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May 12, 2021 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools, and Architecture

This guide outlines a four‑layer backend stack—languages, components, processes, and systems—and provides detailed recommendations for project management, DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, service discovery, databases, NoSQL, messaging, code management, CI, logging, monitoring, configuration, deployment, jump servers, and machine management, helping startups design a robust, cloud‑native backend architecture.

DevOpsTechnology Stackarchitecture
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How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools, and Architecture
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 5, 2021 · Backend Development

Designing a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools, and Best Practices

This guide walks through the four‑layer backend architecture—language, components, processes, and systems—and offers practical recommendations for selecting project management, DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, databases, messaging, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, configuration, and deployment tools tailored to early‑stage companies.

BackendTechnology Stackarchitecture
0 likes · 32 min read
Designing a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools, and Best Practices
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
May 1, 2021 · Backend Development

Backend Technology Stack Selection for Startup Companies

This article outlines a comprehensive backend technology stack for startup companies, detailing language choices, essential components, processes, system tools, and best‑practice recommendations across areas such as project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, messaging, CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment.

BackendDevOpsTechnology Stack
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Backend Technology Stack Selection for Startup Companies
macrozheng
macrozheng
Apr 24, 2021 · Backend Development

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK: Free LTS Java for Azure and Beyond

Microsoft recently released the preview of its Build of OpenJDK, a free, long‑term support Java distribution that includes Java 11 binaries for x64, macOS, Linux, and Windows, with early‑access builds for Java 16 on ARM, and plans to make it Azure’s default Java 11 runtime by year‑end.

AzureJavaJava11
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Microsoft Build of OpenJDK: Free LTS Java for Azure and Beyond
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Mar 1, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Why Moving to the Cloud Is Not Just a Simple Lift‑and‑Shift: Lessons on Elasticity, Stateless Design, and Architecture

The article explains that migrating legacy monolithic systems to the cloud is far from a simple lift‑and‑shift, highlighting the pitfalls of inflexible on‑premise infrastructure, the importance of horizontal scaling, stateless application design, micro‑service decomposition, and asynchronous communication to fully leverage cloud elasticity and cost efficiency.

AsynchronousMicroservicesarchitecture
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Why Moving to the Cloud Is Not Just a Simple Lift‑and‑Shift: Lessons on Elasticity, Stateless Design, and Architecture
21CTO
21CTO
Feb 23, 2021 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Components, and Best Practices

This comprehensive guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack—languages, components, processes, and systems—offering practical recommendations on project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, monitoring, and deployment to help startups design a robust, cloud‑native backend architecture.

DevOpsTechnology Stackarchitecture
0 likes · 30 min read
How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Components, and Best Practices
ITPUB
ITPUB
Feb 23, 2021 · Backend Development

Building a Complete Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Services, and Tools

This guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack for startups, covering language choices, core components like DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, databases, messaging, logging, monitoring, configuration, deployment, and operational best‑practice processes.

DevOpsMessagingarchitecture
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Building a Complete Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Services, and Tools
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 13, 2021 · Information Security

Weekly Tech News Digest: Privacy, Security, Cloud, and Development Updates

This week’s roundup covers the Shenzhen court ruling that WeChat friend lists are not personal privacy, Microsoft’s removal of legacy Edge, the formation of the Rust Foundation, a novel supply‑chain attack on 35 tech firms, Linux floppy driver updates, Go generics progress, and other notable industry developments.

DevelopmentRustSecurity
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Weekly Tech News Digest: Privacy, Security, Cloud, and Development Updates
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Jan 30, 2021 · Operations

Essential Skills and Tools for Learning DevOps

DevOps combines development and operations practices, requiring knowledge of software development concepts, Linux, networking, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure as code, scripting, and version control, with tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Git.

ContainersDevOpsInfrastructure as Code
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Essential Skills and Tools for Learning DevOps
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 23, 2021 · Information Security

Weekly Tech News Digest: Flash Outage, QQ Browser History Scan, Apple’s WeChat Compatibility Code, Elastic License Shift, AWS Fork, GitHub Alternative, RHEL Free for Small Businesses, Windows 10 Crash Bug, IntelliJ IDEA 20th Anniversary, VS Native WSL2 Support, Brave IPFS Integration, Chromium Package Removal, GDPR Fine, US Intel‑Huawei Supply Cut, Tencent’s Response

This weekly roundup covers a Flash‑related railway incident, QQ’s browser‑history scanning, Apple’s WeChat‑compatible code, Elastic’s move to SSPL, AWS’s Elasticsearch fork, China’s GitHub alternative, RHEL’s free small‑business offer, a Windows 10 crash bug, IntelliJ IDEA’s 20‑year milestone, Visual Studio’s native WSL2 support, Brave’s IPFS support, Linux distributions dropping Chromium, a GDPR fine in Germany, the US revoking Intel‑Huawei supply licences, and Tencent’s defence of its data‑collection practice.

