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Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 12, 2024 · Cloud Native

How to Run Knative Serverless on Alibaba Cloud Spot Instances for Cost Savings

Learn how to integrate Alibaba Cloud's low‑cost spot (preemptible) instances with Knative serverless workloads, configure pod annotations, handle automatic replacement, monitor eviction events, and apply best‑practice YAML settings to achieve cost‑effective, resilient deployments on a cloud‑native platform.

Alibaba CloudKnativeKubernetes
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How to Run Knative Serverless on Alibaba Cloud Spot Instances for Cost Savings
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Apr 7, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Deploying a Private Nextcloud Instance with Docker on Alibaba Cloud

This tutorial walks through installing Docker on an Alibaba Cloud server, pulling and running the Nextcloud container, configuring firewall ports, initializing the service, and verifying the private cloud storage works, providing step‑by‑step commands and screenshots for a complete deployment.

Alibaba CloudDockerLinux
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Deploying a Private Nextcloud Instance with Docker on Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Mar 26, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

MoE LLMs: How Alibaba Cloud & NVIDIA Megatron-Core Accelerate Training

This article reviews the evolution of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, details Alibaba Cloud’s collaboration with NVIDIA’s Megatron-Core to build a high-performance MoE framework, and presents extensive training optimizations, benchmark results, conversion tools, and best-practice guidelines for large-scale LLM development and deployment.

Alibaba CloudLarge Language ModelsMegatron-Core
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MoE LLMs: How Alibaba Cloud & NVIDIA Megatron-Core Accelerate Training
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Feb 27, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Build a Knowledge‑Enhanced LLM Chatbot with Alibaba Cloud PAI: A Step‑by‑Step RAG Guide

This comprehensive guide walks AI developers through building a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot on Alibaba Cloud PAI, covering architecture, vector store setup, model deployment, knowledge ingestion, multi‑modal retrieval, fusion, re‑ranking, prompt design, and end‑to‑end configuration with code examples.

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Build a Knowledge‑Enhanced LLM Chatbot with Alibaba Cloud PAI: A Step‑by‑Step RAG Guide
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Feb 26, 2024 · Big Data

How Heartbeat Game Built a Cloud‑Native Big Data Platform with Alibaba DataWorks

This article explains how Heartbeat Game created a cloud‑native big data platform on Alibaba Cloud using DataWorks, detailing the end‑to‑end data pipeline, a universal logical data model for games, and the advantages of the GS‑LBDM architecture for AI, risk control, and analytics scenarios.

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How Heartbeat Game Built a Cloud‑Native Big Data Platform with Alibaba DataWorks
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Feb 23, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

How PAI‑TorchAcc Supercharges Large‑Model Training on Alibaba Cloud

PAI‑TorchAcc, an Alibaba Cloud AI platform accelerator, offers a seamless PyTorch interface that integrates HuggingFace models and employs LazyTensor‑based static graph conversion, multi‑strategy distributed training, and extensive GPU optimizations to dramatically boost throughput for 1B‑175B parameter models, surpassing PyTorch native and Megatron‑LM performance.

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How PAI‑TorchAcc Supercharges Large‑Model Training on Alibaba Cloud
IT Services Circle
IT Services Circle
Jan 27, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Using Alibaba Cloud OSS for File Uploads: Setup, Code Samples, and Best Practices

This article explains why direct file storage on application servers is not scalable, introduces Alibaba Cloud OSS as an object storage solution, walks through bucket creation, access key management, Node.js upload code, temporary credentials for browser uploads, CDN integration, and security considerations, providing a complete end‑to‑end upload workflow.

Alibaba CloudCDNNode.js
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Using Alibaba Cloud OSS for File Uploads: Setup, Code Samples, and Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 27, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Deploy a Palworld Dedicated Server on Alibaba Cloud in Minutes

This guide walks you through creating, configuring, and launching a Palworld dedicated server on Alibaba Cloud, covering account setup, instance selection, network settings, and in‑game connection steps so you can play with friends quickly and reliably.

Alibaba CloudDedicated ServerPalworld
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Deploy a Palworld Dedicated Server on Alibaba Cloud in Minutes
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 6, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Deploy ModelScope Models to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute in 5 Minutes

This guide walks readers through using ModelScope’s SwingDeploy service to locate, configure, and instantly deploy open‑source AI models to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, explaining the resources created, how to invoke the model via HTTP triggers, and how to optimize performance with provisioned instances, logging, and concurrency settings.

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Deploy ModelScope Models to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute in 5 Minutes
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 28, 2023 · Cloud Computing

How to Set Up No‑Code Data Dump from Alibaba Cloud Kafka to OSS

This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Message Queue Kafka's no‑code, fully managed, serverless dump feature to transfer data to OSS, covering its benefits, typical scenarios, required prerequisites, step‑by‑step configuration, testing, and verification of the resulting objects.

