Glints is a talent recruitment and career development platform that connects job seekers and employers through technology and services. It has grown into one of Southeast Asia’s leading career development and recruitment platforms, serving millions of job seekers and tens of thousands of companies across multiple countries in the region. Today, Glints is widely recognized as a trusted recruitment ecosystem.

In its early stages, the absence of unified planning and architectural design led to the use of multiple cloud providers. As the business scaled rapidly, the system began to face performance bottlenecks, reduced reliability, and a sharp increase in infrastructure and maintenance costs.

Alibaba Cloud provides extensive data center coverage across Southeast Asia, backed by robust local capabilities that ensure high system reliability. Its comprehensive ecosystem, mature service portfolio, competitive pricing, and 24/7 expert technical support help improve engineering productivity, strengthen IT operations, and reduce overall operational costs.

Glints unified its infrastructure under a single cloud provider, offering reliable, scalable and high-performance services, strong security controls, responsive technical support, and a broad ecosystem of solutions that simplify operations, reduce costs, and support continued business growth.

● Built on an Elastic API service cluster using Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) to support external-facing services.
● Leveraged ApsaraDB RDS, Elasticsearch, Tair, and Object Storage Service (OSS) to deliver cost-efficient solutions for databases, indexing, caching, and file storage.
● Implemented a big data processing platform based on E-MapReduce (EMR), reducing operational complexity and enabling efficient large-scale data processing. Additionally, SelectDB provides high-performance real-time data warehousing capabilities.
● Integrated Alibaba’s Qwen large language model to support intelligent automation across workflows.

After consolidating and migrating its cloud infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, Glints achieved over 100% improvement in per-capita service cost efficiency.

By leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure and native services, Glints replaced multiple high-cost third-party solutions, including chat systems, data analytics, data warehousing, and email delivery, resulting in substantial infrastructure cost reductions.

Furthermore, API latency decreased by more than 50%, significantly improving user experience.

Built as a foundation model for enterprise use, Qwen supports capabilities such as job content generation, document understanding, and multilingual language processing, helping Glints streamline recruiter-facing tasks while maintaining consistency and control across the platform.

Qwen has helped Glints make hiring easier for employers by:

● Enabling faster job postings through AI-generated job descriptions
● Accelerating company verification through automated document checks, significantly improving internal operational workflows

Through deeper collaboration with Alibaba Cloud and continued investment in cloud infrastructure and emerging technologies, particularly AI, Glints aims to further improve infrastructure cost efficiency and deliver a more consistent product experience.