Alibaba Cloud
40 published articles
Multi-agent architectures
Why Qoder gives every AI agent a boss
Qoder's Experts Mode replaces peer-to-peer multi-agent messaging with a single Leader that coordinates specialized experts asynchronously. The architecture reduces state explosion, improves quality across four dimensions, and extracts reusable skills after each task.
2026-03-11
Enterprise AI
Alibaba just gave enterprise teams a way to encode their expertise into AI plugins
Alibaba Cloud's QoderWork Plugins let teams encode their working knowledge, SOPs, and tool integrations into AI-executable suites. The first official set covers legal, finance, consulting, and product management, but the real target is letting domain experts build custom plugins without writing code.
2024-01-03
Vector Databases
Inside Alibaba's engineering push to make pgvector work at billion-vector scale
Alibaba Cloud details how it transformed pgvector from an open-source extension into a production-grade vector engine supporting billions of vectors with millisecond response times, through quantization, performance tuning, ecosystem tools, distributed scaling, and deep kernel integration.
2023-10-11
Database
Alibaba just cut 70% off database index bloat. The trick is in the prefixes.
Secondary indexes often dominate database storage, especially in SaaS and e-commerce. PolarDB-X introduces secondary prefix compression (SPC), a lightweight per-page dictionary scheme that reduces index space by 30% to 70% without heavy CPU overhead. Benchmarks show up to 47% throughput improvement in I/O-bound read workloads.
2020-10-22