Scenarios

Transformation of traditional applications into applications that use microservice architectures

By using SOFAStack MS, you can transform traditional financial business systems into those that use modular, standardized, loosely coupled, pluggable, and scalable microservice architectures. This way, you can accelerate the launch of your products to seize market opportunities and get ahead of your competitors. This helps ensure high efficiency of your services and reduce operating costs.

• Easy to develop: SOFAStack MS provides a high-performance microservice framework for you to easily build cloud native applications. This framework also provides the capabilities to rapidly develop, continuously deliver, and continuously deploy applications.

• Easy to manage: The framework comes with service governance capabilities. This makes it easy to get started with SOFAStack MS. You can easily manage thousands of service instances and ensure high quality of services.

• Easy to adopt: SOFAStack MS is a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. It adopts the asset-light strategy and frees you from the deployment and O&M operations. This effectively reduces investment costs.

Fast capacity expansion in high-concurrency business scenarios

SOFAStack MS can improve the R&D efficiency of developing Internet finance services. It allows the finance services to respond to business changes in a more flexible manner and quickly iterate and innovate products. SOFAStack MS can also rapidly expand the capacity of hot modules to provide higher processing capabilities so that traffic bursts can be easily handled. In addition, SOFAStack MS helps improve user experience and provides personalized financial products and convenient financial services for micro- and small-sized customers at relatively low transaction costs.

• High performance: SOFAStack MS provides an event-driven architecture and a proprietary communication protocol for you to easily build low-latency and high-throughput services.

• High scalability: SOFAStack MS supports unlimited horizontal scaling with no performance or capacity bottlenecks. It has supported a distributed application architecture with tens of thousands of nodes involved in Ant Group.

• Visualized management: In a distributed system, a graphical centralized management platform is provided to deal with the explosive growth in the number of applications and servers. The platform is easy to use and learn.

Active geo-redundancy across multiple data centers

You can use SOFAStack MS to quickly build a highly scalable and high-performance finance-grade distributed core system that supports elastic scaling and active geo-redundancy. SOFAStack MS helps you exercise full control over technical security, break through the bottlenecks of business development, and reduce development and O&M costs. SOFAStack MS makes banks lightweight and helps drive rapid business development and continuous innovation.

• Active geo-redundancy: SOFAStack MS supports the local dual-active and active geo-redundancy architectures. It provides geo-disaster recovery capabilities.

• Auto scaling: Quick scaling at the application, database, data center, and region levels is supported.

• Proprietary rights and controllability: SOFAStack MS is independently developed based on the business iteration of Alipay. We have independent intellectual property rights of SOFAStack MS. SOFAStack MS is an open-source service and is compatible with open-source ecosystems.