Tencent Cloud Developer
May 10, 2023 · Cloud Native
Tencent's Large‑Scale Cloud‑Native Migration: Challenges and Solutions
In October 2022 Tencent finished migrating its flagship services—including QQ, WeChat, and Honor of Kings—to a cloud‑native architecture spanning over 50 million CPU cores, overcoming millisecond‑level upgrade, stateful in‑place refresh, massive cross‑region scaling, and heterogeneous hardware by deploying the TKEx platform’s sidecar upgrades, three‑container patterns, Global Scaler Operator, machine‑type abstraction, and Clusternet‑based application‑centric orchestration, boosting CPU utilization to 65 % and establishing China’s largest cloud‑native practice.
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