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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 23, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: The Evolution of Capacity Planning and Real‑Time Stress Testing

This article recounts Alibaba's 7‑year journey of capacity planning for the massive Double 11 shopping festival, detailing early guesswork, the introduction of load‑testing, online and scenario‑based testing, traffic isolation, and full automation that enabled precise resource allocation across hundreds of services.

Load TestingPerformance Optimizationcapacity planning
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How Alibaba Scaled Double 11: The Evolution of Capacity Planning and Real‑Time Stress Testing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 12, 2016 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Built a Decade-Long Microservice Architecture: Challenges and Lessons

This article chronicles Alibaba's ten‑year journey from monolithic Java EE deployments to a cloud‑native microservice ecosystem, detailing the technical challenges, the evolution of its EDAS RPC frameworks, comprehensive monitoring, capacity planning, and the strategies that enabled resilient large‑scale services during massive traffic events.

Service Governancecapacity planningcloud-native
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How Alibaba Built a Decade-Long Microservice Architecture: Challenges and Lessons
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 6, 2016 · Operations

How Ctrip Scales Application Operations: Practices, Automation, and Reliability

This talk details Ctrip's application operations framework, covering data‑center scale, multi‑application deployment on Windows, high availability goals, capacity‑prediction models, disaster‑recovery design, incident response, and the evolution from manual tooling to automated, intelligent operations.

Cloud Computingautomationcapacity planning
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How Ctrip Scales Application Operations: Practices, Automation, and Reliability
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Oct 1, 2016 · Operations

How Meituan Scaled Its Mobile Deal System for Mega‑Promotions: Traffic Modeling & Capacity Planning

This article details Meituan's technical approach to handling massive traffic spikes during large‑scale promotions, covering background of the O2O deal platform, traffic‑model construction, capacity‑budget calculations, micro‑service architecture evolution, pressure‑test strategies, and the PTP performance‑testing environment used to validate system limits.

Load Testingcapacity planningmicroservices
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How Meituan Scaled Its Mobile Deal System for Mega‑Promotions: Traffic Modeling & Capacity Planning
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Aug 28, 2016 · Databases

Scaling Databases: From Baseline Metrics to Multi‑Layer Optimization

This guide walks DBAs through evaluating current database resources, establishing performance baselines, building business pressure models, conducting realistic stress tests, and applying a seven‑layer optimization roadmap—from statement tweaks to hardware upgrades and business‑level adjustments—to ensure the system can handle ten‑fold or hundred‑fold growth.

HardwareOptimizationcapacity planning
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Scaling Databases: From Baseline Metrics to Multi‑Layer Optimization
Tencent Music Tech Team
Tencent Music Tech Team
Jun 17, 2016 · Backend Development

Design Considerations for a High‑Scale Messaging System: Capacity Estimation, Consistency Guarantees, and Avalanche Prevention

Designing Quanmin K‑Song’s high‑scale messaging system requires careful capacity estimation of throughput, storage and network traffic, robust consistency via unique transaction IDs and operation logs, and avalanche prevention through selective retries, scaling and priority‑based throttling to maintain reliability under load.

avalanche preventionbackend designcapacity planning
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Design Considerations for a High‑Scale Messaging System: Capacity Estimation, Consistency Guarantees, and Avalanche Prevention
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jun 12, 2016 · Backend Development

Designing a Scalable E‑Commerce Architecture: From Simple Setup to Distributed Systems

This article walks through the functional and non‑functional requirements of a B2C e‑commerce platform, illustrates a progression from a three‑server starter architecture to a clustered high‑availability design, and details capacity‑planning calculations for supporting millions of users and peak traffic spikes.

Backendarchitecturecapacity planning
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Designing a Scalable E‑Commerce Architecture: From Simple Setup to Distributed Systems
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
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jul 17, 2014 · Operations

Why Our First Flash‑Sale Crashed and the Operations Lessons We Learned

The first launch of Taijie Mall’s flash‑sale site crashed due to uncompressed images, a missing purchase button, and a refresh avalanche, but by isolating services and applying capacity‑planning formulas we identified key bottlenecks, implemented CDN and simplifications, and achieved a much smoother second launch.

capacity planninge-commerceflash sale
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Why Our First Flash‑Sale Crashed and the Operations Lessons We Learned