Ctrip’s Journey to Continuous Delivery: Platform Evolution and Lessons Learned

Wu Yiting, Director of R&D at Ctrip, presented "Ctrip’s Path to Continuous Delivery" at QCon Beijing 2016, discussing how Ctrip’s delivery capabilities have advanced after new platform rollouts, sweeping reforms, and the lessons learned from the 528 incident.

With Ctrip’s rapid business growth, the number of developers and the complexity of business systems have surged, making it critical to shorten the time from idea to user‑facing functionality.

The presentation covered the development history of Ctrip’s continuous delivery platform, the launch of a next‑generation platform that introduced many new technologies, the overhaul of application deployment standards and lifecycle management, the establishment of visual releases, and the smooth migration of thousands of applications. It also described how functional and integration testing environments are built, the platform’s reflections and improvements in security, availability, and rapid scaling after the 528 incident, and the exploration and practice of container‑based continuous delivery.

Audience takeaways include understanding and learning continuous delivery concepts, gaining experience in building a continuous delivery platform, and learning how to promote and integrate a large‑scale internal platform across an enterprise.

Speaker bio: Wu Yiting currently leads teams responsible for Ctrip’s private cloud, virtual desktop cloud, and website application continuous delivery, focusing on Cloud/Continuous Delivery to boost development and operational efficiency. He joined Ctrip in 2012, built the Ctrip cloud platform from scratch based on OpenStack, and has delivered virtual desktop services for a multi‑site call center serving over ten thousand users. He also produced the QCon Shanghai 2016 “Operations and Monitoring” track.