This article explores the definition, evolution, and recent technical upgrades of Serverless computing, highlights Alibaba Cloud's journey and challenges such as vendor lock‑in and workflow shifts, and outlines future opportunities across e‑commerce, AI, gaming, and IoT.
This article explores the concept of layered thinking in architecture design, covering decomposition and integration, cloud three‑tier models, SOA layering, application and technical architecture patterns, and how to combine these approaches for clear, maintainable system diagrams.
The article explains how Nutanix's hyper‑converged infrastructure combines general‑purpose servers, local storage, and intelligent software to replace traditional siloed data‑center components, offering scalable, fault‑tolerant, and cloud‑like performance for enterprise IT environments.
This article introduces Docker as an open‑source container platform, explains how containers run on Linux and Windows hosts, describes Windows Server and Hyper‑V container runtimes, and compares Docker containers with traditional virtual machines, highlighting resource efficiency, isolation, and deployment advantages.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of data centers, covering definitions, classifications, cloud‑compatible designs, scale and availability tiers, lifecycle stages, energy consumption metrics, power and cooling technologies, network architectures, and emerging industry trends.
The China Cloud Computing Industry Development White Paper analyzes the rapid growth of cloud services, detailing the industry chain, domestic chip initiatives, major cloud providers, database and cloud‑native advancements, and outlines strategic recommendations for autonomous, secure, and high‑quality cloud development in China.
This article examines how the rise of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role, boundaries, and best‑practice characteristics of modern IT operations, highlighting new trends, automation standards, security responsibilities, and cost‑optimization strategies.
This weekly roundup covers the upcoming Cloud Connect China conference, new national standards for big data, cloud and blockchain, China’s first blockchain forensic institute, the Dual‑Gigabit network plan, Edge PWA visual parity, record cloud infrastructure spending, the involution neural operator, and a reinforcement‑learning approach to conversational search risk control.
This article chronicles Linux’s 30‑year journey—from the early hobby of Linus Torvalds and the birth of the Tux mascot, through pivotal milestones such as the rise of distributions, corporate adoption, cloud supremacy, and the ongoing impact on modern computing.
The article reviews two HPCA 2021 papers from Alibaba Cloud—LIBRA, a dynamic memory‑bandwidth management framework that boosts data‑center utilization, and CARE, a cache‑based fault‑tolerance architecture that delivers near‑Chipkill reliability with minimal overhead—while also highlighting future research directions in ML systems, quantum computing, and cache computing.
The article explores the emergence of edge computing driven by digital transformation, outlines its evolution through three stages, examines industry demands across manufacturing, smart cities, and telecom operators, and discusses technical directions, edge‑cloud collaboration models, and typical deployment scenarios.
The article presents a comprehensive cloud computing reference architecture, illustrating private and hybrid cloud designs, discussing platform choices, storage solutions, scalability, elasticity, and key considerations such as availability, manageability, and feasibility for building robust, cost‑effective systems.
ByteDance successfully delivered the Spring Festival Gala 2021 project within 27 days, leveraging advanced infrastructure and organizational strategies to handle unprecedented traffic and ensure a seamless user experience.
This article explores the evolution, architecture, industry demands, collaborative models, deployment strategies, and typical applications of edge computing, highlighting its role in bridging cloud services with local processing across sectors such as manufacturing, smart cities, telecommunications, and AI-driven services.
This article explains how layered thinking and layered models guide architecture design, covering decomposition and integration, cloud three‑tier (IaaS‑PaaS‑SaaS) and SOA layering, the role of service and data layers, and how to combine cloud and SOA concepts into coherent architectural diagrams.
The article shares how Ant Group's frontend engineering team improves build speed with cloud functions and multi‑process webpack, adopts Apple M1 hardware, tackles Android cloud‑device debugging, and launches a lightweight IDE, illustrating the challenges, innovations, and future directions of modern frontend development.
At the 2021 National Retail CIO Conference in Shanghai, Suning’s Director Wang Junjie detailed the company’s AI, big‑data and cloud‑based three‑step digital transformation strategy, its suite of five mature digital products, and its call for partners to extend these solutions across industries.
