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.