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The article explains how the SOFA AI Gateway, built on the open‑source Higress kernel, evolves traditional API gateways into specialized AI gateways by adding intelligent routing, model proxy, agent proxy, and MCP market features to meet the unique latency, resource, and security demands of AI workloads.
This article details PalmPay's rapid growth in Africa, the technical challenges it faced with transaction consistency, high‑throughput messaging, and resource elasticity, and how adopting Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ—both standard and Serverless versions—provided a robust, scalable, and cost‑effective cloud‑native solution.
This article traces the evolution of agent development toolchains across four stages—basic frameworks, collaboration tools, reinforcement‑learning‑driven context engineering, and model‑centric architectures—while highlighting how stable cloud‑native infrastructure components like gateways, runtimes, observability, and security keep AI applications reliable and scalable.
This article explains the limitations of the traditional HTTP+SSE transport for MCP, introduces the new MCP Streamable HTTP protocol with its unified endpoint, on‑demand streaming and session recovery features, and shows how it improves connection count, success rate, latency, and overall reliability for serverless function compute workloads.
This article details the cost and speed challenges of embedding vectors in large‑scale log scenarios, analyzes inference framework choices, describes GPU utilization, priority queuing, and pipeline redesigns, and reports a 16‑fold throughput increase and dramatically lower per‑request costs.
This article outlines the industry shift toward large‑scale AI Agent deployment, identifies key engineering challenges such as prompt management, quality assessment, and observability, and presents Spring AI Alibaba Admin—a cloud‑native platform that offers prompt, dataset, evaluator, and tracing capabilities, complete with setup instructions and future roadmap.
The Higress 2.0 release introduces 30 changes—13 new features such as a RAG MCP server and ECDS‑based configuration refactor, 7 bug fixes, 5 refactorings, documentation updates and a test improvement—providing developers with enhanced knowledge‑management capabilities, more stable routing, and clearer documentation for cloud‑native service‑mesh environments.
The article explains the architecture, data collection methods, and crash monitoring techniques of Alibaba Cloud's RUM SDK for iOS, detailing session tracing, performance metrics, Method Swizzling, system event handling, and KSCrash integration to improve issue diagnosis.
The article explains how the single‑commit review mode in Alibaba Cloud Codeup uses AI to evaluate each commit individually, addressing the shortcomings of default bulk diff reviews, detailing configuration steps, recommended scenarios, observed benefits, and its performance trade‑offs.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of the AI Gateway product, detailing its evolution, core capabilities across model, tool, and agent access, security features, the open‑source HiMarket platform, and the new Serverless edition that dramatically lowers entry costs for AI workloads.
