This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on deploying trained deep‑learning models to production, covering client‑server architecture, load balancing with Nginx, using Gunicorn and Flask, cloud platform choices, autoscaling, CI/CD pipelines, and additional tools such as TensorFlow Serving and Docker.
Google Cloud NEXT 18 in San Francisco unveiled the alpha‑tested Cloud TPU 3.0, major AutoML enhancements, and the Contact Center AI solution, while CEO Diane Greene highlighted AI and security investments and the cloud’s rapid revenue growth, signaling Google’s push to outpace AWS, Azure, and IBM.
This article explains how OpenStack Ironic enables bare‑metal provisioning as a cloud service, outlines scenarios where physical servers outperform virtual machines, details Ironic’s architecture and evolution, compares billing models, and highlights future trends for bare‑metal cloud offerings.
iQiyi improved OpenStack Swift’s video‑streaming performance by redesigning its storage engine to merge numerous tiny objects into larger files, replacing Swift’s per‑object directory structure with RocksDB‑managed metadata, eliminating file‑ID overhead, using prefix scans for fast listings, and adding lazy deletion, achieving dramatic speedups with only about 3,000 lines of new code.
The article introduces the ZhiYun Job Platform, detailing its evolution from basic tool construction to advanced orchestration and API integration, highlighting how it standardizes, automates, and secures repetitive operational tasks for enterprises across cloud environments.
Cloud Foundry is an open‑source PaaS that abstracts cloud, framework, and service choices, offering features such as multi‑cloud deployment, standard frameworks, built‑in services, and a modular, message‑driven architecture composed of Router, Cloud Controller, DEA, Health Manager, Service Broker, and NATS, with flexible deployment options for both private and public clouds.
This tutorial walks you through creating a virtual network, defining a tiny m1.nano flavor, generating key pairs, configuring security groups, launching an OpenStack instance, accessing it via a virtual console, and installing and configuring the OpenStack Horizon dashboard, complete with command examples and screenshots.
Alibaba Cloud introduces the F3 FPGA instance, a dual‑chip VU9P‑based accelerator that combines a unified HDK/SDK platform, secure IP marketplace, and ultra‑high‑speed interconnects to make FPGA acceleration more accessible, flexible, and cost‑effective for cloud users.
This guide walks you through installing and configuring OpenStack Compute (Nova) and Networking (Neutron) services on controller and compute nodes, covering database creation, service and endpoint registration, configuration file adjustments, package installation, and verification steps to achieve a functional IaaS cloud.
This tutorial walks through the complete installation and configuration of OpenStack's identity (Keystone) and image (Glance) services, covering database setup, service and endpoint creation, Apache integration, token management, client environment scripts, and verification steps, with detailed command examples and configuration snippets.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of OpenStack's architecture, details each core service with its role, and walks through step‑by‑step commands to configure a functional OpenStack Pike environment on CentOS, including networking, database, messaging, and storage components.
At the 2018 GTLC Global Technology Leadership Summit, Suning's IT executive Jo Xinliang shared strategic insights on technology management, decision‑making frameworks, and the evolution of Suning Cloud, highlighting how perspective, data, and governance shape effective corporate tech decisions.
The article analyzes the challenges of declining online traffic and low in‑store conversion, then details how Tencent Cloud’s AI‑driven retail suite—covering scientific site selection, commercial‑area insights, computer‑vision store management, one‑code product tracking, and brand sentiment analysis—offers data‑powered solutions for modern retailers.
The article examines OpenStack’s open‑source advantages—free licensing, broad compatibility, and extensibility—while also highlighting its drawbacks such as limited monitoring, billing, DNS, and storage features, vendor conflicts, high integration costs, frequent releases, and security concerns like authentication, password handling, token management, and data encryption.
This article explains OpenStack's Keystone service, describing how token‑based authentication enables unified identity, authorization, and accounting across Nova, Glance, and Neutron components, and compares the approach with public‑cloud AK/SK mechanisms.
This article explains how container technologies like Docker and Amazon ECS enable the transition from monolithic web applications to scalable microservices architectures by improving development agility, resource isolation, and deployment flexibility across cloud environments.