DiDi’s autonomous‑driving simulation suite combines a high‑fidelity vehicle‑environment simulator, a massively parallel cloud platform, and a robust data management system—leveraging neural‑net caching, mixed‑deployment resources, and virtual‑clock techniques—to replay historic drives, generate extreme virtual scenarios, and efficiently evaluate Level‑4+ algorithms at scale.
The whitepaper analyzes the current state of edge computing and 5G MEC, identifies technical and deployment challenges, and proposes the Edge Native paradigm—combining network‑compute co‑ordination, edge orchestration, AI, security, and storage—to enable the next generation of industry digital transformation.
This article explains what edge computing is, its origins with IoT and 5G, current industry developments, key advantages such as low latency and security, and introduces open‑source projects like Apache Edgent with example code for real‑time data processing.
The article explores how standardised models and progressive development approaches—from no‑code through low‑code to pro‑code—enable efficient, flexible, and enterprise‑grade high‑productivity platforms, comparing leading SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions and outlining the key technical and organisational challenges.
This weekly roundup covers Google’s GKE Autopilot managed Kubernetes service, Microsoft’s upcoming low‑code Power Fx language, a new quantum assembly language from Sandia, JD Cloud’s Jinggang virtualization platform, Google‑Intel cloud‑native 5G collaboration, Nvidia’s Jarvis AI framework, a knowledge‑infused BERT model, and a region‑based facial action unit detection method.
The 2020 HPC market summary and forecast report by Hyperion Research analyzes global high‑performance computing hardware sales, the impact of COVID‑19, the slowdown of on‑premise growth, rapid expansion of HPC cloud services, and provides detailed market size, CAGR, and segment forecasts through 2024.
This article provides an extensive overview of data warehouse and data lake concepts, their architectures, differences, components, and implementation considerations, covering topics such as OLTP/OLAP, ETL processes, data quality, cloud solutions, and the role of data platforms in modern enterprises.
This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.
Tesla’s CTO Vijayan led a 25‑person team to create the company’s proprietary ERP, Warp, in just four months—starting with the low‑code platform Mendix, then rewriting it in C# on .NET for private‑cloud deployment—offering insights into rapid ERP development, low‑code choices, and architecture trade‑offs.
A six‑year effort by a Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications team, supported by Huawei's cloud and AI technologies, has created a medium‑free, naked‑eye 3D holographic display that promises to reshape visual interaction, education, and communication.
The report outlines China's new infrastructure development, focusing on 5G network construction, the evolving concept of data centers integrating cloud computing, blockchain and AI, and the shift toward modular data center designs to improve scalability, efficiency, and global competitiveness.
The developer community weekly roundup covers a digital RMB lottery on JD, AI data‑annotation market trends, Google Drive’s enterprise‑personal merge, Windows 10 cloud configuration, NVIDIA’s breakthrough in real‑time SDF rendering and A100 performance, plus new research on intent discovery and EEG‑based emotion recognition.
The article chronicles Wang Jian’s humble beginnings, rapid rise to academic and corporate leadership, his decisive role in creating Alibaba’s cloud architecture, the challenges of the "Fly‑Sky" project, and his visionary push for the City Brain, illustrating how belief, focus, and system‑level thinking drive transformative technology.
This article examines how UCloud’s rapidly expanding cloud services drove a series of backbone network upgrades, detailing the transition from the original MPLS‑based design to a Segment Routing (SR‑TE) architecture that delivers intelligent, reliable and programmable traffic engineering across global data‑center regions.
This article explains the evolution of virtualization—from early hypervisors and Popek‑Goldberg requirements through full and para‑virtualization, hardware‑assisted techniques, KVM‑QEMU integration, and finally ultra‑light solutions like firecracker—highlighting their roles, trade‑offs, and impact on cloud computing.
This article reflects on the rapid rise of Functions‑as‑a‑Service and low‑code platforms, arguing that they are compressing developers' roles, lowering technical barriers, and forcing the industry to rethink skill sets, architecture, and business alignment.
Baidu’s elastic nearline computing architecture inserts an asynchronous, resource‑adaptive layer between online and offline processing, dynamically harvesting idle CPU, GPU and Kunlun XPU capacity to pre‑compute complex recommendation and search policies, enabling peak‑shifting, valley‑filling, higher timeliness and significant business growth at low cost.
