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I wonder how Alibaba Cloud handles similar events [1], where there are bursts of 256k/s transactions and ~1bil packages being shipped out. Do they just do brut
by wenc 8y ago
I wonder how Alibaba Cloud handles similar events [1], where there are bursts of 256k/s transactions and ~1bil packages being shipped out.
Do they just do brute-force massive scale out?
Amazon's US market is big, but my understanding is that number of online users in China (> 400mil) exceeds the population of the US (~325mil), which makes me wonder if the folks there think about data architecture a little differently than we do.
[1] https://qz.com/1127087/singles-day-crazy-stats-from-alibabas-online-shopping-extravaganza/ https://qz.com/1127087/singles-day-crazy-stats-from-alibabas...
- rconti 8y agoCould be. But also, Amazon is doing Prime Day in Europe. Albeit they've got a time zone offset.
- paxy 8y agoDoesn't seem like it was a scaling problem at all in Amazon's case.
- cheeze 8y agoWhat? How do you jump to this conclusion!?
- rannn 8y agoProbably every day at Alibaba is a prime day in terms of transactions...
- akvadrako 8y agoTrue but they still have Singles Day, so it's not like they have constant load.
- jamesblonde 8y agoAlibaba build on Apache Flink. Today is a good day for Apache Flink.
- Taniwha 8y agoremember that much of Alibaba is essentially a front for lots of small companies - they don't do the shipping themselves
- wenc 8y agoOh I included that number to indicate the scale of orders that have to be handled by Alibaba's data systems -- I understand that they don't ship the packages themselves. Also, I just read that as of 2017, there are 700mil internet users in China, 90% on mobile. The scale there is just staggering.
- jjeaff 8y agoWould Alibaba actually ship anything close to 1 billion packages. Most listings I see on Alibaba are 3rd party.