Alibaba CloudData IntegrationKafka
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How to Set Up No‑Code Data Dump from Alibaba Cloud Kafka to OSS
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 10, 2023 · Operations

How to Install Docker, Docker‑Compose, Nginx and Jenkins on Alibaba Cloud

This tutorial walks through preparing an Alibaba Cloud server, installing Docker and Docker‑Compose, resolving permission issues, setting up Nginx and Jenkins containers, configuring docker‑compose.yml and nginx.conf, and finally launching the environment with Docker commands, providing a complete CI/CD deployment pipeline.

Alibaba CloudDocker-ComposeJenkins
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How to Install Docker, Docker‑Compose, Nginx and Jenkins on Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 8, 2023 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Cloud EMR Powers Serverless StarRocks for Seamless Lakehouse Analytics

This article summarizes Li Yu's presentation on Alibaba Cloud EMR's deep collaboration with the StarRocks community, detailing major contributions across versions, the serverless StarRocks product’s core capabilities, and future plans to enhance OLAP‑lakehouse integration, performance, and cloud‑native elasticity.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingEMR
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How Alibaba Cloud EMR Powers Serverless StarRocks for Seamless Lakehouse Analytics
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 5, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Efficiently Fine‑Tune Qwen LLMs on Alibaba Cloud PAI Lingjun

This guide walks you through setting up Alibaba Cloud PAI Lingjun resources, preparing Qwen‑7B/14B/72B models, preprocessing large‑scale WuDao data, configuring distributed training with Megatron‑LM, performing continued pre‑training and supervised fine‑tuning, and finally deploying the model as an online service via PAI‑EAS.

Alibaba CloudLLMMegatron-LM
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How to Efficiently Fine‑Tune Qwen LLMs on Alibaba Cloud PAI Lingjun
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Nov 30, 2023 · Big Data

Big Data Cloud‑Native Trends and Challenges Highlighted at the 2023 Yunqi Conference

The 2023 Yunqi Conference in Hangzhou showcased the latest advances in cloud computing and big‑data technologies, examined the evolution from big‑data 1.0 to 3.0, discussed the key difficulties of making big data cloud‑native, and presented a practical case study of MiHoYo’s cloud‑native transformation.

Alibaba CloudBig DataCloud Native
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Big Data Cloud‑Native Trends and Challenges Highlighted at the 2023 Yunqi Conference
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 23, 2023 · Cloud Native

How CDC + Serverless Functions Enable Real‑Time ETL in Cloud Native Architectures

This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Function Compute combined with Database Change Data Capture (CDC) creates a complete, real‑time ETL pipeline, detailing the ETL model, DTS integration, architecture components, event‑driven processing, and practical use cases such as OLTP‑to‑OLAP data flow.

Alibaba CloudCDCData Integration
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How CDC + Serverless Functions Enable Real‑Time ETL in Cloud Native Architectures
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Nov 22, 2023 · Big Data

Real-Time Data Integration with Flink CDC: Core Tech and Alibaba Cloud Solutions

This article, based on a presentation by Flink CDC and Apache Flink community leaders, explores CDC real‑time integration challenges, delves into Flink CDC’s core technologies such as incremental snapshot and lock‑free processing, and demonstrates Alibaba Cloud’s enterprise‑grade solutions for end‑to‑end real‑time data pipelines.

Alibaba CloudBig DataChange Data Capture
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Real-Time Data Integration with Flink CDC: Core Tech and Alibaba Cloud Solutions
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Nov 14, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba Cloud Outage in November 2023 Affects Numerous Services and Regions

In November 2023, Alibaba Cloud suffered a massive outage that disrupted client, web, and mobile access for nearly eight hours, affecting a wide range of Alibaba products, over 300,000 enterprise customers, and numerous global data centers, highlighting the fragility of large-scale cloud services.

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Alibaba Cloud Outage in November 2023 Affects Numerous Services and Regions
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 13, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Massive Singles’ Day Outage: What Went Wrong?

On November 12, Alibaba Cloud suffered a global-scale failure that disrupted dozens of Alibaba‑affiliated apps—including Taobao, DingTalk, and Aliyun Drive—affecting services from e‑commerce to campus laundry, prompting widespread frustration and sparking discussions about cloud reliability and potential migration to other providers.

Alibaba CloudCase StudyOutage
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Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Massive Singles’ Day Outage: What Went Wrong?
Ant R&D Efficiency
Ant R&D Efficiency
Nov 9, 2023 · Frontend Development

Integrating CodeBlitz WebIDE with Alibaba Cloud Codeup: Features and Usage Guide

The guide explains how Alibaba Cloud Codeup integrates the CodeBlitz WebIDE, detailing its default WebIDE access, core features such as code browsing, search, syntax services, GitGraph and CodeRunnerForWeb, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing the IDE package, adding language packs, plugins, filesystem and third‑party Git service integrations, plus a lightweight editor component.

