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Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 23, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Edge Computing and Its Relationship with 5G: Concepts, Value, Applications, and Future Outlook

This article explains edge computing, its distributed architecture, key advantages such as higher security, lower latency and reduced bandwidth costs, explores major application scenarios like smart manufacturing and autonomous driving, and analyzes how 5G both drives and benefits from edge computing development.

5GEdge ComputingIoT
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Edge Computing and Its Relationship with 5G: Concepts, Value, Applications, and Future Outlook
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Feb 19, 2020 · Cloud Native

Low‑Latency Live Streaming System: Challenges, Architecture, and Solutions

Youku’s low‑latency live‑streaming system replaces the traditional RTMP‑CDN pipeline with a controllable media‑transport architecture that combines private real‑time protocols, WebRTC, and edge nodes, cutting anchor‑to‑anchor latency below 300 ms and anchor‑to‑viewer latency to under 415 ms while preserving smooth playback.

CDNLow latencyWebRTC
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Low‑Latency Live Streaming System: Challenges, Architecture, and Solutions
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 13, 2020 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Cut Live Stream Latency Below 300ms with a New Architecture

Facing pandemic-driven remote teaching, Alibaba’s live streaming team redesigned their media pipeline, combining CDN, custom real-time protocols, WebRTC, and cloud-native techniques to control transmission and playback buffers, achieving sub-300 ms host-to-host latency and under-600 ms host-to-viewer latency while maintaining smooth playback.

CDNLow latencyWebRTC
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How Alibaba Cut Live Stream Latency Below 300ms with a New Architecture
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 8, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Demystifying FPGA: Architecture, Performance, and Microsoft's Data Center Deployment

FPGA, a reconfigurable hardware architecture, offers low latency and high efficiency compared to CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs, making it ideal for both compute‑intensive and communication‑intensive tasks, and Microsoft’s multi‑stage data‑center deployments illustrate its scalability, flexibility, and impact on cloud services.

Data centerFPGAHardware acceleration
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Demystifying FPGA: Architecture, Performance, and Microsoft's Data Center Deployment
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Jan 23, 2020 · Big Data

Understanding Apache Hudi: Incremental Processing and Low‑Latency Data Management on Hadoop

This article explains how Apache Hudi enables efficient, low‑latency incremental data ingestion and processing on Hadoop by providing a unified service layer, describing its motivation, architecture, storage components, write and read paths, compaction, fault recovery, and incremental query capabilities.

Apache HudiHadoopIncremental Processing
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Understanding Apache Hudi: Incremental Processing and Low‑Latency Data Management on Hadoop
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 11, 2019 · Industry Insights

How Real-Time Audio/Video Meets Traditional PSTN: Architecture and Low‑Latency Solutions

This article provides an in‑depth technical analysis of integrating real‑time audio/video (RTC) with legacy PSTN, covering latency sources, protocol and codec differences, adaptation layers, system architecture, and optimization techniques such as jitter buffering, ARQ/FEC, and automatic failover.

Audio ProcessingLow latencyPSTN integration
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How Real-Time Audio/Video Meets Traditional PSTN: Architecture and Low‑Latency Solutions
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 3, 2019 · Cloud Computing

Technical Overview of Low‑Latency Interactive Live Streaming and MLVBLiveRoom Solutions

The talk detailed Tencent Cloud’s low‑latency interactive live‑streaming techniques—using UDP‑accelerated RTMP, built‑in echo cancellation, cloud‑side video mixing, and scalable room management—to overcome latency, echo, and mixing challenges in multi‑host link‑mic scenarios, illustrated by the MLVBLiveRoom and TRTC large‑room solutions.

Low latencyRTMP over UDPSDK
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Technical Overview of Low‑Latency Interactive Live Streaming and MLVBLiveRoom Solutions
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
May 24, 2019 · Industry Insights

iQIYI’s 8K VR Live Streaming: Cutting Bitrate 75% and Eliminating Motion Latency

The article examines iQIYI’s 8K VR live‑streaming pipeline, detailing how 5G connectivity, tiled encoding, ROI‑focused transmission, and hardware‑accelerated processing reduce bitrate by 75 % and bring motion‑to‑photon latency down to zero, while addressing resolution, bandwidth, and latency challenges of immersive VR broadcasts.

