This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker's architecture, detailing the client‑server model, the roles of Docker Daemon, Engine, Registry, various drivers, Libcontainer, and how containers are created, managed, and delivered within a cloud‑native environment.
Alibaba's Double 11 set a new record with 498.2 billion yuan in sales and a peak of 583,000 orders per second, prompting the Taobao tech team to confront unprecedented concurrency, live‑streaming spikes, and evolving consumer behavior through advanced cloud‑native architectures and real‑time content integration.
This guide explains Kubernetes Pod concepts, how to create and manage Pods using YAML and kubectl commands, outlines basic Pod management operations, describes image pull policies, and shows how to configure a Harbor private registry secret for Pods.
This article introduces Harbor, an enterprise‑grade Docker image registry designed for cloud‑native environments, detailing its efficient distribution mechanisms, security features such as signing and vulnerability scanning, HA solutions, and step‑by‑step installation methods using offline packages, Docker‑compose, and Helm charts.
Taobao set new records during this year's Double 11 with 49.82 billion yuan in sales and a peak of 583,000 orders per second, prompting the platform to deploy large‑scale live‑streaming, cloud‑native infrastructure, full‑chain merchant stress tests, AI‑driven features and ultra‑low‑latency GRTN networking to handle unprecedented traffic and evolving consumer behavior.
Spring Boot 2.4.0 has been officially released with full Java 15 support, layered JARs, Docker/Buildpack image building, JUnit 5 adoption, enhanced configuration handling, new startup endpoints, and numerous core dependency upgrades, marking a major step toward cloud‑native applications.
The article explains Serverless Components—a higher‑level, open‑source solution from the Serverless Framework that streamlines infrastructure orchestration on Tencent Cloud through unified CLI tools, reusable component catalogs, rapid deployment workflows (including a Next.js example), and a year‑long cross‑border collaboration that expands the ecosystem and addresses common usage questions.
This guide shows how to install the Python Kubernetes client, initialize it, and perform comprehensive Job operations—including creation via SDK objects, YAML or dict definitions, monitoring with Watch, listing, reading, updating, and deleting Jobs—while providing concrete code snippets and best‑practice advice.
This guide walks through preparing three CentOS servers—configuring hostnames, disabling firewalls and swap, setting up Docker and Kubernetes repositories, installing Docker and Kubernetes components, adjusting kernel parameters, and finally initializing the Kubernetes master with kubeadm before joining worker nodes.
This article reviews the challenges of scheduling heterogeneous workloads—micro‑services, big‑data, AI, and HPC—on a unified cloud‑native platform, compares existing schedulers like Mesos and YARN, examines Kubernetes ecosystem extensions such as Volcano and YuniKorn, and details the design and components of the Transwarp Scheduler built on Kubernetes Scheduling Framework v2.
This guide explains how Flannel works as a Kubernetes CNI overlay network, detailing its VXLAN mode, the roles of cni0, flannel.1 and flanneld, routing and FDB handling, and provides command‑line examples to trace pod‑to‑pod traffic across nodes.
This article introduces Nacos, an open‑source Alibaba project that serves as both a service registry and a distributed configuration center, explaining its core concepts, architecture, and how it simplifies service discovery and configuration management in cloud‑native microservice environments.
Cloud native, coined by Matt Stine in 2013, blends DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and agile infrastructure into a philosophy that redesigns applications for any public, private, or hybrid cloud, emphasizing container packaging, automated pipelines, and cultural shifts to boost scalability and delivery speed.
This article explains how cloud‑native techniques transform application architecture from IaaS to PaaS, outlines three practical steps to accelerate delivery, and provides concrete examples such as Service Mesh, lightweight containers for log collection, and health‑probe driven lifecycle management.
This article explains why containers and Docker are popular, outlines the network and security challenges of building container cloud platforms, compares bridge, host, container and none networking modes, reviews major CNI solutions such as Calico, Flannel, Weave and Macvlan, and discusses how service mesh complements CNI in multi‑cluster environments.
This article introduces the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC) for Kubernetes, explains how to install and use it to create parent‑child namespaces, demonstrates role inheritance and two real‑world scenarios—self‑provisioning and application templating—while highlighting current limitations and community‑driven improvements.
This article provides a concise reference of frequently used Kubernetes (kubectl) and Docker command‑line instructions, covering cluster inspection, pod and service queries, resource creation, deletion, as well as container inspection, logging, and interactive shell access.
