The cloud service provider FoxTi Cloud, which marketed “free forever” servers worth about 2,000 CNY, announced bankruptcy on May 8, leaving many users with thousands of yuan in lost balances and highlighting the risks of relying on free virtual products.
Microsoft’s FY2026 Q3 report shows AI revenue soaring to $37 billion, a 123% year‑over‑year increase, while overall revenue hits $82.9 billion, driven by rapid growth in Copilot subscriptions, a 40% rise in Azure revenue, and a $627 billion surge in RPO contracts.
The article traces OpenAI’s rapid technical breakthroughs, its evolving partnership with Microsoft—from a $10 billion Azure‑backed alliance to a 2026 multi‑cloud agreement that removes exclusivity and caps revenue sharing—while also detailing Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of breaching its nonprofit mission and the broader implications for the AI industry.
A Gartner revenue‑based DBMS market share chart shows Oracle slipping from the top while cloud giants and fast‑growing newcomers like Snowflake, Databricks and CockroachDB gain ground, and DB‑Engines rankings reveal PostgreSQL’s rise and Oracle’s gradual decline despite still leading overall.
Amazon has pledged an additional $5 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $13 billion and promising up to $100 billion in compute capacity over the next decade, while both firms and OpenAI race to diversify infrastructure, secure multi‑cloud partnerships, and out‑spend rivals in the accelerating AI arms race.
A concise roundup of major 2026 tech developments reveals Apple’s leadership shift, Amazon’s record AI investment, Google’s AI‑focused strike team and TPU, Intel‑Google CPU‑IPU collaboration, China’s AI policy push, and emerging AI products from Kimi, Xiaomi, Volcano Engine and Sunrise, highlighting market trends and competitive dynamics.
The article analyzes Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch’s shift from keyword‑based to Agent‑native search, detailing the Agent Native architecture, hybrid retrieval 2.0, FalconSeek engine performance gains of up to 300%, cost reductions of 40‑70%, and the ecosystem of ES Skills, cloud‑native enhancements, and observability that together enable a scalable AI search platform for enterprises.
DeepSeek’s latest hiring push reveals a strategic shift from algorithmic research to building and operating a high‑efficiency data center in Inner Mongolia’s Ulanqab, leveraging low‑temperature climate and existing cloud infrastructure to cut TCO, while gearing up for the upcoming V4 trillion‑parameter model.
In a candid two‑hour podcast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains how the company’s focus on accelerated computing, a massive CUDA ecosystem, strategic supply‑chain partnerships and a philosophy of doing only what’s essential have built a durable moat that outpaces rivals like TPU, while also revealing why Nvidia prefers to empower cloud providers rather than become one itself.
By 2026 inference will consume over 70% of AI compute, prompting a shift from GPU‑centric training to specialized, low‑latency, low‑cost inference chips, with Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel and newcomers like Groq and CoreWeave racing to capture the new battlefield.
At the 2026 Open AI Infra Summit, Alibaba Cloud showcased the evolution of the UALink 2.0 protocol and its integration with CXL, detailing new specifications, in‑network compute capabilities, and ecosystem developments that aim to overcome scale‑up bottlenecks in AI training and inference.
After a Molotov cocktail was thrown at Sam Altman's home, OpenAI’s Stargate initiative suffered a shockwave of senior executive departures, a strategic pivot from self‑built data centers to partner‑driven cloud resources, massive funding commitments, and the suspension of its UK expansion, highlighting deep turmoil in the AI infrastructure race.
Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents platform moves beyond token‑based model APIs to a full‑stack, hosted agent service, offering a three‑layer architecture, dramatic latency reductions, enterprise‑grade security, and a strategic pivot that could reshape the AI industry.
This roundup analyzes recent AI industry moves—including Alibaba’s sweeping organizational overhaul, a rare US AI‑giant alliance to curb Chinese competition, DeepSeek’s V4 launch, Zhipu’s GLM‑5.1 performance boost, Google’s 2027 AI production forecast, Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, new Chinese AI ethics rules, a massive Guangdong compute cluster, the open‑source SentiAvatar framework, soaring model‑stock prices, a token‑economy shift, and China’s first panoramic carbon‑accounting model—highlighting their strategic implications and concrete details.
Agentic OS, Alibaba Cloud’s first operating system built for AI agents, tackles traditional OS limitations—high onboarding barriers, lengthy training, instability, weak security, and coordination complexity—through a three‑layer design, pre‑packaged Skills that cut token usage by over 30%, a one‑command Copilot Shell deployment, and a comprehensive security core, reshaping the compute paradigm toward agent‑centric workloads.
