How Meipai Scaled to 100M Users in 9 Months: Key Lessons from QCon

An in‑depth recap of Hong Xiaojun’s QCon presentation reveals how Meipai’s architecture evolved from a minimalist design to a highly scalable, high‑availability system, tackling MySQL bottlenecks, cache challenges, monitoring, CDN resilience, and technology migrations to support rapid growth to over a hundred million users.

MySQL optimizationSystem Designcaching strategies

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How Meipai Scaled to 100M Users in 9 Months: Key Lessons from QCon

Art of Distributed System Architecture Design

Mar 27, 2015 · Backend Development

Inside Xiaomi’s Push Service: Scaling to 9.65 B Messages During 11.11

During the 11.11 shopping festival Xiaomi’s push service delivered 9.65 billion messages at an average of 670 k per minute, maintaining smooth operation without congestion through a multi‑datacenter, XMPP‑based architecture with Thrift serialization and extensive caching.

BackendPerformance TestingThrift

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Inside Xiaomi’s Push Service: Scaling to 9.65 B Messages During 11.11

Art of Distributed System Architecture Design

Mar 11, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Building a Scalable Cloud Application Platform for the 12306 Railway Ticketing System with Pivotal Gemfire

The article analyzes the rapid growth of China’s 12306 online ticketing platform, the challenges of extreme traffic and concurrency during peak travel periods, and how a cloud‑native, memory‑centric architecture based on Pivotal Gemfire enabled scalable, high‑performance, and highly available ticketing services.

Pivotal Gemfiredistributed cachinghigh concurrency

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Building a Scalable Cloud Application Platform for the 12306 Railway Ticketing System with Pivotal Gemfire

Qunar Tech Salon

Feb 5, 2015 · Backend Development

WeChat Architecture: Scaling to Hundreds of Millions Users with Agile Development and Robust Operations

The talk reveals how WeChat achieved rapid growth to over 100 million users by combining precise product timing, an aggressive agile mindset, and a resilient technical backbone built on modular large‑system design, extensible protocols, gray‑release deployment, comprehensive monitoring, and fault‑tolerant disaster‑recovery strategies.

Agile DevelopmentBackendWeChat

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WeChat Architecture: Scaling to Hundreds of Millions Users with Agile Development and Robust Operations

How Meipai Scaled to 100M Users in 9 Months: Key Lessons from QCon

Inside Xiaomi’s Push Service: Scaling to 9.65 B Messages During 11.11

Building a Scalable Cloud Application Platform for the 12306 Railway Ticketing System with Pivotal Gemfire

WeChat Architecture: Scaling to Hundreds of Millions Users with Agile Development and Robust Operations

Inside Xiaomi’s Push Service: Scaling to 9.65 B Messages During 11.11