Understanding Ant Financial’s LDC Architecture: Unitization, CAP Analysis, and OceanBase Design
The article explains how Ant Financial scales Double‑11 payment traffic to hundreds of thousands of TPS by employing logical data centers (LDC), unit‑based system design (RZone, GZone, CZone), database sharding, CAP theorem analysis, Paxos‑based consensus, and the OceanBase distributed database, while also detailing disaster‑recovery and traffic‑shifting mechanisms.