Cloud Native Industry Alliance Established at CNIC2019: Tencent Cloud Joins as Council Member and TSF Microservice Platform Passes Trusted Cloud Certification

On April 24, 2019, the first Cloud Native Industry Conference (CNIC2019) was successfully held in Beijing, organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). Tencent Cloud was elected as a founding council member of the Cloud Native Industry Alliance (CNIA).

The conference, supported by the Cloud Computing Standards and Open Source Promotion Committee, Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), was the most authoritative and largest cloud native application conference to date. Over 500 technical leaders from leading enterprises, container ecosystem representatives, technology thought leaders, open-source community contributors, and media representatives attended.

The Cloud Native Industry Alliance aims to create an industry exchange platform focusing on cutting-edge open-source technologies and concepts including containers, DevOps, microservices, and Serverless. The alliance seeks to build a benign ecosystem that drives technology through practice and practice through technology, promoting cloud native technology industrialization and better cloud computing development across various industries.

Tencent Cloud, as a founding council member alongside Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial, and Kingsoft Cloud, participated in the alliance establishment ceremony. Additionally, Tencent Cloud's Serverless Director Luo Maozheng was appointed to the alliance's expert committee.

Tencent Cloud's TSF microservice platform passed the Trusted Cloud General Microservice Platform certification, meeting requirements across six categories including infrastructure, microservice framework, public basic services, management console, performance, and security, totaling 33 indicators.

At the Container and Serverless Technology Forum, Tencent Cloud Serverless Product Leader Zhang Hao shared practical experience in building a 100 million-user mini-program application using FaaS within just seven days. The Tencent Photo album mini-program, with over 100 million cumulative users and 12 million monthly active users as of December 2018, was developed by a small team facing resource constraints. By adopting Tencent Cloud's Serverless mini-program cloud development approach, the team launched the first version in less than two weeks, eliminating the need to worry about underlying server resource deployment and maintenance.

Tencent Cloud's Serverless Cloud Function (SCF) provides a serverless execution environment where users only need to write core code in supported languages and set execution conditions. The platform handles environment preparation, scheduling, triggering, execution, and scaling automatically based on trigger events. SCF is now maturely applied in scenarios including Web services, WebSocket, message processing/stream event processing, and COS callback.

However, Zhang Hao emphasized that current Serverless implementation still faces challenges: cold start performance issues in FaaS; lack of standard product support for FaaS service orchestration and stateful business construction; insufficient runtime monitoring transparency affecting confidence in large-scale business migration. These issues require collaborative efforts from vendors and the open-source community.

While Serverless is not yet fully mature, its architectural philosophy allowing developers to focus on applications rather than infrastructure has inherent advantages. With joint efforts from cloud vendors, communities, and the ecosystem, Serverless holds infinite possibilities for the future.