Tagged articles

311 articles

Page 4 of 4

Apr 18, 2016 · Backend Development

Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform

The talk details how Alibaba transformed its monolithic e‑commerce systems into a large‑scale distributed architecture using shared services, middleware, caching, database sharding, capacity planning, and cloud elasticity to support the massive traffic of the annual Double 11 shopping festival.

Alibabacapacity planningcloud computing

0 likes · 9 min read

Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform

21CTO

Mar 3, 2016 · Backend Development

Inside Alipay’s Metamorphosis: Java Message Middleware Powering Billions Daily

The article details Alipay’s system architecture and introduces Metamorphosis (MetaQ), an open‑source Java‑based distributed message middleware that powers billions of daily transactions, highlighting its design, features, and ideal use cases for high‑throughput, reliable, and ordered messaging in large‑scale financial services.

AlipayJavaMetamorphosis

0 likes · 5 min read

Inside Alipay’s Metamorphosis: Java Message Middleware Powering Billions Daily

MaGe Linux Operations

Feb 23, 2016 · Backend Development

How to Build Custom Middleware in Django 1.6 for Request Filtering

Learn how to create a custom Django 1.6 middleware by defining a class, overriding process_request, configuring it in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, and applying it to scenarios such as IP filtering, access control, user behavior tracking, and abnormal request detection, with full code examples.

DjangoPythonWeb Development

0 likes · 4 min read

How to Build Custom Middleware in Django 1.6 for Request Filtering

21CTO

Jan 19, 2016 · Backend Development

How Large-Scale Websites Evolve: From LAMP to Distributed Cloud Architecture

The article explains how large‑scale website architectures evolve from simple LAMP stacks to modern distributed, service‑oriented, virtualized systems, emphasizing the need for scalability, cost efficiency, middleware reuse, and continuous architectural transformation to meet growing user and development demands.

ScalabilityVirtualizationlarge-scale architecture

0 likes · 9 min read

How Large-Scale Websites Evolve: From LAMP to Distributed Cloud Architecture

21CTO

Dec 4, 2015 · Cloud Computing

How Gleasy Tackles Distributed Cloud Challenges with Open‑Source Middleware

Facing massive storage and high‑concurrency demands, Gleasy’s chief architect Xue Ke explains how the company combines open‑source foundations with custom middleware—such as CloudMQ, CloudFS, CloudIM, CloudIndex, and CloudJob—to build a distributed framework that simplifies app integration, improves performance, and reduces development cycles.

application integrationcloud computingmiddleware

0 likes · 8 min read

How Gleasy Tackles Distributed Cloud Challenges with Open‑Source Middleware

dbaplus Community

Nov 24, 2015 · Backend Development

Open‑Source vs Commercial Message Queues: Features, Performance & Ops Insights

This article examines the rise of cloud‑native architectures, explains core concepts of Message Oriented Middleware, compares JMS and AMQP protocols, evaluates major commercial and open‑source queue products across functionality, operations management, clustering, high‑availability, stability and extensions, and presents detailed performance test results for point‑to‑point and publish/subscribe modes.

ComparisonMessage Queuecommercial

0 likes · 20 min read

Open‑Source vs Commercial Message Queues: Features, Performance & Ops Insights

21CTO

Nov 23, 2015 · Fundamentals

Designing Reliable Industrial IoT: Architecture, Middleware & Real-World Cases

This article explains the technical differences between "Internet+" and industrial IoT, outlines the three‑tier architecture (device, cloud, monitoring), details middleware platforms YFIOs and YFCloud, and presents several practical deployment examples across agriculture, health, fisheries and wastewater treatment.

Industrial IoTIoTarchitecture

0 likes · 19 min read

Designing Reliable Industrial IoT: Architecture, Middleware & Real-World Cases

21CTO

Aug 15, 2015 · Backend Development

Inside Weibo’s Third‑Generation Backend Architecture: Scalability and High‑Availability

An in‑depth look at Weibo’s evolution to its third‑generation backend system, detailing the orthogonal decomposition model, three‑tier horizontal layering, key middleware such as MCQ, Motan RPC, SSDCache, and the WatchMan tracing platform that together enable high‑availability, massive concurrency, and low‑latency services for billions of users.

Backend ArchitectureDistributed Tracinghigh availability

0 likes · 12 min read

Architect

Aug 6, 2015 · Backend Development

Design and Optimization of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ Distributed Message Middleware

The article explains how Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ middleware achieve high‑performance, reliable distributed messaging and final consistency for massive e‑commerce transactions, detailing their architecture, design principles, scalability, fault‑tolerance, and the specific optimizations applied for the Double‑11 shopping festival.

AlibabaMetaQNotify

0 likes · 15 min read

Design and Optimization of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ Distributed Message Middleware

Architect

May 17, 2015 · Backend Development

Weibo’s Third-Generation Technical Architecture Overview

The article presents a comprehensive overview of Sina Weibo’s third-generation backend architecture, detailing its orthogonal three-tier horizontal model, vertical technical layers, key middleware components such as MCQ, Motan, Object Store and SSDCache, and the WatchMan distributed tracing system that together ensure high availability, scalability, and efficient service delivery.

SOAWeiboarchitecture

0 likes · 15 min read

Weibo’s Third-Generation Technical Architecture Overview

ITPUB

Jan 9, 2015 · Databases

Inside Alibaba’s DRDS: How Distributed Databases Power Double‑11

This interview with Alibaba’s DRDS expert Shen Xun reveals how the distributed relational database service evolved from an internal tool to a cloud‑native solution, detailing its architecture, scalability advantages, middleware ecosystem, and real‑world performance during massive events like Double‑11.

Alibaba CloudDRDSMessage Queue

0 likes · 18 min read

Inside Alibaba’s DRDS: How Distributed Databases Power Double‑11