Upsync: Weibo open source dynamic traffic management solution based on Nginx container

Editor’s note: High-availability architecture sharing and dissemination of articles with typical significance in the field of architecture, this article is shared by Yao Sifang in the high-availability architecture group. For reprinting, please indicate that it is from the high-availability architecture public account “ArchNotes”. Yao Sifang, senior technical expert of Sina Weibo, technical director of Weibo platform architecture group. Joined Sina Weibo in 2012 and participated in several key projects such as Weibo Feed architecture upgrade, platform service transformation, and hybrid cloud. He is currently the technical leader of the Weibo platform architecture group and is responsible for the research and development of the platform’s public infrastructure. He once shared the technology of “Sina Weibo High Performance Architecture” at QCon, focusing on the direction of high-performance architecture and service middleware. Business background and problems used by Nginx Nginx With its ultra-high performance and stability, it has been widely used in the industry, and Nginx is widely used on the seventh floor of Weibo. Combined with the health check module of Nginx and the dynamic reload mechanism, the upgrade and expansion of the service can be almost lossless. At this time, the frequency of expansion is relatively low, and in most cases…