However, for Ali technical people, the most important task is not to create a sky-high transaction volume.
As early as the eve of Double 11, Alibaba Group CTO Xingepilepsy gave ali more than 20,000 engineers a very fresh KPI – “On the night of Double 11, everyone’s main task is to drink tea.”
This year, the guangming Roof of Alibaba Xixi Park, the legendary core operation room of Double 11, has turned into a happy “teahouse”, with everyone wearing red battle robes and chatting while drinking, just like the Chinese New Year.
The 2017 Tmall Double 11 is not only the largest synergy in the history of human business, but also the largest traffic concurrency in the history of Internet. After all, how did Ali technical people drink tea to create double 11 miracle?
In 2017, Tmall Double 11 realized the largest application of machine intelligence in the history of human science and technology:
Intelligent machine recommendation system, generate personalized pages, realize the “thousands of faces” loved by everyone;
AI designer luban automatically generates various advertising pictures and produces 8,000 double 11 posters every second, none of which is identical.
Ali Xiaomi Robot, to undertake a large number of customer service consulting, bringing changes in the traditional service industry model and experience improvement;
IDC intelligent robot, 365 days *24 hours of uninterrupted inspection, replaced 30% of the previous repetitive work of operation and maintenance personnel, realize the data center unattended;
.
The era of human-machine collaboration has arrived. Alibaba’s powerful intelligent technology has created a unique experience for Double 11:
Ali voice technology converts human speech into machine-readable information, so that products can “hear, speak and understand you”;
AliNLP platform, through the machine to understand the meaning of human language, so that the machine better understand you;
Ali image technology enables the machine to recognize pictures and make the shopping on Double 11 a convenient way for consumers to buy.
.
Of course, we don’t forget the obscure but robust and reliable technological infrastructure:
Ali basic network, with self-healing ability, real-time fault discovery and convergence, and automatic recovery, fully guarantee the stable operation of Double 11 business;
Mixed part technology, based on full network Pouch containerization and Sigma scheduling technology, mixed part cluster resource utilization was significantly improved during Double 11, and the new cost of IT assets was significantly reduced.
Basic middleware, controlling over 100 billion scale message push and distributed database call, supporting double 11 flood peak messages;
X-cluster, a new generation of distributed database Cluster, fully compatible with MySQL 5.7, double 11 taobao Tmall core transaction system, support zero peak transaction;
Blink, the real-time computing platform, supports most of ali’s real-time computing tasks, with millisecond delay on Double 11.
Offline computing platform MaxCompute, which carries all offline computing tasks of Ali and supports daily million-scale operations;
.
The largest man-machine collaboration in history, the global cutting-edge intelligent technology support, and the powerful Internet infrastructure have created a historical record of 325,000 transactions per second and 256,000 successful payments per second.
2017 Tmall Double 11 has become a super project in the history of the Internet, allowing consumers around the world to enjoy a silky smooth shopping experience and enjoy the happy Double 11.
The original post was published on November 12, 2017
Author: Double 11 Super project
This article is from the cloud community partner “Ali Technology”. For relevant information, you can pay attention to the wechat public account of “Ali Technology”