BestHub
Sign in
Tagged articles
271 articles
Page 3 of 3
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 6, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Huolala Cuts Cloud Costs: Real‑World Kubernetes Optimization Strategies

Huolala’s architecture team shares a detailed walkthrough of their cloud‑native cost‑optimization journey, covering public‑cloud server pricing models, Kubernetes request/limit tuning, HPA and CronHPA scheduling, spot instance integration, intelligent pod placement, and practical lessons learned from scaling a global on‑demand logistics platform.

Cloud NativeCost OptimizationHuolala
0 likes · 25 min read
How Huolala Cuts Cloud Costs: Real‑World Kubernetes Optimization Strategies
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 22, 2022 · Operations

Tackling Cloud‑Native Ops Challenges: Real‑World Practices from NetEase

NetEase’s cloud‑native operations team shares how they confront new challenges of Kubernetes adoption—ranging from technical stack shifts and knowledge‑base gaps to capacity planning, automated diagnostics, monitoring, alerting, and cost‑saving strategies—offering practical insights for building efficient, stable, and scalable ops systems.

Cost OptimizationKubernetesautomation
0 likes · 22 min read
Tackling Cloud‑Native Ops Challenges: Real‑World Practices from NetEase
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jan 29, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How WeChat’s Serverless Cloud Functions Powered Billion-User Red Packet Covers

During the 2022 Chinese New Year, WeChat leveraged Serverless cloud functions and cloud development to handle the explosive demand of red‑packet cover creation, achieving sub‑ten‑thousand‑yuan costs, supporting over 100 million daily calls, and delivering rapid, scalable, and cost‑effective deployment for developers.

Cloud FunctionsCost OptimizationServerless
0 likes · 7 min read
How WeChat’s Serverless Cloud Functions Powered Billion-User Red Packet Covers
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Dec 30, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Ctrip’s Practice of Using AWS Spot Instances for Cost Reduction and High Availability

This article details Ctrip’s large‑scale use of AWS Spot instances on Kubernetes, explaining the cost benefits, the challenges of spot interruptions, and the architectural and operational strategies—including multi‑AZ deployment, scheduling policies, autoscaling group design, and observability—that enable a 50% reduction in container costs while maintaining system stability and reliability.

AWS SpotCost OptimizationKubernetes
0 likes · 13 min read
Ctrip’s Practice of Using AWS Spot Instances for Cost Reduction and High Availability
Kuaishou Big Data
Kuaishou Big Data
Nov 26, 2021 · Big Data

How Kuaishou Built a Standardized Data Governance Evaluation System

This article explains Kuaishou's comprehensive approach to data governance, detailing the background challenges, a standardized evaluation framework, practical solutions for model, quality, and cost issues, scoring strategies, operational mechanisms, measurable benefits, and future plans for continuous improvement.

Cost OptimizationKuaishou
0 likes · 23 min read
How Kuaishou Built a Standardized Data Governance Evaluation System
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 30, 2021 · Big Data

Xiaomi Data Management and Application Practice: Metadata Platform Construction, Applications, and Future Plans

This article presents Xiaomi's comprehensive data management practice, detailing the design and evolution of its metadata platform, the implementation of full‑domain metadata, real‑time lineage, precise measurement, and the subsequent applications such as data maps, governance, cost control, and quality assurance, while outlining future development directions.

Cost Optimization
0 likes · 18 min read
Xiaomi Data Management and Application Practice: Metadata Platform Construction, Applications, and Future Plans
Liulishuo Tech Team
Liulishuo Tech Team
Oct 29, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Automating Cloud Infrastructure at Liulishuo: Deployment, Management, and Governance Practices

The article describes Liulishuo's Cloud Infra team's end‑to‑end automation of cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and cost governance using Terraform, a custom Luban platform, GitLab CI/CD, and chat‑bot integrations, highlighting the architectural design, implementation steps, and measurable benefits for both operations and business teams.

