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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by wenc on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:11PM (#17544668)
I wonder how Alibaba Cloud handles similar events [1], where there are bursts of 256k/s transactions and ~1bil packages being shipped out.

Do they just do brute-force massive scale out?

Amazon's US market is big, but my understanding is that number of online users in China (> 400mil) exceeds the population of the US (~325mil), which makes me wonder if the folks there think about data architecture a little differently than we do.

[1] https://qz.com/1127087/singles-day-crazy-stats-from-alibabas...

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by rannn on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:40PM (#17544882)
Probably every day at Alibaba is a prime day in terms of transactions...
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by akvadrako on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @05:11AM (#17548356)
True but they still have Singles Day, so it's not like they have constant load.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by Taniwha on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:29PM (#17546338)
remember that much of Alibaba is essentially a front for lots of small companies - they don't do the shipping themselves
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by wenc on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:38AM (#17549618)
Oh I included that number to indicate the scale of orders that have to be handled by Alibaba's data systems -- I understand that they don't ship the packages themselves.

Also, I just read that as of 2017, there are 700mil internet users in China, 90% on mobile. The scale there is just staggering.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by rconti on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:25PM (#17544772)
Could be. But also, Amazon is doing Prime Day in Europe. Albeit they've got a time zone offset.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by paxy on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:33PM (#17544833)
Doesn't seem like it was a scaling problem at all in Amazon's case.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by cheeze on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:08PM (#17546772)
What? How do you jump to this conclusion!?
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by jjeaff on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:17PM (#17547044)
Would Alibaba actually ship anything close to 1 billion packages. Most listings I see on Alibaba are 3rd party.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by jamesblonde on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:23PM (#17545259)
Alibaba build on Apache Flink. Today is a good day for Apache Flink.
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