third-generation backend architecture, detailing its orthogonal three-tier horizontal model, vertical technical layers, key middleware components such as MCQ, Motan, Object Store and SSDCache, and the WatchMan distributed tracing system that together ensure high availability, scalability, and efficient service delivery.

MiddlewareSOAWeibo
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Weibo’s Third-Generation Technical Architecture Overview
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 12, 2015 · Industry Insights

How to Avoid the Hype: Practical Rules for Successful Architecture Refactoring

This article offers goal‑oriented, data‑driven advice and checklists for architecture refactoring, emphasizing realistic technology selection, pressure management, business understanding, handling non‑technical influences, code‑quality practices, and team readiness to ensure effective, sustainable redesigns.

ChecklistRefactoringarchitecture
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How to Avoid the Hype: Practical Rules for Successful Architecture Refactoring
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 10, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Designing Scalable and Highly Available Systems on Azure: Patterns, Anti‑Patterns, and Practical Guidance

This article examines key considerations for building highly scalable and available systems on Azure, outlining four architectural dimensions—scalability, availability, manageability, and feasibility—while discussing patterns, anti‑patterns, measurable resources, queue‑based load balancing, authentication services, and common pitfalls such as configuration errors and SQL injection.

AzureCloud ComputingQueue
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Designing Scalable and Highly Available Systems on Azure: Patterns, Anti‑Patterns, and Practical Guidance
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Mar 16, 2015 · Industry Insights

Inside Facebook’s Massive Architecture: How the Social Giant Scales to Billions

The article details Facebook’s LAMP‑based architecture, describing how HipHop compiles PHP to C++, Thrift‑based services in PHP, C++, and Java run on custom servers, and how MySQL, Memcached, Cassandra, HBase, Hadoop, Hive, Scribe, BigPipe, Varnish, Haystack and other components together enable handling over 60,000 servers, 300 TB of cached data, 1 trillion daily clicks and petabytes of storage.

Big DataFacebookarchitecture
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Inside Facebook’s Massive Architecture: How the Social Giant Scales to Billions
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jan 20, 2015 · Mobile Development

Evolution of Mobile Taobao Architecture: From WAP to PackageApp and Supporting Systems

The article recounts Li Min’s presentation on the evolution of Mobile Taobao’s architecture, detailing four development stages, the introduction of a unified API gateway, the shift from WAP to Bundle, WebApp, and PackageApp solutions, and the comprehensive R&D, testing, operations, and release support systems that enable a hundred‑million‑user e‑commerce app.

API-gatewayWebApparchitecture
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Evolution of Mobile Taobao Architecture: From WAP to PackageApp and Supporting Systems
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Dec 28, 2014 · Operations

Guidelines for Evolving System Architecture and PaaS Operations

This article outlines a comprehensive set of principles and practical components for evolving a large‑scale system architecture, covering rapid deployment, scalability, automation, framework standardization, monitoring, tracing, storage, resource control, and continuous integration to support reliable PaaS operations.

PaaSarchitectureautomation
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Guidelines for Evolving System Architecture and PaaS Operations
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 5, 2014 · Databases

From DBA to Architecture Lead: MySQL Scaling Secrets from BabyTree’s Ops Director

In this interview, Liu Qiuqi shares his journey from a DBA at Sogou to Architecture Operations Director at BabyTree, revealing how MySQL powers massive e‑commerce and community sites, the high‑availability designs, storage strategies, and performance tuning techniques that keep services running smoothly.

DBADatabase ScalingE‑commerce
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From DBA to Architecture Lead: MySQL Scaling Secrets from BabyTree’s Ops Director
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
Mar 10, 2014 · Cloud Computing

Building a Scalable App Engine Platform: Architecture, Open‑Source Tools & Best Practices

This article provides a comprehensive overview of App Engine as a PaaS solution, analyzes leading platforms such as CloudFoundry and SAE, outlines architectural requirements, and presents practical implementation guidance using open‑source tools like Nginx, Scribe, and Storm for elastic, scalable cloud services.

App EngineCloud ComputingElastic Scaling
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Building a Scalable App Engine Platform: Architecture, Open‑Source Tools & Best Practices