Messaging of AliExpress

The biggest world global eCommerce - AliExpress has its own messaging and its source code looks interesting especially with claims "Throughout the period, 99.996% of the delay fell within 10ms, very few due to GC caused by the pause in 50ms or less, for the read and write ratio is almost balanced distributed message engine, the results are all exciting." which are about Java software.
With first look following can be spotted: heavy usage of java.util.concurrent, volatile keyword, ByteBuffers and very limited usage of synchronized blocks. File storage uses plain RandomAccessFile with OS-mapped ByteBuffers where everything read and written is with computed offsets. Flushing data to disk is performed in file groups which is very wise due to mechanical sympathy with underlying disks (think about hardware I/O queues and servicing according to given offsets). Memory storage uses direct ByteBuffers not affected by GC and also locked into physical memory with POSIX mlock call. Very smart! I was exploiting the last feature while writing near RealTime software for T-Mobile emergency number. It really helps to achieve low latency without outliers.