NewsSecuritycloud
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Weekly Tech News Digest: Flash Outage, QQ Browser History Scan, Apple’s WeChat Compatibility Code, Elastic License Shift, AWS Fork, GitHub Alternative, RHEL Free for Small Businesses, Windows 10 Crash Bug, IntelliJ IDEA 20th Anniversary, VS Native WSL2 Support, Brave IPFS Integration, Chromium Package Removal, GDPR Fine, US Intel‑Huawei Supply Cut, Tencent’s Response
360 Smart Cloud
360 Smart Cloud
Jan 22, 2021 · Backend Development

How to Build a Fast, Flexible, and Simple Video Editing Framework

This article explores the design of a fast, flexible, and simple video editing framework, covering its historical background, core concepts, SDK architecture, processing pipeline, performance optimizations, compatibility challenges, and future directions such as AI‑enhanced and cloud‑based editing.

MobileSDKVideo Editing
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How to Build a Fast, Flexible, and Simple Video Editing Framework
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Jan 21, 2021 · Backend Development

Optimizing Online IM Channel Stability in Xianyu

Xianyu improved its online IM channel stability by adding heartbeat‑based connection monitoring, rapid reconnection, ACK‑driven retry queues stored in Alibaba Cloud Table Store, and adaptive delay strategies, which together cut ACC compensation arrival time by 75% (from 60 to 15 minutes) and dramatically reduced user complaints.

IMMessage Retransmissioncloud
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Optimizing Online IM Channel Stability in Xianyu
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Dec 30, 2020 · Operations

Lessons Learned from Two Years of Running Kubernetes in Production

This article recounts a two‑year journey of migrating from Ansible‑managed EC2 deployments to Kubernetes, detailing the motivations, migration strategy, operational challenges, tooling choices, resource management, security, cost considerations, and the development of custom controllers and CRDs to run production workloads reliably.

DevOpsInfrastructureKubernetes
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Lessons Learned from Two Years of Running Kubernetes in Production
Laiye Technology Team
Laiye Technology Team
Dec 18, 2020 · Big Data

Comprehensive Overview of Laiye Technology's Business Intelligence Ecosystem

This article provides a detailed, end‑to‑end description of Laiye Technology's BI ecosystem, covering its background, development stages, data acquisition, transmission, transformation, loading, modeling, storage layers, statistical analysis, real‑time metrics, visualization, and future challenges, illustrating how the company builds a scalable, cloud‑native data‑driven platform.

AnalyticsBIBig Data
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Comprehensive Overview of Laiye Technology's Business Intelligence Ecosystem
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 10, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Discover Didi’s 40+ Open‑Source Projects in AI, Big Data & Cloud

DiDi’s open‑source portfolio, now exceeding 40 projects, spans AI runtimes, speech recognition, traffic analytics, middleware, big‑data loaders, monitoring tools, mobile frameworks, and frontend libraries, offering developers ready‑to‑use solutions for edge AI, intelligent transportation, data processing, and system reliability.

Big DataMobile Developmentartificial intelligence
0 likes · 23 min read
Discover Didi’s 40+ Open‑Source Projects in AI, Big Data & Cloud
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Dec 1, 2020 · Operations

A Curated List of Awesome Open‑Source Workflow Engines

This article presents a comprehensive, categorized collection of open‑source workflow engines and BPM tools—including Airflow, Argo, Cadence, Zeebe, and many others—describing their primary features, typical use cases, and recommendations for different orchestration scenarios.

Orchestrationcloudopen-source
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A Curated List of Awesome Open‑Source Workflow Engines
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Nov 26, 2020 · Big Data

Silicon Valley's Data Middle Platform Secrets: EA, Twitter, Airbnb, Uber

This article examines how leading Silicon Valley companies such as EA, Twitter, Airbnb, and Uber design and operate data middle platforms—detailing their architectures, data collection pipelines, standardization efforts, real‑time and batch processing, and the business impact of shared data capabilities.

Big DataData ArchitectureData Platform
0 likes · 25 min read
Silicon Valley's Data Middle Platform Secrets: EA, Twitter, Airbnb, Uber
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Nov 17, 2020 · Databases

How JD Cloud’s JCHDB Powered the 11.11 Shopping Festival’s Massive Data Surge

This article explains how JD Cloud’s JCHDB database handled PB‑level data growth during the 11.11 shopping festival, detailing the high‑availability architecture, performance optimizations, scaling techniques, and the eight‑step preparation process that enabled millions of queries per second and terabit‑level traffic.

cloude‑commercehigh-availability
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How JD Cloud’s JCHDB Powered the 11.11 Shopping Festival’s Massive Data Surge
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Nov 13, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Serverless SSR Boosted Mobile H5 Performance for Alibaba's Feizhu Event

Facing slow page loads on weak mobile networks, Alibaba’s Feizhu marketing team adopted a Serverless Faas SSR solution combined with async rendering, reducing first‑screen time to under one second, improving offline capabilities, and addressing challenges like image flicker, titlebar support, and scaling performance.

