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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 23, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Built Its Full‑Domain Data Platform: Architecture & Lessons

In this detailed account, Alibaba senior technologist Zhang Lei explains the concept of a full‑domain data platform, its “four‑horizontal and three‑vertical” architecture, the OneData ecosystem, cost‑saving strategies, data quality tools, and practical challenges of building and operating massive big‑data infrastructure across the Alibaba ecosystem.

AlibabaData Middle Platformdata engineering
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How Alibaba Built Its Full‑Domain Data Platform: Architecture & Lessons
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 15, 2017 · Information Security

How Alibaba’s Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM) Is Shaping China’s Data Protection Landscape

The article explains Alibaba's Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM), its partnership program, the involvement of 17 leading security firms, and how the model aims to improve data security capabilities across industries by establishing standardized assessment criteria and fostering ecosystem collaboration.

AlibabaBig DataDSMM
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How Alibaba’s Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM) Is Shaping China’s Data Protection Landscape
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 15, 2017 · Cloud Native

Why Alibaba’s Pouch Container Runtime Is Shaping the Future of Cloud Native

At the 2017 Hangzhou Cloud Expo, Alibaba announced the open‑source release of its internally‑developed container runtime Pouch, detailing its seven‑year evolution, unique security and scalability features, collaborations with Zhejiang University, and the company’s strategy to foster an ecosystem‑driven, standards‑focused container technology future.

AlibabaCloud NativeContainer
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Why Alibaba’s Pouch Container Runtime Is Shaping the Future of Cloud Native
21CTO
21CTO
Oct 11, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: 10 Top Scientists Powering AI & Quantum Research

Alibaba’s newly launched DAMO Academy, announced at the 2017 Cloud Expo, brings together ten distinguished scientists—including three Chinese academicians and five U.S. Academy members—to spearhead groundbreaking research in AI, quantum computing, security, chip technology, and other frontier fields, aiming to outlast the company itself.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceQuantum Computing
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Inside Alibaba’s DAMO Academy: 10 Top Scientists Powering AI & Quantum Research
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Oct 1, 2017 · Operations

Alibaba Global Operations Center Wins DRI International Award for Business Continuity Management Innovation

Alibaba's Global Operations Center (GOC) was honored with the DRI International "Best BCM Innovation Practice" award for its industry‑leading, end‑to‑end business continuity solution that ensures 99.99% service availability through proactive fault prevention, rapid detection, automated recovery, and thorough post‑incident analysis.

AlibabaAwardBCM
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Alibaba Global Operations Center Wins DRI International Award for Business Continuity Management Innovation
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 12, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba’s New Quantum Chief Scientist on Bringing Quantum Computing to Cloud AI

Professor Shi Yaoyun, now Alibaba Cloud’s chief quantum scientist, discusses his move from academia to industry, the company’s ambitious quantum computing and quantum cryptography initiatives, their integration with cloud services, potential impacts on AI and big data, and the broader challenges and future directions of quantum technology.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceQuantum Cryptography
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Alibaba’s New Quantum Chief Scientist on Bringing Quantum Computing to Cloud AI
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 6, 2017 · Operations

How Mixed Offline/Online Scheduling Boosted Alibaba’s Data Center Utilization by 30%

The article explains how rapid internet growth has expanded data centers, why traditional operations fall short, presents a simple utilization formula, shows Alibaba’s mixed offline‑online scheduling experiment that raised server usage from 10% to over 40%, and announces an open dataset for academic research.

AlibabaCluster Managementdata center utilization
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How Mixed Offline/Online Scheduling Boosted Alibaba’s Data Center Utilization by 30%
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 1, 2017 · R&D Management

From Shanghai to Alibaba: Leadership Lessons, Accountability, and Continuous Growth

Qian Lei’s nine‑year journey from a Shanghai ERP manager to an Alibaba senior engineer reveals how embracing responsibility, aligning technology with business, constantly summarizing work, and fostering curiosity can accelerate personal and team growth while avoiding the pitfalls of KPI‑obsessed management.

AlibabaTeam Buildingcareer growth
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From Shanghai to Alibaba: Leadership Lessons, Accountability, and Continuous Growth
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.

AlibabaScalabilityarchitecture
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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑Commerce: From LAMP to Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 19, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba’s 11 IJCAI 2017 Papers: Cutting‑Edge AI Research Highlights

Alibaba secured 11 paper acceptances at IJCAI 2017, showcasing advances in visual odometry, facade parsing, object tracking, optical flow, co‑saliency detection, zero‑shot learning, factorization machines, recommendation, multitask similarity learning, and AI applications in e‑commerce, reflecting its growing AI research footprint.