This article examines the rapid evolution of UCloud's data‑center network, detailing the challenges of scaling MAN and backbone infrastructures, the transition from Backbone 1.0 to 2.0, and how Segment Routing and SR‑TE enable intelligent, reliable, and programmable cloud connectivity.
The article presents data‑driven predictions for 2021, covering cloud dominance, edge computing growth, multi‑cloud strategies, Kubernetes supremacy, the rise of quantum computing, blockchain evolution, AI democratization, deep‑learning frameworks, modern databases, big‑data processing, low‑code platforms, software architecture diversity, programming language shifts, and the future of web and mobile development.
This article explains how combining cloud computing with DevOps practices can dramatically speed up software delivery, improve operational maturity, and lower total cost of ownership by leveraging automation, elasticity, and best‑practice frameworks from major cloud providers.
The article presents a data‑driven forecast of the most important software‑development trends for 2021, covering cloud and edge computing, multi‑cloud strategies, container orchestration, quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, deep‑learning frameworks, modern databases, big‑data processing, low‑code platforms, various programming languages, and client‑side and server‑side frameworks.
The article examines the rapid growth of global data volumes and cloud computing, detailing the evolution of the IDC industry in the US and China, and provides a comprehensive financial and strategic analysis of Equinix’s market position, services, and future growth prospects.
This article explains the shift from x86 to ARM architectures, outlines why services should be migrated to ARM‑based Kunpeng cloud servers, describes Huawei's migration tools and community support, and provides concrete C/C++ migration examples and common pitfalls for backend developers.
IQ运营位 is a unified operational configuration platform for iQiyi’s overseas app that replaces costly, slow, inflexible marketing resource management with JSON‑modeled, versioned data stored across Redis caches, SDK‑driven client caching, and layered services, cutting deployment time to under five minutes while improving stability and scalability.
The DTCC conference recap explores emerging data trends, multi‑model databases, governance frameworks, architecture migrations, NewSQL and MySQL high‑availability, distributed transaction challenges, AI‑driven operations, data middle‑platform debates, cloud‑native storage‑compute separation, and comprehensive data security across the full data lifecycle.
This article outlines the key 2021 web development trends—including Progressive Web Apps, dark‑mode UI, AI chatbots, single‑page sites, voice search, enhanced security, and cloud computing—explaining their benefits, industry adoption, and why developers must embrace them to stay competitive.
The Chinese "Grain Shield" project, led by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, uses AI, deep‑learning and Huawei Cloud services to automatically detect pests and mold in grain silos, dramatically cutting post‑harvest loss, reducing chemical use, and demonstrating a scalable smart‑agriculture solution across dozens of provinces.
This guide explains practical techniques and command‑line tools—such as systemd‑detect‑virt, cgroup inspection, DMI data, and cloud‑provider metadata—to determine whether a given shell environment is running inside a container, a virtual machine, or on bare‑metal hardware, including scripts for Docker, rkt, AWS, OpenStack and more.
This week’s developer newsletter covers the release of a unified 3D data file specification, Adobe Flash’s end of life, deepin OS 20.1 updates, China Telecom’s quantum‑secure call service, a call for new AI benchmarks, Windows 10 Cloud PC details, YOLObile’s 19 FPS mobile detection breakthrough, and the RealFormer transformer improvement.
As 2020 ends, Alibaba Cloud Developer Community highlights the most valuable live streams across ten categories—including databases, cloud‑native microservices, big data, AI, IoT, and more—providing links, keywords, and brief overviews so developers can revisit the year’s top technical insights and plan for 2021.
According to recent data, over 1.74 billion websites exist worldwide, and in 2021 the web development landscape will be driven by seven key trends—including Progressive Web Apps, dark‑mode UI, AI‑powered chatbots, single‑page sites, voice search, heightened security, and expanding cloud computing—each reshaping user experience and development practices.
This article chronicles Taobao’s rapid growth from a simple LAMP stack in 2003 to a sophisticated, cloud‑native architecture, detailing each major redesign, the challenges faced, and the best‑practice migration strategies that enabled high availability, scalability, and performance on Alibaba Cloud.
This article examines the 20‑year evolution of big data architectures, contrasts data lakes and data warehouses, explores their respective strengths and challenges, and details Alibaba Cloud’s lake‑warehouse (lakehouse) solution that unifies storage, metadata, and compute for enterprise‑grade analytics and AI workloads.