This article provides a comprehensive, beginner‑friendly overview of OpenStack, covering its history, version‑naming scheme, core components, community governance, reasons for its popularity, industry adoption, and practical advice on how to start learning the open‑source cloud platform.
The Think in Cloud 2018 conference in Beijing showcased how cloud platforms enable rapid AI deployment across sectors such as autonomous driving, intelligent customer service, and education, highlighting challenges, platform‑centric solutions, and real‑world case studies that illustrate the growing synergy between cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
Senior Alibaba engineer Xiao Xie recounts his decade‑long journey from the early Taobao Mall project to leading the Cloud Computing “Flying‑Sky Eight” team, detailing pivotal initiatives like the Five‑Color Stone integration, full‑link stress testing for Double‑11, and the evolution toward self‑developed, distributed cloud technologies.
The 2018 UCloud Think in Cloud conference showcased how cloud infrastructure accelerates AI applications in customer service, education, and embedded devices, while also presenting blockchain use cases and security challenges across finance, insurance, and IoT, highlighting practical solutions and emerging platforms.
This tutorial walks you through downloading an Ubuntu 14.04 cloud image, converting it with Glance, configuring OpenStack credentials, creating a key pair, launching a VM from the image via the dashboard, and accessing the instance securely using SSH.
The article recounts how Alibaba and Ant Group were forced by the massive Double‑11 transaction surge to develop their own OceanBase database, explores the five‑year struggle, the broader fintech innovations, and the strategic mindset of autonomous R&D and open‑source sharing.
PhoenixGo, an open‑source Go AI built on AlphaGo Zero's reinforcement‑learning algorithm, leveraged Tencent's idle cloud servers to achieve professional‑level play, won the 2018 World AI Go Championship, and was released with a strong model for researchers and hobbyists alike.
The talk details Ele.me’s rapid growth from 300k to over 10 million daily orders, describing the challenges of high‑concurrency, multi‑active micro‑service architecture, IDC planning, database refactoring, disaster‑recovery, NOC operations, and the systematic processes that enabled stable, scalable delivery across two data centers.
The article explores how software‑defined storage (SDS) can be combined with blockchain technology to address security, cost, performance, and efficiency issues of public cloud storage, detailing common principles, practical advantages, and examples such as IPFS and StorJ.
Suning’s executive vice president outlines how digital empowerment—through AI, cloud computing, and big‑data analytics—creates a new smart‑retail ecosystem, emphasizing user‑centric services, data‑driven operations, and technology platforms that blend efficiency with a human touch.
This article surveys Qihoo 360’s notable open‑source projects—including distributed system testing tools, high‑performance storage services, AI scheduling platforms, database alternatives, frontend frameworks, mobile plugin solutions, and development utilities—highlighting their purposes, key features, and public GitHub repositories.
The article explains how heterogeneous parallel computing—leveraging CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and other specialized units—addresses the performance limits of traditional serial programming by distributing tasks across diverse hardware, detailing its concepts, architectures, development models, and relevance to AI and cloud workloads.
The article examines Tencent Cloud’s “Mi Master” payment platform, detailing its background, three‑tier system architecture, real‑time transaction consistency mechanisms, traffic‑scheduling strategies, scenario‑based stress testing, and multi‑dimensional risk‑control measures that together ensure high availability and security for large‑scale mobile payment services.
This article explains how cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are interrelated, describing the evolution from physical resource management to virtualized, elastic services, the roles of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and how each technology benefits the others in modern applications.
This article reviews recent HPC market size and growth trends, highlights AI‑driven investment, and evaluates Huawei’s hardware, cloud, and industry‑specific solutions—including supercomputing, automotive, oil & gas, and entertainment—while offering personal insights on storage challenges and future directions.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to configure Route53 DNS, prepare a VM with required tools, create an S3 state store, provision a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops, validate it, expose a sample service, and clean up the resources.
In his Money 20/20 Asia keynote, Ant Group CTO Cheng Li outlines the company’s fintech roadmap, highlighting AI‑driven risk engines, blockchain‑based trust mechanisms, cloud‑native infrastructure, and innovative mobile payment solutions that aim to make financial services more inclusive and efficient.
