Alibaba Cloud Developer

Nov 26, 2018 · Databases

How Alibaba’s DBFS Achieved Storage‑Compute Separation for Massive 11.11 Sales

This article details Alibaba's journey from the 2017 pilot of storage‑compute separation to the 2018 large‑scale deployment of the DBFS user‑space file system, highlighting innovations such as zero‑copy I/O, RDMA integration, adaptive page cache, asynchronous I/O, atomic writes, online resize, and hardware‑software co‑design that enabled elastic, high‑performance database operations during the Double‑11 shopping festival.