Alibaba CloudCodeBlitzCodeup
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Integrating CodeBlitz WebIDE with Alibaba Cloud Codeup: Features and Usage Guide
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Oct 23, 2023 · Big Data

Alibaba Cloud DataWorks Intelligent Data Modeling: Practices, Challenges, and Solutions

This article introduces Alibaba Cloud DataWorks' intelligent data modeling tool, outlines the data demand flow, shares best practices and hands‑on demonstrations for data warehouse modeling, discusses common challenges and their solutions, and provides Q&A and product details for developers and data engineers.

Alibaba CloudBig DataData Warehouse
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Alibaba Cloud DataWorks Intelligent Data Modeling: Practices, Challenges, and Solutions
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Oct 10, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Create a Custom Enterprise Conversational Search with Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Vector & LLM

This guide walks you through setting up Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Vector Search and LLM Intelligent Q&A editions, covering environment preparation, instance creation, data source configuration, field and index setup, document ingestion, query processing, and a complete Java SDK demo for building a flexible enterprise conversational search system.

Alibaba CloudConversational AIJava SDK
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Create a Custom Enterprise Conversational Search with Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Vector & LLM
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 28, 2023 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Cloud’s Network Evolved from Classic to Intelligent VPC Architecture

This article traces Alibaba Cloud's network transformation—from early classic two‑layer networks to dedicated VPCs, hardware‑accelerated gateways, smart NICs, and NFV‑based virtualized network functions—highlighting the business drivers, architectural challenges, and the progressive solutions that enable massive, elastic, and secure cloud networking.

Alibaba CloudNFVNetwork Architecture
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How Alibaba Cloud’s Network Evolved from Classic to Intelligent VPC Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Aug 22, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh ASM Accelerated Cloud‑Native Transformation at Lixun Logistics

This article details how Lixun Logistics migrated from an IDC‑based architecture to a fully cloud‑native environment using Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh ASM, addressing version‑upgrade challenges, heterogeneous system governance, complex operations, and achieving 40% faster operations and a 50% reduction in implementation time.

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How Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh ASM Accelerated Cloud‑Native Transformation at Lixun Logistics
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Aug 6, 2023 · Information Security

Data Security Governance and Practices with Alibaba Cloud DataWorks

This article explains how enterprises can implement data security governance in China's digital economy era, covering relevant laws, the essence and direction of data security, Alibaba Cloud DataWorks practices, scenario cases, and a Q&A, offering practical guidance for compliance and risk management.

Alibaba CloudData SecurityGovernance
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Data Security Governance and Practices with Alibaba Cloud DataWorks
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Aug 2, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Boost Your Development Speed: Automate Deployments with Alibaba Cloud Toolkit

This article explains how developers can dramatically improve productivity by using the free Alibaba Cloud Toolkit IDE plugin to automate packaging, remote deployment, SSH proxy, real‑time log viewing, and quick Dubbo project creation across Windows, ECS, EDAS, and Kubernetes environments.

Alibaba CloudDeployment AutomationIDE plugin
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Boost Your Development Speed: Automate Deployments with Alibaba Cloud Toolkit
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 28, 2023 · Cloud Native

Deploy a Web App on Alibaba Cloud SAE: Step-by-Step Guide for the Cloud Native Challenge

This guide walks you through claiming a free SAE trial, creating a Serverless application, configuring public access, and submitting your deployment for the 4th Cloud Native Programming Challenge, providing practical steps and essential links for a successful migration to Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Application Engine.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeDeployment
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Deploy a Web App on Alibaba Cloud SAE: Step-by-Step Guide for the Cloud Native Challenge
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Jul 25, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Fine‑Tune and Deploy Llama 2 on Alibaba Cloud PAI in Minutes

This guide walks you through using Meta's open‑source Llama 2 models on Alibaba Cloud's PAI platform, covering low‑code LoRA fine‑tuning, full‑parameter fine‑tuning with PAI‑DSW, and rapid WebUI deployment via PAI‑EAS, complete with step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and resource requirements.

AIAlibaba CloudLlama2
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Fine‑Tune and Deploy Llama 2 on Alibaba Cloud PAI in Minutes
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 24, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Tim's Coffee Leveraged Cloud‑Native Architecture and Observability for Rapid Growth

Tim's Coffee transformed its legacy systems into a fully containerized, micro‑service, cloud‑native platform, using Kubernetes, Dubbo, ARMS, Prometheus and Grafana to boost deployment efficiency, scalability, cost savings, and observability, while tackling alert storms and improving development productivity.

