Service Mesh

Answer-first: Shopee handles millions of concurrent users by migrating from monolithic systems to high-performance Go microservices. Inter-service gRPC Protobuf communication and Istio/Envoy service mesh sidecars enforce strict SLAs and sub-millisecond RPC latencies across thousands of internal microservice nodes. Chapter 1: Building a Massive Foundation with Microservices, Golang, and gRPC ← Series hub | Next → Prerequisite: This is the first chapter of the Shopee Architecture series. No prior reading is required to start here. You can view the full series roadmap at the Series Hub. ...

← Series hub ← Prev • Next → Answer-first: Alipay’s tech stack combines SOFAStack middleware, OceanBase distributed databases, and lightweight Service Mesh sidecars to achieve high-density microservice deployments with low inter-service RPC overhead. Prerequisite: Phase 3: Operations Playbook This phase describes the core technology layers and software engineering paradigms that Alipay developed to scale its transaction processing systems. Building systems for Double 11 is not only an infrastructure scaling challenge; it is a software complexity challenge. The engineering team had to design a unified core platform capable of handling thousands of distinct business requirements (promotions, installment plans, international cards) without turning the codebase into an unmaintainable monolith. ...