The article introduces Nydus, an open‑source container image acceleration service co‑developed by Ant Group and Alibaba Cloud, explaining its architecture, on‑demand download, data deduplication, end‑to‑end consistency, OCI compatibility, and how it speeds up container startup while enhancing security.
Alibaba Cloud’s Data Lake Analytics (DLA) tackles the growing complexity of data scenarios by offering cloud‑native, serverless solutions for data lake management, massive metadata construction, and high‑performance Spark and Presto engines, while addressing challenges such as high entry barriers, stability, and multi‑tenant isolation.
This guide explains Kubernetes taints and tolerations, how to create, view, and remove taints, configure tolerations in pod specs, and use nodeName and nodeSelector to control pod placement, complete with practical command‑line examples and YAML manifests.
EndpointSlices replace the traditional Endpoints API in Kubernetes, offering a scalable, slice‑based approach that reduces data transfer, enables features like dual‑stack services and topology‑aware routing, and allows clusters to handle hundreds of thousands of network endpoints efficiently.
The article examines how open‑source projects can achieve robust security through organized vulnerability management teams, active collaboration with security researchers, and community‑driven initiatives, using Kata Containers and the broader cloud‑native ecosystem as illustrative examples.
COSCon'20 presents a rich lineup of talks covering AI microservices with Rust and WebAssembly, scalable cloud‑native application management, serverless rendering, HTTP/3 for IoT, cloud‑native trends, RocketMQ, CloudBase Framework, event mesh, Podman, Quarkus, Go microservices, Pulsar, Kubernetes stateful services, dubbogo, ElasticJob, Seata, SkyWalking on Kubernetes, and Spring on Azure, inviting developers to deepen their expertise in modern cloud‑native technologies.
This comprehensive guide walks you through preparing hardware and network resources, setting up a private Git repository, installing Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Baget, Harbor, and SonarQube, writing Dockerfiles and Helm charts, and configuring a Groovy Jenkinsfile to achieve a fully automated CI/CD workflow on a Kubernetes cluster.
Fluid v0.3, the open‑source cloud‑native data acceleration platform, introduces PVC and HostPath acceleration, fine‑grained dataset permission controls, and built‑in parameter optimizations, delivering over 20% faster AI training while simplifying configuration for diverse storage back‑ends.
NetEase Yanxuan built a cloud‑native supply‑chain simulation platform that standardizes data flows, achieves 97% forecasting accuracy, processes billions of orders daily, and reduces decision cycles, enabling over thirty major business choices with cost savings of tens of millions.
This article explains what OpenShift and Kubernetes are, compares their features—including architecture, rollout, web UI, image registry, CI/CD integration, and networking—and helps readers decide which container platform best fits their infrastructure and development needs.
Microservice architectures increase system complexity and failure rates, so this article explains key reliability patterns—such as graceful degradation, change management, health checks, self‑healing, fallback caches, retry logic, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and testing—to help engineers design resilient, high‑availability services.
This article explains Docker images as lightweight, executable software packages, describes the UnionFS layering mechanism, outlines image characteristics, shows how to commit images, use container volumes (including named, anonymous, and bind mounts), and provides step‑by‑step Dockerfile examples for building custom CentOS, Tomcat, and SpringBoot images as well as uploading images to Alibaba Cloud.
This article surveys ten newly released Kubernetes‑related platforms and tools—from Docker Enterprise 3.1 to KubeCarrier—highlighting their key features, cloud‑native capabilities, and the impact they are expected to have on enterprise IT environments.
This article walks through the step‑by‑step evolution of a high‑concurrency backend—from a single‑machine setup to a cloud‑native, micro‑service architecture—highlighting the technical challenges, key technologies, and design principles at each stage.
This article explains the motivations for adopting Spring Cloud, defines its components and design goals, compares it with Spring Boot and other frameworks, outlines its main sub‑projects, versioning scheme, and provides practical guidance on configuration, service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, and gateway development for cloud‑native microservices.
This article explains the origins, core principles, and practical components of Cloud Native—including microservices, containerization, DevOps, continuous delivery, and cloud infrastructure—showing how they reshape development culture, organization, and technology adoption for modern software teams.