Alibaba CloudKubernetesMicroservices
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How Tim's Coffee Leveraged Cloud‑Native Architecture and Observability for Rapid Growth
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jul 10, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Choosing the Right Cloud Storage: NAS, Block, and Object Explained

This article explains common storage types—file (NAS), block (EBS), and object (OSS)—detailing their physical foundations, performance metrics, underlying Alibaba Cloud architectures, protocol differences, and ideal application scenarios to help readers select the most suitable storage solution for any workload.

Alibaba CloudNASblock storage
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Choosing the Right Cloud Storage: NAS, Block, and Object Explained
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Jun 24, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

From Model to Service: Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning PAI One‑Stop Model Development and Deployment Practice

This article presents an end‑to‑end overview of Alibaba Cloud’s Machine Learning PAI platform, detailing the three‑stage ML workflow, challenges in model development, the role of pre‑trained and open‑source models, PAI’s architecture, a hands‑on demo, and MLOps best practices for efficient model deployment.

Alibaba CloudMLOpsModel Deployment
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From Model to Service: Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning PAI One‑Stop Model Development and Deployment Practice
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Jun 15, 2023 · Big Data

How Alibaba Cloud’s DataV Sets the Benchmark for Data Visualization Service Maturity

This article outlines Alibaba Cloud’s DataV journey, the industry‑wide Data Visualization Service Capability Grading Requirements, the three maturity stages, and the team’s award‑winning history, illustrating how standardized tools and processes elevate data‑driven decision making.

Alibaba CloudData VisualizationIndustry standards
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How Alibaba Cloud’s DataV Sets the Benchmark for Data Visualization Service Maturity
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Jun 5, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s DGS Enables Real‑Time GNN Inference on Massive Dynamic Graphs

The Dynamic Graph Sampling (DGS) service, built on GraphLearn, delivers sub‑20 ms latency for real‑time GNN inference on large, constantly evolving graphs by separating storage from computation, using event‑driven pre‑sampling, lazy multi‑hop concatenation, and a publish‑subscribe architecture that scales linearly across distributed workers.

Alibaba CloudGraph Neural NetworksGraphLearn
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How Alibaba’s DGS Enables Real‑Time GNN Inference on Massive Dynamic Graphs
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
May 18, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Cut Up to 90% Cloud Costs with Alibaba Cloud PAI‑EAS Spot Instances

Alibaba Cloud's PAI‑EAS now supports Spot Instances, letting users run latency‑tolerant inference tasks on pre‑emptible compute resources and achieve up to 90% cost savings compared with on‑demand instances, while offering flexible bidding, protection periods, multi‑spec selection, and automatic scaling.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingPAI-EAS
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Cut Up to 90% Cloud Costs with Alibaba Cloud PAI‑EAS Spot Instances
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 12, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Deploy Stable Diffusion on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in Minutes

This guide walks you through registering for Alibaba Cloud, enabling Function Compute and NAS, creating a Stable Diffusion application from a template, configuring the admin console, uploading the model, optionally building a custom Docker image, and troubleshooting common issues, all with step‑by‑step instructions and code examples.

AIAlibaba CloudDocker
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Deploy Stable Diffusion on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in Minutes
php Courses
php Courses
May 7, 2023 · Backend Development

Integrating Alibaba Cloud SMS Service with ThinkPHP6

This guide explains how to set up Alibaba Cloud SMS, configure the required Access Key ID and Secret, install the SDK, and use ThinkPHP6 to call the SMS API with sample PHP code, highlighting the steps and placeholders that must be replaced with your own credentials.

APIAlibaba CloudPHP
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Integrating Alibaba Cloud SMS Service with ThinkPHP6
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 5, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Deploy Stable Diffusion on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in Minutes

This guide shows how to map a Stable Diffusion container's dynamic paths to Alibaba Cloud NAS, configure Serverless Devs, deploy the application, and upload model files via a visual admin UI or NAS commands, enabling fast AI image generation on a cloud‑native platform.

AI DeploymentAlibaba CloudFunction Compute
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Deploy Stable Diffusion on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in Minutes
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Apr 13, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Cloud Made Elasticsearch Fully Serverless: Architecture & Performance Gains

Alibaba Cloud unveiled the fully serverless Elasticsearch architecture at the 2023 Elastic China Developer Conference, highlighting cloud‑native upgrades, the OpenStore storage engine, and TimeStream time‑series enhancements that dramatically improve cost efficiency, scalability, and query performance.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeElasticsearch
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How Alibaba Cloud Made Elasticsearch Fully Serverless: Architecture & Performance Gains
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Mar 30, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Deploy an OpenAI Proxy on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute in Minutes

This guide walks developers through setting up a stable overseas OpenAI API proxy using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering prerequisite installations, command‑line and Application Center deployments, and how to integrate the proxy with existing ChatGPT projects.

