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JD.com is the world’s third largest internet company by revenue, and at its heart it considers itself “a science and technology company with retail at its core,” says Vivian Zhang, Product Manager at JD.com and CNCF...

Established in 1996, China Minsheng Bank was the country’s first national commercial bank owned primarily by non-government enterprises. Zhang Li says it’s part of CMBC’s culture to be pioneers. “My bank is always leading in technology...

China’s largest retailer and the world’s third-largest Internet company by revenue, JD.com serves more than 300 million active customers with its e-commerce business. The company also owns China’s largest e-commerce logistics infrastructure, which covers an incredible...

A spinoff of the multinational conglomerate Alibaba, Ant Financial boasts a $150+ billion valuation and the scale to match. The fintech startup, launched in 2014, is comprised of Alipay, the world’s largest online payment platform, and...

With more than 300 million users, China Unicom is one of the country’s top three telecom operators. Behind the scenes, the company runs multiple data centers with thousands of servers in each, using Docker containerization and...

Its gaming business is the fifth-largest in the world, but that’s not all that NetEase provides consumers. The company also operates e-commerce, advertising, music streaming, online education, and email platforms in China; the last of which...

A leading fintech conglomerate in China, CreditEase provides individual customers, businesses and startups with a large variety of lending and wealth management services. With its stated mission of “Better tech, better finance, better world,” the company...

The search division of the Chinese software giant Qihoo 360 Technology, so.com is the second largest search engine in China, with market share of more than 35%. The company had been using traditional manual operations for...

Founded in 2013, Slamtec provides service robot autonomous localization and navigation solutions. In this fast-moving space, the company built its success on the ability of its R&D team to quickly introduce, and continually iterate on, its...

With more than 300 million active users and $55.7 billion in annual revenues last year, JD.com is China’s largest retailer, and its operations are the epitome of hyperscale. For example, there are more than a trillion...