This article explains why X86 bare‑metal services are essential for high‑performance, security‑critical workloads, describes their architecture and management processes, and outlines the steps—standardization, automation, service‑orientation, and self‑service—used by Hengfeng Bank to implement and operate them.
This article explains the origins and goals of cloud computing, how virtualization adds flexibility in time and space, the evolution from physical servers to public and private clouds, the role of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and how big data and artificial intelligence intertwine with cloud services to enable modern intelligent applications.
This case study examines the shortcomings of traditional smart gas meters and explains how NB‑IoT combined with Huawei's OceanConnect platform delivers a cloud‑based, low‑power, real‑time smart gas solution that improves meter reading, safety, billing, and operational efficiency.
This tutorial explains how to efficiently clone a powered‑off virtual machine in vSphere Client by creating a dedicated folder, copying the source VM files, adding them to inventory, and powering on the new instance, complete with illustrated steps.
This article chronicles a game company's operations team evolution over seven years, detailing how it grew from a tiny manual crew to a large, automated, cloud‑native organization that built its own CDN, monitoring, and platform solutions while tackling scaling, reliability, and service‑orientation challenges.
This article explains Alibaba's co‑location (混部) technology that mixes online services and batch compute on the same physical servers, detailing its background, key characteristics, scheduling architecture, resource isolation mechanisms, cost‑saving formulas, and future roadmap, showing how it boosts utilization and reduces expenses.
This article provides a comprehensive introduction to container technology—covering Docker's architecture, networking models, storage solutions, integration with PaaS/IaaS platforms, orchestration tools, and its impact on DevOps, micro‑services, and cloud computing ecosystems.
Amid the rise of multi‑cloud strategies, China’s nascent multi‑cloud management platform market faces a lack of standards, prompting TrustCloud to launch the first domestic evaluation framework that assesses information authenticity, platform quality, and service completeness, with results to be revealed at the 2018 Cloud Computing Open‑Source Industry Conference.
Serverless computing, the latest cloud paradigm merging microservices and serverless architectures, evolves from on‑premise monoliths through SOA and containers, offering rapid deployment, cost efficiency, and scalability, while also presenting challenges such as vendor lock‑in, complexity, limited long‑running tasks, and security considerations.
This article examines the challenges faced by water utilities such as high leakage and meter errors, explains why traditional smart meters fall short, and details how NB‑IoT‑based smart water meters provide secure, low‑power, wide‑coverage solutions that enable real‑time analytics, cost reduction, and large‑scale digital transformation.
This article examines the rapid growth of China’s government cloud market, the challenges revealed by low‑price bidding scandals, and the four‑dimensional assessment method introduced in 2017 to evaluate policy compliance, application impact, platform capability, and security safeguards.
This article explains why elastic scaling is needed for variable web traffic, describes how to build a cost‑effective, automatically adjustable service on Alibaba ECS using message queues, service refactoring, Docker deployment, logging, and a real‑time allocation algorithm, and shares practical lessons learned.
In an exclusive interview, UCloud’s R&D Director Ye Lideng shares how the company’s CBA strategy, AI‑first products, and innovative cloud services empower startups, drive industry adoption, and shape the future of artificial intelligence and cloud computing in China.
A 2017 analysis of China’s high‑end internet talent market reveals that cloud computing, big data and gaming lead salary rankings, while company financing stage, job role demand, city location and candidate age all shape hiring trends and compensation levels.
The article provides a detailed market analysis of high‑performance computing from 2016 to 2021, covering market size, budget allocation, regional shares, key applications, the rise of AI and cloud integration, and emerging hardware and networking technologies driving future growth.
This article explains how server‑side service discovery enables clients such as API gateways to locate dynamically changing microservice instances via a router or load balancer that queries a service registry, outlining requirements, solution architecture, examples like AWS ELB, benefits, drawbacks, and related patterns.
The case study details Donghua Software’s smart flood‑control and drainage solution, which integrates IoT sensors, NB‑IoT/eLTE networks, Huawei’s FusionSphere cloud platform, big‑data analytics, and GIS to provide real‑time monitoring, predictive warnings, automated gate control, and efficient emergency dispatch for urban water management.