The article recounts Microsoft’s three‑decade journey in software testing, analyzing the shortcomings of the 1990s SDET/STE structure, describing two major transformations—merging test roles and adapting to cloud‑era speed—and explaining how organizational changes, quality‑ownership redefinition, and “left‑right” testing shifts enabled faster, more reliable releases.
This article analyzes the challenges of traditional monolithic big‑data architectures, explains how Tencent Cloud EMR integrates Alluxio for compute‑storage separation, presents detailed performance benchmarks showing 20‑50% bandwidth reduction and 5‑40% query speedup, and outlines the specific tuning measures applied.
The article humorously maps various relationship scenarios to core IT concepts such as backup strategies, high‑availability mechanisms, scaling methods, security measures, cloud services, and big‑data techniques, providing an engaging overview of fundamental system design principles.
The guide explains how to configure Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch clusters for multi‑AZ high availability by using zone‑aware node attributes, deploying data nodes in multiples of AZs, assigning three dedicated masters across zones, setting replica shards and force‑awareness rules, and safely upgrading single‑AZ clusters without service interruption.
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.
During JD.com's 11.11 shopping festival, engineers tackled billions of transactions by evolving a five‑year architecture roadmap, implementing robust messaging and delay queues, deploying smart NICs, optimizing storage, and leveraging AI‑driven traffic control, all while sharing practical lessons on monitoring, load testing, and fault‑tolerance.
This article explains how large‑screen data visualizations turn raw numbers into intuitive graphics, outlines key design principles such as focusing on an overview first, limiting metrics to 8‑12, balancing ratio and numeric indicators, and using maps for regional insights, and showcases JD Cloud’s 11.11 monitoring dashboards as practical examples.
This article chronicles Microsoft’s testing journey from the 1990s separate SDET and STE roles, through the early‑2000s consolidation of those roles, to the modern cloud‑native “combined engineering” model that reshapes quality responsibility, accelerates delivery, and introduces specialized virtual teams for performance and security.
The article analyzes Gartner's 2020 Hyper‑Converged Infrastructure (HCI) software Magic Quadrant, detailing the shift from hardware‑centric to software‑centric evaluation, the new vendor landscape, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the implications for hybrid‑cloud deployments, especially in China.
This article summarizes recent developments across data‑center, cloud, 5G, edge, AI, security, automotive and aerospace sectors, including new partnerships, product launches, government contracts, and emerging threats shaping the pervasive computing landscape.
The interview with JD Smart Cloud’s Vice President Fu Qingming reveals how JD’s integrated cloud, AI, and IoT services are driving China’s new‑infrastructure digital transformation, outlining the company’s supply‑chain‑based tech strategy, data‑center expansion, and the importance of choosing the right partners for successful enterprise digitization.
Enterprise A consolidated its numerous VPC peering links and dedicated‑line gateways into a single Tencent Cloud Connect Network instance, enabling automatic route learning, ECMP load‑balancing across four 10 Gbps lines, boosting bandwidth utilization from about 50 % to 75 % while cutting operational complexity and enhancing cross‑region high availability.
During JD.com’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, the JD Cloud Log Service handled petabyte‑scale log data, delivering real‑time monitoring, cost‑effective storage, high‑availability architecture, circuit‑breaking, rate‑limiting, auto‑scaling and comprehensive dashboards to ensure stable operation of the massive traffic surge.
During the 2020 "Golden Week" travel festival, Gaode Maps leveraged Alibaba Cloud Serverless to sustain nearly two million function invocations per minute, achieving over 99.99% success rate, sub‑60 ms latency, and demonstrating significant gains in efficiency, elasticity, cost savings, and observability for large‑scale map services.
This article explains how layered thinking guides architecture design, covering cloud three‑tier (IaaS‑PaaS‑SaaS) and SOA three‑tier models, the role of decomposition and integration, and practical layering patterns for technical, application, and functional architectures across various domains.
This article explains how JD Intelligent Cloud’s bare metal cloud hosts delivered near‑physical performance, automated operations, and strong isolation to support the 11.11 shopping festival’s billions of visits and millions of concurrent requests, detailing architecture, performance gains, and integration with Kubernetes.
This article walks through a hands‑on experiment using Huawei Cloud RDS and Python to convert short videos into audio, extract voiceprints, and match them against a database, demonstrating how speech‑signal processing enables accurate identification of background songs in TikTok‑style clips.