API ProxyAlibaba CloudFunction Compute
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Deploy an OpenAI Proxy on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute in Minutes
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Mar 3, 2023 · Big Data

How Alibaba Cloud EMR Evolved from Open‑Source Compatibility to Enterprise‑Grade Performance

This article outlines Alibaba Cloud EMR's three‑stage evolution—compatibility, contribution, and beyond open source—detailing its early Hadoop adoption, Flink and Spark innovations, cloud‑native optimizations, and enterprise‑grade features such as Remote Shuffle Service, performance benchmarks, and integrated diagnostics.

Alibaba CloudBig DataCloud Native
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How Alibaba Cloud EMR Evolved from Open‑Source Compatibility to Enterprise‑Grade Performance
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Feb 22, 2023 · Industry Insights

What’s Driving the Rise of Immersion Liquid‑Cooling in Smart Computing?

The 2023 Immersion Liquid‑Cooling Smart Computing Summit in Quzhou gathered leading firms like Alibaba Cloud, OPPO and ODCC to showcase nine new research results, discuss standards, share expert insights on architecture, signal integrity and power design, and outline the future of green, high‑performance data‑center infrastructure.

Alibaba CloudData CenterImmersion Cooling
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What’s Driving the Rise of Immersion Liquid‑Cooling in Smart Computing?
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Feb 8, 2023 · Big Data

How Alibaba Cloud EMR 2.0 Redefines Open‑Source Big Data Platforms

This article summarizes Alibaba Cloud senior product expert He Yuan's presentation on EMR 2.0, outlining the challenges of open‑source big data, the evolution of EMR, and the new features—including cloud‑native architecture, enhanced performance, diverse resource models, and expanded analysis scenarios—aimed at reducing cost and complexity.

Alibaba CloudBig DataCloud Native
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How Alibaba Cloud EMR 2.0 Redefines Open‑Source Big Data Platforms
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Feb 3, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Rethinking Cloud Computing: How Alibaba’s CIPU Redefines Compute Power

This article revisits cloud computing by tracing the evolution of compute power, exploring Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure breakthroughs such as the CIPU processor and its core platforms, and analyzing how these advances reshape elastic, big‑data, high‑performance, and AI workloads while highlighting trust, cost, and self‑service challenges.

Alibaba CloudCIPUCloud Computing
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Rethinking Cloud Computing: How Alibaba’s CIPU Redefines Compute Power
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Feb 2, 2023 · Industry Insights

How SONiC Is Powering Open Optical Networking: First Large‑Scale Deployment and the New OTN Working Group

The article outlines SONiC's evolution as an open‑source cloud networking OS, highlights Alibaba Cloud's pioneering large‑scale deployment of SONiC‑based white‑box optical devices, and details the formation and goals of the SONiC‑OTN working group to extend SONiC into optical transport networking.

Alibaba CloudCloud NetworkingIndustry insight
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How SONiC Is Powering Open Optical Networking: First Large‑Scale Deployment and the New OTN Working Group
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jan 12, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's Self‑Developed White‑Box Switches: Scaling, Automation, and Ecosystem Evolution

Alibaba's self‑developed white‑box switches, built since 2018, enable hyperscale data‑center access, operation, and evolution through scale‑out CLOS architecture, SDN openness, SONiC OS, full‑link automation, BMC management, and ecosystem standards like S³IP and QSFP112, driving cost‑effective, automated cloud networking.

Alibaba CloudScale-out Architecturenetwork automation
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Alibaba's Self‑Developed White‑Box Switches: Scaling, Automation, and Ecosystem Evolution
Java High-Performance Architecture
Java High-Performance Architecture
Dec 31, 2022 · Databases

Mastering Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Commands, and Client Best Practices

This guide details Alibaba Cloud Redis development standards, including readable key naming, value size limits, safe command usage, client connection pooling, eviction policies, useful tooling, and efficient big‑key deletion methods, helping engineers build high‑performance, reliable Redis services.

Alibaba CloudBigKey ManagementClient Pooling
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Mastering Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Commands, and Client Best Practices
Wukong Talks Architecture
Wukong Talks Architecture
Dec 26, 2022 · Operations

Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong Region Outage Postmortem – December 18, 2023

On December 18, 2023, Alibaba Cloud's Hong Kong Region experienced a severe cooling‑system failure that caused a 14‑hour outage of ECS, OSS, EBS, RDS and other services, prompting extensive emergency procedures, service impact analysis, and a detailed post‑mortem with improvement actions.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingIncident Management
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Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong Region Outage Postmortem – December 18, 2023
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 26, 2022 · Operations

Inside Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong Region C Outage: Timeline, Impact, and Lessons Learned

On December 18, 2022, Alibaba Cloud's Hong Kong Region Zone C suffered a massive service interruption—the longest in its operational history—prompting a detailed incident response, extensive service impact across compute, storage, and networking, and a thorough analysis that led to concrete infrastructure and communication improvements.