Mobile H5SSRServerless
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How Serverless SSR Boosted Mobile H5 Performance for Alibaba's Feizhu Event
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 5, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Tencent Lianlian IoT Mini‑Program: Device Classification, Lifecycle, and Connectivity Solutions

Tencent’s Lianlian IoT mini‑program unifies device classification, a six‑stage secure lifecycle, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth provisioning, low‑code control panels, and open‑source SDKs into an end‑to‑end platform that accelerates rapid product launch and cross‑platform front‑end development for smart‑home and enterprise IoT solutions.

BluetoothIoTTencent Lianlian
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Tencent Lianlian IoT Mini‑Program: Device Classification, Lifecycle, and Connectivity Solutions
Top Architect
Top Architect
Nov 2, 2020 · Backend Development

Evolution of Taobao Backend Architecture: From Single‑Server to Cloud‑Native Scalability

This article uses Taobao's backend as a case study to illustrate how a system evolves from a single‑machine deployment to a multi‑layer, highly available, cloud‑native architecture capable of handling millions of concurrent users, covering concepts such as distribution, load balancing, caching, database sharding, micro‑services, containerization, and cloud platforms.

BackendDistributed SystemsMicroservices
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Evolution of Taobao Backend Architecture: From Single‑Server to Cloud‑Native Scalability
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Oct 8, 2020 · Backend Development

Evolution of Server‑Side Architecture from Single‑Machine to Cloud‑Native for High Concurrency

This article outlines the step‑by‑step evolution of a high‑traffic e‑commerce backend—from a single‑machine setup through caching, load balancing, database sharding, microservices, containerization, and finally cloud deployment—while summarizing the key technologies and design principles at each stage.

BackendMicroservicesScalability
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Evolution of Server‑Side Architecture from Single‑Machine to Cloud‑Native for High Concurrency
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Sep 22, 2020 · Fundamentals

Designing High‑Reliability Storage Systems: Strategies from JD Cloud & Intel

An in‑depth look at how JD Cloud’s high‑reliability storage architecture tackles data reliability challenges—covering replica management, redundancy, detection and repair mechanisms, tiered storage designs, and Intel Optane’s role in boosting performance—offering practical strategies for balancing cost and resilience.

Intel OptaneReliabilitycloud
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Designing High‑Reliability Storage Systems: Strategies from JD Cloud & Intel
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Sep 15, 2020 · Big Data

Key Factors to Consider When Building Your Own Data Warehouse

This article examines essential considerations for selecting and designing a data warehouse—including data volume, scalability, on‑premises versus cloud options, pricing models, and ETL/ELT approaches—to help organizations choose the most suitable solution for their needs.

Big DataData WarehouseScalability
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Key Factors to Consider When Building Your Own Data Warehouse
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Aug 13, 2020 · Databases

How to Benchmark Elasticsearch Clusters with Rally: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article explains why large‑scale Elasticsearch deployments need rigorous performance testing, compares available testing tools, walks through installing and configuring the official Rally benchmark suite, details hardware recommendations, shows how to run tests against multiple cloud providers, and teaches you how to interpret the resulting metrics to make informed cluster‑selection decisions.

BenchmarkingElasticsearchPerformance Testing
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How to Benchmark Elasticsearch Clusters with Rally: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jul 31, 2020 · Databases

Why Docker Struggles with Databases: 7 Critical Drawbacks

This article examines seven key reasons why deploying databases in Docker containers is problematic, covering data safety, performance bottlenecks, networking complexities, statefulness, resource isolation, cloud platform constraints, and hardware requirements, while also suggesting cautious strategies for selective containerization.

Data SafetyDockercloud
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Why Docker Struggles with Databases: 7 Critical Drawbacks
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jul 19, 2020 · Big Data

Key Characteristics and Development Trends of Data Centers in the New Infrastructure Era

The 2020 China Data Center Industry Insight Report highlights how independent third‑party data centers, mobile internet, big data, 5G, IoT, and stricter energy‑efficiency standards are reshaping the industry, leading to four major trends including core‑peripheral expansion, large‑scale and edge growth, horizontal integration, and vertical chain extension.

5Gcloudindustry trends
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Key Characteristics and Development Trends of Data Centers in the New Infrastructure Era
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
Jul 12, 2020 · Backend Development

Evolution of High‑Concurrency Backend Architecture: From Single‑Machine to Cloud‑Native Solutions

The article walks through Taobao's backend architecture evolution—from a single‑machine setup to distributed caching, load balancing, database sharding, microservices, containerization, and finally cloud deployment—explaining each stage's technologies, challenges, and design principles for building scalable, highly available systems.