This article presents a curated list of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Ant Design, Druid, Fastjson, Dubbo, JStorm, Nacos, Sentinel, and many more—detailing their core purpose, key features, and GitHub repositories for developers seeking robust solutions across cloud, micro‑services, frontend, and data processing domains.
This article explains how service discovery has progressed from simple centralized proxies to client‑embedded libraries and finally to host‑level independent processes like Service Mesh, detailing each generation, their pros and cons, and how Kubernetes implements discovery and load balancing.
This guide explains the most common Prometheus Operator metrics for Kubernetes, detailing each metric's purpose, the PromQL expression to monitor it, and the related underlying metrics, helping you fine‑tune alerts and avoid unnecessary noise in your cluster monitoring.
This article recounts Momo's journey from its early micro‑service framework MOA to the adoption of a self‑developed Service Mesh, detailing architectural evolution, identified governance challenges, evaluation phases, and the design of data‑plane and control‑plane components for a cloud‑native environment.
This article explains how Dubbo Spring Cloud bridges Apache Dubbo 3.0 with the Spring Cloud ecosystem, covering version compatibility, service registration and discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, service introspection, migration strategies, and provides step‑by‑step Maven and YAML configurations with complete code examples for both provider and consumer applications.
This article presents a structured approach to mastering microservices, covering a learning pyramid, a step‑by‑step roadmap, weekly ARTS habits, and detailed explanations of the six essential components that together form a robust microservice architecture.
This article explains why Kubernetes clusters need regular upgrades, outlines the challenges, details essential pre‑upgrade health checks for core components, nodes and cloud resources, compares in‑place and replacement upgrade strategies with their pros and cons, and presents a three‑stage upgrade process covering master, worker and core system components.
This article explains the concepts of vertical and horizontal elastic scaling, explores how Spring Cloud and Kubernetes native features like HPA and KEDA enable precise scaling, and presents EDAS‑based optimizations for rule triggering, instance scheduling, and serverless Kubernetes deployments.
This guide explains how to use Sentinel‑Go with Nacos as an external dynamic data source, covering background, installation, configuration, code examples, deployment steps, and how to update flow‑control rules in real time for cloud‑native microservices.
This article explains the concept, states, and practical benefits of circuit breaker mechanisms in microservice architectures, illustrating how they prevent cascading failures, improve system stability, and provide configurable recovery strategies for robust cloud‑native applications.
This article explains Istio’s architecture, detailing how its control‑plane components (Pilot, Mixer, Citadel, Galley) manage traffic, policies, and security while the Envoy sidecar forms the data plane, and it walks through static and dynamic configuration methods with concrete examples.
The article examines how organizations can construct their own multi‑cloud PaaS platforms by leveraging Kubernetes‑based tools such as Crossplane and the Open Application Model (OAM), highlighting the architectural benefits, typical workflow, and challenges revealed in an interview with Upbound CEO Bassam Tabbara.
This article details Alibaba's practical experience deploying Service Mesh at massive scale, covering architectural evolution, key challenges, traffic interception, hot‑upgrade mechanisms, performance optimizations, and operational tooling that together enable reliable, low‑overhead service communication in a cloud‑native environment.
Envoy 1.15 introduces a Postgres filter that transparently parses the PostgreSQL wire protocol, extracts rich metrics without any server‑side changes, and exports them to Prometheus, while outlining its design goals, current capabilities, usage steps, limitations, and future roadmap.
Xianyu’s zero‑downtime upgrade strategy for its multi‑microservice search stack combines rigorous forward/backward compatibility checks, batch‑wise stateless updates, careful stateful migrations via hot‑updates or dual‑write sync, robust service‑discovery traffic control, and Alibaba‑style monitoring, gray‑release testing, and rapid rollback to ensure uninterrupted service.
The article examines the limitations of traditional Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) such as environment inconsistency, learning cost, and vendor lock‑in, and explains how supporting container images in serverless platforms addresses these issues while improving portability, CI/CD integration, cold‑start performance, and hybrid deployment scenarios.
This guide explains how to expand a Kubernetes cluster with an additional master node, configure nginx load balancing, set up leader election for core components, and verify high‑availability operation through testing, providing step‑by‑step commands and configuration files.
This article explores how Alibaba's Xianyu marketplace transformed its massive C2C platform by adopting cloud‑native and serverless technologies, detailing the motivations, phased implementation, technical challenges, and future considerations that enabled rapid development, reduced operational costs, and improved scalability.
