Discover the Cloud-Native Technologies Powering Alibaba's Double 11

During the 2020 Double 11 Global Shopping Festival, Alibaba adopted full cloud-native integration of the core system. It is an important milestone that marks cloud-native as a key strategy for Alibaba technologies. “Cloud-native is the shortest path to realizing the benefits of the cloud.” The full cloud-native core system adopted technical system upgrades that brought breakthroughs with ultimate elasticity, ultimate computing power, and the largest-scale serverless practices. Customers in various businesses can benefit from cloud-native using the same technologies from the Double 11 Global Shopping Festival.

This whitepaper introduces the upgrades of Alibaba’s technical systems and the breakthroughs of technical capabilities during the 2020 Double 11 Global Shopping Festival. It also introduces the cloud-native best practices that customers from all industries can use.

Upgrades of Technical Systems
• Alibaba Cloud’s middleware achieves the “trinity” of proprietary, open-source, and commercial development.
• Kubernetes containers are the new interfaces of cloud computing.
• Alibaba implemented serverless technologies to its large-scale core business.

Breakthroughs of Technical Capabilities
• How was RocketMQ improved in 2020?
• The new features of Sentinel Go helped ensure the stability of cloud-native services
• What challenges does Alibaba Cloud have to face to support cloud-native technologies for Double 11?
• OpenKruise: The cloud-native deployment platform for the end-to-end applications of Double 11
• Migration and disaster recovery under the cloud-native trend

Cloud-native best practices in 2020 Double 11
• Ultra-large-scale practice of Dubbo 3.0 in Koala for 2020 Double 11
• Cloud-native supports STO Express on Double 11
• How does JST Titan’s cloud-native migration meet the challenges of large-scale applications on Double 11
• AMAP best practices: What are the benefits of implementing serverless computing
• How does serverless computing help Century Mart reduce costs by more than 40%?