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21CTO
21CTO
Aug 19, 2017 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce: From LAMP to Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture

This article traces Alibaba's e‑commerce platform evolution from a simple LAMP stack through Java migration, distributed caching, custom middleware, and multi‑active global deployment, highlighting the technical challenges, solutions like HSF RPC, TDDL sharding, and the high‑availability practices that now power Alibaba Cloud services.

Alibabaarchitecturee-commerce
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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce: From LAMP to Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jul 14, 2017 · Frontend Development

Design Philosophy, Source Code Analysis, and Best Practices of Redux

Redux is a JavaScript state container that enforces a single‑store, unidirectional data flow using actions, reducers and middleware, drawing on Flux, CQRS and event sourcing, and the article examines its core source files while offering best‑practice guidelines such as immutability, pure reducers, smart‑dumb component separation, and careful middleware use.

Design PatternsJavaScriptRedux
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Design Philosophy, Source Code Analysis, and Best Practices of Redux
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jul 8, 2017 · Operations

How SOA-Enabled MOM Transforms Enterprise Business Process Integration

Enterprise information systems increasingly rely on integrating business processes, and this article proposes a novel approach that combines Service‑Oriented Architecture with Message‑Oriented Middleware, delivering a three‑tier MOM framework that enhances efficiency, reusability, cross‑platform support, and flexible configuration for seamless business workflow integration.

MOMSOAbusiness process
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How SOA-Enabled MOM Transforms Enterprise Business Process Integration
21CTO
21CTO
May 19, 2017 · Backend Development

How Alibaba’s “Five‑Color Stone” Project Reshaped E‑Commerce Architecture

This article examines Alibaba’s multi‑phase “Five‑Color Stone” initiative, detailing how the integration of Taobao and Tmall product, transaction, and store systems created a shared‑service, service‑oriented architecture that underpins the company’s modern, scalable e‑commerce platform.

Alibabae-commerce architecturemiddleware
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How Alibaba’s “Five‑Color Stone” Project Reshaped E‑Commerce Architecture
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Mar 10, 2017 · Backend Development

Mastering WSGI: A Beginner’s Guide to Python Web Servers

This article introduces the WSGI specification, explains how WSGI servers and applications interact, details the application interface and environment handling, and provides practical examples for processing GET and POST requests in Python, helping beginners build their own web frameworks.

BackendHTTPPEP3333
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Mastering WSGI: A Beginner’s Guide to Python Web Servers
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Feb 17, 2017 · Backend Development

How Dynamic Log Level Adjustment Boosts Reliability in High‑Throughput Delivery Services

The article explains the design, implementation, and operational benefits of a middleware component that dynamically adjusts log levels in Java services, helping large‑scale delivery platforms balance comprehensive debugging information with system performance and avoid catastrophic failures during peak traffic.

Backend PerformanceJavaLog Management
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How Dynamic Log Level Adjustment Boosts Reliability in High‑Throughput Delivery Services
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 4, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Inside Alibaba’s Feitian Middleware: Powering Massive E‑Commerce and Cloud Innovation

Alibaba’s transformation from e‑commerce leader to tech powerhouse is highlighted by its Feitian middleware platform, a cloud‑based, highly available solution that supports diverse industries, enables massive transaction volumes, and exemplifies the evolution of large‑scale distributed architectures pioneered since Alibaba’s early IOE days.

Alibaba Clouddistributed systemsenterprise architecture
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Inside Alibaba’s Feitian Middleware: Powering Massive E‑Commerce and Cloud Innovation
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jan 12, 2017 · Frontend Development

Understanding Redux: Core Concepts, Store Mechanics, and Compose

This article explains Redux’s fundamental ideas—including the store, dispatch, subscribe, actions, reducers, and compose—while comparing it to Flux, illustrating code snippets, and preparing readers for the upcoming middleware discussion, all aimed at front‑end developers seeking a clear grasp of the data‑flow framework.

FluxReduxmiddleware
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Understanding Redux: Core Concepts, Store Mechanics, and Compose
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Dec 19, 2016 · Databases

MTDDL: Meituan Distributed Data Layer Middleware Overview

MTDDL, Meituan’s in‑house client‑side sharding middleware, was created to address rapid product‑database growth by offering dynamic data‑source routing, read‑write separation, distributed ID generation, configurable database‑and‑table sharding, connection‑pool management, SQL monitoring, and live configuration updates via annotations and extensible strategies.

Dynamic Data SourceJavaSQL Monitoring
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MTDDL: Meituan Distributed Data Layer Middleware Overview
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 12, 2016 · Databases

Why NewSQL? Classification, Technical Challenges, and Discussion

This article reviews the motivations behind NewSQL, outlines its three main classifications, examines the technical challenges such as memory storage, sharding, concurrency control, replication and crash recovery, and provides a discussion on its scalability and architectural trade‑offs.