AlibabaIJCAIResearch Papers
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Alibaba’s 11 IJCAI 2017 Papers: Cutting‑Edge AI Research Highlights
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 18, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Inside Alibaba’s Global Data Center Strategy: From Silicon Valley to a World‑Wide Cloud

Alibaba’s Tech Open‑Day in Silicon Valley showcased its global data‑center architecture, energy‑efficient designs, white‑box hardware, high‑speed networking, and software platforms that together power the company’s massive e‑commerce, cloud, and financial services while driving a shift toward technology‑first growth.

AlibabaData CentersGlobal Networking
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Inside Alibaba’s Global Data Center Strategy: From Silicon Valley to a World‑Wide Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 17, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Tech Open-Day in Silicon Valley Showcases Global Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Innovations

The Alibaba Tech Open-Day held in Silicon Valley highlighted the company's global data‑center network, energy‑efficient designs, high‑speed networking, custom hardware, advanced system software, middleware solutions, and its ambitious NASA research program, while also recruiting top engineering talent for both US and China operations.

AlibabaData CentersInfrastructure
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Alibaba Tech Open-Day in Silicon Valley Showcases Global Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Innovations
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 3, 2017 · Fundamentals

How X‑Paxos Transforms Distributed Consensus for High‑Performance Databases

X‑Paxos is Alibaba’s high‑performance, independently designed Paxos library that extends the classic consensus algorithm with multi‑threaded architecture, pluggable logging, adaptive batching and pipelining, and flexible node roles, delivering strong consistency, high availability, and low latency for global distributed databases and services.

AlibabaPaxosdistributed consensus
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How X‑Paxos Transforms Distributed Consensus for High‑Performance Databases
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jul 19, 2017 · Fundamentals

A Curated List of Notable Alibaba Open‑Source Projects

This article presents a comprehensive overview of prominent Alibaba open‑source projects spanning frontend frameworks, mobile cross‑platform solutions, backend systems, databases, testing tools, and UI components, each with brief descriptions and GitHub links for developers seeking robust, enterprise‑grade resources.

AlibabaDevToolsFrontend
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A Curated List of Notable Alibaba Open‑Source Projects
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 17, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Turns Big Data into ‘Data New Energy’ with Automated Tagging and Distributed Knowledge Graphs

Alibaba's senior algorithm expert Yang Hongxia explains how the company fuses massive, heterogeneous data sources into a unified platform, builds automated tag‑production pipelines and large‑scale distributed knowledge graphs, and applies these technologies to drive smarter business decisions and AI‑enabled services.

AlibabaBig DataData Platform
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How Alibaba Turns Big Data into ‘Data New Energy’ with Automated Tagging and Distributed Knowledge Graphs
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jun 14, 2017 · Operations

Scaling Alibaba's Operations: Inside StarAgent, Qingteng & Normandy

This article details Alibaba's evolution of its operations platform, describing the design, features, and performance of StarAgent, the Qingteng P2P file distribution system, and the Normandy application‑deployment platform, highlighting how these tools enable high‑availability, automation, and massive scalability across global data centers.

AlibabaDevOpsOperations
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Scaling Alibaba's Operations: Inside StarAgent, Qingteng & Normandy
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 8, 2017 · R&D Management

How Youku Streamlined Demand Analysis: A Data‑Driven Process Overhaul

This article details how a Youku team, together with Alibaba's PMO, redesigned their demand analysis workflow in 2016‑2017 by introducing data‑driven standards, product planning, decentralized reviews, and unified tooling, resulting in clearer timelines, higher efficiency, and measurable quality improvements.

AlibabaYoukuagile
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How Youku Streamlined Demand Analysis: A Data‑Driven Process Overhaul
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jun 8, 2017 · R&D Management

Optimizing Demand Analysis Process for Youku Mobile App: An Agile Coaching Case Study

Through agile coaching, this case study details how the demand analysis workflow for Youku’s mobile app was redesigned, standardized in Alibaba’s RDC platform, and evaluated, resulting in clearer product planning, decentralized reviews, data‑driven management, and measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and cross‑team collaboration.

AlibabaRDCYouku
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Optimizing Demand Analysis Process for Youku Mobile App: An Agile Coaching Case Study
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 1, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Engineers Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Load Testing for Massive Sales Events

This article explains Alibaba's four‑step capacity‑planning methodology, the various single‑machine load‑testing techniques, the design of a full‑link load‑testing platform for Double‑11, and the dynamic flow‑control framework that together ensure system stability during extreme traffic spikes.