This guide explains how to build a secure, multi‑tenant data lake on Alibaba Cloud by combining OSS Access Points with VPC Gateway Endpoints, covering architecture overview, step‑by‑step configuration, policy examples, and best‑practice considerations for private‑network access.
The article outlines DataWorks' evolution from a decade‑long big‑data governance platform to an AI‑driven Copilot and autonomous Agent system, detailing its technical foundations, tool‑adaptation layer, context engineering, security safeguards, and future vision of a professional, open, and intelligent big‑data development ecosystem.
OpenClaw, an open‑source local AI agent framework that lets AI directly control computers and phones, has sparked a wave of support from major Chinese internet, cloud, and tech firms—Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi and others—driven by technical, commercial and strategic motives, while the article warns that ordinary users face high barriers, costs and risks.
In early 2026, the Chinese AI community was swept by the OpenClaw "lobster" phenomenon, prompting major cloud providers and tech firms to launch services that turn idle compute into revenue, battle for next‑generation interaction points, and ride policy‑driven hype, while exposing significant cost, security, and regulatory risks.
An a16z podcast reveals that by 2025 native AI firms will outpace traditional software companies, driven by superior ARR per employee, rapid revenue scaling, and lower marketing spend, while highlighting the need for deep product and backend overhauls, infrastructure investment, and the rise of high‑margin AI‑enabled business models.
This article walks through the step‑by‑step evolution of a large‑scale e‑commerce backend—from a single‑server setup to microservices, containerization, and cloud platforms—highlighting the technical challenges, key technologies, and design principles that enable millions of concurrent users.
This article explains Apache Flink’s stream processing fundamentals, introduces the open‑source Flink Agents framework for building event‑driven AI agents, details Alibaba Cloud’s Flink AI Function for real‑time LLM inference, and showcases demos, architecture, integration patterns, and practical use cases such as VOC analysis, live‑stream analytics, and intelligent operations.
This guide walks through Alibaba Cloud SLB’s architecture, product variants, and environment prerequisites, and step‑by‑step Terraform provisioning for CLB, ALB, and NLB, covering health checks, HTTPS setup, traffic routing, performance testing, best practices, security hardening, monitoring, and disaster‑recovery procedures.
This article outlines fifteen frequent cloud‑architecture mistakes—such as orphaned resources, misconfigurations, poor team communication, over‑reliance on single tools, and lack of governance—explaining why they happen, their architectural impact, and practical steps to avoid costly outages and inefficiencies.
The article analyzes how Manus, a general‑purpose AI agent, leverages E2B's Firecracker micro‑VM sandbox and self‑hosting deployment to achieve fast startup, full OS capabilities, session persistence, multi‑tenant isolation, and future cross‑OS support, illustrated with real‑world use cases and trade‑off assessments.
The article analyzes the widening gap between massive AI investment and modest commercial returns, showing how cloud giants like AWS and Google Cloud face shrinking margins despite soaring capex, while consumer‑facing AI products such as ChatGPT struggle to convert billions of users into paying customers, highlighting systemic profitability challenges across both B2B and B2C AI markets.
This article systematically presents Baidu Intelligent Cloud’s three‑layer AI architecture for network intelligent operations, explains the AI base, core, and business layers, showcases the NetStudio digital engineer platform, and details real‑world use cases, performance gains, and a roadmap toward fully autonomous network management.
This article details Xunlei's migration from a fixed Hadoop cluster to Alibaba Cloud EMR Serverless Spark, outlining the platform's background, pain points, technical upgrade goals, serverless capabilities, archive data access methods, Kyuubi integration, and the resulting business and technical benefits.
This guide walks you through setting up a secure, elastic, and high‑performance AI data processing platform on Alibaba Cloud by combining DataWorks, MaxCompute, and MaxFrame, covering the four essential steps, code examples, best‑practice tips, and common troubleshooting advice.
This guide explains the fundamental differences between Layer 4 (transport‑level) and Layer 7 (application‑level) load balancers, compares Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud offerings across performance, features, and pricing, and provides practical selection tips and common pitfalls to avoid.
By rethinking resource requests, eliminating unused workloads, downsizing node types, fine‑tuning autoscaling, and trimming log storage, a team reduced their Kubernetes bill by 40% while keeping the same cloud provider, demonstrating that most cost overruns stem from misconfiguration rather than the platform itself.
