Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 20, 2026 · Cloud Native

How a Gaming Platform Scaled to Millions with RocketMQ & Kafka: A Cloud‑Native Success Story

Facing explosive growth, the game‑service platform 悠悠有品 rebuilt its architecture on Alibaba Cloud, using RocketMQ for core transaction messaging and Kafka for data synchronization, achieving elastic scaling, high availability, cost reduction, and reliable high‑concurrency processing across its trading and analytics pipelines.

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How a Gaming Platform Scaled to Millions with RocketMQ & Kafka: A Cloud‑Native Success Story
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 5, 2026 · Cloud Native

How to Cut Cross‑Cloud Data Transfer Costs with CDN and LoongCollector

In multi‑cloud environments, enterprises face high outbound traffic fees for unified observability, but by routing logs through a CDN and using the high‑performance LoongCollector agent, they can reduce cross‑cloud transfer costs by up to 70%, improve throughput, and simplify deployment.

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How to Cut Cross‑Cloud Data Transfer Costs with CDN and LoongCollector
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 12, 2025 · Backend Development

How to Choose the Right Tech Stack for Your Startup: Practical Guidelines

This article outlines practical guidelines for startups to choose a simple, reliable, and forward‑looking tech stack—covering backend frameworks, databases, cloud services, containerization, architecture evolution stages, team processes, and cost‑optimization—to avoid common pitfalls and maximize long‑term growth.

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How to Choose the Right Tech Stack for Your Startup: Practical Guidelines
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 2, 2024 · Cloud Native

How Xiaohongshu Cut Kafka Storage Costs by 60% with a Cloud‑Native Tiered Architecture

Facing exploding Kafka scale, Xiaohongshu’s data‑storage team adopted a cloud‑native design that introduces tiered hot‑cold storage, containerization, and a custom load‑balancing service, achieving dramatic storage‑cost reductions, minute‑level cluster migrations, high‑performance data access, and automated resource scheduling.

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How Xiaohongshu Cut Kafka Storage Costs by 60% with a Cloud‑Native Tiered Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Sep 5, 2022 · Big Data

Scaling Alibaba TCC to Millions of RPS with a High‑Availability Real‑Time Data Warehouse

This article details how Alibaba's TCC platform evolved its architecture over multiple phases—from a legacy database to a high‑availability real‑time data warehouse built on Flink and Hologres—highlighting the challenges, solutions, and cost‑saving measures that enabled millions of RPS, terabytes of storage, and sub‑second query latency.

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Scaling Alibaba TCC to Millions of RPS with a High‑Availability Real‑Time Data Warehouse
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
May 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Ctrip International Flights Scaled with Cloud‑Native Practices and Cut Costs

This article shares Ctrip International Flights' cloud‑native journey, detailing how they adopted infrastructure‑as‑code, automated CI/CD pipelines, centralized logging and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Thanos, and applied elastic scaling, spot instances, and network optimizations to reduce operational costs while maintaining high availability.

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How Ctrip International Flights Scaled with Cloud‑Native Practices and Cut Costs
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Mar 4, 2021 · Cloud Native

Ctrip International Ticketing Cloud‑Native Migration: Infrastructure as Code, Logging, Monitoring, and Cost Optimization

This article shares Ctrip International Ticketing’s cloud‑native migration experience, covering infrastructure‑as‑code with Terraform, managed Kubernetes, centralized logging and monitoring using Elastic Search, Prometheus, Grafana and Thanos, and practical cost‑optimization techniques such as auto‑scaling, spot instances, storage tiering and network proxying.

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Ctrip International Ticketing Cloud‑Native Migration: Infrastructure as Code, Logging, Monitoring, and Cost Optimization
Liulishuo Tech Team
Liulishuo Tech Team
Feb 4, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Improving Cloud Cost Allocation and Resource Utilization through Catalog, Tags, and Automated Monitoring

This article describes how a tech team built a catalog‑based cost‑allocation system, leveraged cloud tags and Kubernetes labels, used Prometheus data for scaling decisions, and combined reserved, spot, and on‑demand instances to boost cloud resource utilization while keeping services stable.

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Improving Cloud Cost Allocation and Resource Utilization through Catalog, Tags, and Automated Monitoring