NewSQLmiddleware
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Why NewSQL? Classification, Technical Challenges, and Discussion
Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team
Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team
Sep 29, 2016 · Backend Development

Getting Started with Express: Build Your First Node.js Web App

This guide introduces Express, a Node.js web framework, covering its advantages, environment setup, a step‑by‑step demo project, directory layout, core concepts such as routing, middleware and template engines, and practical code examples to help beginners launch a functional server quickly.

BackendExpressmiddleware
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Getting Started with Express: Build Your First Node.js Web App
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Sep 9, 2016 · Databases

MTAtlas: Meituan's Database Middleware Architecture and Practices

The article recaps Meituan‑Dianping’s 10th Tech Salon where senior DBA Ping Zhong detailed the Atlas database middleware, explaining its three‑layer architecture, connection‑string simplification, load balancing, read/write separation, automated slave management, monitoring, sharding capabilities, current 87% deployment across services, and upcoming enhancements such as stronger SQL processing and distributed transaction support.

automationmiddlewaresharding
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MTAtlas: Meituan's Database Middleware Architecture and Practices
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Aug 23, 2016 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of Pitcher: A Go‑Based Reverse Proxy Middleware

The article presents Pitcher, a Go‑implemented reverse‑proxy middleware, detailing its one‑core‑multiple‑routes architecture, callback‑based module model, hot‑configuration reload, graceful restart strategies, GC optimizations, service splitting, and various transport choices such as TCP/protobuf, UDP, and Unix domain sockets to achieve high‑performance, scalable traffic entry for Qunar.

GC optimizationGoHot Reload
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Design and Implementation of Pitcher: A Go‑Based Reverse Proxy Middleware
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Jun 27, 2016 · Cloud Native

Microservices, Containers, and Cloud‑Native Architecture: An Updated Middleware Overview

This article provides a comprehensive update on how microservices, containers, and cloud‑native architectures are reshaping middleware, covering key concepts, frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, service discovery, dynamic configuration, scalability, resilience patterns, and integration platforms for modern enterprise IT.

CI/CDDevOpscloud-native
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Microservices, Containers, and Cloud‑Native Architecture: An Updated Middleware Overview
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jun 24, 2016 · Backend Development

Overview of Alibaba's Open Source Projects

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's numerous open‑source projects, ranging from high‑performance service frameworks and databases to messaging middleware, frontend tools, testing platforms, and infrastructure utilities, highlighting their key features and typical use cases.

AlibabaBackendbig data
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Overview of Alibaba's Open Source Projects
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 24, 2016 · Backend Development

Inside Sina Weibo’s Third-Gen Backend Architecture for 100M+ Users

To support over 140 million monthly active users, Sina Weibo evolved from a simple LAMP stack to a sophisticated third‑generation architecture featuring layered interfaces, service and resource tiers, custom RPC and messaging frameworks, SSD caching, and a large‑scale distributed tracing system called WatchMan.

backend architecturedistributed tracinglarge-scale web
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Inside Sina Weibo’s Third-Gen Backend Architecture for 100M+ Users
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 19, 2016 · Cloud Native

Unlocking Container Success: 5 Ways Application Design Drives Performance

This article, derived from the Efficient Operations Community Talk, explains how thoughtful application design—covering startup time, node placement, data structures, middleware choices, and architecture—determines the true performance and stability benefits when deploying containers.

application performancecloud-nativemiddleware
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Unlocking Container Success: 5 Ways Application Design Drives Performance
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 19, 2016 · Backend Development

How Alibaba’s Notify and MetaQ Power Massive E‑Commerce Messaging

This article explains the design principles, architecture, and performance optimizations of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ message middleware, illustrating how they achieve reliable asynchronous communication, high scalability, and low latency for billions of messages during peak e‑commerce events like Double 11.

backend architecturedistributed systemshigh availability
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How Alibaba’s Notify and MetaQ Power Massive E‑Commerce Messaging
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
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
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Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform
21CTO
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
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Inside Alipay’s Metamorphosis: Java Message Middleware Powering Billions Daily
MaGe Linux Operations
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.

DjangoPythonmiddleware
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How to Build Custom Middleware in Django 1.6 for Request Filtering
21CTO
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.

large-scale architecturemiddlewarescalability
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How Large-Scale Websites Evolve: From LAMP to Distributed Cloud Architecture
21CTO
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.

Cloud Computingapplication integrationmiddleware
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How Gleasy Tackles Distributed Cloud Challenges with Open‑Source Middleware
dbaplus Community
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.

Commercialcomparisonmessage queue
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Open‑Source vs Commercial Message Queues: Features, Performance & Ops Insights
21CTO
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.

IoTarchitecturecloud
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Designing Reliable Industrial IoT: Architecture, Middleware & Real-World Cases
21CTO
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
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Inside Weibo’s Third‑Generation Backend Architecture: Scalability and High‑Availability
Architect
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.

AlibabaMetaQfinal-consistency
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Design and Optimization of Alibaba's Notify and MetaQ Distributed Message Middleware
Architect
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
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Weibo’s Third-Generation Technical Architecture Overview
ITPUB
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 CloudDRDSdistributed database
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Inside Alibaba’s DRDS: How Distributed Databases Power Double‑11