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesScalability
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Evolution of High‑Concurrency Backend Architecture: From Single‑Machine to Cloud‑Native Solutions
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 24, 2020 · Operations

Top 30 Must‑Know Open‑Source Projects Powering Modern Enterprises

This article surveys the most influential open‑source projects across web servers, big data, cloud platforms, storage systems, operating systems, databases, and development tools, highlighting their key features, supported operating systems, and official websites for enterprise adoption.

Enterprisecloudsoftware
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Top 30 Must‑Know Open‑Source Projects Powering Modern Enterprises
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Jun 17, 2020 · Databases

Best Practices for Using Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Command Usage, Client Integration, and Tools

This article outlines comprehensive development guidelines for Alibaba Cloud Redis, covering readable and concise key naming, avoiding big keys, proper command selection, safe client usage with connection pools, eviction policies, and practical code examples for deleting large hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets.

Client IntegrationCommand UsageJava
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Best Practices for Using Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Command Usage, Client Integration, and Tools
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 14, 2020 · Backend Development

How We Scaled a Free Mask Distribution System to 220k+ Concurrent Users on Alibaba Cloud

During the early COVID‑19 response, a city launched a free‑mask reservation service that faced massive timed traffic, prompting a rapid evolution of its architecture—from a single‑server Nginx/Tomcat setup to a multi‑layer SLB, CDN, read‑write split DB, and finally an ideal CDN‑backed design—while documenting the performance bottlenecks, scaling limits, and concrete tuning steps that enabled a 7‑minute sell‑out.

BackendScalabilitycloud
0 likes · 10 min read
How We Scaled a Free Mask Distribution System to 220k+ Concurrent Users on Alibaba Cloud
Big Data Technology Architecture
Big Data Technology Architecture
Jun 7, 2020 · Big Data

Comprehensive Overview of Data Lake Concepts, Architectures, Vendor Solutions, and Use Cases

This article provides an in‑depth, English‑language overview of data lakes, covering their definition, core characteristics, reference architectures, major cloud‑vendor implementations (AWS, Huawei, Alibaba Cloud, Azure), typical industry applications such as advertising and gaming, as well as practical guidance on building and evolving a data lake in a cloud‑native, big‑data environment.

AnalyticsData ArchitectureLakehouse
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Comprehensive Overview of Data Lake Concepts, Architectures, Vendor Solutions, and Use Cases
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 21, 2020 · Operations

What’s Shaping Ops Today? Women, Security Breaches, Cloud Deals & Tool Updates

This roundup covers why ops teams should hire more women, the low female representation in Chinese IT operations, a high‑scoring Python exam, legal cases of source‑code theft and data‑breach, a major cloud procurement in Zhejiang, plus the latest releases of Grafana 7.0 and Redis 6.0.3, and Zoom’s service change in China.

NewsOperationscloud
0 likes · 9 min read
What’s Shaping Ops Today? Women, Security Breaches, Cloud Deals & Tool Updates
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
May 15, 2020 · Frontend Development

Serverless: A New Front‑End Development Paradigm

This article explores how Serverless computing reshapes front‑end development by tracing the evolution of front‑end architectures, introducing Serverless concepts and services, presenting practical frameworks, CLI tools, and code examples, and offering best‑practice guidance on testing, performance optimization, and deployment patterns for modern web and mini‑program applications.

BFFFaaSFront-end
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Serverless: A New Front‑End Development Paradigm
Big Data Technology Architecture
Big Data Technology Architecture
May 6, 2020 · Big Data

Ozone vs HDFS: Why Ozone Cannot Replace Hadoop’s Core Storage

In this article, senior Alibaba engineer Zheng Kai analyzes Ozone’s role in the Hadoop ecosystem, arguing that despite its usefulness, Ozone cannot solve Hadoop’s core challenges of complexity, cost, and performance, and that Hadoop must focus on storage innovation, compute‑storage separation, and cloud integration to stay relevant.

HDFSHadoopOzone
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Ozone vs HDFS: Why Ozone Cannot Replace Hadoop’s Core Storage
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Apr 27, 2020 · Fundamentals

What Is an IoT Platform? A Simple Non‑Technical Overview

This article explains what an IoT platform is, how it fits into a complete IoT system, the functions it provides such as connectivity, protocol handling, security, data collection and analysis, and offers guidance on when businesses should adopt one despite cost trade‑offs.

HardwareIoTIoT Platform
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What Is an IoT Platform? A Simple Non‑Technical Overview
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Feb 20, 2020 · Operations

Design and Implementation of Business‑Driven Monitoring Systems at JD Cloud

This article explains why monitoring is essential for operations, outlines the four‑layer monitoring standard (infrastructure, liveliness, performance, business), breaks down functional modules and data flows, and showcases JD Cloud's practical design, alarm‑convergence project, and future AI‑driven observability directions.

