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Comment by smaili | Hacker News Reader

> the messaging app that’s the equivalent of WhatsApp plus Facebook plus PayPal plus Uber plus GrubHub plus many other things.

It's unfortunate not much of their architecture is publicly shared or discussed. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs.

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here is an article in english of wechats architecture https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-sca...

Actually they shared a lot but vast majority of them in Chinese.

Could you link to some Chinese-language resources they published?

Just did a brief search and found a few links: https://www.infoq.cn/article/the-road-of-the-growth-weixin-b... https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1005631

There seems more on cloud.tencent.com/developer.

And you can check their presentations on major per-field conferences like AI or big data or something.

Turnabout for an industry dominated by English.

Well, if you used the app, you'll see that these components are largely independent.

IMHO, architecture wise, they are not particularly interesting.

We're looking at their Tinker[1] open source library for hot patching Android apps. They seem to have quite a few other projects on Github.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/tinker

>. With their massive amount of users and incredibly diverse service offerings I'd love to see their backend architecture design choices/tradeoffs.

Probably helps when the govt is footing at least part of the bill in order to access tons of data and information ;-)

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