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Aug 11, 2017 · Operations

Alibaba’s Double 11 Playbook: Scaling Architecture and Real‑Time Fault Tolerance

Alibaba’s eight‑year evolution of Double 11 showcases how limited cost can deliver maximal user experience and massive throughput by transitioning from a centralized 3.0 distributed architecture to multi‑active zones, employing capacity planning, full‑link stress testing, fine‑grained dependency governance, and dynamic traffic scheduling to ensure high availability.