Detailed "Poly Stone Tower" to do double the protection of 11

Author: Liu child

Poly stone tower to deal with 75% of the entire business orders, the total order volume is 10 times last year's double 11, 0 missed a single, covering 940,000 active businesses, of which orders over 1 million single business two! Concept? The sales of this business is the sales of the entire platform that one eloquent eloquent person who laughed at. When everyone is talking about cloud computing and big data, we've let it blossom.

The 19.1 billion dual-11 in 2012 surprised many people. In 2013, Double 11, once again set off a lot of people's understanding of e-commerce. Most of the surprised people think this is the power of Taobao. Actually, Alibaba has repeatedly stressed that this is not the power of the Taobao family. This is the result of the all-social cooperation. In this collaborative circle there are multiple roles for buyers, sellers, logistics, warehousing, banks, media, models, photographers, service providers, manufacturers, etc. This circle is separate and closely collaborative and you can call it electricity Business "ecosystem." Like the human resources in the ecosystem, there are basic resources such as water, air, land and sunlight. There are also some basic resources for the electricity supplier's "ecosystem", namely "cloud computing" and "big data", Alibaba's " It's a container for this kind of resource.

What do the polygons towers give to Double Eleven? Speaking from its origins.

In Taobao's start-up era, online business is a very simple matter, log in Taobao upload products, after someone took the address copied to the courier on the single, and then find a similar package packing delivery, that Even when there is no concept of express delivery, most people go to the post office to send the goods, such a mode of operation, the seller can make a few single-day business has been satisfied. As the scale of e-commerce continues to grow, sellers are finding more and more orders for their happiness, making it increasingly difficult for them to parry. One day to 100 single business, handwritten express orders will not work, you need to use a printer, the package also needs to be customized, the shop template needs decoration, take pictures need to find a model. At this moment, the boss has to deal with one person and needs to recruit staff. You need to give staff online permission. You need to set up a workflow and need to collaborate and manage the software. Therefore, they urgently need to get the "data" of Taobao and then personalize Customized operation process. In response to this demand, Taobao launched its "Open Platform" in 2008, introducing third-party developers to provide sellers with ERP, WMS, CRM and other management software, which allowed merchants to handle thousands of single transactions each day without any problems.

Unfortunately, as the scale of business operations continues to grow, the way that merchants download orders are handled locally gradually shows their limitations. For example, merchant ERP software can only download 500 orders per hour, but one day his volume skyrocketed, generating 10,000 trades an hour, it simply did not receive so many orders. Another example is the business ERP software deployed on the server in the office, at every turn off the network power-down operating system crashes. For example, businesses use a very wonderful network operators, from Taobao's room to businesses to go through Telecom - Netcom - Mobile - Unicom - Railcom - Chang-X-pass, so all the way down, hundreds of data loss simply Can not feel it So the tragedy began to appear nonstop. In the double eleven of 2011, 40% of the orders of a clothing seller could not be downloaded. In the double eleven of 2012, an electronic seller lost one More than a single laptop, no tears. Still others are being targeted by hackers who hack into their systems as if they were unmanned. At the same time, outside Taobao and the merchants, the buyers collapsed and found that some of the bank's systems were hung up and some of the express delivery systems were hung up ...

So you know, Taobao double eleven, not just Taobao just fine, Taobao to help businesses and every role in this ecosystem do well, that can mobilize the power of society to do an event.

Is there any way to completely solve this problem? Alibaba already prepared, that is, "cloud computing" plus "big data."