Auto ScalingCost OptimizationInfrastructure as Code
0 likes · 10 min read
Automating Cloud Infrastructure at Liulishuo: Deployment, Management, and Governance Practices
New Oriental Technology
New Oriental Technology
Sep 29, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Building and Managing an AI Research Department: Engineering Practices, Organizational Structure, and Educational Applications

This article explores the strategic management and engineering practices required to build an effective AI research department, detailing organizational structures, performance metrics, cost-reduction strategies, and practical educational AI solutions that bridge theoretical algorithms with scalable industrial applications.

AI DevOpsAI R&D ManagementCost Optimization
0 likes · 23 min read
Building and Managing an AI Research Department: Engineering Practices, Organizational Structure, and Educational Applications
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Sep 20, 2021 · Operations

A Comprehensive Guide to Application Portfolio Management (APM)

This guide explains what Application Portfolio Management (APM) is, why it’s essential for modern enterprises, the benefits it delivers, typical stakeholder concerns, and step‑by‑step practices for building and maintaining an effective application portfolio.

Application Portfolio ManagementCost OptimizationIT Operations
0 likes · 18 min read
A Comprehensive Guide to Application Portfolio Management (APM)
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Sep 2, 2021 · Cloud Native

Migrating Ctrip Hotel Direct Connect Service to AWS: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Cost and Performance Optimizations

This article details Ctrip’s migration of its hotel direct‑connect service to AWS, describing the background challenges, cloud‑native architectural redesign with EKS, bandwidth and latency optimizations, use of spot instances, DNS caching, cross‑AZ traffic reduction, and the resulting performance and cost benefits.

AWSCost OptimizationEKS
0 likes · 15 min read
Migrating Ctrip Hotel Direct Connect Service to AWS: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Cost and Performance Optimizations
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 21, 2021 · Big Data

Youzan’s Blueprint: Data Governance, Quality Scoring, and Cost Reduction for AI

At Youzan, data governance evolves from massive data assets to AI readiness through systematic data assetization, quantitative quality scoring, cost measurement, and targeted operational tactics, enabling precise quality monitoring, cost allocation, and continuous improvement that drive both data value and cost efficiency.

AI readinessBig DataCost Optimization
0 likes · 18 min read
Youzan’s Blueprint: Data Governance, Quality Scoring, and Cost Reduction for AI
Architect
Architect
Jul 1, 2021 · Big Data

Data Governance Practices at Meituan Hotel Travel Platform

This article presents a comprehensive case study of Meituan's hotel‑travel data governance, covering the background, challenges, strategic goals, standardized processes, technical systems, cost and security optimizations, measurable outcomes, and future plans for automated governance.

Big DataCost OptimizationData Governance
0 likes · 29 min read
Data Governance Practices at Meituan Hotel Travel Platform
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jun 17, 2021 · Cloud Computing

What Datadog’s 2022 Serverless Report Reveals About Lambda Usage and Costs

Datadog’s 2022 Serverless report shows a rapid expansion of Lambda usage worldwide, with call frequencies 3.5 times higher than two years ago, average daily runtimes of 900 hours, shorter execution times, growing adoption of Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions, and detailed cost analyses that highlight both the economic benefits and optimization challenges of serverless architectures.

AWS LambdaCost OptimizationFunction-as-a-Service
0 likes · 13 min read
What Datadog’s 2022 Serverless Report Reveals About Lambda Usage and Costs
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Jun 7, 2021 · Databases

Why Distributed Database Architectures Matter: From Shared‑Nothing to Shared‑Storage

This article introduces the fundamentals of distributed database architectures, compares Shared‑Nothing and Shared‑Storage designs, explains their three‑tier structure, core engine components, SQL execution flow, performance and cost optimizations, and showcases a real‑world high‑traffic deployment in Douyin’s Spring Festival event.

