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> the messaging app that’s the equivalent of WhatsApp plus Facebook plus PayPal plus Uber plus GrubHub plus many other things. It's unfortunate not much of the

by smaili 8y ago

> the messaging app that’s the equivalent of WhatsApp plus Facebook plus PayPal plus Uber plus GrubHub plus many other things. It's unfortunate not much of their architecture is publicly shared or discussed. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs.

azurezyq 8y ago
Actually they shared a lot but vast majority of them in Chinese.
- faitswulff 8y ago
  Turnabout for an industry dominated by English.
- yorwba 8y ago
  Could you link to some Chinese-language resources they published?
  - azurezyq 8y ago
    Just did a brief search and found a few links: https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-background https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-b... https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631 https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631 There seems more on cloud.tencent.com/developer. And you can check their presentations on major per-field conferences like AI or big data or something.
hero76 8y ago
here is an article in english of wechats architecture https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-scaling-wechat-microservices/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-sca...
justicezyx 8y ago
Well, if you used the app, you'll see that these components are largely independent. IMHO, architecture wise, they are not particularly interesting.
cakeface 8y ago
We're looking at their Tinker[1] open source library for hot patching Android apps. They seem to have quite a few other projects on Github. [1] https://github.com/Tencent/tinker https://github.com/Tencent/tinker
omouse 8y ago
>. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs. Probably helps when the govt is footing at least part of the bill in order to access tons of data and information ;-)

by smaili 8y ago

azurezyq 8y ago

Actually they shared a lot but vast majority of them in Chinese.

faitswulff 8y ago
Turnabout for an industry dominated by English.
yorwba 8y ago
Could you link to some Chinese-language resources they published?
- azurezyq 8y ago
  Just did a brief search and found a few links: https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-background https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-b... https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631 https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631 There seems more on cloud.tencent.com/developer. And you can check their presentations on major per-field conferences like AI or big data or something.

hero76 8y ago

here is an article in english of wechats architecture https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-scaling-wechat-microservices/ https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-sca...

justicezyx 8y ago

Well, if you used the app, you'll see that these components are largely independent. IMHO, architecture wise, they are not particularly interesting.

cakeface 8y ago

We're looking at their Tinker[1] open source library for hot patching Android apps. They seem to have quite a few other projects on Github. [1] https://github.com/Tencent/tinker https://github.com/Tencent/tinker

omouse 8y ago

>. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs. Probably helps when the govt is footing at least part of the bill in order to access tons of data and information ;-)