AlibabaOperationscapacity planning
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How Alibaba Engineers Capacity Planning and Full‑Link Load Testing for Massive Sales Events
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 25, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Blink Engine Redefines Real‑Time Big Data Processing

This article explains how Alibaba’s Blink, built on Apache Flink, transforms batch‑oriented big‑data platforms into a unified, high‑performance real‑time computing engine, detailing its architecture, state management, checkpointing, and successful deployment in e‑commerce, search, recommendation, and online machine‑learning scenarios.

AlibabaBig DataFlink
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How Alibaba’s Blink Engine Redefines Real‑Time Big Data Processing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 20, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI‑Driven Information Retrieval Is Shaping E‑Commerce Futures

The second “Frontiers and Future of Information Retrieval” forum, co‑hosted by the Chinese Computer Society, Alibaba and academic committees, showcased how massive, structured e‑commerce data and AI algorithms are revolutionizing search, customer service, and research collaborations across the industry.

AlibabaBig Datae-commerce
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How Alibaba’s AI‑Driven Information Retrieval Is Shaping E‑Commerce Futures
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.

AlibabaSystem Integratione‑commerce architecture
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How Alibaba’s “Five‑Color Stone” Project Reshaped E‑Commerce Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 17, 2017 · Databases

How Alibaba Tackles the Massive Challenges of Time‑Series Data Storage

This article details Alibaba's middleware team's exploration of time‑series data characteristics, real‑world monitoring scenarios, the limitations of traditional databases, and the evolution of their custom HiTSDB solution that combines inverted indexing, high‑compression algorithms, and distributed aggregation to meet massive write and query demands.

AlibabaBig DataDatabase
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How Alibaba Tackles the Massive Challenges of Time‑Series Data Storage
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 15, 2017 · Fundamentals

China Unveils World's First Light-Based Quantum Computer Surpassing Classical Machines

On May 3, China announced the creation of the world’s first optical quantum computer that outperforms early classical machines, highlighting breakthroughs by the University of Science and Technology of China, Alibaba‑CAS quantum lab, Zhejiang University and others, and outlining rapid advances in photonic and superconducting qubit technologies.

AlibabaCASChina research
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China Unveils World's First Light-Based Quantum Computer Surpassing Classical Machines
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 12, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Engineers Fault Governance and Chaos Engineering for E‑commerce

This article recounts Alibaba's middleware team's QCon Beijing 2017 presentation on fault governance and fault‑drill practices, covering distributed‑system dependency failures, strong/weak dependency concepts, multi‑stage technical evolution, and the design of their chaos‑engineering platform for large‑scale e‑commerce.

AlibabaOperationschaos engineering
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How Alibaba Engineers Fault Governance and Chaos Engineering for E‑commerce
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 4, 2017 · Operations

From Taobao to the Cloud: Proven High‑Availability Strategies for Massive Traffic

In this talk, Alibaba expert Mu Jian shares how the massive Taobao e‑commerce platform achieved high availability through layered networking, cache design, OS‑level tuning, rate limiting, disaster‑recovery planning, and cloud‑native architectures, offering practical guidance for building resilient systems at scale.

AlibabaCachingPerformance Optimization
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From Taobao to the Cloud: Proven High‑Availability Strategies for Massive Traffic
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 28, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Design Platform “Luban” Revolutionizes Mass Creative Production

Alibaba unveiled its AI‑driven design platform Luban, which leverages massive data and machine‑learning algorithms to automatically generate high‑quality, personalized graphics at double‑digit scale, reshaping design workflows, boosting efficiency, and prompting a strategic shift for designers in the new commercial era.

AI designAlibabaMachine Learning
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How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Design Platform “Luban” Revolutionizes Mass Creative Production
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 24, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Is Pushing the Limits of Optical Communication in the Cloud

Alibaba senior technology director Xie Chongjin explains the company's ambitious roadmap for optical communication networks, tracing their historical roots, current technical challenges such as the Shannon limit, and future standards that aim to accelerate data‑center bandwidth while keeping costs under control.

AlibabaCloud ComputingData Center
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How Alibaba Is Pushing the Limits of Optical Communication in the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 21, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Tackles Real-Time Stream and Graph Computing at Scale

In his ASPLOS keynote, Alibaba’s Vice President Zhou Jingren detailed the company’s large‑scale stream and graph computing platforms, highlighting fault‑tolerance innovations, real‑time data challenges, and upcoming advances in graph analytics and massive machine‑learning workloads.

