Alibaba Cloud reveals uptime and efficiency secrets

Alibaba Cloud reveals uptime and efficiency secrets

: eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs

Alibaba Cloud tweaks software for networking efficiency gains

Alibaba Cloud has figured out ways to improve network throughput in its data centers without adding more hardware, and next week its researchers will present their discoveries  at the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 conference. The network improvements they will present to the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication have been tested in live networks over the last year or two, and include ZooRoute, a fast failure recov…