This guide explains Alibaba Cloud ESA's free CDN tier, covering its generous unlimited‑traffic offering, step‑by‑step application, region‑selection modes, domain integration, special port and cache configurations, renewal tricks, performance benchmarks, and comparisons with competing services.
Ceph is an open‑source distributed storage platform offering object, block, and file services with high availability, scalability, and self‑management; the guide explains its core components, CRUSH algorithm, storage interfaces, deployment steps using ceph‑deploy, operational monitoring, performance tuning, and common use cases in cloud and big‑data environments.
This case study details how Qimao leveraged Alibaba Cloud EMR Serverless Spark with Fusion and Celeborn to overcome multi‑business‑line data‑processing challenges, achieving more than 50% faster batch jobs, significant cost reductions, and improved operational flexibility across its 600 million‑user ecosystem.
This article analyzes the technical principles, architectural innovations, and real‑world scenarios of Data Processing Units (DPUs), showing how they resolve storage‑CPU mismatches, eliminate excessive east‑west traffic, and accelerate failure recovery, thereby becoming a core infrastructure for AI and cloud computing.
The article chronicles Hock Tan’s finance‑driven rise—from early M&A attempts like the blocked Qualcomm deal to software acquisitions such as CA and VMware—and explains how his aggressive restructuring and AI‑focused strategy are projected to lift Broadcom’s AI revenue from $20 B in 2025 to $120 B by 2030, positioning the company as a key AI‑infrastructure player.
The article explains that despite evolving titles and tools, DevOps remains a vital culture and engineering practice through 2026, highlighting its core principles, the rise of platform engineering, essential skills, the impact of AI, and the growing importance of security roles.
On October 19‑20 a massive AWS failure in the US‑East‑1 region crippled a large portion of the internet, exposing how a faulty internal monitoring tool, DynamoDB’s lack of cross‑region replication, and unchecked retry storms can cascade into a widespread outage, and offering concrete operational lessons for cloud teams.
This article outlines the eight critical competencies—from Linux and scripting to cloud, container orchestration, and automation—that define the career progression of an operations professional and explains why mastering them is key to advancing to senior roles.
This article explains how traditional kernel network stacks struggle with modern cloud data‑center workloads and introduces Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Polar solution—Polar‑TCP and Polar‑RDMA—which combine user‑space DPDK drivers, a lightweight TCP stack, and an industrial‑grade RPC framework to achieve near‑RDMA performance while preserving ecosystem compatibility.
This article outlines a practical learning path for Linux operations engineers, detailing the three career stages and providing a comprehensive roadmap from junior to senior levels to help professionals advance their skills and stand out in the field.
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella admits the tech giant’s massive stock of Nvidia GPUs are idle due to insufficient electricity and lack of ready‑to‑use data‑center facilities, highlighting a broader industry shift where AI’s soaring compute demand is now constrained by power and infrastructure limits.
In a deep interview, Baidu AI Computing chief scientist Wang Yanpeng and host Koji trace China's internet infrastructure from the early big‑data era through cloud computing to today's AI boom, highlighting the pivotal role of compute power, GPU acceleration, data scaling, and Baidu's Baige platform in shaping the AI arms race.
This article introduces Terraform, an open‑source Infrastructure as Code tool, explains its core concepts such as declarative programming, resources, providers, and state management, and walks readers through the complete workflow from writing configurations to applying and destroying cloud resources.
At the 4th China IPv6 Innovation Development Conference, Alibaba Cloud showcased its rapid IPv6 deployment—boosting IDC traffic share from 12% to 40%, expanding cloud product support to 97%, and leveraging IPv6/SRv6 to meet AI large‑model network demands, while sharing best practices across industry and government partners.
OpenAI announced a multi‑year strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services, worth $38 billion, granting OpenAI access to AWS’s massive GPU‑powered EC2 UltraServers and scalable CPU resources to accelerate its generative AI workloads, while leveraging AWS’s security, performance, and cost advantages.
This roundup covers essential insights on backpropagation fundamentals, FreeBSD self‑hosting benefits, an open‑source 30B MoE AI model, misuse of cybercrime laws, historic moving sidewalks, party‑planning hacks, deceptive signal‑strength tricks, a 1000‑hp micro motor, Nextcloud performance fixes, and Google Cloud account suspensions, offering a blend of technical depth and practical advice.