AIAlibabaBig Data
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How Alibaba Tackles Real-Time Stream and Graph Computing at Scale
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 29, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Built the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ Full‑Link Stress Test for Double 11

This article chronicles Alibaba's evolution of the full‑link pressure testing platform—from its 2013 inception tackling massive Double 11 traffic, through data construction, isolation, traffic generation, and platform upgrades—to a mature, automated, cloud‑native solution that safeguards large‑scale e‑commerce stability.

AlibabaOperationscapacity planning
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How Alibaba Built the ‘Nuclear Weapon’ Full‑Link Stress Test for Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 24, 2017 · Databases

Alibaba’s Secrets to Scaling HBase for PB‑Level Big Data

This article explains how Alibaba built, customized, and operated a massive HBase platform—covering its architecture, high‑availability design, asynchronous and synchronous replication, multi‑link data flow, cost‑aware redundancy, cross‑cluster migration, performance optimizations, and future directions for the distributed NoSQL database.

AlibabaHBasedistributed database
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Alibaba’s Secrets to Scaling HBase for PB‑Level Big Data
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 21, 2017 · Information Security

Smart Intelligent Defense and Big Data Capabilities in Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance Anti‑Attack Product

The article describes Alibaba's smart defense model that uses real‑time traffic analysis and big‑data insights to automatically adjust DDoS mitigation strategies, outlines the system's capabilities such as attacker identification and traffic quantification, and discusses future challenges in handling increasingly complex and large‑scale attacks.

AlibabaAnti-DDoSDDoS
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Smart Intelligent Defense and Big Data Capabilities in Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance Anti‑Attack Product
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 17, 2017 · Information Security

Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance DDoS Defense Product AliGuard: Development History, Architecture, and Capabilities

This article reviews the 2016 Dyn DDoS incident, explains why DDoS attacks remain a critical security challenge, and details Alibaba's internally built high‑performance DDoS mitigation solution AliGuard, covering its development timeline, multi‑user architecture, scalability from 40 Gbps to over 400 Gbps, and deployment models.

AliGuardAlibabaDDoS
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Alibaba's Self‑Developed High‑Performance DDoS Defense Product AliGuard: Development History, Architecture, and Capabilities
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 16, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Harnesses Deep Reinforcement Learning for E‑Commerce Innovation

This interview with Alibaba researcher Xu Yinghui reveals how the company built large‑scale deep reinforcement learning systems for search, recommendation, logistics and online advertising, detailing team structures, technical breakthroughs, training challenges, and future directions such as multi‑agent learning and GAN integration.

AIAlibabaMachine Learning
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How Alibaba Harnesses Deep Reinforcement Learning for E‑Commerce Innovation
AntTech
AntTech
Feb 28, 2017 · Databases

The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks

OceanBase, a homegrown distributed database developed by a small Ant Group team, overcame technical and cultural challenges to power Alibaba’s record‑breaking Double‑11 payment peaks, earning international recognition and illustrating China’s push to break the Western monopoly on core database technology.

AlibabaAnt GroupDatabase Innovation
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The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 12, 2017 · Databases

Inside Alibaba’s Database Hacks That Quadrupled Double‑11 Query Speed

The article details how Alibaba’s database team engineered multiple breakthroughs—PK_Access query optimization, a high‑performance Memcached plugin, batch‑processed inventory hotspot handling, full‑scale SQL collection, and an upgraded Data Replication Center—to dramatically boost Double‑11 transaction throughput, cut latency, and enhance overall system resilience.

AlibabaDatabase OptimizationPerformance tuning
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Inside Alibaba’s Database Hacks That Quadrupled Double‑11 Query Speed
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 4, 2017 · Big Data

How Alibaba Powered Double 11 with Real‑Time Big Data Processing

Alibaba’s Double 11 live‑data dashboards required ultra‑high‑precision, low‑latency real‑time processing of billions of events, and the article explains the end‑to‑end architecture—including DRC, TimeTunnel, Galaxy, OTS, XTool, and OneService—used to achieve million‑plus QPS, fault‑tolerance, and flexible data collection.

AlibabaBig Data ArchitectureReal-time Streaming
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How Alibaba Powered Double 11 with Real‑Time Big Data Processing
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 3, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Real-Time Content Risk Monitoring for Alibaba Live Streaming during Double 11

Alibaba's security team leveraged deep‑learning‑based porn detection and sensitive‑face recognition together with a highly optimized multimedia processing cluster to automatically filter and control risky live‑stream content for thousands of concurrent streams during the Double 11 shopping festival, dramatically reducing manual review effort while maintaining high accuracy.