Cloud computing is the user's files, data, software deployment in a seemingly remote environment. There are many benefits to cloud computing, one of the biggest benefits of which is security, stability and resiliency. Polished stone tower deployed in the engine room inside Alibaba, where the conditions far from the business office network, power off the network is impossible, the machine hardware and software are backed up, there are Alibaba engineers to do maintenance, stability Sex is very secure. In the traditional mode of doing promotions when the business to do server expansion, he had to go to the computer city to buy several machines do not hesitate to carry home, in response to the promotion node, the business volume down, the server will be idle and useless, resulting in A lot of waste. The "elastic expansion" of cloud computing is a big plus, estimating server resource usage before promotions, clicking on more resources on the CSP console page, and getting it right away, and wanting to use it for a few days A few days, after use to retract, low-carbon environmental protection and save money. Prior to October 11, 2013, Alibaba's Business Unit business provided a unified and flexible capacity expansion for businesses with a 30% expansion of cloud hosting, an 80% expansion of RDS cloud databases and a 40% expansion of bandwidth. On the eve of double eleven, once again check the business machine load, to 20 several businesses have expanded again. On the afternoon of November 10, a merchant's RDS discovered a hidden problem. After it was found, we optimized it and gave optimization recommendations to the ISV. After the ISV's emergency modification, all the services passed the 0:00 peak. In an extreme case, when the typhoon "Sea Anemone" landed in 2012, weather stations in several provinces along the Chinese coast were hung up. In Zhejiang Province alone, the meteorological stations were still used because of the temporary traffic flow on the site was too large, Typhoon warning system deployed in Zhejiang Province, Alibaba cloud computing environment inside, how much resources to use only need to flexibly expand. Imagine if the Bureau of Meteorology bought a very large number of servers in response to the once-in-a-century situation, and it would not be able to use such a waste so much that taxpayers would not agree.

In terms of security, the advantages of cloud computing are also obvious. Alibaba has formed a strong security team that has developed a set of security defense systems to provide users with anti-DDoS attacks, backdoor detection, anti-outbreak of host password, Remote login reminder, webpage vulnerability detection, webpage Trojan detection, port security testing and other services, this is the poly tower on the "cloud shield" software. Setting up such a security system is unthinkable for a business. One of the most common devices for preventing DDoS attacks is hundreds of thousands of, and the cost of hiring a security engineer is even higher. Before the cloud shield, our businesses were often bothered by security issues. One business was threatened by hackers, extorted 500,000, and the other did not give in to hackers. As a result, hackers shut down shops and lost more than 1 million, and A business owner's computer's power-on password has been changed. Lynx business security research statistics, businesses encounter an average of one security incident a month, one year was malicious attacks 2 times. Cloud Shield such a "cloud-safe" product is a very suitable business for an option, some time ago, a business was hacker DDoS attacks, the maximum flow to 6.7Gbps, such a large amount of traffic is enough to crush a well-known commercial website, but the cloud shield In front of directly resolved, the business did not feel. At 17:55 on November 10, one of our ISVs in South China was attacked. They served more than 2,000 merchants. There are many super-large businesses here. If it is not covered by the cloud shield, these 2000 businesses will have to Cried. According to statistics after Yun Shu Shu, in 24 hours, we were attacked by DDoS three times, the maximum flow rate reached 19Gbps. (This hacking robbery, hacking circles will be despised it)

After solving the stability, capacity and security issues, the next is how to make it easy for businesses to use the data of Taobao. With the business to download the data does not work, then the data "download" replaced by "push", Taobao on each transaction, business ERP system database to add a record. RDS database in the poly stone tower, Taobao will write the order data directly. This synchronized from Taobao main library to the stone tower database, the two databases in the same network environment, just as Taobao own data synchronization between the various systems to ensure foolproof.

In addition to the order data, poly stone tower also opened a return refund, financial data, business transactions refund, financial information can be easily automated processing, greatly improving work efficiency. In addition, the tower also opened the "Imperial Kitchen" big data engine, so that data-enabling businesses to take full advantage of the advantages of big data to guide their business, for example, businesses can be based on the overall sales of their industry to adjust their own business Strategy, businesses can predict the trend of their sales of goods, and even businesses can look at the buyer's search data to see the trend, and then guide their new product development.

Double eleven in 2013, poly stone pagoda partners were stationed in several major sellers there, we have sent a good news. In the double-11 in 2012, one-fifth of the orders are completed in the poly-stone tower, this part without a single slip. In 2013, more businesses entered the Jade Stone Tower. This year, we handled 75% of the orders in the Jade Stone Tower without any single failure or failure.