Cost Optimizationdistributed databasesperformance
0 likes · 19 min read
Why Distributed Database Architectures Matter: From Shared‑Nothing to Shared‑Storage
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 25, 2021 · Cloud Native

Next‑Generation Cloud‑Native Data Lake Architecture: Value, Principles, Challenges, and Tencent Solutions

The talk outlines a next‑generation cloud‑native data lake that leverages elastic Kubernetes compute, object‑storage, and Apache Iceberg to cut costs 3‑10× while boosting performance, and presents Tencent’s Data Lake Compute and Data Lake Fabric solutions that address scalability, reliability, and operational challenges through serverless, unified, multi‑engine architecture.

Cost OptimizationData LakeIceberg
0 likes · 13 min read
Next‑Generation Cloud‑Native Data Lake Architecture: Value, Principles, Challenges, and Tencent Solutions
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 19, 2021 · Industry Insights

How Cloud‑Native Principles Transform Big Data Infrastructure

The article analyzes how cloud‑native concepts such as DevOps, micro‑services, continuous delivery, and containerization can be applied to big‑data foundations, outlining four guiding principles—industrialized delivery, cost quantification, load‑adaptive scaling, and data‑centric design—and describing concrete Hadoop‑based architectures and Tencent Cloud solutions that lower cost while boosting performance.

Big DataCost OptimizationData Infrastructure
0 likes · 22 min read
How Cloud‑Native Principles Transform Big Data Infrastructure
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 24, 2021 · Cloud Native

9 Proven Strategies to Slash Kubernetes Costs

Learn how to monitor, limit, and optimize Kubernetes expenses with nine practical techniques—including resource constraints, autoscaling, right-sized instances, Spot instances, sleep schedules, regular clean‑ups, and tagging—to dramatically reduce cloud costs while maintaining performance.

AWSCost OptimizationKubernetes
0 likes · 8 min read
9 Proven Strategies to Slash Kubernetes Costs
UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Apr 20, 2021 · Fundamentals

How UCloud Cuts Archive Storage Costs by 80% with SMR Disks and Smart IO Scheduling

UCloud’s US3 archive storage leverages high‑density SMR drives combined with JBOD architecture and a custom IO‑scheduling algorithm to slash hardware CAPEX by up to 80%, reduce OPEX electricity costs, and maintain data reliability through embedded metadata and dual‑head redundancy.

Cost OptimizationData ReliabilityIO scheduling
0 likes · 11 min read
How UCloud Cuts Archive Storage Costs by 80% with SMR Disks and Smart IO Scheduling
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 16, 2021 · Operations

How Cloud Computing Is Redefining Operations: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies

The article examines how the rapid adoption of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role of IT operations, highlighting new trends, evolving work boundaries, and the essential characteristics of a modern, automated, secure, and cost‑optimized operations system.

Cost OptimizationDevOpsFinOps
0 likes · 18 min read
How Cloud Computing Is Redefining Operations: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Mar 6, 2021 · Big Data

Youzan Data Governance: Quality Assurance, Cost Management, and Operational Practices

This article explains Youzan's data governance framework, covering the definition of data governance, the company's asset‑centric approach, quantitative quality scoring, cost‑based pricing formulas, billing and allocation mechanisms, continuous operational improvements, and the measurable outcomes achieved.

Cost OptimizationData PlatformData Quality
0 likes · 17 min read
Youzan Data Governance: Quality Assurance, Cost Management, and Operational Practices
Node Underground
Node Underground
Feb 19, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path

This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.

Cost OptimizationDevOpsServerless
0 likes · 15 min read
Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Dec 4, 2020 · Operations

JD.com 11.11 Shopping Festival: Technical Operations, Performance, and Cost Optimization Case Study

The article reviews JD.com’s 11.11 shopping festival technical preparation, detailing how the operations team handled record traffic spikes, improved user experience, increased resource efficiency, and reduced IT costs through high‑fidelity testing, dual‑active systems, and a four‑year Taishan project.

