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This is one instance where 99.999% reliability doesn't really cut it.
It is not that hard. I work on a similar system, with a demand of maybe 30 minutes(take a guess, there are not may of us) over the entire year. What I do is, have an active-active system in a data center, and with another similar system in another DC. Having said that, your average online stock brokers do the same thing.
An article on how Alibaba subsidiaries are using a backend stack based on Spring: https://spring.io/blog/2013/03/04/spring-at-china-scale-alib... The article is a little dated though, and some of the links to their open source repositories don't work anymore (maybe this is because is because they moved to GitHub [2]). I assume it's the language barrier, but for such a huge company I could find surprisingly little inf…
Some background info: I'm tech lead for a german shop on tmall.hk, and indeed this time, the numbers are crazy. What you have to know though is that B2C shopping on Alibaba is extremely promotion driven. You have a very flat curve most of the time, and then on promotion day, you've got lots of sales. Everyone is waiting for the special deals. The way this works is that people can buy or sign up for all kinds of diffe…
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This is an extraordinary claim, can you back this up in some way? I'm not from Italy or France so it isn't common knowledge to me.
Gucci, Prada, Moncler at least. This kind of stuff was covered by the national TV for a while but no one seems to care anymore. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/20/world/fg-madeinitaly... http://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2014/12/11032-gucci-and-... http://www.inventati.org/cortocircuito/2014/12/22/gucci-prad... (couldn't find an english version of this one, sorry) "Sold to Gucci for €24 euros each (around $28.…
If I go to the site aliexpress.com it looks like the deals don't start for another 12 hours. Are there different launch times for the sales?
Some background info: I'm tech lead for a german shop on tmall.hk, and indeed this time, the numbers are crazy. What you have to know though is that B2C shopping on Alibaba is extremely promotion driven. You have a very flat curve most of the time, and then on promotion day, you've got lots of sales. Everyone is waiting for the special deals. The way this works is that people can buy or sign up for all kinds of diffe…
Just curious; why would a german webshop have hong kong tld?
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Just curious; why would a german webshop have hong kong tld?
tmall is a website like amazon or ebay where sellers can setup a shop and sell to consumers.