Alibaba CloudIncident ReportOperations
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Inside Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong Region C Outage: Timeline, Impact, and Lessons Learned
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 26, 2022 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Tag/Profile System for Marketing Automation

This article shares engineering practices for constructing a tag‑profile system, covering core concepts, minimal architecture, technology selection, key modules such as estimation, selection, deployment, and validation, and offers design details and implementation tips for large‑scale marketing scenarios.

Alibaba CloudData EngineeringMarketing Automation
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How to Build a Scalable Tag/Profile System for Marketing Automation
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 22, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Evolution of Alibaba Cloud’s Fundamental Network Architecture and the Development of AliNOS

The article traces Alibaba Cloud’s large‑scale data‑center network evolution, explains the motivations behind its self‑developed white‑box platforms, details the design and growth of the AliNOS network operating system built on SONiC, and discusses current capabilities and future challenges such as routing, IPv6, SRv6, and endpoint‑network integration.

AliNOSAlibaba CloudCloud Networking
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Evolution of Alibaba Cloud’s Fundamental Network Architecture and the Development of AliNOS
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 12, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking Chinese Text-to-Image Generation with Alibaba’s PAI‑Diffusion Models

This article introduces Alibaba Cloud’s open‑source PAI‑Diffusion series, detailing its Latent Diffusion Model foundation, Chinese CLIP alignment, super‑resolution components, and showcases diverse artistic and real‑world text‑to‑image generation scenarios, while providing guidance on accessing the models via Alibaba Cloud AI Center, PAI‑DSW, and HuggingFace Space.

Alibaba CloudChinese AIDiffusion Models
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Unlocking Chinese Text-to-Image Generation with Alibaba’s PAI‑Diffusion Models
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 9, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Throughput Serverless Message Consumer on Alibaba Cloud

This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Function Compute together with Message Service and Connector to create a cost‑effective, high‑throughput, low‑latency message‑consumption pipeline, covering architecture, key features, step‑by‑step configuration, code examples, and best‑practice recommendations.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeConnector
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How to Build a Low‑Cost, High‑Throughput Serverless Message Consumer on Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Dec 7, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Cloud PAI’s Few-Shot NLP Breakthroughs at EMNLP 2022

At EMNLP 2022, Alibaba Cloud’s PAI platform showcased three pioneering few-shot NLP papers—KECP, SpanProto, and UPT—demonstrating advanced prompt-tuning techniques, knowledge-enhanced models, and a unified learning paradigm that push the boundaries of low-resource language understanding.

Alibaba CloudEMNLP 2022natural language processing
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Alibaba Cloud PAI’s Few-Shot NLP Breakthroughs at EMNLP 2022
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 22, 2022 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute Self‑Select Specs Slash Serverless Costs

Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute introduced a self‑select specification feature that decouples CPU, memory, disk, and GPU limits, enabling granular resource allocation, high‑density deployment, and scheduling optimizations that can cut serverless function costs by up to 56% while maintaining performance.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingFunction Compute
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How Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute Self‑Select Specs Slash Serverless Costs
SQB Blog
SQB Blog
Nov 18, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Boosting AI Model Development with Alibaba's EasyModeling Framework

This article introduces the EasyModeling framework built on Alibaba Cloud's PAI platform, detailing its modular design, high reusability, integration with deep‑learning libraries, automated hyper‑parameter tuning, deployment scenarios, and a real‑world case study using RoBERTa for dish‑name standardization, demonstrating significant performance gains.

AI modelingAlibaba CloudAutoML
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Boosting AI Model Development with Alibaba's EasyModeling Framework
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 16, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Inside Alibaba Cloud’s HAIL Network: Architecture, Innovations, and Future Trends

This article explores Alibaba Cloud’s HAIL data‑center network architecture, its evolution from early enterprise‑grade designs to fully self‑developed hardware, key technical features such as single‑chip design and automated operations, and the emerging trends toward higher throughput, ultra‑low latency, pooling, and predictable networking.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingData Center Network
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Inside Alibaba Cloud’s HAIL Network: Architecture, Innovations, and Future Trends
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 9, 2022 · Databases

Why Alibaba’s PolarDB Open‑Source Strategy Is a Game‑Changer for Cloud‑Native Databases