Cost Optimizatione‑commercesystem performance
0 likes · 8 min read
JD.com 11.11 Shopping Festival: Technical Operations, Performance, and Cost Optimization Case Study
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 26, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How Gaode Scaled Serverless to Handle 2 Million Calls per Minute During China’s Travel Festival

During the 2020 "Golden Week" travel festival, Gaode Maps leveraged Alibaba Cloud Serverless to sustain nearly two million function invocations per minute, achieving over 99.99% success rate, sub‑60 ms latency, and demonstrating significant gains in efficiency, elasticity, cost savings, and observability for large‑scale map services.

Cost OptimizationScalabilityServerless
0 likes · 9 min read
How Gaode Scaled Serverless to Handle 2 Million Calls per Minute During China’s Travel Festival
TAL Education Technology
TAL Education Technology
Sep 1, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Cost Optimization and Resource Management in an Online Education Platform: From XEN Migration to Container‑Based Scaling

This article describes how an online education platform reduced infrastructure costs and improved service reliability by replacing XEN with KVM, building resource‑tracking platforms, adopting Kubernetes‑based containerization, implementing rapid auto‑scaling, and establishing systematic resource auditing and standardization processes.

Cost OptimizationInfrastructureKubernetes
0 likes · 25 min read
Cost Optimization and Resource Management in an Online Education Platform: From XEN Migration to Container‑Based Scaling
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Sep 1, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Serverless Is the Future of Cloud Computing: Insights from Alibaba Cloud’s Leader

Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless lead, known as “不瞋”, discusses how serverless transforms cloud computing into a simple utility, outlines performance, security, and operational challenges, and shares real-world use cases like video processing and large-scale traffic handling, emphasizing cost savings, elasticity, and the future roadmap.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeCost Optimization
0 likes · 16 min read
Why Serverless Is the Future of Cloud Computing: Insights from Alibaba Cloud’s Leader
GrowingIO Tech Team
GrowingIO Tech Team
Aug 27, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How GrowingIO Cut AWS Costs: Practical Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

This article details GrowingIO's systematic approach to reducing AWS expenses by analyzing billing data, tagging resources, visualizing usage, and applying targeted optimizations across EC2 instances, EBS volumes, HDFS storage, network traffic, and S3, while outlining future automation and scaling plans.

AWSCost OptimizationEBS
0 likes · 14 min read
How GrowingIO Cut AWS Costs: Practical Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 27, 2020 · Databases

How We Replaced Expensive Redis Clusters with KVROCKS on SSDs

Facing a ten‑fold cost increase for public‑cloud Redis, Ctrip engineers evaluated Redis‑on‑SSD alternatives, chose KVROCKS, performed extensive protocol‑compatible modifications, benchmarked performance on standard and Optane SSDs, and demonstrated substantial cost savings while preserving Redis semantics.

Cost OptimizationKVROCKSRocksDB
0 likes · 13 min read
How We Replaced Expensive Redis Clusters with KVROCKS on SSDs
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jul 27, 2020 · Operations

Website Operations at Qunar: Ensuring Stability, Security, and Efficiency During the Pandemic

The interview with Sun Bin, head of Qunar's website operations, explains how the team acted as a specialized "BlackOps" unit to provide robust technical guarantees, automate problem‑solving, protect user data, optimize resources, and maintain continuous service during the COVID‑19 outbreak.

Cost OptimizationPandemic Responsecloud infrastructure
0 likes · 10 min read
Website Operations at Qunar: Ensuring Stability, Security, and Efficiency During the Pandemic
Youzan Coder
Youzan Coder
Jul 3, 2020 · Big Data

Data Cost Quantification, Billing, and Optimization in a Data Platform

The data‑platform team introduced a self‑sustaining cost‑reduction framework that quantifies CPU, memory, and disk expenses using price‑per‑resource formulas, applies time‑weighted billing, generates multi‑level reports, and drives optimization through six actionable “swords” and incentive‑based operations, achieving roughly 17 % offline‑cluster savings within six months.