JD CloudObservabilityOperations
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Design and Implementation of Business‑Driven Monitoring Systems at JD Cloud
Node Underground
Node Underground
Dec 31, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How Midway-FAAS Reinvents Serverless: A Scalable, Vendor‑Neutral Architecture

This article explains how Alibaba's Midway‑FAAS framework abstracts multiple cloud function providers into a unified, vendor‑lock‑in‑free, flexible and cost‑effective serverless architecture, detailing its standardised serverless.yml, runtime extensions, TypeScript support, and real‑world deployment experience.

cloudflexibilityvendor-lockin
0 likes · 14 min read
How Midway-FAAS Reinvents Serverless: A Scalable, Vendor‑Neutral Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 24, 2019 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Cloud’s Real‑Time Composer Mirror Solved the PHP Package Crisis

When international network instability made Composer mirrors intermittently inaccessible, Alibaba Cloud’s engineer Gu Yong quickly diagnosed and fixed the issue, then launched a high‑performance, real‑time PHP Composer mirror that offers fast, stable, and self‑healing package delivery for developers across China.

BackendComposerDevOps
0 likes · 10 min read
How Alibaba Cloud’s Real‑Time Composer Mirror Solved the PHP Package Crisis
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 16, 2019 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups

This guide outlines the essential components of a startup’s backend architecture, covering language choices, middleware, databases, messaging, monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud services, and provides practical selection criteria and best‑practice recommendations to help teams design a robust, scalable, and maintainable system.

BackendDevOpsTechnology Stack
0 likes · 33 min read
How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 28, 2019 · Backend Development

Building a Startup Backend: Essential Stack Choices and Best Practices

This comprehensive guide walks through the four‑layer backend stack, component selection for startups—including languages, databases, messaging, monitoring, and deployment tools—and offers practical advice on choosing cloud providers, defining processes, and designing a cloud‑centric architecture for fast‑moving companies.

BackendStackcloud
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Building a Startup Backend: Essential Stack Choices and Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 21, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba’s Cloud‑Powered Wristband Turned 60,000 Attendees into a Live LED Screen

Alibaba’s 20‑year anniversary event showcased a cloud‑enabled IoT wristband equipped with 102 full‑color LEDs, real‑time sensors and a high‑density wireless network that synchronized over 60,000 devices, delivering dynamic lighting, personalized guidance, interactive games, and large‑scale live video, illustrating the challenges and solutions of massive real‑time IoT deployments.

IoTLEDReal-Time
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How Alibaba’s Cloud‑Powered Wristband Turned 60,000 Attendees into a Live LED Screen
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 1, 2019 · Fundamentals

What Tech Trends Will Shape Software Development in 2019?

This article surveys the major software development trends for 2019, covering progressive web apps, chatbots, evolving front‑end frameworks, back‑end language choices, database advancements, cloud adoption, AI breakthroughs, and essential development tools, offering guidance on what to learn next.

AIBackendcloud
0 likes · 18 min read
What Tech Trends Will Shape Software Development in 2019?
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jul 19, 2019 · Backend Development

Evolution of Taobao Backend Architecture from Single Machine to Cloud‑Native High Concurrency

The article traces Taobao's backend architecture evolution—from a single‑machine setup through caching, load balancing, database sharding, microservices, containerization, and cloud deployment—illustrating the technologies and design principles needed to scale from hundreds to tens of millions of concurrent users.

MicroservicesScalabilityarchitecture
0 likes · 19 min read
Evolution of Taobao Backend Architecture from Single Machine to Cloud‑Native High Concurrency
21CTO
21CTO
Jul 17, 2019 · Backend Development

From Single Server to Cloud Native: How Taobao Scaled to Millions of Users

This article traces Taobao’s backend architecture evolution from a single‑server setup to a cloud‑native, micro‑service ecosystem, detailing each scaling stage—separating Tomcat and database, adding caches, load balancers, read/write splitting, sharding, NoSQL, ESB, containers, and finally public‑cloud deployment—while highlighting the associated technologies and design principles.

BackendMicroservicesScalability
0 likes · 19 min read
From Single Server to Cloud Native: How Taobao Scaled to Millions of Users
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 15, 2019 · Backend Development

From Single Server to Cloud‑Native: How Taobao Scaled to Millions of Concurrent Users

This article walks through Taobao's architectural evolution—from a single‑server setup to distributed clusters, caching, load balancing, microservices, containerization, and finally cloud platforms—illustrating the technologies and design principles needed to handle hundred‑to‑hundred‑million concurrent requests.

BackendDistributed SystemsMicroservices
0 likes · 21 min read
From Single Server to Cloud‑Native: How Taobao Scaled to Millions of Concurrent Users
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Jun 17, 2019 · Backend Development

How Taobao Scaled from Single Server to Billion-User Architecture

This article uses Taobao as a case study to trace the evolution of a backend system from a single‑machine setup to a multi‑layer, highly available, horizontally scalable architecture that can handle tens of millions of concurrent users, summarizing key technologies and design principles at each stage.