ACK One Fleet, Alibaba Cloud's enterprise multi‑cluster solution, provides inventory‑aware elastic GPU scheduling, cross‑region resource sharing, multi‑cluster HPA and model distribution, allowing AI inference and training workloads to scale efficiently, reduce costs, and maximize GPU utilization.
The EMR AI Assistant is an intelligent tool from Alibaba Cloud that streamlines EMR cluster management by offering quick resource queries, operation invocation, anomaly diagnosis, and conversational support, with detailed usage steps, policy code, and practical examples for big‑data operations.
This comprehensive guide covers 30 high‑frequency NFS interview questions for Linux cloud roles, detailing core concepts, configuration, security options, performance tuning, troubleshooting steps, high‑availability designs, cloud‑managed services, monitoring strategies, and alternative distributed file systems to help candidates demonstrate deep technical expertise.
The 2025 OSCAR Open‑Source Industry Conference in Beijing gathered leaders from China’s communications standards association, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and major enterprises to unveil new trusted open‑source assessment results, launch AI open‑source initiatives, discuss regional standards, and outline a three‑year roadmap for secure, collaborative open‑source development across cloud, AI, and big‑data sectors.
This article compares VMware's costly virtualization suite with four open‑source alternatives—KVM, Proxmox VE, oVirt, and OpenStack—detailing each solution's core features, performance, management tools, and suitability for enterprise IT cost reduction.
This article outlines Alibaba Cloud's AI‑driven "Smart Sentinel" system, which tackles the three major challenges of large‑scale cloud operations—hard‑to‑detect anomalies, alarm storms, and difficult root‑cause analysis—by deploying multi‑layered detection, intelligent alarm grading, and an end‑to‑end automated response loop.
The article explores how Volcano Engine’s multimodal data lake architecture addresses the storage, compute, and management challenges of AI agents by introducing new formats like Lance, upgrading engines such as Spark and Daft, and providing unified tools for processing, versioning, and querying massive multimodal datasets.
This article explains the concept of computing power, its measurement units, classifications into general and specialized types, the role of CPUs, GPUs, FPGA and ASIC chips, and how it underpins AI model training, blockchain mining, and scientific research.
Google is porting roughly 30,000 production software packages to Arm, using an AI‑driven tool called CogniPort to automate the migration and aiming to run them on its Axion chips and x86 processors while improving cost and energy efficiency.
This guide compares VMware and Proxmox VE, explains why Proxmox can be more resource-efficient, and provides a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough of downloading the ISO, installing Proxmox VE, configuring networking, setting up SSL, and creating a multi-node cluster with command-line examples.
This curated reading list presents must‑read books covering cloud, edge, distributed, high‑performance, parallel, heterogeneous, quantum, and AI computing, offering expert editorial insights, author backgrounds, and publication details to help readers grasp core concepts and advance their technical expertise.
Since its 2016 launch, Alibaba Cloud EMR has transformed from a basic open‑source Hadoop service into a high‑performance, AI‑enabled big‑data platform, delivering optimized I/O, vectorized processing, and integrated AI functions such as natural‑language SQL, StarRocks and Spark enhancements, while supporting diverse industry workloads.
The article analyzes OpenAI’s recent strategic partnerships and massive AI infrastructure investments, detailing multi‑gigawatt data‑center plans, chip collaborations, soaring energy demands, and the broader implications for AI as the next global infrastructure platform.
An in‑depth analysis reveals that Oracle’s AI‑focused cloud business, built on expensive Nvidia GPU rentals for OpenAI and other AI developers, generates massive revenue but suffers from alarmingly low profit margins, creating a systemic risk that could ripple through the entire AI infrastructure ecosystem.
Amid rapid cloud and AI growth, Alibaba Cloud unveiled its self‑designed PRoT810 security chip and AliPRoT module, establishing a hardware‑level platform root of trust that delivers layered, proactive defense for data‑center servers against firmware tampering, supply‑chain attacks, and operational risks.
Microsoft, after buying massive GPU inventories from Nvidia and AMD, is accelerating its move to custom AI accelerators like Maia to improve cost‑performance in its data centers, even though its first‑generation chips still lag behind industry leaders.
This guide explains what AI engineering entails, outlines the end‑to‑end workflow from problem definition and data preparation through model development, deployment, and monitoring, and highlights the essential programming, cloud, and MLOps skills, career tracks, emerging trends, and salary outlook for aspiring AI engineers.
This article explains the core concepts of cloud service models (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), outlines SaaS system characteristics, compares SaaS with traditional and internet services, describes B2B2C, classifies SaaS solutions, and details multi‑tenant architectures and deployment patterns.