5G8K streamingLow latency
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iQIYI’s 8K VR Live Streaming: Cutting Bitrate 75% and Eliminating Motion Latency
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 8, 2019 · Fundamentals

Understanding RDMA: Principles, Advantages, and Implementation Details

This article explains how RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technology, originating from InfiniBand and extended to Ethernet (RoCE) and TCP/IP (iWARP), provides ultra‑low latency, high throughput, and minimal CPU usage for high‑performance computing and big‑data applications by bypassing traditional OS and protocol stack processing.

High‑Performance NetworkingLow latencyRDMA
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Understanding RDMA: Principles, Advantages, and Implementation Details
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 28, 2019 · Big Data

Why Pravega Matters: Native Stream Storage for Low‑Latency, Exactly‑Once Data Pipelines

Pravega, Dell’s native stream storage project, addresses the challenges of modern low‑latency, exactly‑once stream processing by combining tiered storage, Apache BookKeeper, and seamless Flink integration, offering a unified solution that reduces development, storage, and operational costs compared to traditional message systems like Kafka.

Apache FlinkExactly-OnceKafka Comparison
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Why Pravega Matters: Native Stream Storage for Low‑Latency, Exactly‑Once Data Pipelines
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Feb 12, 2019 · Fundamentals

How ZGC Achieves Sub‑10 ms Pauses: A Deep Dive into Java’s Low‑Latency GC

ZGC is a scalable, low‑latency Java garbage collector designed to keep pause times under 10 ms regardless of heap size, supporting up to 4 TB, and leveraging concurrent, region‑based, compacting, NUMA‑aware techniques, colored pointers, and load barriers, with detailed compilation and tuning guidance.

Garbage CollectionJDKJava
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How ZGC Achieves Sub‑10 ms Pauses: A Deep Dive into Java’s Low‑Latency GC
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 21, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Data Center Network Architecture HAIL 5.1: High Availability, De‑stacking, and Low‑Latency RDMA Design

The article describes Alibaba's HAIL 5.1 data‑center network architecture introduced for the 2018 Double‑11 event, detailing its high‑availability de‑stacking design, low‑latency RDMA deployment, and future HAIL 2.0 evolution to support larger‑scale, intelligent, and high‑performance cloud networking.

Data centerLow latencyRDMA
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Alibaba Data Center Network Architecture HAIL 5.1: High Availability, De‑stacking, and Low‑Latency RDMA Design
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Sep 10, 2018 · Backend Development

Low‑Latency and High‑Availability Design of RocketMQ for Double‑11 Peak Traffic

This article reviews the evolution of Alibaba's Aliware message engine, analyzes the latency and availability challenges faced during Double‑11, and describes the low‑latency optimizations, capacity‑guarantee strategies, and multi‑replica high‑availability architecture implemented in RocketMQ to sustain trillion‑level message flows.

Distributed SystemsLow latencyMessage Queue
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Low‑Latency and High‑Availability Design of RocketMQ for Double‑11 Peak Traffic
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 29, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba's FPGA-Based Ultra‑Low Latency, High‑Throughput Machine Learning Processor

Alibaba unveiled an FPGA‑designed machine‑learning accelerator that achieves sub‑millisecond inference latency and thousands of frames‑per‑second throughput, demonstrating how integrated hardware‑software optimizations can deliver real‑time AI performance surpassing conventional GPU and ASIC solutions.

AI acceleratorFPGAHigh Throughput
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Alibaba's FPGA-Based Ultra‑Low Latency, High‑Throughput Machine Learning Processor
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 30, 2018 · Game Development

How Real-Time Voice Changing Boosts Social Interaction in Games with Tencent GME

The article explains how Tencent Cloud’s Gaming Multimedia Engine (GME) introduces a built‑in real‑time voice‑changing feature for games, detailing the underlying pitch‑and‑timbre manipulation, latency‑reduction techniques that keep delay under 40 ms, and how developers can integrate the SDK to enrich player social interaction without external hardware.

Game DevelopmentLow latencySDK
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How Real-Time Voice Changing Boosts Social Interaction in Games with Tencent GME
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 2, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Tencent Video Cloud Mini-program Audio/Video Solution: From Concept to Implementation

The article chronicles how Tencent Video Cloud built a low‑latency audio/video SDK for WeChat mini‑programs—using live‑pusher and live‑player components to capture, process, encode, and transmit streams via TCP/UDP, adding echo cancellation, QoS, and room‑based signaling to enable real‑time chat and multi‑party conferencing within a 500 ms end‑to‑end delay.