BackendMicroservicesScalability
0 likes · 22 min read
How Taobao Scaled from Single Server to Billion-User Architecture
360 Quality & Efficiency
360 Quality & Efficiency
Jun 11, 2019 · Backend Development

NebulasFs: A Distributed High‑Availability Small‑File Storage System Developed by 360 Infrastructure Team

NebulasFs is a self‑developed distributed, highly available, and persistent storage system designed to efficiently store billions of small files, offering simple RESTful APIs, automatic request routing, multi‑tenant isolation, customizable replication, automated scaling, rebalancing, and fault‑tolerant replica recovery for large‑scale unstructured data workloads.

NebulasFsSmall Filescloud
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NebulasFs: A Distributed High‑Availability Small‑File Storage System Developed by 360 Infrastructure Team
21CTO
21CTO
May 10, 2019 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools & Best Practices

This guide walks through the essential layers of a startup's backend technology stack—from language choices and core components like databases, RPC frameworks, and messaging middleware to operational tools for CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and deployment—offering practical selection criteria and architectural diagrams.

BackendDevOpsTechnology Stack
0 likes · 30 min read
How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Tools & Best Practices
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 29, 2019 · Frontend Development

The Evolution and Ambitions of Front-End Development: From Complexity Reduction to Full-Stack Integration

The article traces front‑end development’s rapid evolution from basic HTML/CSS/JS through frameworks that reduced complexity, to multi‑environment runtimes, serverless integration, and streamlined cloud services, showing how front‑end engineers now deliver full‑stack, end‑to‑end solutions across browsers, servers, desktops, and mobile.

Web Developmentcloudfull-stack
0 likes · 14 min read
The Evolution and Ambitions of Front-End Development: From Complexity Reduction to Full-Stack Integration
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 24, 2019 · Operations

2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey: Participation Guide, Insights, and Interview with Nicole Forsgren

This article introduces the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps survey, explains how to join the questionnaire, provides background on previous reports, shares a detailed interview with Nicole Forsgren about research design and key findings such as architecture, cloud adoption, and outsourcing, and encourages community participation.

AccelerateDevOpsNicole Forsgren
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2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey: Participation Guide, Insights, and Interview with Nicole Forsgren
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 22, 2019 · Frontend Development

How Alibaba Cloud Frontend Teams Turned Engineering Chaos into Business Value

This article examines how Alibaba Cloud’s frontend engineers evolved from a resource‑constrained role with shallow business insight to a strategic, horizontally‑aligned team that builds reusable engineering platforms, leverages serverless and BaaS, and delivers measurable business value across marketing, commerce, and sales.

Engineeringarchitecturebusiness value
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How Alibaba Cloud Frontend Teams Turned Engineering Chaos into Business Value
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 15, 2019 · Operations

Mastering DevOps Operations: Monitoring, NOC, and MSP Strategies

This article explains how to maintain a DevOps environment by defining monitoring, its goals, key metrics, fault‑detection and performance measurement, adapting monitoring to continuous changes, and outlining the roles and processes of NOC and MSP for reliable, automated operations.

DevOpsMSPNOC
0 likes · 16 min read
Mastering DevOps Operations: Monitoring, NOC, and MSP Strategies
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 3, 2019 · Backend Development

From LAMP to AI: A 10‑Year Journey Through Backend Architecture

This article reviews a decade‑long evolution of backend engineering—from early LAMP stacks to modern micro‑services, middleware, cloud, big data, AI, and containerization—explaining why new developers need to understand each layer's role in today’s complex internet systems.

AIBackend ArchitectureDocker
0 likes · 25 min read
From LAMP to AI: A 10‑Year Journey Through Backend Architecture
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 1, 2019 · Operations

Beyond Linux: Mastering Modern Operations – From Deployment to Cloud

This article explores the full spectrum of modern operations, covering environment deployment, troubleshooting, backup, high availability, monitoring, security, automation, virtualization, and cloud services, while highlighting essential tools and best practices for both Linux and Windows environments.

AutomationDeploymentOperations
0 likes · 8 min read
Beyond Linux: Mastering Modern Operations – From Deployment to Cloud
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 1, 2019 · Operations

How Dual‑Mode IT Is Redefining Disaster Recovery in Banking

The article examines how the rise of financial technology and dual‑mode IT is reshaping banking disaster‑recovery strategies, comparing active‑active and two‑site‑three‑center architectures, and proposing an integrated solution to improve resource utilization, reduce risk, and ensure continuous service.

Bankingbusiness continuitycloud
0 likes · 9 min read
How Dual‑Mode IT Is Redefining Disaster Recovery in Banking
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Mar 18, 2019 · Backend Development

Evolution of Backend Architecture and Core Concepts for New Backend Engineers

This article presents a comprehensive overview of backend architecture evolution, covering system design fundamentals, middleware, microservices, databases, big data, AI, Docker, and Kubernetes, to help new backend developers understand the role of modern internet technologies and make informed design choices.