This article examines why small‑and‑medium businesses consider cloud‑based inventory solutions, outlines their key benefits such as real‑time data sharing and finance‑business integration, highlights risks like data security and limited customization, and provides practical criteria for deciding whether a cloud inventory system fits your company.
A lithium‑ion battery fire at the NIRS data center crippled dozens of Korean e‑government services, exposing the urgent need for better battery safety, robust backup systems, and resilient cloud‑based disaster‑recovery strategies to protect national digital infrastructure.
At the 2025 Cloud Expo in Hangzhou, leading experts including Academician Wu Hequan presented new developments in DNS and IPv6, unveiling Alibaba Cloud’s DNS product suite, whitepapers, and the Zhejiang Province IPv6 and Next‑Generation Internet Innovation Lab’s latest research, highlighting the role of resilient internet infrastructure in the AI era.
This article outlines the challenges of high‑quality data for AI, introduces Tencent Cloud’s AI‑Ready data platform with three core capabilities—DIaaS, Setats, and ES‑based knowledge search—covers the end‑to‑end WeData integration, intelligent agents for automation, and showcases ecosystem partnerships driving industry‑wide intelligent transformation.
The article outlines the challenging early duties of operations engineers, emphasizes a positive learning mindset, and presents a three‑stage Linux operations career roadmap—from junior to senior—illustrated with diagrams, guiding readers toward the skills needed for a cloud‑focused engineering path.
From fixing computers and wiring networks to mastering cloud infrastructure, this guide outlines a step‑by‑step learning path for aspiring Linux operations engineers, detailing the three career stages and essential skills needed to progress from junior to senior roles.
Oracle announced that Safra Catz will share the CEO role with Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, a move aimed at strengthening its cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities, while highlighting record financial performance and outlining the strategic importance of OCI, AI-driven growth, and the company's involvement in rebuilding TikTok's algorithm for U.S. security.
This article explains how cloud computing has historically reduced accidental complexity, why AI agents introduce a fundamentally new software paradigm, and how Tencent Cloud's Agent Infra and Agent Runtime provide a layered, serverless, and secure infrastructure to support autonomous, uncertain, and complex AI workloads.
Hisense Juhau, an AI‑enabled TV cloud service, overhauled its massive offline‑centric data platform by adopting a real‑time data lake, compute‑storage separation, and serverless Spark/StarRocks on Alibaba Cloud, achieving sub‑5‑minute data freshness, elastic scaling, and dramatically improved performance for personalized content recommendation and smart operations.
From the gritty early tasks of fixing hardware to a clear three‑stage career roadmap, this guide outlines a comprehensive learning path for Linux operations engineers, highlighting essential skills and resources to help you progress from junior to senior roles in cloud‑focused system administration.
From the early days of per‑hour VM rentals to today’s millisecond‑granular, resource‑aware pricing, serverless function compute has transformed its billing models across three stages, each driven by advances in request boundary detection, concurrency handling, and AI‑centric resource consumption, aligning cost with actual usage.
Yesterday Oracle’s shares surged after the company announced a massive $300 billion, five‑year AI compute procurement agreement with OpenAI, set to begin in 2027, highlighting the tech giant’s high‑risk bet on AI infrastructure, massive data‑center investments, and the financial pressures both firms face in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
A $40 billion deal sees Bain Capital sell its Chinese data‑center assets to Shenzhen Dongyangguang, highlighting how AI‑driven compute demand is transforming data centers into strategic, high‑growth investments attracting diverse capital players.
This comprehensive guide walks you through KVM virtualization architecture, host preparation, installation, network design, storage management, performance tuning, high availability, security hardening, monitoring, and automation, providing practical scripts and real‑world examples to build a robust, production‑grade virtual environment.
This article examines the true cost‑saving potential of Serverless architectures, explains when they shine, breaks down direct and hidden expenses, warns about common pitfalls, and offers a step‑by‑step migration guide for teams considering the shift.
This guide explores Terraform's powerful meta-arguments—including count, for_each, depends_on, and lifecycle—showing how they enable dynamic resource creation, precise dependency control, and fine‑grained lifecycle management for scalable, maintainable infrastructure as code.
The Built In 2025 Talent Trend Report shows a booming tech hiring market driven by AI, cloud computing, and cybersecurity roles, highlights the challenges of budget limits and skill shortages, and offers data‑backed strategies such as multi‑channel recruiting, employer branding, and AI‑focused talent programs for companies worldwide.
