Preparing for the double eleven Looking for Alibaba Cloud's not only Tmall Taobao

Compared with the major logistics companies, the burst of traffic test is more like an invisible technical competition. On November 10th, the reporter learned from Alibaba Cloud that in addition to the big business of Tmall Taobao, Suning, Youku, Yantao, Zhongan Insurance, Tianhong Fund, Hongling Venture Capital and more than 40 small and medium-sized banking institutions, etc. During the double 11 period, companies such as e-commerce, Internet finance, and bank express payment have found Alibaba Cloud to prepare for the double 11 through flexible expansion and system escort.

Ni Bo, a senior expert in Alibaba Cloud's flexible computing, said that according to past experience, the pressure on the general website system during the promotion period was 8-10 times that of usual. If traditional IOE (IBM server, Oracle database, EMC storage device) architecture is adopted, merchants need to pay tens of thousands of hardware costs in a one-time payment. After adopting the cloud method, it is only necessary to open new computing resources during the activity period, and release them directly after the activity. The cost is only one tenth or less of the traditional method.

The first to practice the cloud architecture is Tmall. The Ju Shi Tower built on the Alibaba Cloud platform is expected to handle more than 99% of Tmall's double 11 orders this year, and can support more than 4 million orders for a single Tmall business day. In 2014, the Jushi Tower handled 96% of the double 11 orders, with no faults and no missing orders.

Zhongan Insurance, which has experienced double 11 exams for two consecutive years, also deployed resources on the Alibaba Cloud platform to provide a variety of financial insurance services such as sales insurance and freight insurance for Tmall and Taobao merchants in real time during the Double 11 period.

The liquidation pressure of the balance fund of the Tianhong Fund will be concentrated on the 12th after the zero point. After the cloud on the core system, the liquidation of the balance of 300 million transactions can be completed within 140 minutes, thus responding to the double 11-scale capital changes and massive concurrent processing needs.

Youku, the video site that broadcasts live on Tmall's 11th party, will also use Alibaba Cloud's CDN service to ensure the smoothness of users across the country in response to the hundreds of millions of viewers who may be invading.

The change in numbers means that user habits are changing quietly, and the fissile growth of online shoppers has made more and more companies realize the value of cloud computing. They are beginning to try to embrace e-commerce on the cloud.

Hongling Venture Capital has a deep understanding of this. In 2014, Hongling Venture Capital took the lead in proposing “Double 11” marketing activities in the P2P industry. The daily transaction volume reached 5.537 billion, accounting for 46% of the total online lending industry's trading volume. At the end of March 2015, in order to cooperate with the company's anniversary, some new standards were launched, but the company's technicians suddenly discovered that the traditional database encountered a bottleneck, was directly locked and inaccessible, and it was difficult to solve the problem fundamentally.

"The stability of the P2P platform is crucial. The core of finance is risk control, and the core of the Internet is security. These two are the lifelines of the platform." Xiao Guilin, deputy general manager of Hongling Venture Capital Office, told reporters that he was experiencing After this, Zhou Shiping, chairman of Hongling Venture Capital, determined to restructure the Hongling Venture Capital IT system. In his words, Hongling Ventures is to create a platform that can carry high concurrency, high access and high interaction like Taobao and Tmall. Even if it encounters peak traffic such as double 11, it can still pass.

At present, Hongling Venture Capital has completed the reconstruction of the previous IT system on the Ali Financial Cloud, and has the technical ability to better cope with the double 11 promotion. "At night, I am on duty. Under the observation of the peak, I believe that IT work will become more and more relaxed." Xiao Guilin is full of confidence in this year's double 11 promotion.

Every year, the double 11, some people say that the pressure of logistics, network, computing and other resources has reached the limit, if you continue to do it, it may collapse. But obviously, this statement does not consider the existence of cloud computing.