Architecture Digest

Aug 7, 2016 · Operations

Designing a Three‑Dimensional High‑Availability Architecture for Alibaba's Game Integration System

The article describes how Alibaba's game integration platform achieved business‑oriented high availability by abandoning traditional system‑centric designs and implementing a three‑dimensional architecture that combines clear HA goals, multi‑active deployment, client‑side retries, functional isolation, automated monitoring, and rapid fault recovery, ultimately meeting a 3‑minute issue‑location and 5‑minute business‑recovery target.