AIAlibabacontent moderation
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AI-Powered Real-Time Content Risk Monitoring for Alibaba Live Streaming during Double 11
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 30, 2016 · Operations

Zero‑Point Battle: Evolution of Alibaba's Double 11 High‑Availability Architecture

The talk details how Alibaba tackled the massive technical challenges of Double 11 over eight years by evolving a highly available, scalable architecture through capacity planning, distributed middleware, hybrid‑cloud deployment, online stress testing, and fine‑grained traffic control to balance cost, performance, and user experience.

AlibabaDistributed SystemsDouble 11
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Zero‑Point Battle: Evolution of Alibaba's Double 11 High‑Availability Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 26, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba’s SunFire Powers Real‑Time Monitoring for Billion‑Scale Transactions

Alibaba’s SunFire platform delivers massive‑scale, real‑time log collection, processing, and visualization for e‑commerce spikes like Double 11, using low‑overhead agents, asynchronous Map/Reduce pipelines, fault‑tolerant task scheduling, and shared inputs to ensure accurate, low‑latency monitoring across billions of transactions.

AlibabaMonitoringOperations
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How Alibaba’s SunFire Powers Real‑Time Monitoring for Billion‑Scale Transactions
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 25, 2016 · Backend Development

How Xianyu Scaled from Zero to Millions: Architecture Secrets of Alibaba’s Community Marketplace

In this talk, Alibaba senior wireless expert Sun Bing details Xianyu's journey from a small startup to a massive P2P community, revealing the evolving technical architecture, key design principles, dynamic front‑end/back‑end integration, service‑bus implementation, and data‑driven strategies that powered its rapid growth.

AlibabaScalingXianyu
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How Xianyu Scaled from Zero to Millions: Architecture Secrets of Alibaba’s Community Marketplace
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 17, 2016 · Operations

Evolution of Alibaba's Application Operations System

The talk traces Alibaba's application operations journey from the early script‑driven era through tool‑centric development, DevOps adoption, automation, and emerging intelligent operations, highlighting organizational challenges, quality issues, standardization efforts, and future directions such as Docker and SRE practices.

AlibabaDevOpsIntelligentOps
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Evolution of Alibaba's Application Operations System
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 13, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Evolved Its Application Operations: From Scripts to DevOps

Alibaba’s application operations journey, detailed by researcher Lin Hao, traces the shift from early script‑based practices through tool‑centric phases to a full DevOps transformation, highlighting challenges, automation efforts, and the emerging push toward intelligent, data‑driven operations.

AlibabaDevOpsInfrastructure
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How Alibaba Evolved Its Application Operations: From Scripts to DevOps
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 11, 2016 · Mobile Development

How Weex Powered Alibaba’s Double 11: Architecture, Performance & Scaling

During Alibaba’s 2016 Double 11 shopping festival, the Weex framework was deployed at massive scale, covering over 99% of pages, delivering high‑performance native‑like experiences, supporting complex interactions, ensuring stability through memory management, pre‑loading and extensive testing, while outlining architecture, tooling, and optimization strategies.

AlibabaMobile DevelopmentPerformance
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How Weex Powered Alibaba’s Double 11: Architecture, Performance & Scaling
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 8, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI Powers Data‑Driven Merchant Success

In this Alibaba Tech Forum talk, senior expert Wei Hu explains how machine learning and big‑data technologies are used to empower merchants with personalized storefronts, intelligent posters, and AI‑driven headlines, boosting their efficiency and sales performance.

AIAlibabaBig Data
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How AI Powers Data‑Driven Merchant Success
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 8, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Double 11 Media Dashboard Leverages Cutting‑Edge Data Technology

Alibaba senior technologist Luo Jinpeng explains how the company’s Double 11 media big‑screen platform evolved from chaotic early implementations to a robust, real‑time data system, detailing architectural redesigns, model refactoring, resource scheduling, and link reliability strategies that underpin its massive e‑commerce event.

Alibabadata engineering
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How Alibaba’s Double 11 Media Dashboard Leverages Cutting‑Edge Data Technology
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba Handled Real‑Time Billions of Events During Double 11

This article outlines Alibaba Cloud's big‑data platform challenges and solutions during the 2016 Double 11 event, covering sub‑second real‑time processing, multi‑million‑records‑per‑second throughput, full‑day high availability, and massive offline workloads exceeding hundreds of petabytes.