Big DataCost OptimizationResource Quantification
0 likes · 15 min read
Data Cost Quantification, Billing, and Optimization in a Data Platform
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jun 14, 2020 · Big Data

Designing an Offline Big Data Processing Architecture Based on Object Storage

This article presents a comprehensive offline big‑data processing framework that leverages scalable object storage for PB‑level data, details storage and compute engine requirements, compares cost options, describes data pipeline design, and showcases an e‑commerce case study with Spark‑driven analytics.

Big DataCost OptimizationSpark
0 likes · 19 min read
Designing an Offline Big Data Processing Architecture Based on Object Storage
FunTester
FunTester
Jun 3, 2020 · Operations

How to Slash Software Testing Costs Without Sacrificing Quality

This article presents practical strategies for reducing software testing expenses—including early testing, balanced documentation, risk‑based testing, leveraging production data, prioritizing API over UI automation, adopting open‑source tools, optimizing infrastructure, training, process improvements, and selective outsourcing—while maintaining overall product quality.

Cost OptimizationSoftware Testingopen-source tools
0 likes · 9 min read
How to Slash Software Testing Costs Without Sacrificing Quality
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 20, 2020 · Cloud Native

Build Elastic, Low‑Cost Serverless Video Processing on Alibaba Cloud

This article explains how to design and implement an elastic, high‑availability video‑on‑demand solution on Alibaba Cloud using Function Compute and Function Flow, covering simple and full‑featured architectures, performance and cost comparisons, and practical deployment steps.

Cost OptimizationFunction ComputeFunction Flow
0 likes · 16 min read
Build Elastic, Low‑Cost Serverless Video Processing on Alibaba Cloud
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 10, 2020 · Big Data

How Tencent Scales Elasticsearch for Massive Log, Search, and Time‑Series Workloads

Tencent leverages Elasticsearch at massive scale across log analytics, search services, and time‑series monitoring, addressing challenges of high availability, low cost, and high performance through kernel optimizations, resource‑aware throttling, cold‑data merging, rollup, caching, and open‑source contributions.

Cost OptimizationElasticsearchLog Analytics
0 likes · 20 min read
How Tencent Scales Elasticsearch for Massive Log, Search, and Time‑Series Workloads
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Feb 5, 2020 · Databases

Tencent’s Secrets to Scaling Elasticsearch for Trillion‑Level Data

Tencent shares how it leverages Elasticsearch at trillion‑scale across logging, search, and time‑series workloads, detailing the challenges of high availability, low cost, and high performance, and describing concrete kernel‑level optimizations, resource‑limiting strategies, storage tiering, rollup, cache, and merge techniques that enable robust, efficient operation.

Cost OptimizationElasticsearchLarge‑Scale Search
0 likes · 18 min read
Tencent’s Secrets to Scaling Elasticsearch for Trillion‑Level Data
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Jan 19, 2020 · Big Data

Tencent's Elasticsearch Practices: Application Scenarios, Challenges, Optimizations, and Future Directions

This article details how Tencent leverages Elasticsearch for log analysis, search services, and time‑series data, outlines the specific challenges faced in high‑availability and cost‑efficiency, and presents the comprehensive optimization techniques and future open‑source contributions that improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

Big DataCost OptimizationElasticsearch
0 likes · 16 min read
Tencent's Elasticsearch Practices: Application Scenarios, Challenges, Optimizations, and Future Directions
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 2, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Create an AI-Powered Poem Generator Using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Function Compute can be used for AI model serving, walks through a three‑step deployment of a TensorFlow‑based Chinese poem generator, compares serverless with traditional ECS setups, and discusses cold‑start mitigation, cost optimization, and monitoring features.