The 2017 China Cloud Computing Evaluation Report by Tingyun analyzes major cloud providers across user experience, performance, availability, and ease of use, using a 132‑item questionnaire and verification tests to deliver regional performance scores and comprehensive provider rankings.
The author reflects on five years of cloud computing evolution, predicts that cloud services will replace half of IT's backend functions, outlines the upcoming consolidation of vendors, and examines how PaaS, staffing, and business models will reshape the industry over the next three to five years.
This 30‑minute, 120‑point quiz challenges you with multiple‑choice questions on the correct pronunciation of popular tech terms, cloud computing fundamentals, AI scope, industry vendors, and other essential technology concepts.
This article compiles the job description, required skills, and a full set of interview questions with detailed answers for Linux operations and cloud engineering positions, helping candidates prepare effectively for technical assessments at major internet firms.
In this lecture, Prof. Pei Dan of Tsinghua University outlines the evolution of intelligent operations from rule‑based automation to machine‑learning‑driven AIOps, discusses data, feedback loops, and practical challenges, and calls for stronger collaboration between industry and academia to accelerate research and deployment.
This article compiles a comprehensive set of Linux operations and cloud engineering interview questions—including basic Linux concepts, networking fundamentals, and scripting challenges—to help candidates prepare for senior sysadmin roles.
Alibaba’s database team explains how their next‑generation X‑DB system achieved extreme elasticity, high performance, and cost efficiency during the Double 11 shopping festival by leveraging cloud‑native hybrid deployment, containerization, storage‑compute separation, Paxos‑based consistency, and AI‑driven self‑optimizing DBA tools, while outlining key challenges and solutions.
The AWS re:Invent 2017 conference in Las Vegas introduced a range of compute innovations—including Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, new EC2 instance families, Spot Instance hibernation, Time Sync Service, and a Serverless Application Repository—while showcasing sessions from Netflix and other industry leaders.
The article summarizes the JavaOne 2017 conference, highlighting JDK9's modular system and collection factories, Java EE8 enhancements, JVM improvements, a graph‑based recommendation demo using EE4J, and the rise of serverless FAAS as a cloud‑native computing model.
The Meituan‑Dianping Technology Salon Online offers a recurring live‑streamed course where SRE experts, led by Zuo Pucun, discuss the challenges of high growth and concurrency, the evolution from firefighting to proactive stability, service availability, user‑experience optimization, and future automation in cloud SRE practice.
This article examines the evolution of high‑performance computing from exclusive national supercomputers to accessible cloud‑based services, outlines the three adoption stages for enterprises, and details Tencent Cloud's Batch platform features that simplify large‑scale HPC workloads.
This article explains how Suning built a standardized, high‑availability API gateway, detailing naming conventions, documentation practices, protocol choices, error‑code design, dynamic configuration, SDK automation, system refactoring, monitoring, intelligent alerting, and the specific preparations made for the O2O shopping festival.
The article traces Tencent Cloud Storage's evolution from basic data access in the early 2010s, through a data‑processing phase driven by video and image workloads, to the current data‑activation era focused on big‑data analytics and cost‑effective cloud migration, highlighting technical features and real‑world use cases.
This article examines the concepts, strengths, and limitations of Google App Engine and Amazon AWS as Platform‑as‑a‑Service offerings, focusing on their application scenarios, development support, operations management, and associated services, and draws conclusions for game server development.
This article recounts Ele.me's rapid growth from 2014 onward, detailing the challenges of network and server management, the evolution of their operations through standardization, process automation, and platform building, and how private cloud solutions like ZStack enabled fine‑grained, data‑driven infrastructure management.
This article walks through diagnosing and fixing severe Windows I/O performance degradation in a virtualized cloud host by using perf, systemtap, QEMU tracing, and kernel tweaks, revealing that excessive ACPI timer and APIC accesses cause costly VM exits and how enabling the Hyper‑V timer restores expected IOPS.