Alibaba’s 2020 Double 11, rebranded as “Double Nunchaku,” turned the shopping festival into a high‑pressure technology showcase, driving cloud‑on architecture, AI‑enhanced experiences, and a digital‑native business operating system that reshapes e‑commerce innovation.
This article reveals how JD's Zhilian Cloud prepares for the massive 11.11 shopping festival by rapidly mobilizing teams, defining protection scopes, estimating resources, implementing high‑availability across regions and AZs, applying business degradation and elastic scaling, and establishing comprehensive monitoring and rehearsal practices to ensure a smooth, resilient promotion.
In his 2020 talk, Prof. Zhou Xuan outlined the evolution of database systems, highlighted ECNU’s research on distributed transactions, hardware‑aware modular designs, HTAP and system decoupling, and argued that future databases will be increasingly modular, hardware‑adapted, and driven by close academia‑industry collaboration.
During the pandemic, the Yunnan “Anti‑Epidemic” mini‑program faced over 80 W requests per minute, prompting an analysis of how cloud development’s serverless, auto‑scaling architecture—covering data pipelines, cloud functions, and cloud databases—can ensure high performance, availability, and cost‑effective handling of massive concurrent traffic.
The pandemic forced the exhibition industry to pause and rapidly adopt cloud‑based online platforms, blending digital and physical experiences through service design, big‑data analytics, and immersive technologies to create a new "online + offline" exhibition model.
This article explains how Tencent's self‑developed KonaJDK underpins cloud Java services, enhances micro‑service monitoring, adds national cryptography support, optimizes large‑heap tools like jmap, and delivers performance gains for big‑data workloads, while contributing key features back to the OpenJDK community.
This article introduces federated learning, edge computing, and cloud computing, explains each technology's principles and use cases, and then compares their similarities and differences, highlighting privacy‑preserving collaborative modeling, near‑source processing, and centralized resource provisioning.
This comprehensive guide outlines the philosophical mindset, core competencies, technical knowledge, architectural principles, and essential tools that aspiring software architects should master to build robust, scalable, and secure systems in modern IT environments.
The article outlines eight major software development trends expected to dominate the next ten years, including the continued rise of artificial intelligence, Python’s growth with AI/ML, 5G’s impact, edge and cloud computing expansion, emerging languages like Rust, Kubernetes dominance, React’s persistence, and the lowering barrier for self‑taught programmers.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud leverages AI and data‑driven automation to provide unattended, self‑service management for ECS instances, reducing operational costs, improving incident response speed, and ensuring stable, efficient cloud server operations.
The United States is intensifying pressure on Huawei’s European operations, targeting not only its telecom equipment but also its rapidly expanding cloud services, prompting European carriers to reconsider Huawei‑based infrastructure amid shifting market dynamics and growing reliance on Western cloud providers.
This article walks you through the fundamentals of serverless architecture, demonstrates how to create and configure AWS Lambda functions for an order‑processing workflow, integrates them with API Gateway, SQS, and the Serverless Framework, and shows how to test, deploy, and clean up the entire solution.
This article traces the 20‑year evolution of big‑data technologies, compares data lakes and data warehouses, explains their complementary strengths, and presents Alibaba Cloud’s lakehouse solution that unifies storage and compute to deliver flexible, performant, and cost‑effective analytics for enterprises.
5G's low latency, high bandwidth, and massive connectivity drive mobile edge computing, while merging IT and communication domains demands architecture, deployment, and scheduling integration; the article explains how cloud‑edge‑center convergence and unified QoS management unlock enhanced services and new business scenarios.
From the early days of static web pages to today’s data‑driven, AI‑enhanced interfaces, this article explores how the rise of big data platforms like Alibaba Cloud’s Feitian has transformed front‑end development through advanced visualization, software‑Web convergence, and diverse new interactions.
This article explains the fundamentals of video streaming, media transcoding, and CDN technology, then details Alibaba Cloud's live streaming architecture, including terminology, workflow stages, system components, business functions, and typical application scenarios such as UGC, e‑commerce, sports, gaming, and online education.
