Author: Baolong Mao at Alluxio

Thousand-Node Alluxio Cluster Powers Game AI Platform – A Production Case Study from Tencent

January 26, 2022 By Bing Zheng, Baolong Mao and Zhizheng Pan

To provide model training with the best experience, Tencent has implemented a 1000-node Alluxio cluster and designed a scalable, robust, and performant architecture to speed up Ceph storage for game AI training. This blog will give you insight into how Alluxio has been implemented and optimized at Tencent.

Data Consistency Model in Alluxio

October 30, 2020 By Baolong Mao, Jasmine Wang and Bin Fan

When applications are only reading and writing through Alluxio, the Alluxio file system provides strong consistency. However, when clients are writing data across both Alluxio and under storage, the consistency depends on the Alluxio write type and under storage type. This article discusses what to expect in each scenario.

Building a Large-scale Interactive SQL Query Engine using Presto and Alluxio in JD.com

September 24, 2019 By Baolong Mao

This article describes how JD built this interactive OLAP platform combining two open-source technologies: Presto and Alluxio.