The October 25th PolarDB open‑source summit in Hangzhou gathered Alibaba Cloud executives, ecosystem partners and developers to discuss the daring decision to open‑source the flagship cloud‑native database, its compatibility and openness principles, real‑world case studies, and future trends shaping the next generation of distributed databases.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeDatabase
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Why Alibaba’s PolarDB Open‑Source Strategy Is a Game‑Changer for Cloud‑Native Databases
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 5, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Highlights of the 2022 China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Summit – Launch of Alibaba Cloud Pangu 2.0 and Expert Insights on Smart Computing Infrastructure

The 2022 China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Summit showcased the debut of Alibaba Cloud Pangu 2.0 and featured a series of expert presentations covering data‑center airflow simulation, AI‑driven compute demands, innovative server and storage technologies, high‑performance networking, and smart‑data‑center operations, concluding with a forward‑looking round‑table on intelligent computing.

Alibaba CloudArtificial IntelligenceData Center
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Highlights of the 2022 China Cloud Computing Infrastructure Summit – Launch of Alibaba Cloud Pangu 2.0 and Expert Insights on Smart Computing Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Nov 5, 2022 · Big Data

How Alibaba Cloud’s Integrated Big Data & AI Platform Is Evolving

The talk outlines the evolution of Alibaba Cloud’s integrated big data and AI platform, highlighting the three‑V fundamentals, the AI‑inspired usability‑scale‑efficiency triangle, open‑source trends, and how the platform unifies offline and real‑time analytics while simplifying governance and development.

AI integrationAlibaba CloudCloud Computing
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How Alibaba Cloud’s Integrated Big Data & AI Platform Is Evolving
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 3, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Next‑Generation Cloud Infrastructure: Alibaba Cloud’s High‑Performance “Cloud Infrastructure As A Computer”

The article outlines Alibaba Cloud’s next‑generation cloud infrastructure—dubbed “Cloud Infrastructure As A Computer”—detailing its global scale, integrated high‑performance architecture, low‑latency PredFabric network, heterogeneous computing capabilities, and green energy initiatives aimed at sustainable, high‑efficiency data center operations.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingSustainable Computing
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Next‑Generation Cloud Infrastructure: Alibaba Cloud’s High‑Performance “Cloud Infrastructure As A Computer”
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 3, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Leverage Alibaba Cloud Prometheus for Fine‑Grained Cloud Product Monitoring

This guide explains why native cloud monitoring falls short, how building custom Prometheus exporters adds overhead, and how Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Prometheus service—through enterprise cloud‑monitoring and self‑monitoring integration modes—provides ready‑to‑use exporters, agents, Grafana dashboards, and alert templates for dozens of cloud products.

Alibaba CloudCloud MonitoringCloud Native
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How to Leverage Alibaba Cloud Prometheus for Fine‑Grained Cloud Product Monitoring
37 Interactive Technology Team
37 Interactive Technology Team
Nov 1, 2022 · Cloud Computing

Guide to Migrating Tencent Cloud CVM Images to Alibaba Cloud ECS Using the SMC Client

This guide walks resource‑delivery SREs through downloading the SMC client, preparing the Tencent CVM source, creating and starting a migration task in Alibaba Cloud, and monitoring progress, enabling fast, cost‑effective conversion of a 500 GB Tencent Cloud image to an Alibaba ECS image for cross‑cloud deployment.

Alibaba CloudCloud MigrationLinux
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Guide to Migrating Tencent Cloud CVM Images to Alibaba Cloud ECS Using the SMC Client
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Oct 31, 2022 · Big Data

Noah Wealth’s CDH-to-Cloud Migration: Boosting OLAP with Hologres

Facing soaring data volumes and performance bottlenecks, Noah Wealth replaced its self‑built CDH cluster with Alibaba Cloud’s unified big‑data platform and Hologres, streamlining OLAP analysis, cutting costs, accelerating queries to sub‑second response times, and enabling real‑time, multi‑dimensional analytics for its financial services.

Alibaba CloudCloud MigrationData Warehouse
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Noah Wealth’s CDH-to-Cloud Migration: Boosting OLAP with Hologres
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 21, 2022 · Cloud Native

Master Serverless on Alibaba Cloud: Create, Deploy, Debug Functions Step‑by‑Step

This guide walks you through the entire lifecycle of a Serverless application on Alibaba Cloud, covering function creation via the console, project initialization and deployment with Serverless Devs, various debugging techniques—including online, breakpoint, proxy, and local debugging—and best practices for dependency management and performance testing.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeFunction Compute
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Master Serverless on Alibaba Cloud: Create, Deploy, Debug Functions Step‑by‑Step
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 19, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Monitor Non‑Kubernetes ECS Apps with Alibaba Cloud Managed Prometheus

This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Prometheus service to collect and visualize metrics from ECS‑based applications across pure VPC, hybrid VPC‑IDC, and multi‑cloud scenarios, detailing the pain points of self‑built solutions and providing step‑by‑step configuration instructions.