AI model servingCost OptimizationFuncraft
0 likes · 14 min read
Create an AI-Powered Poem Generator Using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Aug 15, 2019 · Big Data

Youku's Migration from Hadoop to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute: Benefits and Technical Insights

Youku’s 2017 migration from an on‑premises Hadoop cluster to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute delivered a unified, elastic data pipeline that cut compute and storage costs by roughly half, handled billions of daily log records, boosted performance and scalability, and empowered analysts with self‑service tools and a rich ecosystem.

Big DataCost OptimizationData Migration
0 likes · 12 min read
Youku's Migration from Hadoop to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute: Benefits and Technical Insights
MXPlayer Technical Team
MXPlayer Technical Team
Aug 10, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Concurrency Distributed Video Transcoding System on AWS

This article explains the design of a distributed video transcoding platform that leverages AWS Lambda and EC2‑SLAVE to achieve high‑concurrency, low‑latency streaming, detailing architecture, load balancing, health checks, task monitoring, and cost‑saving strategies for scalable cloud‑based video processing.

AWS LambdaCost OptimizationVideo Transcoding
0 likes · 18 min read
How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Concurrency Distributed Video Transcoding System on AWS
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 9, 2019 · Big Data

How Youku Cut Costs and Boost Performance by Migrating to MaxCompute

This article explains how Youku processed billions of daily logs, migrated from Hadoop to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute in 2017, and achieved lower compute and storage costs, faster data delivery, and greater operational flexibility through a robust big‑data platform tailored to its complex business needs.

Cost OptimizationData MigrationMaxCompute
0 likes · 12 min read
How Youku Cut Costs and Boost Performance by Migrating to MaxCompute
21CTO
21CTO
May 24, 2019 · Operations

How Meituan’s R&D Team Cut Tens of Millions in Resource Costs: A Practical Guide

This article details Meituan's R&D team's systematic PDCA‑based approach to resource cost optimization, covering methodology definition, planning, execution, checking, and iterative improvement across infrastructure, big‑data, and shared services, ultimately saving tens of millions of yuan.

Big DataCost OptimizationOperations
0 likes · 22 min read
How Meituan’s R&D Team Cut Tens of Millions in Resource Costs: A Practical Guide
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 14, 2019 · Operations

How to Master Multi‑Cloud Operations: Lessons from a Gaming Company’s Hybrid Architecture

This talk shares a senior director’s experience building a hybrid multi‑cloud infrastructure for a game company, covering stability, efficiency, cost challenges, design‑for‑failure principles, standardization, resource automation, and the cultural and organizational factors that affect successful cloud operations.

Cost OptimizationDevOpsOperations
0 likes · 20 min read
How to Master Multi‑Cloud Operations: Lessons from a Gaming Company’s Hybrid Architecture
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Nov 22, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

AIOps Practices at 360: Cost Reduction, Efficiency Gains, and Intelligent Operations

This article presents 360's AIOps project, detailing how AI-driven capacity forecasting, host classification, resource recycling, intelligent MySQL scheduling, anomaly detection, alarm convergence, and root‑cause analysis have saved millions, improved efficiency, and paved the way for a fully automated operations workflow.

Capacity ForecastingCost OptimizationOperations
0 likes · 14 min read
AIOps Practices at 360: Cost Reduction, Efficiency Gains, and Intelligent Operations
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 7, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Cut Double‑11 Transaction Costs to One‑Quarter with Cloud‑Native Architecture

Over a decade of Alibaba's infrastructure evolution—from early stability fixes, through full‑link stress testing and multi‑active deployments, to containerized hybrid‑cloud scheduling—enabled a dramatic reduction of per‑transaction costs to just 25% of the 2015 level for the massive Double 11 sales events.