This article explains how Alibaba has evolved its DevOps practice over a decade, detailing the layered architecture of its StarOps suite—including the foundational StarAgent, the Fortress (jump server), the Qingting file‑distribution system, and intelligent AIOps features—showing how automation, scalability, and AI‑driven monitoring enable stable, low‑cost operations for massive workloads such as Double 11.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of cloud‑era network boundary management, detailing security challenges, unified access control concepts, endpoint protection, traffic analysis, and how automated operations and visualization platforms can reduce risk while maintaining efficient network operations.
This article explains the evolution of Alibaba Cloud's high‑performance load balancing, covering early LVS modes, Tengine integration, architectural improvements, and multi‑region high‑availability designs that together deliver massive throughput, fault tolerance, and flexible deployment for cloud services.
This article reviews Alibaba Cloud's high‑performance load‑balancing solution, explaining the evolution from basic load‑balancing concepts to the architecture of LVS and Tengine, detailing their modes, optimizations, high‑availability designs across groups, AZs and regions, and outlining current use cases and future directions.
UCloud’s Compute Factory enables rapid provisioning of massive VM resources for compute‑intensive services by leveraging a Mesos‑based resource management platform that unifies multi‑region data centers, supports both VMs and containers, and addresses challenges in scheduling, networking, storage, and operational reliability.
This article details Tongcheng's adoption of Ceph for handling massive unstructured data, describing the motivations, architecture, specific uses of RGW, block storage, and CephFS, the challenges encountered, optimization measures, monitoring practices, and planned future improvements.
Chief architect at Hulu shares a high‑level overview of the company’s tech ecosystem, detailing its microservice‑based backend on the Donki PaaS, cloud‑flexible deployments, extensive machine‑learning pipelines, VOD and live‑streaming services, multilingual codebases, and the operational challenges of scaling a global streaming platform.
This article details Gome Group’s transition to cloud computing and operations automation, describing its corporate background, new operational strategies, the establishment of Gome Cloud, IAAS product architecture, monitoring solutions, automation standards, and deployment practices such as gray releases and Docker integration.
At Gome Group, a traditional retailer with over 30,000 employees, the IT team built a unified cloud platform and automated operations, consolidating resources across dozens of subsidiaries to cut costs, boost efficiency, and enable rapid service delivery through IAAS, standardized processes, and custom monitoring tools.
The talk outlines WeChat’s approach to handling rapid user growth through disciplined operational standards, cloud‑native management, precise capacity planning, and automated scaling, detailing configuration file conventions, name‑service design, hardware metric evaluation, stress‑testing methods, and dynamic resource allocation to maintain high efficiency and low cost.
This article explains the fundamentals of video live streaming, covering terminology, bitrate, frames, key vs. non‑key frames, CDN caching strategies, and the end‑to‑end live streaming pipeline—including capture, preprocessing, encoding, pushing, transcoding, distribution, and playback—along with typical use‑case scenarios.
The article explains how RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) reduces CPU involvement, lowers latency, and increases bandwidth in data‑center networks, describes JD.com’s practical deployments across AI, big‑data, storage, and HPC workloads, and highlights industry trends toward broader RDMA adoption.
On September 23 2017, the CRUG Redis Technology Salon in Shenzhen, hosted by vivo, gathered about one hundred developers and five experts from Tencent, Sina and Vivo to share practical Redis experiences, discuss its memory‑store advantages, enjoy prizes, live Q&A, and receive a downloadable PPT via the official WeChat account.
At the inaugural 2017 Alibaba Technology Forum held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, senior executives highlighted Alibaba’s cutting‑edge AI, machine learning, big‑data, and cloud breakthroughs, showcasing how data‑driven technologies power billions of users across e‑commerce, finance, logistics, healthcare, and entertainment.
This article details Meizu's journey from early internet eras to a mature continuous delivery platform, outlining the operational challenges, platform components, standardization, automation, and future intelligent operations to achieve high quality, efficiency, cost control, and security.
At iQIYI, the author led a private‑cloud platform built on Mesos and Chronos that runs millions of weekly containers for transcoding and analytics, then layered a feature‑rich PaaS called QAE on Marathon, highlighting IaaS vs PaaS benefits and outlining future micro‑service, GPU, and scaling enhancements.