Low latencyMini-programRTC
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Tencent Video Cloud Mini-program Audio/Video Solution: From Concept to Implementation
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 22, 2018 · Fundamentals

An Overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA): Principles, Comparisons, and Implementations

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), detailing its underlying principles, performance advantages over traditional TCP/IP, various protocol families such as InfiniBand, RoCE, and iWARP, and their respective hardware and software requirements.

High‑performance computingInfiniBandLow latency
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An Overview of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA): Principles, Comparisons, and Implementations
21CTO
21CTO
May 10, 2017 · Backend Development

How We Built a Scalable, Low‑Latency Ranking System for Millions of Users

This article describes the challenges and solutions behind designing a high‑availability, low‑latency ranking service that supports tens of thousands of leaderboards, optimizes storage engine choices, automates scheduling, and isolates resources using ZooKeeper, Redis, and container‑based deployments across multiple data centers.

Low latencyZooKeepercontainerization
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How We Built a Scalable, Low‑Latency Ranking System for Millions of Users
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Feb 9, 2017 · Backend Development

Low‑Latency and High‑Availability Design of RocketMQ: Evolution, Optimization, and Capacity Assurance

This article reviews the evolution of Alibaba's middleware message engine, analyzes the low‑latency and high‑availability challenges faced during Double‑11, and details the optimization techniques, capacity‑guarantee strategies, and HA architecture that enable RocketMQ to handle massive traffic spikes with millisecond‑level latency.

Low latencyRocketMQ
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Low‑Latency and High‑Availability Design of RocketMQ: Evolution, Optimization, and Capacity Assurance
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Nov 4, 2016 · Big Data

Design and Implementation of a Low-Latency App Exception Monitoring Platform Using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

The paper presents a production‑grade, low‑cost mobile‑app exception monitoring platform built on Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Elasticsearch that achieves high availability through exactly‑once processing and checkpointing, minute‑level latency by decoupling raw and symbolized logs, high throughput via reservoir sampling, and dynamic scalability without code changes.

Big DataElasticsearchException Monitoring
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Design and Implementation of a Low-Latency App Exception Monitoring Platform Using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Aug 19, 2016 · Fundamentals

Design and Implementation of a Sub‑500 ms Ultra‑HD Real‑Time Video Transmission System

This article details the architecture, encoding choices, network‑level optimizations, transmission model, measurement methods, and practical pitfalls involved in building a 1080p real‑time video streaming solution that consistently keeps end‑to‑end latency below 500 ms for interactive online education.

H.264Low latencyReal-time Video
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Design and Implementation of a Sub‑500 ms Ultra‑HD Real‑Time Video Transmission System
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 17, 2016 · Backend Development

Design and Optimization of Bilibili Live Chat (GOIM) System

The article presents a detailed overview of Bilibili's GOIM live chat architecture, covering its high‑stability, high‑availability, low‑latency design, component breakdown, memory and module optimizations, network improvements, and performance testing results to achieve scalable real‑time messaging.

Backend ArchitectureGoKafka
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Design and Optimization of Bilibili Live Chat (GOIM) System
WeChat Client Technology Team
WeChat Client Technology Team
May 10, 2016 · Information Security

How We Built mmtls: A High‑Performance, Low‑Latency Secure Protocol for WeChat

mmtls is a custom, lightweight secure communication protocol designed for WeChat that encrypts all client‑to‑server traffic, offering confidentiality, integrity, low latency, scalability, and forward secrecy by adapting TLS 1.3 concepts with optimized handshake, key‑exchange, record, and replay‑protection mechanisms.

AuthenticationLow latencyTLS
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How We Built mmtls: A High‑Performance, Low‑Latency Secure Protocol for WeChat
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jan 7, 2015 · Fundamentals

Understanding the C4 Garbage Collector: A Concurrent Continuously Compacting Collector for Low‑Latency Java Applications

This article explains the design, phases, and practical implications of the C4 concurrent continuously compacting garbage collector, comparing it with G1 and IBM's Balanced GC, and provides guidance on when to choose C4 for enterprise Java workloads requiring low pause times and high scalability.

C4Garbage CollectionJVM
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Understanding the C4 Garbage Collector: A Concurrent Continuously Compacting Collector for Low‑Latency Java Applications