AlibabaDistributed SystemsMaxCompute
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How Alibaba Handled Real‑Time Billions of Events During Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Operations

How Alibaba Automates Its Network for Double 11 Traffic Surges

This article outlines Alibaba researcher Zhang Ming’s presentation on the network automation system that enables Alibaba’s infrastructure to handle the massive traffic and rapid fault recovery required during the Double 11 shopping festival, highlighting the challenges, detection methods, and automated tools used across routers, switches, and L4‑L7 devices.

AlibabaOperationsfault detection
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How Alibaba Automates Its Network for Double 11 Traffic Surges
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 7, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Online AI Transforms Search and Recommendation Systems

At Alibaba's 2016 Double 11 Tech Forum, researcher Xu Yinghui presented how online AI technologies enhance search and recommendation on the e‑commerce platform, turning massive user behavior data into actionable insights that improve traffic allocation and maximize welfare for consumers, sellers, and the platform.

AIAlibabaMachine Learning
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How Online AI Transforms Search and Recommendation Systems
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 16, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Double 11 Turned Big Data into a Retail Game‑Changer

The MIT Technology Review article highlights how Alibaba leveraged massive, high‑quality big data, AI, and cloud computing during its Double 11 shopping festival to set new e‑commerce benchmarks, improve personalization, ensure data security, and showcase its ambition to build global digital infrastructure.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceE‑commerce
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How Alibaba’s Double 11 Turned Big Data into a Retail Game‑Changer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 14, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba Boosted Double 11 Sales with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Alibaba’s Double 11 event shattered sales records by leveraging deep reinforcement learning and adaptive online learning in its search and recommendation systems, which increased click‑through rates by 10‑20% and dramatically improved the real‑time shopping experience for hundreds of millions of users.

AI in e-commerceAlibabaadaptive online learning
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How Alibaba Boosted Double 11 Sales with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 3, 2016 · R&D Management

China’s R&D Surge Leads Global Innovation Rankings in 2016

The 2016 Global Innovation 1000 report by PwC’s Strategy& reveals that Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, dramatically increased R&D spending, boosting their share of global innovation and shifting from cost competition to technology‑driven growth.

AlibabaChinaCorporate Spending
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China’s R&D Surge Leads Global Innovation Rankings in 2016
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 22, 2016 · Cloud Computing

How Cloud Computing Is Turning Cities into Data‑Driven Smart Hubs

In his Yunxi Conference keynote, Alibaba’s Wang Jian explores how cloud computing, data liberation, and AI breakthroughs like AlphaGo are reshaping innovation, bridging distant technologies, and enabling smart city solutions such as data‑driven traffic control across China.

AlibabaCloud ComputingSmart City
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How Cloud Computing Is Turning Cities into Data‑Driven Smart Hubs
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Oct 9, 2016 · Backend Development

Overview of Alibaba's Open‑Source Frameworks, Components, Engines, Databases, Platforms, Solutions, Tools, Middleware and Web Servers

This article provides a comprehensive catalog of Alibaba's open‑source frameworks, components, engines, databases, platforms, solutions, tools, middleware, and web servers, describing each project's purpose, features, and typical use cases for developers across front‑end and back‑end domains.

AlibabaJavaOpen-source
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Overview of Alibaba's Open‑Source Frameworks, Components, Engines, Databases, Platforms, Solutions, Tools, Middleware and Web Servers
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 30, 2016 · Mobile Development

Weex Project Overview and Technical Insights from the WOT2016 Mobile Internet Technology Summit

The article summarizes Wu Zhihua's presentation at the WOT2016 summit, detailing the Weex cross‑platform framework, its ecosystem, performance optimizations, competitive advantages, challenges faced during Alibaba's Double‑11 promotion, and the project's future development goals for the next one to two years.

AlibabaMobile DevelopmentPerformance Optimization
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Weex Project Overview and Technical Insights from the WOT2016 Mobile Internet Technology Summit
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 29, 2016 · Backend Development

How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑commerce Business Platform Over 13 Years

This article recounts Alibaba's 13‑year journey from a simple e‑commerce site to a sophisticated business middle‑platform, detailing the architectural evolution, technical challenges, and strategic solutions that enabled massive scale, agility, and global expansion.

