AipexBase, the first Chinese open‑source AI‑native backend‑as‑a‑service platform, lets developers and AI agents bypass traditional server, database, and authentication code by using an MCP‑compatible SDK, with step‑by‑step deployment, API key generation, and integration examples that demonstrate end‑to‑end intelligent app creation.
This guide introduces Zaihangyun, a lightweight BaaS platform for solo developers, outlines its key features, provides source code links, and details step‑by‑step installation and deployment instructions for both the admin backend and API services.
This article surveys a range of open‑source low‑code solutions—from integrated full‑stack platforms like Appsmith and Budibase to BaaS tools such as Supabase and Appwrite, as well as headless CMS and workflow engines—highlighting their strengths, typical use cases, and how they can accelerate development compared to traditional coding.
This comprehensive guide explains Serverless computing—from its CNCF definition and evolution through MVC, SOA, and microservices to modern cloud-native platforms—detailing its core FaaS and BaaS primitives, ecosystem tools, typical applications, challenges like vendor lock‑in and cold starts, and future market trends.
This article reviews a range of open‑source low‑code solutions—from integrated full‑stack platforms and BaaS tools to headless CMS and workflow automation—highlighting their strengths, use‑case scenarios, and how they can accelerate development compared to traditional coding.
Serverless, once a niche concept, is rapidly becoming a core paradigm in cloud computing, offering resource decoupling, automatic scaling, and usage‑based billing, while its adoption in databases introduces unique challenges such as persistence, connection handling, and performance, prompting ongoing research and evolving commercial implementations.
The article explains how a content middle platform adopted serverless architecture—combining FaaS and BaaS—to build a cost‑effective, highly scalable image‑production service, illustrating self‑contained functions, synchronous pipelines, event‑driven processing, and workflow orchestration that reduce maintenance, accelerate deployment, and simplify operations.
This article examines the lingering challenges of microservice architecture—such as service granularity, development complexity, infrastructure management, and cost—while introducing Serverless computing, its definition, key technologies, and the technical and operational advantages that make it a compelling evolution for modern cloud applications.
This article explains the concept of Serverless computing, its components (FaaS and BaaS), typical development workflow, supporting tools, Serverless Workflow orchestration, and observability features such as metrics, logging, and tracing.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and serverless computing, explaining their concepts, advantages, popular products, and how they differ in scalability, pricing, control, architecture, and vendor lock‑in for modern software development.
The article examines the rise of Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) as a strategic bridge between cloud computing and blockchain, outlines Tencent Cloud's TBaaS architecture, and showcases a real-world warehouse‑receipt financing case that integrates IoT, AI, and distributed ledger technology to lower costs and boost trust in supply‑chain finance.
The article reviews JD’s recent blockchain technology salon, detailing JD Chain and BDS products, their enterprise applications in smart supply chain, retail, finance, and electronic contracts, and outlines the platform’s architecture, performance, open‑source strategy, and future integration with cloud and AI.
This article explains the concept, evolution, architecture, advantages, disadvantages, and typical use cases of Serverless computing, highlighting its rapid growth, core components like FaaS and BaaS, and how front‑end developers can leverage it to focus on business logic while reducing infrastructure concerns.
Serverless architecture, defined by CNCF as combining FaaS and BaaS, blurs traditional boundaries, offering elastic scaling, pay‑per‑use, and reduced operational overhead, enabling developers to concentrate on core business logic across static sites, microservices, event‑driven workflows, and data pipelines, as illustrated by real‑world cloud examples.
The article traces development from separate Android, iOS, and Web codebases through unified big‑frontend frameworks like Flutter to a cloud‑end integration model that lets frontend developers directly consume cloud services, outlines Tencent Cloud’s SDKs and phased migration strategy, addresses current Dart and tooling gaps, and predicts developers will need combined client‑side and cloud expertise.
This article explains the fundamentals of Serverless computing, compares FaaS and BaaS offerings, examines the limitations of cloud functions, and details how Tencent CloudBase leverages Knative to deliver Serverless cloud applications, covering serving, building, ecosystem integration, and the emerging CaaS model.