An in‑depth review of the OpenStack Pike release highlights its new features across core services and presents detailed statistics on Chinese enterprises’ code contributions, showing top contributors per component and the overall growth of China’s participation in the OpenStack community.
The article explains how cloud computing supports Application Lifecycle Management, outlines the benefits and risks of various cloud service models, and describes DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, continuous integration, and knowledge sharing that help mitigate cloud‑related challenges.
This article explains the relationship between Software‑Defined Networking (SDN) and cloud platforms, detailing cloud service models, OpenStack core services, OpenDaylight controller architecture, and the integration mechanisms that enable unified management of network, compute, and storage resources.
This article explains Alibaba Cloud's Server Load Balancer (SLB) architecture and its four-tier high‑availability design—application processing, cluster forwarding, cross‑zone disaster recovery, and cross‑region disaster recovery—detailing both product features and user‑side best practices.
This article explains the definition, origins, business benefits, and future of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), its relationship with Software‑Defined Networking (SDN), and how industry groups like ETSI and OPNFV are shaping its adoption in modern data centers.
This article traces the evolution of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) from its early research roots at Stanford through key academic breakthroughs, industry milestones, major open‑source projects, and the rise of SDN‑related startups, highlighting both scholarly and commercial developments up to 2017.
This article presents a comprehensive collection of technical knowledge maps compiled over years, covering architecture, Java, microservices, consistency, big data, cloud computing, mobile development, front‑end, back‑end, DevOps, and more, aiming to help engineers and architects master essential skills and best practices.
This article outlines the unique knowledge and abilities required for interaction designers working on cloud computing products, covering core UX competencies, essential front‑end and back‑end development concepts, cloud‑specific technical fundamentals, and vital soft skills, plus a curated reading list for continuous growth.
This article compiles an extensive set of technical knowledge maps—covering architecture, JVM, Java concurrency, big data, cloud computing, mobile, frontend, backend, DevOps and more—to help engineers and architects quickly locate and master essential concepts across the software development spectrum.
This tutorial explains how to deploy a Spring Boot application on Heroku using both the web dashboard and the Heroku CLI, covering required Procfile configuration, GitHub integration, command-line installation, repository cloning, code push, log inspection, and app launch.
The article analyzes 2017 Q2 earnings, Stack Overflow traffic, language preferences, industry and geographic trends to compare the popularity and growth of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, highlighting AWS's faster growth and Azure's strong presence in certain sectors and regions.
The article explains why AI engineers need foundational infrastructure knowledge—covering big‑data processing, cloud services, containerization, MapReduce, and deep‑learning platforms—to effectively solve real‑world problems, collaborate with teams, and build scalable, maintainable AI solutions.
This article explains NVIDIA GRID vGPU virtualization, detailing how GPUs are partitioned by memory size, the supported hypervisors, the operation of virtual GPU resources, differences between full‑allocation vGPU and GPU pass‑through, licensing requirements, and performance considerations for cloud and data‑center environments.
This article details how Tencent's SNG operations team leveraged the ZhiYun intelligent operations platform—through standardized processes, massive IaaS provisioning, CMDB management, automated workflows, and real‑time capacity monitoring—to support the high‑traffic “Military Photo” H5 campaign, scaling up to 4,000 servers and 24 GB bandwidth.
This article details the evolution of Tongcheng Travel’s PaaS platform, describing its shift from Docker Swarm host networking to a custom container network using Calico and Contiv, the implementation of public‑IP allocation, and the monitoring solution built with OVS sFlow, Redis and ELK.
The article describes how Postlight rebuilt its Readability Parser API using a JavaScript‑based serverless architecture on AWS Lambda and API Gateway, achieving a cost reduction from about $10,000 per month to roughly $370 while maintaining functionality and scalability.
With data volumes soaring to petabyte scales, the article explains why object storage is the only viable solution for massive storage needs, outlines procurement considerations, design principles, and operational challenges, and offers practical guidance for building, evaluating, and scaling PB‑level storage systems.
In the AI era, engineers need more than cutting‑edge algorithms—they must understand infrastructure, deployment, scalability, and team collaboration, as illustrated by four practical reasons and Google’s architectural breakthroughs that bridge big data, machine learning, and deep learning.
