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Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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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.

30 minutes once a year? That sounds like my sex life

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

#52
post #16

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…

Weex is one of those technologies. It was running on TaoBao app actually.

https://github.com/alibaba/weex

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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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?

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

#54
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of China hitting your servers aren't considered a DDOS by itself?

Not sure it's called DoS when the traffic is legitimate

Yeah, there's no Denial of Service there. Just service.

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

Gucci, Prada, and Moncler are at best "middle tier luxury" brands. Almost everyone knows they are completely/partially made in China.

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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Frankly I'm extraordinarily disappointed. I went to aliexpress.com and I don't see anything in their "Today's Deals" that looks anything like a deal. Add in the fact that I'd have to wait who knows how long for shipping and deal with them for an international return and I'd rather buy locally.

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

#58
post #53

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?

tmall is a website like amazon or ebay where sellers can setup a shop and sell to consumers.

Re: Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day

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post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Parent comment's question is still there. Why does the site have an HK tld. Unless I'm missing something.
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