This article explains the fundamentals of Serverless, compares FaaS and BaaS, outlines its advantages and drawbacks, showcases typical use cases, and details Didi's terminal team's real‑world implementation using KNative on Kubernetes.
Wang Lihua’s talk introduces Tencent Cloud Base’s serverless cloud development platform for Mini Programs—an integrated, one‑cloud‑multiple‑clients solution that eliminates backend setup, offers elastic resources, rich SDKs, and pre‑packaged services—enabling rapid, low‑cost app creation, real‑time scaling, and new developer roles across web, mobile, and cloud.
The article explains serverless computing—distinguishing it from pure FaaS, outlining its layered architecture, core principles of the Serverless Framework, and step‑by‑step deployment using the CLI—showing how developers can quickly turn ideas into scalable products while abstracting infrastructure management.
This article explains the fundamentals of serverless computing, distinguishes between Function as a Service (FaaS) and Backend as a Service (BaaS), describes how the model works, outlines ideal use cases, and discusses its limitations such as cold starts, vendor lock‑in, debugging difficulties, and configuration complexity.
The article presents JD.com’s ZhiZhen Chain blockchain platform, detailing its open‑source JD Chain engine, component‑based architecture, high‑throughput performance, cryptographic innovations, BaaS services, and real‑world applications in supply‑chain traceability, digital evidence, asset‑backed securities, and digital finance, highlighting extensive deployment statistics and future innovation directions.
The article explains how Serverless brings cloud‑native back‑end capabilities to front‑end developers, outlining its advantages, architectural concepts, code examples, and the practical challenges they must consider.
The talk outlines how recent privacy regulations like GDPR expose data sovereignty, jurisdiction, and fines, then explains how blockchain’s distributed ledger, consensus, smart contracts, and cryptographic techniques—including homomorphic encryption and zero‑knowledge proofs—address trust gaps and privacy challenges, illustrated with real‑world financial use cases and a telecom‑backed BaaS platform.
This article explains the concept, evolution, architecture, advantages, disadvantages, and typical use cases of Serverless computing, highlighting its rapid growth, event‑driven model, and relevance for front‑end developers seeking to focus on business logic without managing underlying infrastructure.
The article explains the evolution of server-centric models from IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS to modern Serverless concepts such as BaaS and FaaS, discusses their technical mechanisms, practical implementations with Flask, and surveys public, private, and packaging frameworks within the cloud computing ecosystem.
This article explains how a mobile multiplayer game can be built using a traditional three‑tier architecture versus a Serverless approach, detailing component differences, operational challenges, and the cost, risk, scalability, and delivery‑time benefits that Serverless brings.
This article traces the evolution of cloud computing from the 2006 rise of IaaS through PaaS and CaaS, explains the fundamentals of Serverless architecture, distinguishes BaaS and FaaS, and highlights why Serverless represents a major shift in how applications are built and deployed.
This article details the end‑to‑end evolution of 58BaaS, covering blockchain fundamentals, the three‑stage Hyperledger Fabric network deployment, Kubernetes‑based chaincode container management, a simplified client API with configuration files, performance and robustness enhancements, debugging tools, and a Prometheus‑Grafana monitoring solution.
An analytical comparison of IBM’s Hyperledger‑based Blockchain‑as‑a‑Service and Microsoft’s Azure‑based, Ethereum‑focused BaaS reveals key differences in governance, protocol preference, ecosystem risk, and market strategy, illustrating how the two tech giants compete in the emerging enterprise blockchain space.
The guide by Tencent Cloud’s Huang Wenjun explains how to replace traditional servers with a serverless stack—API Gateway, cloud functions, and cloud database—to build scalable, low‑maintenance WeChat mini‑program backends, detailing login flow, billing, advantages, and common limitations.
This article explains why more enterprises are adopting blockchain, outlines its core advantages such as immutable distributed ledgers and smart contracts, and presents four practical ways—BaaS, public platforms, open‑source deployments, and custom protocols—for companies to experiment with the technology.
This article introduces Serverless computing, explains its core concepts such as BaaS and FaaS, outlines its key characteristics, and showcases real-world use cases ranging from data processing pipelines to web applications, highlighting benefits, challenges, and future trends.
