China

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 numerous other...

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 VMWare 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 serves almost...

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 is focused...

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 deploying environments,...

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 core products....

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 images in...

Since it was introduced in 2015, the open source NewSQL database TiDB has gained a following for its compatibility with MySQL, its ability to handle hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads—and its cloud native architectural design. PingCAP,...

Huawei’s Kubernetes journey began with one developer. Over two years ago, one of the engineers employed by the networking and telecommunications giant became interested in Kubernetes, the technology for managing application containers across clusters of hosts, and started...