The protocol is interesting.
But given how often the Alibaba cloud fails in production, I won't hold my breath.
But given how often the Alibaba cloud fails in production, I won't hold my breath.
I was curious: could you compare and contrast it with what I imagine are it's competitors? Hdfs, ceph, glusterfs etc.
Have you replaced any of those existing systems internally yet?
The main competitors at this scale would be Lustre & GPFS
Disclaimer: Not Alibaba employee
There's no planning, no communication, tons of underqualified middle management, tons of politics, and a lot of really bad ideas are pushed by HIPPOs.
China is general about 10-15 years behind on software development. Currently Alibaba's big push internally is a framework that essentially resembles EJB 2.1 stateful beans, but built on Spring.
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/HiPPOs-highest-paid...: "HiPPO (highest paid person's opinion, highest paid person in the office)"