How Alipay Handles 540k TPS: Inside the LDC Architecture, Unitization and CAP Analysis

This article dissects Alipay's massive Double‑11 payment surge, explaining how its Logical Data Center (LDC) and unit‑based architecture—RZone, GZone, and CZone—scale to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, manage traffic routing, implement disaster‑recovery, and navigate the CAP theorem using OceanBase and Paxos.

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How Alipay Handles 540k TPS: Inside the LDC Architecture, Unitization and CAP Analysis

Java Architect Essentials

Jan 3, 2021 · Databases

Understanding Ant Financial’s LDC Architecture: Partitioning, CAP Analysis, and Multi‑Active Disaster Recovery

This article explains how Ant Financial’s logical data center (LDC) architecture uses unitization, database sharding, and CAP‑aware design—including RZone, GZone, and CZone—to achieve tens of millions of TPS during Double‑11, while providing multi‑active disaster recovery and high availability.

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Understanding Ant Financial’s LDC Architecture: Partitioning, CAP Analysis, and Multi‑Active Disaster Recovery

IT Architects Alliance

Dec 10, 2020 · Industry Insights

How Alipay Handles 540K TPS: Inside LDC’s Unit‑Based Architecture and CAP Strategies

This article analyzes the massive traffic handling of Alipay during Double 11, explaining the LDC (Logical Data Center) unit‑based design, the RZone‑GZone‑CZone hierarchy, traffic steering, disaster‑recovery mechanisms, and how OceanBase and Paxos enable CAP compliance for ultra‑high‑availability payments.

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How Alipay Handles 540K TPS: Inside LDC’s Unit‑Based Architecture and CAP Strategies