This weekly roundup covers a 20% surge in cloud service revenue, Google's new pQRNN model rivaling BERT, China's first NFC chip stamp, TSMC's 3nm capacity boost, Intel's IoT‑focused processors, Apple's open‑source Swift System for Linux, a novel FGPM adversarial text method, and multimodal translation advances, highlighting key trends across cloud, AI, and hardware.
This article traces the century‑long evolution of cloud computing, from John McCarthy’s 1961 utility‑computing idea through the rise of SaaS, the birth of AWS, the entry of Google and Microsoft, and the rapid market expansion in both the US and China.
The article examines the end of Moore's Law, the rapid growth of cloud computing, the challenges of virtualization overhead, and how Alibaba's Shenlong architecture leverages hardware acceleration to revive performance gains and reshape the future of hardware‑software co‑evolution.
A Shanghai court sentenced programmer He Mou to six years in prison for deliberately deleting all SaaS data of Weimeng, causing an eight‑day outage, over 300 million yuan in losses, and prompting a discussion on on‑premise versus cloud data protection strategies.
This article analyzes how traditional CDN infrastructure can be transformed into a comprehensive edge computing platform, covering CDN fundamentals, edge computing layers, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS models, container and Kubernetes deployment, future trends, and practical Q&A insights.
The article recounts the 2020 “delete‑and‑run” incident where a disgruntled employee erased all data from the SaaS platform Weimeng, causing over 300 million users to lose access, a market‑value plunge of over HK$1 billion, and a six‑year prison sentence, while exposing critical flaws in data‑security practices and the risks of insufficient cloud adoption.
This article explains middleware fundamentals, its evolution in distributed systems, classifies its major types, analyzes global and Chinese market growth, and profiles key domestic vendors such as Dongfangtong, Baoland, Puyuan, Kingdee, Zhongchuang, Alibaba, and Tencent.
On September 16, Alibaba inaugurated the globally largest fully immersed liquid‑cooled data center in Zhejiang, featuring single‑phase immersion cooling that achieves a PUE of 1.09, supports the new‑infrastructure drive, and marks a major step toward greener, high‑performance cloud computing in China.
Tencent Cloud API 3.0 introduces a unified, secure, high‑performance API Gateway that centralizes access, routing, and lifecycle management for microservices, offering standardized interfaces, multi‑language SDKs, CLI and Explorer tools, precise rate limiting, rich documentation, and a roadmap toward industry‑wide standardization and broader scenario adoption.
Alibaba's Zhejiang liquid‑cooled data center became China’s first 5A‑rated green data center, showcasing advanced immersion cooling, HVDC power, distributed redundancy and AI‑optimized management that deliver a design‑year PUE of 1.12 and set a new benchmark for energy‑efficient cloud infrastructure.
The latest Developer Community Tech Weekly covers JD AI's QuAC competition win, the launch of China's first open‑source foundation, a surge in cloud spending during the pandemic, C++'s TIOBE resurgence, Starlink's sub‑20 ms latency, a teen‑led DDoS incident, and cutting‑edge research on GAN‑based recommendation, image localization, and 3D semantic segmentation datasets.
This guide walks you through Alibaba Cloud's Serverless experience, showing how to create a Java Hello World function, configure the application, write and deploy the code, and test the endpoint, all with clear screenshots and a detailed walkthrough.
This article breaks down the three main cloud service models—Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service—detailing their definitions, advantages, limitations, real‑world examples, and key questions organizations should ask to select the most suitable model for their workloads.
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.
This article details Dada's dual‑cloud active‑active disaster‑recovery implementation, explaining high availability versus disaster recovery, describing the first‑phase architecture and challenges, and outlining the second‑phase enhancements such as multi‑data‑center Consul, bidirectional database replication, precise load‑balancing, tool adaptations, capacity elasticity, and future plans.
A roundup of recent tech news covering a Cisco sabotage case, a London data‑center fire, Linux's 29th anniversary, Gartner's China ICT trends, major cloud investments, Windows 95 milestones, Didi's GPU server launch, Hainan's DNS project, Dell’Oro's market report, executive share reductions, and an upcoming global operations conference.
This article describes how an online education platform reduced infrastructure costs and improved service reliability by replacing XEN with KVM, building resource‑tracking platforms, adopting Kubernetes‑based containerization, implementing rapid auto‑scaling, and establishing systematic resource auditing and standardization processes.