AlibabaPlatform EngineeringSystem Architecture
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How Alibaba Scaled Its E‑commerce Business Platform Over 13 Years
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Aug 8, 2016 · Big Data

Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng Explains Alibaba’s Big Data Strategy and Technology Stack

In a Seattle tech forum, Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng highlighted the company’s reliance on high‑quality data, large‑scale computing platforms, and efficient algorithms, describing why Alibaba positions itself as a big‑data company and outlining its current and future technology initiatives across cloud, AI, and IoT.

AlibabaArtificial IntelligenceData Platforms
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Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng Explains Alibaba’s Big Data Strategy and Technology Stack
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.

AlibabaBig DataDistributed Systems
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Overview of Alibaba's Open Source Projects
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
May 7, 2016 · Fundamentals

Overview of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects and Tools

This article provides a comprehensive overview of numerous Alibaba open‑source projects, ranging from service frameworks like Dubbo and database tools such as Druid and OceanBase to front‑end libraries, distributed systems, testing platforms, and cloud utilities, each briefly described with links for further reference.

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Overview of Alibaba Open‑Source Projects and Tools
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
May 4, 2016 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Zeus Resource Scheduling System: Architecture, Virtualization, and Operational Practices

The article examines Alibaba's Zeus resource scheduling platform, detailing its background, problem analysis, container‑based virtualization, distributed architecture, strategies for improving resource utilization such as overselling and hybrid deployment, as well as stability measures and automation for large‑scale operations.

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Alibaba Zeus Resource Scheduling System: Architecture, Virtualization, and Operational Practices
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 28, 2016 · Frontend Development

Weex – Alibaba’s High‑Performance Mobile Front‑End Framework: Architecture, Performance, and Usage

The article introduces Alibaba’s Weex framework, announced at QCon 2016, detailing its motivation, cross‑platform architecture, performance benchmarks, testing strategies, and three deployment modes—full‑page, native component, and H5 component—aimed at balancing performance and dynamic capabilities in mobile development.

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Weex – Alibaba’s High‑Performance Mobile Front‑End Framework: Architecture, Performance, and Usage
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Apr 21, 2016 · Mobile Development

Alibaba Mobile Technology: Architecture, Scaling, and Future Trends

The 2016 ATF Alibaba Technology Forum presented a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's mobile e‑commerce platform, detailing massive scale challenges, user‑experience driven innovations, container‑based client architecture, the Weex framework, and future directions such as live video, VR/AR, and high‑performance mobile networking.

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Alibaba Mobile Technology: Architecture, Scaling, and Future Trends
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.

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Distributed Architecture and Scaling Techniques Behind Alibaba's Double 11 E‑commerce Platform
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Architect
Apr 13, 2016 · Backend Development

Understanding Diamond: Alibaba’s Distributed Persistent Configuration System

The article explains Diamond, Alibaba’s internal distributed configuration management system, covering its purpose, core features, persistence and disaster‑recovery mechanisms, architectural diagram, and detailed client‑side implementation including subscription workflow and key code components.

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Understanding Diamond: Alibaba’s Distributed Persistent Configuration System
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dbaplus Community
Feb 25, 2016 · Databases

How Alibaba Migrated from Oracle to MySQL: Lessons from the IOE Transition

This article recounts Alibaba’s journey from Oracle‑based IOE architecture to a home‑grown MySQL/DRDS solution, detailing the motivations, challenges, technical choices, performance pitfalls, and operational practices that shaped the migration and the lessons learned for large‑scale database engineering.

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How Alibaba Migrated from Oracle to MySQL: Lessons from the IOE Transition
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 25, 2016 · R&D Management

Alibaba's Continuous Delivery Model and Practices for High‑Quality Software Delivery

The article explains Alibaba's continuous delivery theory, tools, and best‑practice pipeline—including integration, testing, deployment, and release—illustrated with diagrams and a detailed description of how the platform improves software quality, collaboration, and operational resilience in large‑scale cloud environments.

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Alibaba's Continuous Delivery Model and Practices for High‑Quality Software Delivery
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21CTO
Jan 25, 2016 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Pora Powers Real‑Time Personalization at Massive Scale

Pora (Personal Offline Realtime Analyze) is a high‑throughput, low‑latency platform that captures user behavior in real time, enabling Alibaba’s search engine to deliver personalized results, support online learning, and run 24/7 with massive data volumes.

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How Alibaba’s Pora Powers Real‑Time Personalization at Massive Scale
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21CTO
Jan 25, 2016 · Product Management

Why Uber Outshines Alibaba: Rethinking Platform vs. Company Strategy

The article argues that Uber’s consumer‑centric, supply‑demand integration and its new Operator shopping service illustrate why a true company focused on creating value for customers outperforms platform‑only giants like Alibaba, which risk becoming mere market managers.