Cost OptimizationDouble 11Unified Scheduling
0 likes · 11 min read
How Alibaba Cut Double‑11 Transaction Costs to One‑Quarter with Cloud‑Native Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 7, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Cut Double‑11 Transaction Costs by 75% with Cloud‑Native Architecture

This article chronicles Alibaba's ten‑year evolution of foundational infrastructure—from early stability struggles to mature full‑link testing, then rapid containerization, unified scheduling, and hybrid‑cloud deployment—that slashed the incremental cost of each ten‑thousand‑transaction spike to one‑quarter of its original level.

Cost OptimizationUnified Schedulingcloud-native
0 likes · 10 min read
How Alibaba Cut Double‑11 Transaction Costs by 75% with Cloud‑Native Architecture
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 9, 2018 · Databases

How YY Scaled Its Database Platform: From Manual Ops to Intelligent Automation

This article details YY's journey in transforming its database operations—from early quality and efficiency challenges to a multi‑stage platform that automates resource pooling, high‑availability proxy, cost control, quality monitoring, and security, outlining future intelligent extensions.

Cost OptimizationDatabase operationsResource Management
0 likes · 16 min read
How YY Scaled Its Database Platform: From Manual Ops to Intelligent Automation
Meitu Technology
Meitu Technology
Jun 5, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Meitu Short‑Video Cost Halving and Millisecond Startup Optimization Practices

Meitu cut short‑video CDN bandwidth by over 50 % while preserving quality, reduced error rates from 1 % to 0.1 %, and achieved millisecond‑level startup for most videos by deploying a data‑driven fusion scheduler, multi‑CDN failover, FastDNS, buffer control, moov‑relocation and player‑tuning techniques.

CDNCost Optimizationperformance tuning
0 likes · 14 min read
Meitu Short‑Video Cost Halving and Millisecond Startup Optimization Practices
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Feb 27, 2018 · Cloud Computing

How Cloud Gaming Tackles Resource Management: Scheduling, Costs, and AI Solutions

This article explores how cloud gaming platforms manage resources by addressing latency, bandwidth, and cost challenges, defining scheduling problems similar to dynamic bin packing, evaluating classic and new algorithms—including AI‑driven predictions—and proposing strategies to minimize total server runtime and deployment overhead.

AICost OptimizationScheduling
0 likes · 11 min read
How Cloud Gaming Tackles Resource Management: Scheduling, Costs, and AI Solutions
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 12, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba’s Co‑Location (Mixed‑Deployment) Cuts Costs and Boosts Utilization

Alibaba’s mixed‑deployment (Co‑location) technology combines online services and batch compute tasks on shared physical resources, using priority‑based scheduling, resource isolation, and dynamic memory management to dramatically improve CPU utilization, cut infrastructure costs, and maintain service level objectives during peak traffic events.

Co-locationCost Optimizationcloud infrastructure
0 likes · 16 min read
How Alibaba’s Co‑Location (Mixed‑Deployment) Cuts Costs and Boosts Utilization
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jul 13, 2017 · Product Management

How to Choose the Right SaaS Tools for Startup Success

This guide outlines key factors and a curated stack of SaaS tools—from communication and collaboration to finance, product development, security, and compliance—to help early‑stage startups quickly select cost‑effective solutions that boost productivity and support growth.

Cost OptimizationIntegrationSaaS
0 likes · 10 min read
How to Choose the Right SaaS Tools for Startup Success
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Feb 20, 2017 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of Payment Routing Mechanisms

This article explains the concept, structure, and practical strategies of payment routing—including guide routing and transaction routing—using a retail store analogy to illustrate how routing decisions optimize user experience, success rates, and profitability while managing costs and risk.

Cost OptimizationFinTechpayment routing
0 likes · 8 min read
Design and Implementation of Payment Routing Mechanisms
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Feb 7, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Six Methods for Capacity Management in Cloud Computing

Tencent’s social network division, overseeing nearly 100,000 Linux servers that power billions of daily QQ interactions, curbs rising hardware expenses by applying six capacity‑management strategies—performance balancing, memory‑density assessment, feature‑driven scaling, virtualization‑based fragmentation reduction, bottleneck‑oriented capacity planning, and selective hardware upgrades such as larger disks or GPUs—to boost utilization and lower operational costs.