Alibaba CloudCloud MonitoringECS
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How to Monitor Non‑Kubernetes ECS Apps with Alibaba Cloud Managed Prometheus
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 15, 2022 · Cloud Native

Mastering Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Layers: Custom & Public Layer Best Practices

This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute layers—including custom and official public layers—to overcome large dependency packages, reduce deployment size, share code across functions, handle OS/architecture constraints, and provides step‑by‑step examples for Node.js Puppeteer and .NET 6 custom runtimes.

.NETAlibaba CloudCustom Runtime
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Mastering Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Layers: Custom & Public Layer Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 10, 2022 · Cloud Native

Build a Serverless Python Email Scheduler on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of Serverless architecture, outlines its BaaS and FaaS components, presents three typical use cases, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including Python code and deployment instructions—to create an automated daily email service on Alibaba Cloud Serverless.

Alibaba CloudAutomationCloud Native
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Build a Serverless Python Email Scheduler on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 29, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Migrating a Holiday Gift Service to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Cuts Costs and Handles Traffic Spikes

Facing occasional traffic spikes and high server costs, the author migrated a holiday gift‑distribution project from an ALB‑ECS‑MySQL‑Redis stack to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing cost reductions, zero‑idle‑instance savings, custom runtime setup, logging adjustments, VPC networking, deployment via Serverless Devs, and domain binding.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeDeployment
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How Migrating a Holiday Gift Service to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute Cuts Costs and Handles Traffic Spikes
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 28, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Lixun Logistics Cut Registry Complexity by 50% with Alibaba Cloud ACR EE

Facing high operational costs and scaling challenges with its self-built Harbor registry, Lixun Logistics migrated core container images to Alibaba Cloud’s ACR Enterprise Edition, achieving a 50% reduction in registry complexity, 60% faster image distribution, and enhanced security across multi-region deployments.

ACR EEAlibaba CloudCloud Native
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How Lixun Logistics Cut Registry Complexity by 50% with Alibaba Cloud ACR EE
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform
Sep 13, 2022 · Big Data

From Hadoop to Cloud‑Native: The Evolution of Data Lakes and Modern Architecture

This article traces the history of data lakes from their 2010 inception with Hadoop through cloud‑native object storage, lakehouse formats like Delta Lake, and Alibaba Cloud's multi‑layer solution, outlining key architectural stages and practical construction challenges for enterprise‑grade implementations.

Alibaba CloudBig DataCloud Native
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From Hadoop to Cloud‑Native: The Evolution of Data Lakes and Modern Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 9, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Deploy a Pay‑Per‑Use WordPress Site on Alibaba Cloud Serverless

Learn step‑by‑step how to build a cost‑effective, pay‑per‑use WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud Serverless using Function Compute, NAS storage, RDS, and SLS, covering service activation, NAS setup, function configuration, custom domain binding, code deployment, and final verification.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeFunction Compute
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How to Deploy a Pay‑Per‑Use WordPress Site on Alibaba Cloud Serverless
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Unlocking Serverless: From Concepts to Hands‑On Alibaba Cloud Deployment

This article explains the evolution and core principles of Serverless computing, outlines its benefits for reducing operational complexity and cost, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for building, testing, and exposing a function on Alibaba Cloud using Function Compute and API Gateway.

API GatewayAlibaba CloudCloud Native
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Unlocking Serverless: From Concepts to Hands‑On Alibaba Cloud Deployment
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 6, 2022 · Databases

Best Practices for Using Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Commands, and Client Tips

This guide outlines comprehensive best‑practice recommendations for Alibaba Cloud Redis, covering readable key naming, value size limits, safe command usage, client connection pooling, encryption, eviction policies, and efficient big‑key deletion techniques to improve performance and reliability.

Alibaba CloudBigKey ManagementClient Best Practices
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Best Practices for Using Alibaba Cloud Redis: Key Design, Commands, and Client Tips
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Aug 31, 2022 · Databases

Alibaba Cloud Graph Database (GDB): Product Overview, Capabilities, Execution Engine, and Applications

The article introduces Alibaba Cloud's Graph Database (GDB), detailing its product features, supported query languages, high‑performance and high‑availability architecture, parallel execution engine based on the Volcano model and Morsel‑driven parallelism, and showcases real‑world use cases such as DingTalk friend recommendation and Hema Fresh recommendation.

Alibaba CloudDatabase ArchitectureMorsel Parallelism
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Alibaba Cloud Graph Database (GDB): Product Overview, Capabilities, Execution Engine, and Applications