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Why Uber Outshines Alibaba: Rethinking Platform vs. Company Strategy
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21CTO
Jan 22, 2016 · Mobile Development

Scaling Billion-User Mobile Apps: Alibaba Taobao Architecture Insights

In this talk, Alibaba wireless expert Xu Zhao outlines the evolution of the massive Mobile Taobao app—from early webview tools to a component‑based, containerized architecture—detailing challenges such as PC‑mobile migration, device fragmentation, heavy client complexity, and the strategies employed to achieve scalable, flexible, and high‑performance mobile services.

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Scaling Billion-User Mobile Apps: Alibaba Taobao Architecture Insights
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21CTO
Jan 16, 2016 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Dual-Path Real-Time Computing Powers Search During Double 11

This article explains Alibaba’s dual‑link real‑time computing framework, detailing its micro‑ and macro‑level pipelines, key components such as Pora, iGraph and SP, online learning architectures, pointwise and pairwise ranking models, bandit‑based strategy optimization, PID‑controlled traffic balancing, and the impressive performance gains achieved during the Double 11 shopping festival.

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How Alibaba’s Dual-Path Real-Time Computing Powers Search During Double 11
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 15, 2016 · Information Security

Alibaba’s Full‑Site HTTPS Deployment for E‑Commerce: Challenges, Architecture, and Performance Optimizations

The article examines Alibaba’s large‑scale rollout of full‑site HTTPS across its e‑commerce platforms, detailing the technical hurdles of performance, compatibility, and operational planning, and describing the architectural solutions and optimizations that enabled secure, high‑performance user experiences.

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Alibaba’s Full‑Site HTTPS Deployment for E‑Commerce: Challenges, Architecture, and Performance Optimizations
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Architect
Dec 21, 2015 · Databases

Alibaba's Massive Data Architecture: Sharding, Multi‑Data‑Center Synchronization, and Caching Strategies

The article describes how Alibaba scaled its massive data platform by horizontally sharding Oracle tables to MySQL, employing multi‑data‑center synchronization tools such as Erosa, Eromanga, and Otter, and designing multi‑level caching and proxy solutions like Cobar to ensure high availability and performance.

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Alibaba's Massive Data Architecture: Sharding, Multi‑Data‑Center Synchronization, and Caching Strategies
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 18, 2015 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's Evolution to Geo‑Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons

The article details Alibaba's three‑stage evolution from same‑city active‑active to two‑site three‑center disaster recovery and finally to geo‑distributed multi‑active architecture, explaining its motivations, technical challenges such as latency and data consistency, the solutions implemented, and the resulting scalability and fault‑tolerance benefits.

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Alibaba's Evolution to Geo‑Distributed Multi‑Active Architecture: Design, Challenges, and Lessons
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Qunar Tech Salon
Dec 4, 2015 · Databases

Scaling Massive Data at Alibaba: From Oracle to MySQL Sharding and Distributed Solutions

The article details how Alibaba tackled explosive data growth by migrating from a single Oracle instance to a multi‑source architecture using horizontal and vertical sharding, MySQL clusters, KV stores, and proprietary tools such as Erosa, Otter, and Cobar to achieve high availability, consistency, and performance across multiple IDC sites.

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Scaling Massive Data at Alibaba: From Oracle to MySQL Sharding and Distributed Solutions
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Qunar Tech Salon
Nov 9, 2015 · Mobile Development

Technical Evolution and Architecture of Mobile Taobao (Alibaba's Super App)

The article chronicles the evolution of Alibaba’s Mobile Taobao super‑app, detailing its growth from a simple WebView tool to a complex, component‑based mobile platform, and discusses the architectural, deployment, fragmentation, and quality challenges faced in building a large‑scale mobile ecosystem.

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Technical Evolution and Architecture of Mobile Taobao (Alibaba's Super App)
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21CTO
Sep 25, 2015 · R&D Management

The Legend of Alibaba’s Solo Engineer: How ‘Duo Long’ Built Core Systems Alone

A former Alibaba insider recounts how the enigmatic engineer known as ‘Duo Long’—a non‑technical graduate turned P11 senior leader—single‑handedly designed and maintained critical systems like TFS, Tair, cache, and search, embodying relentless focus, self‑learning, and a true craftsman spirit.

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The Legend of Alibaba’s Solo Engineer: How ‘Duo Long’ Built Core Systems Alone