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Evolution of Backend Architecture and Core Concepts for New Backend Engineers
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Mar 12, 2019 · Operations

Load Balancing: Concepts, Types, Strategies, and Algorithms

This article explains the fundamentals of load balancing, covering its definition, benefits, various types such as server, firewall, and link load balancing, hardware vs software solutions, local and global strategies, and common algorithms like round robin, weighted, least connections, and DNS‑based methods.

algorithmcloud
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Load Balancing: Concepts, Types, Strategies, and Algorithms
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 19, 2019 · Operations

Turning Middleware Pain into Power: Practical Ops Strategies for Financial Systems

This talk reveals why middleware operations in financial institutions feel especially painful, examines the specific cost, autonomy, and reliability challenges, and outlines a step‑by‑step evolution toward tool‑driven platforms, hybrid‑cloud deployment, and AIOps that reduce manual toil and improve system resilience.

Operationsaiopscloud
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Turning Middleware Pain into Power: Practical Ops Strategies for Financial Systems
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Jan 9, 2019 · Operations

Enterprise Azure Governance Framework: Scaffolding, Policies, Security, Cost Management, and Automation

This guide explains how enterprises can build a comprehensive Azure governance scaffold—covering hierarchy, naming standards, policies, initiatives, identity and access management, security, monitoring, cost control, automation, and DevOps—to balance agility with control and risk mitigation across cloud workloads.

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Enterprise Azure Governance Framework: Scaffolding, Policies, Security, Cost Management, and Automation
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 26, 2018 · Operations

Technical Resource Collection: Backup Systems, Distributed Architecture, Cloud Computing, HPC, Storage and Emerging Technologies

This article curates a comprehensive list of technical resources covering backup system architectures, distributed technology designs, cloud computing frameworks, high‑performance computing, storage solutions, server virtualization, networking, big data, databases and AI, providing readers with links to in‑depth analyses and best‑practice guides.

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Technical Resource Collection: Backup Systems, Distributed Architecture, Cloud Computing, HPC, Storage and Emerging Technologies
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Dec 20, 2018 · Operations

Youku IPv6 Migration: Planning, Implementation, and Lessons Learned

Youku’s pioneering IPv6 migration, launched in early 2018 and completed by Double 11, progressed through external, dual‑stack internal, and IPv6‑only phases, tackled test‑environment, MTU, and library issues, employed sophisticated gray‑release and monitoring, and ultimately unlocked unlimited address space, enhanced security, and faster, scalable video delivery.

BackendIPv6Network Migration
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Youku IPv6 Migration: Planning, Implementation, and Lessons Learned
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 14, 2018 · Databases

CynosDB Storage Cluster Manager (SCM): Architecture, Data Model, and Scheduling Mechanisms

CynosDB’s Storage Cluster Manager (SCM) orchestrates storage utilization by maintaining pool‑SG relationships in Etcd, using Raft for leader election, exposing HTTP APIs, and running heartbeat‑driven pool and segment‑group schedulers that allocate, expand, contract, and balance SG replicas across regions, zones, racks, and hosts.

CynosDBSCMScheduling
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CynosDB Storage Cluster Manager (SCM): Architecture, Data Model, and Scheduling Mechanisms
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 20, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Top 18 Machine Learning Platforms Every Developer Should Know

This guide lists and briefly describes 18 open‑source and cloud‑based machine learning platforms—from H2O and TensorFlow to Azure ML and AWS services—highlighting their key features, supported languages, and typical use cases for developers at any skill level.

AI toolsDeep LearningDevelopment
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Top 18 Machine Learning Platforms Every Developer Should Know
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 10, 2018 · Fundamentals

Essential Tech Books Every Engineer Should Read – From Linux to AI

This article presents a curated selection of must‑read technical books for engineers, spanning programming fundamentals, Linux kernel internals, Go development, web performance, cloud native Kubernetes, DevOps, databases, and machine learning, each accompanied by concise expert insights.

BooksDevOpscloud
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Essential Tech Books Every Engineer Should Read – From Linux to AI
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 10, 2018 · Databases

A Decade of Alibaba Database Evolution for Double 11: From Commercial to Open‑Source to Self‑Developed

Over ten years Alibaba's database team transformed from commercial Oracle‑based systems to open‑source AliSQL and finally to the self‑developed X‑DB, introducing distributed middleware, cloud resources, full‑link testing, intelligent optimization and storage‑compute separation to support the massive Double 11 traffic peaks.