This article explores how traditional CDN infrastructure can be transformed into a large‑scale edge computing platform, covering architectural layers, cloud‑edge collaboration, container‑based deployment with Kubernetes, emerging technologies such as programmable CDN, secure containers, and practical Q&A from real‑world implementations.
This article explains the need for chaos engineering in modern distributed and cloud‑native systems, outlines the challenges faced by architects, developers, testers and product teams, and provides step‑by‑step guidance on using ChaosBlade and Alibaba's AHAS platform for effective fault‑injection experiments.
This tutorial walks through deploying the Ceph‑CSI driver version 3.1.0 on a Kubernetes cluster using RBD as persistent storage, covering environment setup, Ceph pool and user creation, ConfigMap and Secret configuration, RBAC, CSI sidecar deployment, storage class definition, and a complete end‑to‑end test with PVC and pod.
This article examines Eastern Securities' transition to a microservice architecture by detailing the design, implementation, and performance of its gRPC‑Nebula service‑governance framework and the Star‑Chen platform, covering challenges such as heterogeneous interfaces, service registration, load balancing, fault tolerance, traffic control, multi‑registry support, and real‑world deployment results.
This tutorial walks through installing Docker, configuring remote access, creating a Spring Boot project, writing the necessary Dockerfile and Maven settings, building the image, and running the container, demonstrating how IDEA, Spring Boot, and Docker combine to simplify Java web deployment.
This article explains how to define and execute performance testing workflows for Kubernetes using declarative YAML files, covering the design of custom CRDs, task orchestration, example manifests, and the implementation of core operations and monitoring.
This article details CTrip's journey from its early .Net‑based ESB architecture through a self‑developed Java microservice framework to the current CDubbo platform, covering registration, monitoring, dynamic configuration, protocol compatibility, performance gains, extensibility, and future Service Mesh integration.
The article outlines dubbogo's five‑year evolution, its milestone‑driven roadmap, the launch of dubbo-go-proxy, community recruitment, management practices, tooling, code‑quality measures, and future challenges, providing a comprehensive view of this Go‑based backend framework.
Alibaba’s large‑scale Service Mesh deployment faces challenges such as smooth technology evolution, business‑technical balance, technical debt, massive sidecar operations, and scaling, which it addresses through staged architecture evolution, traffic‑transparent interception, hot upgrades, and open‑source contributions to Istio and Envoy.
This article details the Midway Serverless framework's cloud‑native, React‑Hooks‑inspired approach to backend development, covering Alibaba's Node.js serverless landscape, the framework's architecture, new integrated development model, functional R&D features, and future open‑source plans.
This talk walks through Alibaba's Node.js Serverless landscape, introduces the Midway Serverless framework and its new cloud‑integrated development model, and details its functional R&D, hook‑based APIs, performance optimizations, and real‑world adoption, highlighting future open‑source plans.
This article details Eastern Securities' journey from monolithic systems to a microservice architecture, describing the design and implementation of the gRPC-Nebula service governance framework and the Starry Service Governance Platform, their technical features, performance tests, multi‑language support, and the practical outcomes of the digital transformation.
This article explains how to implement graceful up‑ and down‑scaling for Spring Cloud applications running on Kubernetes, covering design principles, signal handling, resource cleanup, Spring Boot configuration, multiple deployment scenarios, and integration with Kubernetes health probes to ensure lossless traffic flow.
Spring Cloud Alibaba 2.2.2.RELEASE, compatible with Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR8, introduces upgraded dependencies such as Nacos Client 1.3.2, Seata 1.3.0, Sentinel 1.8.0, Apache Dubbo 2.7.8, adds features like NacosWatch metadata updates and dynamic naming service switching, and resolves numerous bugs.
This article describes how the infrastructure team reduced new project deployment time to under an hour by combining a container platform with domain convergence, detailing the processes, automation pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployment, autoscaling, logging, and security considerations for efficient, cloud‑native operations.
This article analyzes why applications fail to start when the Istio sidecar proxy has not finished its xDS configuration, presents three practical solutions—including health‑check gating, pod container start order control, and Kubernetes startup dependencies—and recommends adopting design‑for‑failure principles for robust microservice deployments.