Cost OptimizationInfrastructure Optimizationcapacity management
0 likes · 8 min read
Six Methods for Capacity Management in Cloud Computing
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 26, 2016 · Operations

How Tencent Scaled Social Data Storage While Cutting Costs

Facing massive user growth, Tencent’s social network team redesigned its KV storage architecture—introducing CKV and Grocery, automating capacity planning, data migration, and backup reuse—to dramatically lower costs, improve operational efficiency, and maintain high service quality across millions of devices.

Cost OptimizationOperationsScalability
0 likes · 21 min read
How Tencent Scaled Social Data Storage While Cutting Costs
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 25, 2016 · Operations

How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Availability Architecture for a Fresh‑Food E‑Commerce Platform

This article shares practical strategies for designing a cost‑effective, highly available infrastructure for a fresh‑food e‑commerce business, covering business model impact, virtual‑physical hybrid data centers, cloud‑on‑premise balance, open‑source tools, load balancing, monitoring, security, and internal service systems.

Cost Optimizationcloud architecturee‑commerce
0 likes · 15 min read
How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Availability Architecture for a Fresh‑Food E‑Commerce Platform
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 5, 2016 · Operations

5 Must‑Read Ops ‘Prescriptions’ to Boost Your Infrastructure Skills

This article curates five technical reads—covering network operations, Google’s production environment, massive cost‑saving strategies, IDC automation, and Docker‑based RDS—each presented as a “medicine” with a brief description and a link for deeper insight.

Cost OptimizationDockerOperations
0 likes · 5 min read
5 Must‑Read Ops ‘Prescriptions’ to Boost Your Infrastructure Skills
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 28, 2016 · Operations

Six Proven Methods to Optimize Server Capacity and Cut Costs in Large‑Scale Social Networks

Tencent's SNG team shares six practical capacity‑management techniques—performance, density, feature, fragmentation, barrel, and hardware selection methods—that helped reduce operational expenses by over a hundred million yuan annually while supporting hundreds of millions of daily active users.

Cost OptimizationOperationscapacity management
0 likes · 10 min read
Six Proven Methods to Optimize Server Capacity and Cut Costs in Large‑Scale Social Networks
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 23, 2015 · Operations

How Tencent Powers Millions with SET‑Based NoSQL Clusters

Tencent’s operations team explains how its SET‑based NoSQL clusters deliver ultra‑low latency, high availability, and seamless disaster recovery for billions of users, detailing deployment models, synchronization mechanisms, cost‑saving techniques, and the Data‑as‑Service approach that underpins its massive social platforms.

Cost OptimizationData as a ServiceDistributed Systems
0 likes · 12 min read
How Tencent Powers Millions with SET‑Based NoSQL Clusters
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 10, 2015 · Information Security

6 Critical Architecture Design Mistakes That Undermine System Security

This article examines six common security pitfalls in system architecture—compatibility, cost‑cutting, data‑code mingling, closed design, blacklist defenses, and neglecting security as a design goal—offering concrete examples and practical recommendations to build more robust, resilient software systems.

Cost OptimizationDesign PitfallsSecurity Architecture
0 likes · 14 min read
6 Critical Architecture Design Mistakes That Undermine System Security
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 3, 2015 · Cloud Computing

How 1hao Store Uses Hybrid Cloud to Balance Cost and Performance

This article explains how an e‑commerce platform leverages a hybrid cloud architecture to handle massive traffic spikes from marketing events while optimizing costs, and outlines six key considerations for successful implementation.

Cost OptimizationE‑commerceInfrastructure
0 likes · 10 min read
How 1hao Store Uses Hybrid Cloud to Balance Cost and Performance