AlibabaSelf‑Developed DBcloud
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A Decade of Alibaba Database Evolution for Double 11: From Commercial to Open‑Source to Self‑Developed
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 5, 2018 · Databases

Best Practices for Redis Database on the Cloud

In this talk, Tencent Cloud senior engineer Zou Peng outlines cloud‑native best practices for Redis 4.0 clusters, detailing a smart‑proxy architecture with gossip‑based management, lazy‑scan big‑key handling, automatic fail‑over, the high‑performance CKV engine, and practical guidance on scaling, sharding, monitoring, and cost‑effective high‑availability deployment.

ClusterData MigrationProxy
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Best Practices for Redis Database on the Cloud
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
Oct 22, 2018 · Operations

Jenkins Area Meetup 2018 Shenzhen: DevOps Practices and CI/CD Solutions

The Jenkins Area Meetup 2018 in Shenzhen, co‑hosted by DevOps时代社区 and vivo Mobile Internet, gathered experts who presented on hybrid‑cloud DevOps, large‑scale CI/CD with Jenkins at Tencent, DevOps‑based R&D and operations standards, and an automated CMDB‑driven operations platform, concluding with strong community engagement and available presentation materials.

DevOpsJenkinsOperations
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Jenkins Area Meetup 2018 Shenzhen: DevOps Practices and CI/CD Solutions
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 6, 2018 · Big Data

Elastic Search IPO: What It Means for Search and Big Data

Elastic announced its IPO on the NYSE under ticker ESTC, highlighting its origins, rapid growth to over 5000 customers worldwide, a $160 million FY2018 revenue, and its Elastic Stack suite that powers search and analytics across industries, while investors celebrated the stock surge.

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Elastic Search IPO: What It Means for Search and Big Data
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 19, 2018 · Operations

Mastering Automated Operations: Theory, Practices, and Tool Comparisons

This article presents a comprehensive view of automated operations, covering common misconceptions, a methodological framework, practical foundations, workflow integration steps, a detailed comparison of popular automation tools, and guidance for implementing automation in IaaS and PaaS cloud platforms.

AutomationDevOpsTool comparison
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Mastering Automated Operations: Theory, Practices, and Tool Comparisons
Big Data and Microservices
Big Data and Microservices
Aug 13, 2018 · Big Data

8 Essential Principles for Effective Enterprise Big Data Implementation

The article outlines eight key principles that enterprises should follow to harness big data responsibly, covering goal definition, strategic partnership, source identification, continuous communication, agile iteration, technology evaluation, cloud alignment, and talent development with security considerations.

Big DataData GovernanceEnterprise
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8 Essential Principles for Effective Enterprise Big Data Implementation
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 9, 2018 · Operations

How a Bank Built an Automated Operations Platform with Ansible and Open‑Source Tools

This article outlines the motivations, design principles, system architecture, and key tools—including Cobbler, Ignite‑UX, WSUS, and Ansible—behind a bank’s automated operations platform, and details Ansible’s features, capabilities across Linux, HPUX, Windows and OpenStack, and its practical application scenarios such as batch changes, software installation, and environment delivery.

AnsibleAutomationBanking
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How a Bank Built an Automated Operations Platform with Ansible and Open‑Source Tools
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 6, 2018 · Operations

Automating CI/CD Pipelines on Azure TFS with yoTeam: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article explains how to quickly set up a complete CI/CD pipeline on Azure‑hosted TFS 2018 using the open‑source yoTeam generator, covering environment provisioning, pipeline creation, required tools, command‑line usage, and practical examples for DevOps teams.

AutomationDevOpsTFS
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Automating CI/CD Pipelines on Azure TFS with yoTeam: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jul 22, 2018 · Backend Development

How Evolutionary Architecture Transforms Monoliths into Agile Microservices

This article examines evolutionary architecture for microservices, outlines popular patterns such as CI/CD and the Strangler approach, explains layered and bounded‑context designs, and provides a detailed case study showing how a legacy monolithic system can be incrementally refactored into a flexible, cloud‑native microservice ecosystem.

Microservicesci/cdcloud
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How Evolutionary Architecture Transforms Monoliths into Agile Microservices
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jun 4, 2018 · Backend Development

Evolution and Key Concepts of Distributed Architecture for Large-Scale Systems

This article traces the historical development of distributed architecture from early computers to modern large‑scale web systems, explains core concepts such as clustering, replication, and middleware, and outlines eight evolutionary stages that address scalability, reliability, and performance challenges.

BackendDistributed SystemsScalability
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Evolution and Key Concepts of Distributed Architecture for Large-Scale Systems
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 30, 2018 · Operations

Tencent Hub: DevOps Best Practices and Workflow Architecture

Zou Hui explained Tencent Hub’s end‑to‑end DevOps platform, detailing how clarified, automated workflows—spanning code development, building, release, containerized plugins, and a multi‑level artifact registry—enable balanced quality and speed while supporting flexible, parallel execution and comprehensive permission‑controlled management across diverse deployment scenarios.

AutomationDevOpsOperations
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Tencent Hub: DevOps Best Practices and Workflow Architecture