This article presents a curated list of cutting‑edge resources covering AI‑powered data governance, large‑model driven data cleaning, intelligent operations, and generative analytics techniques from industry leaders such as JD.com, Alibaba Cloud, Ping An Life, Didi, and Kuaishou.
The AI Infra Solutions and Best Practices salon held by Alibaba Cloud in Beijing gathered technical leaders from leading AI companies to share comprehensive strategies on network, compute, and storage architectures that enable high‑efficiency, low‑latency, and elastic AI infrastructure for modern enterprise workloads.
Despite the early grind of fixing computers and wiring networks, aspiring Linux operations engineers can follow a structured junior‑to‑senior learning roadmap—covering essential fundamentals, cloud computing skills, and advanced practices—to boost their value and advance their careers.
This article explains the background, design, and implementation of a multi‑cloud network that enables full‑network compute scheduling across public clouds (such as Alibaba and Huawei) and private IDC, detailing components like cloud‑dedicated lines, multi‑cloud gateways, boundary routers, routing interconnection, MTU handling, and future optimization plans.
This case study details how Hypergryph leveraged Alibaba Cloud EMR Serverless StarRocks, Flink, and Kafka to replace a ClickHouse data warehouse with a high‑performance, elastic, and easy‑to‑operate real‑time analytics platform that dramatically improved query speed, stability, operational efficiency, and cost for their gaming business.
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is boosting profitability, driving a 14% revenue jump to $96.4 billion, spurring a $100 billion increase in capital spending for data‑center growth, while AI‑powered search and Gemini reach billions of monthly users worldwide.
This guide presents a curated list of cutting‑edge lakehouse, real‑time analytics, and big‑data implementations from industry leaders, followed by a QR code that lets you download the full eBook for deeper insights.
OPPO’s big‑data platform adopts a hybrid‑cloud architecture that combines on‑premise IDC resources with public‑cloud elasticity, addressing massive data volumes, cost, security, and vendor lock‑in while delivering higher resource utilization, stability, and autonomous evolution for future workloads.
This article details Beike's data‑fusion architecture evolution, covering industry trends, multi‑stage Hadoop upgrades, storage cost optimization with erasure coding, remote shuffle integration, GPU‑centric training stability, and future hybrid‑cloud strategies, while also sharing organizational and operational lessons learned.
In a slow‑growth economy, Haidilao’s 30‑year‑old digital transformation—driven by people‑centric change, strategic data investment, and AI‑powered analytics—enables continuous cost reduction, innovation‑led growth, and ultra‑responsive, personalized customer experiences.
This article compiles a comprehensive set of Linux cloud computing interview questions covering fundamentals, system architecture, security, shell scripting, networking, load balancing, and practical command‑line tasks, providing job seekers with a valuable study guide for upcoming technical interviews.
This article explains the three main cloud service models—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—while detailing key cloud concepts such as resource pooling, service quantification, rapid elasticity, and automated management including backup and security.
This article compares China and the United States across infrastructure, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, key technologies, innovation ecosystems, and standards, highlighting each nation's strengths, strategic approaches, and the evolving balance of competition and cooperation in global technology development.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the open‑source Ceph distributed storage system, covering its core features, architecture components, data placement algorithms, storage interfaces, deployment best practices, operational management, and real‑world use cases for cloud, big data, and backup scenarios.
This article explains how Terraform, an open‑source Infrastructure as Code tool, enables declarative, multi‑cloud infrastructure management, outlines its core features, workflow, best‑practice patterns, real‑world AWS examples, and future trends, helping operations engineers automate and scale modern cloud environments efficiently.
This guide walks you through the fundamentals of KVM virtualization on CentOS 7, covering its advantages and drawbacks, preparing YUM repositories, installing required packages, configuring networking, creating storage pools and volumes, importing ISO images, and finally building and launching a fully functional virtual machine.
Amid the AI‑driven wave of large‑model technologies, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s data center has transformed its traditional infrastructure into an AI‑native computing hub, boosting operational efficiency, green sustainability, and autonomous control while supporting the financial sector’s shift toward intelligent, cognitive services.
This article chronicles Taobao's technical evolution—from a LAMP stack through Oracle migration, Java adoption, de‑IOE optimization, self‑built storage and caching systems, service‑oriented design, middleware integration, and finally a cloud‑native architecture—highlighting the challenges and solutions for scalability, performance, and cost reduction.
