Redesign of a Large‑Scale Content Ingestion System: From Microservices to a Plugin‑Based Monolith
By replacing over 90 fragmented micro‑services with a single‑process, plugin‑based monolith, QQ Browser’s content ingestion pipeline achieved up to ten‑fold throughput gains, near‑100 % CPU utilization, dramatically lower latency, and an 82 % reduction in development lead‑time through modern C++ design, fault‑tolerant Kafka buffering, and streamlined CI/CD.