Although Docker has become popular for containerizing applications, this article outlines seven key drawbacks—ranging from data safety and performance to networking, statefulness, resource isolation, cloud platform incompatibility, and hardware demands—that make deploying databases in Docker containers generally unsuitable.
This article details MasterClass Education’s end‑to‑end cloud‑native migration using Spring Cloud Alibaba, Nacos, Sentinel and related tools, covering registry selection, Nacos server deployment, monitoring, logging, performance testing, high‑availability sync with Eureka, CI/CD pipelines, gray releases, APM integration and disaster‑recovery drills.
This article explains the core concepts, component model, and architecture of Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), provides step‑by‑step installation instructions, details configuration options, and demonstrates how OLM handles dependency resolution and upgrade workflows for Kubernetes operators.
The article outlines how open x86 hardware, solid‑state storage, high‑speed networking, resource pools and containers form the foundation for modern IT architecture, while national emphasis on innovation and security elevates open‑source software, driving a shift toward layered, service‑oriented, microservice‑centric systems integrated with DevOps pipelines.
This article examines the evolving challenges of recommendation system architecture, presents the Flowengine platform’s declarative, low‑code, component‑based approach to governance, and demonstrates how it improves scalability, maintainability, and cloud‑native deployment for AI‑driven recommendation services.
An extensive two-hour video course guides you through Spring Cloud and Kubernetes, covering Linux system setup, Docker fundamentals, Dockerfile creation, Docker‑Compose deployment, Harbor registry, Rancher and K8s cluster installation, HA setups with RKE and Helm, as well as k3s basics and Spring Cloud deployment, with links to the videos and supplemental materials.
This article analyzes how Kubernetes’ API‑first design, inspired by cloud‑computing principles of programmable and declarative infrastructure, creates a universal control plane that transcends container orchestration and reshapes software management across clouds.
Rancher’s k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes for Edge, IoT, CI and ARM, has entered the CNCF Sandbox, marking the first Kubernetes‑compatible distribution to join; the announcement details its streamlined features, rapid adoption statistics, and the debate confirming its independent status.
This guide explains Docker Swarm's built‑in cluster management, key concepts such as Swarm, Node, Stack, Service, Task, and load balancing, and provides step‑by‑step commands for initializing a Swarm, adding nodes, labeling, deploying stacks, and updating services.
Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless lead, known as “不瞋”, discusses how serverless transforms cloud computing into a simple utility, outlines performance, security, and operational challenges, and shares real-world use cases like video processing and large-scale traffic handling, emphasizing cost savings, elasticity, and the future roadmap.
This article introduces the SlightShift MySQL high‑availability solution, detailing cloud‑native design principles, architecture, key technologies such as Raft‑based leader election, Local PV storage, ProxySQL routing, automated failover, backup/recovery, and the operator‑driven declarative management that enable scalable, low‑cost, resilient MySQL deployments on Kubernetes.
This article walks through the background of RocketMQ, explains why an Operator is needed for cloud‑native deployments, and provides a complete, hands‑on tutorial for installing RocketMQ Operator via OperatorHub or manually, creating a RocketMQ cluster on Kubernetes, verifying it with producer/consumer examples, and cleaning up the resources.
Spring Cloud Hoxton SR8 (SR8) has been released, offering bug‑fixes, support for Spring Boot 2.2.x and 2.3.x, TLS configuration for Eureka and Config clients, enhanced Kubernetes load balancing, and a list of updated starter dependencies, all available via Maven Central.
Didi’s Seven‑Layer Access Platform, handling millions of QPS and hundreds of billions of daily requests across thousands of services, provides ultra‑stable, sub‑millisecond routing through Nginx‑based data and control planes, advanced service discovery, rate‑limiting, observability, zero‑risk change controls, and is now evolving toward a cloud‑native, mesh‑enabled sidecar architecture.
This guide walks through Kubernetes Service fundamentals, including creating services, configuring session affinity, exposing multiple ports, using named ports, discovering services via environment variables and DNS, managing Endpoints, and exposing services externally through NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress with TLS support.
This article explains the fundamentals of cloud native computing, introduces service mesh architectures such as Istio and Envoy, explores chaos engineering with Chaos Mesh, and details how eBPF/XDP‑based user‑space container networking can accelerate data‑plane performance in modern microservice environments.
