Insights from Ant Financial’s Self‑Developed Database Technology and Architecture

The article recounts Ant Financial’s journey from relying on commercial databases to building its own OceanBase system, detailing the strategic, technical, and architectural challenges of self‑developed databases, distributed middleware, unit‑based design, and multi‑city fault‑tolerant solutions.

Ant FinancialOceanBasePaxos

0 likes · 18 min read

Insights from Ant Financial’s Self‑Developed Database Technology and Architecture

Architecture Digest

Jun 24, 2017 · Backend Development

Unit Architecture Practice: Design, Benefits, and Implementation at Weibo

This article explains why architecture practice is essential, introduces the concept of unit (cell) architecture, discusses its performance and cost advantages, and details how Weibo applied it to its fan service platform, including handling of partitioning and job management.

Distributed Systemsarchitectureservice design

0 likes · 11 min read

Unit Architecture Practice: Design, Benefits, and Implementation at Weibo