Scenarios

Internet finance mid-end

This model uses the best practices from Ant Group's mid-end strategy and architecture to abstract common enterprise capabilities into a Business Mid-end. This mid-end is built on a distributed architecture and provides customer and operational services. The result is an open, scalable, and component-based business architecture that supports rapid, efficient, and low-cost innovation to meet the fast-changing demands of Internet-based scenarios.

Powerful business support

This architecture abstracts common enterprise-level capabilities into various capability centers, which are then integrated into the Business Mid-end. This reuse of technology improves business agility and supports rapid, efficient, and low-cost innovation.

Rapid iteration and innovation

This model follows a comprehensive mid-end strategy. It uses capability centers and distributed financial core suites to support rapid product combination and innovation. The powerful Business Mid-end enables quick product iterations to meet changing business demands.

Standardization and scalability

The mid-end abstracts technical complexity from the business layer. This allows all participants to collaborate and develop using unified standards, which reduces collaboration costs. You can customize, extend, or configure existing system capabilities. This improves reusability while meeting specific business requirements.

Distributed technology capabilities

The architecture provides a financial-grade distributed framework and a financial-grade distributed database. It supports multi-tenant and high-concurrency business scenarios with a massive number of users. The architecture also provides mid-end capabilities for big data and artificial intelligence and supports an active geo-redundancy architecture for distributed financial core systems.

Financial-grade cloud-native applications

This financial-grade distributed architecture platform, developed by Ant Group, provides full-stack infrastructure capabilities for financial users. It ensures security and supports the agile iteration of business requirements. The platform also meets the needs for geo-disaster recovery and low-cost, rapid scale-out. It solves the challenges of migrating from traditional centralized architectures and helps you build a large-scale, high-availability distributed system architecture to support financial business innovation.

Loss prevention and lossless disaster recovery The platform handles high-concurrency transactions in a distributed architecture. It ensures zero data loss and high service availability during system scale-out, disaster recovery, and release updates.

Active geo-redundancy and unlimited scalability System capacity can be scaled and scheduled across multiple data centers. This makes full use of server resources, provides data center-level disaster recovery capabilities, and ensures business continuity.

Full-stack, open, and collaborative The technology stack is fully open source and collaboratively built. It is community-neutral and compatible with the open source ecosystem. Components are pluggable, which means SOFAStack components can be integrated with or replaced by other open source components.

Heterogeneous application integration and migration

The microservice platform uses SOFA microservices and Service Mesh to manage heterogeneous architectures. It resolves interoperability and transition issues with legacy systems during a technology upgrade. This helps financial institutions smoothly evolve from traditional centralized or microservice architectures to a cloud-native architecture.

Multi-protocol compatibility

You can build microservice applications on the cloud using Ant Group's time-tested SOFA framework. The platform also supports native Dubbo and Spring Cloud applications. You do not need to build and manage dependent services such as ZooKeeper, Eureka, or Consul. This greatly reduces operations and maintenance (O&M) costs.

Cross-platform and non-intrusive

Business applications connect in a lightweight manner using the Service Mesh architecture. This provides a non-intrusive solution for service registration and administration, which reduces migration costs. The solution supports both container and virtual machine platforms, meeting the needs of users who want to adopt a Service Mesh architecture in non-containerized scenarios.

Simple, easy to use, and easy to maintain

The microservice platform provides a centralized, graphical, and easy-to-use management console that includes the advanced features required at the enterprise level. It simplifies service management, service administration, observability, and configuration management for distributed applications. This lets you manage and govern application services in a unified way.

Active geo-redundancy unitized architecture

This architecture solution avoids the latency caused by cross-data-center and cross-city access and achieves a true active geo-redundancy deployment. It eliminates the separate cold standby center found in traditional "two-region three-data-center" architectures and improves disaster recovery and high availability capabilities. This provides significant advantages in cost, scalability, and high availability.

Data security and business continuity This architecture eliminates a critical flaw found in traditional architectures. In traditional systems, enabling disaster recovery could cause data damage or loss, which made it impossible to guarantee financial-grade data integrity and consistency.

Multi-data-center, multi-region lossless disaster recovery This unitized architecture achieves a true active geo-redundancy deployment. It supports more stable, efficient, and cost-effective financial-grade services and elevates the disaster recovery capability to a geo-lossless level.

Improved data center resource utilization This architecture eliminates the drawbacks of the traditional "two-region three-data-center" model. For example, it eliminates the separate cold standby center that is idle during normal operations. This greatly reduces operating costs.