Explore Cutting-Edge Cloud Native Innovations at COSCon'20: AI, Rust, Serverless, and More

There is a widely circulated cartoon that says "software eats the world, open source eats software," later extended with "cloud computing eats open source" and "cloud native eats cloud computing," prompting a discussion on how the term "eating" reflects the thriving growth of software, open source, and cloud‑native ecosystems.

Use Rust and WebAssembly to Empower High‑Performance AI Microservices

Speaker: Michael Yuan, Second State – CEO

In the post‑Moore’s Law era, native code and specialized hardware are required to meet AI’s massive compute demands, but they raise security and manageability challenges; this talk explains how Rust and WebAssembly deliver high‑performance, secure microservices for server‑side AI workloads.

Scalable Cloud‑Native Application Management Engine Based on Open‑Source Ecosystem

Speaker: Sun Jianbo, Alibaba Cloud – Technical Expert

The talk introduces the OAM model for building a pluggable engine that integrates numerous CNCF projects, providing capabilities such as app publishing, elastic scaling, monitoring, access control, and traffic management, thereby lowering the barrier between developers and cloud‑native technologies.

Open‑Source Evolution of Serverless Rendering

Speaker: Wolf Uncle (Lang Shu), Alibaba – Front‑End Expert

By leveraging the open‑source projects egg‑react‑ssr and ssr, a serverless rendering specification is distilled, enabling front‑end page hosting on serverless platforms, which is seen as a future direction for front‑end development.

Nginx + HTTP/3: Safeguarding IoT Connectivity

Speaker: Tao Hui, NGINX Open‑Source Community – CTO

HTTP/3 eliminates HTTP/2 head‑of‑line blocking, reduces handshake latency via UDP, and adds connection migration for unstable mobile networks; the session demonstrates building an Nginx HTTP/3 server with BoringSSL and explains how HTTP/3 integrates with existing Nginx modules.

Current Development and Trends of Cloud‑Native Technology

Speaker: Zhou Hui, Huawei – Chief Architect

The presentation reviews the history of cloud‑native, its evolution across architecture, platform, operations, security, hardware‑as‑service, big data, and analyzes current developments and future trends while clarifying common misconceptions and the relationship between cloud‑native and open source.

Evolution of Apache RocketMQ in the Cloud‑Native Era

Speaker: Jin Rong, Alibaba – R&D Engineer

Since becoming Apache’s first domestic middleware top‑level project in 2017, RocketMQ has been the preferred messaging solution for many vendors; the talk outlines its core competitiveness, recent technical advances, community ecosystem, and future outlook within cloud‑native environments.

CloudBase Framework: Open‑Source Exploration of an Integrated Cloud‑Native Deployment Tool

Speaker: Zhao Bing, Tencent – Senior Front‑End Engineer

The session showcases how CloudBase Framework reduces development and deployment costs for open‑source projects, enables one‑click deployment, and lowers the entry barrier for users, thereby fostering ecosystem growth.

Building Hybrid Microservice Strategies with Cloud‑Native Event Mesh

Speaker: Chen Guangsheng, WeBank – Senior Engineer

The talk explains what a cloud‑native event mesh is and why enterprises need it in addition to a service mesh.

Podman Container Technology: Enhancing the Container Landscape

Speaker: Phil Huang, Red Hat – Solution Architect

Podman, driven by the OCI initiative, offers Docker‑compatible functionality with better extensibility and avoids vendor lock‑in; the presentation shares its features and practical usage based on v2.x.

Next‑Generation Java Cloud‑Native Framework Quarkus

Speaker: Feng Zheng, Red Hat – Senior Software Engineer

Quarkus, built on decades of middleware R&D, is optimized for cloud‑native Java applications, offering low memory footprint, fast startup, and native compilation to meet the demands of large‑scale microservice deployments.

Go Language Microservice Practices

Speaker: Tian Xiaoliang, Huawei – Architect

Go’s features make it suitable for internet, edge, IoT, and cloud scenarios; the talk covers delivering trustworthy cloud‑native apps, secure service provision, configuration governance, and integration with Spring Cloud, .NET, etc.

Apache Pulsar: The Next‑Generation Cloud‑Native Messaging Platform

Speaker: Zhai Jia, StreamNative – Co‑Founder & CTO

Pulsar, originating from Yahoo and graduating to an Apache top‑level project in 2018, adopts storage‑compute separation and tiered sharding, dramatically easing scaling and operations challenges; the session dives into its architecture and recent advances.

Kubernetes Cloud‑Native Refactoring of Complex Stateful Services

Speaker: Wang Bibo, JD Cloud – Expert Architect

The talk outlines challenges of running databases and middleware on Kubernetes and presents solutions for storage, networking, high availability, and the operator pattern, demonstrated with real‑world examples.

Evolution of dubbogo in the Cloud‑Native Era

Speaker: Yu Yu, Ant Financial – dubbogo Community Lead

dubbogo has grown beyond a Go implementation of Dubbo, offering observability, reliability, and seamless integration with Dubbo, gRPC, and Spring Cloud, exemplifying the Apache Way of “community over code.”

Rediscovering the Distributed Scheduling Middleware ElasticJob

Speaker: Zhang Liang, JD Digits – Apache ShardingSphere Architect

ElasticJob, launched in 2015 and now an Apache ShardingSphere sub‑project, provides task‑sharding capabilities; the session reviews its history and focuses on the new 3.x features, design shifts, and integration with ShardingSphere.

Seata’s Architectural Evolution for Microservice Consistency

Speaker: Ji Min, Alibaba – Technical Expert

Seata addresses the pain point of distributed transactions in microservices, offering a simple, high‑performance framework with broad database and RPC support; the talk covers its business value, transaction model evolution, and real‑world practices.

Apache SkyWalking Cloud on Kubernetes

Speaker: Gao Hongtao, Tetrate.io – Founding Engineer

The presentation explains the motivation, design, and core features of the SkyWalking Operator, covering component publishing, updates, ServiceMesh observation via Istio integration, and future roadmap.

Running Spring Applications on Azure

Speaker: Dai Jialin, Microsoft – Principal Engineering Manager

The session demonstrates how to run Spring applications on Azure Cloud and integrate Azure services into Spring via the open‑source Azure Spring Integration library.