This article explains the fundamentals of confidential computing, introduces the open‑source Inclavare Containers project and its integration with Kubernetes, details its architecture, workflow, signing models, and the related ACK‑TEE platform, and answers common questions about deployment and performance.
Kubernetes 1.19, released after a 20‑week cycle, introduces a one‑year support window, storage capacity tracking, generic ephemeral volumes, CSI health monitoring, Ingress reaching GA, structured logging, new klog methods, and kubelet TLS certificate rotation, while providing extensive release notes and ecosystem updates.
Kubernetes 1.19, released after a 20‑week cycle, introduces a year‑long support window, storage capacity tracking, generic ephemeral volumes, CSI health monitoring, Ingress GA, structured logging, new klog methods, kubelet TLS certificate rotation, and dozens of other stable and major feature updates.
This article presents a practical, multi‑stage approach for improving software reliability in Kubernetes‑based microservice environments, covering static analysis, testing pyramids, CI/CD observability, performance testing, deployment strategies, and feedback loops to help engineering teams deliver faster, higher‑quality releases.
This article explains the evolution of DevOps, the challenges of building a Kubernetes‑based DevOps platform, and how the Open Application Model (OAM) provides a layered, component‑and‑trait architecture that separates concerns, enhances extensibility, and enables next‑generation cloud‑native DevOps solutions.
The article analyzes the limitations of native Kubernetes scheduling, proposes usage‑based and dynamic‑weight scheduling strategies to improve multi‑resource balance, presents experimental results showing significant CPU and memory utilization gains, and discusses cost benefits and future directions for the private cloud platform.
This article reviews Dubbo 3.0’s evolution from its early Alibaba SOA roots to a cloud‑native microservice framework, detailing its open‑source growth, next‑generation RPC protocol, application‑level registration discovery, Kubernetes integration, flexible enhancements, and the roadmap for upcoming releases.
Tencent Cloud MySQL 8.0 builds on official MySQL improvements with eight enterprise‑grade enhancements—TDE encryption, kernel‑level audit, multi‑queue thread pool, strong consistency, AEP SSD support, lightweight AP mode, hotspot updates, and SQL rate‑limiting—delivering high‑performance, secure, and scalable solutions for e‑commerce, gaming, finance, and new‑retail workloads while paving the way for cloud‑native, AI‑driven database evolution.
This article introduces Capability Oriented Architecture (COA), a new design paradigm that abstracts essential capabilities such as power or AI services, making cloud‑edge applications platform‑, location‑, and technology‑agnostic while delegating delivery details to operational components.
This article chronicles Yuque's evolution from a hobbyist prototype to a commercial cloud‑native knowledge platform, detailing its backend migrations, adoption of Node.js, Egg, React, serverless function compute, micro‑service splits, and the architectural lessons learned for stability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
This article reviews Microsoft’s new open‑source portal, Google’s Chrome URL‑hiding experiment, the YAM cryptocurrency bug that locked millions, and the launch of Bootstrap’s official SVG icon library, highlighting their goals, technologies, and community impact.
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Google’s Borg system, covering its design goals, user view, job and task model, resource allocation, scheduling algorithms, fault tolerance, scalability techniques, and operational metrics that shaped modern cloud‑native orchestration platforms.
This article provides an overview of Kubernetes, explaining its purpose as an open‑source container orchestration platform, recounting its origins from internal Google discussions in 2013, the influence of Borg, the decision to open‑source it, and its subsequent growth into a widely adopted cloud‑native solution.
In this interview, Red Hat’s former chief architect Christian Posta explains how Istio’s architecture has been simplified from a fragmented control plane to the unified Istiod binary, outlines upcoming features in version 1.7, discusses WebAssembly integration, and shares his view on the evolving service‑mesh market.
This article explains how Apache Pulsar’s layered architecture separates I/O modes, uses BookKeeper for durable storage, and leverages multi‑replica write quorums and hierarchical caches to provide efficient tail‑read, catch‑up read, and long‑term storage options such as S3, Azure and GCS.
The article explains Microsoft’s Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight, SMI‑compatible service mesh built on Envoy for Kubernetes, covering its design principles, features, deployment steps, and its role in the broader cloud‑native service‑mesh ecosystem.
This comprehensive article explains what a data lake is, outlines its core characteristics and reference architecture, compares major cloud providers' data‑lake offerings, presents typical advertising and gaming use cases, and proposes a practical, agile process for building and operating a data lake.
