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MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
May 23, 2019 · Cloud Native

Master Docker in 2 Hours: From Basics to Full Image Lifecycle

This guide walks you through Docker fundamentals, its container‑based virtualization, installation on Windows and Ubuntu, architecture components, image concepts, and a hands‑on workflow that covers pulling, running, building, and pushing images, all illustrated with clear examples and diagrams.

ContainersDockerImage Building
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Master Docker in 2 Hours: From Basics to Full Image Lifecycle
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 23, 2019 · Operations

Why Chaos Engineering Is Essential for Modern Distributed Systems

This article explains the meaning, benefits, and practical implementation of chaos engineering, compares it with traditional fault injection, discusses when it’s needed, and details Alibaba’s multi‑year experience and its open‑source ChaosBlade tool for building resilient cloud‑native systems.

ChaosBladecloud-nativesystem resilience
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Why Chaos Engineering Is Essential for Modern Distributed Systems
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
May 22, 2019 · Cloud Native

What Is Service Mesh Interface (SMI) and How Does It Standardize Kubernetes Meshes?

The article introduces Service Mesh Interface (SMI), a lightweight standard for Kubernetes service meshes, explains its design goals, details the core API objects for traffic specification, access control, traffic splitting, and monitoring, and reviews the ecosystem of vendors and contributors supporting the specification.

APIKubernetesSMI
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What Is Service Mesh Interface (SMI) and How Does It Standardize Kubernetes Meshes?
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
May 21, 2019 · Cloud Native

Master Docker: From Basics to Building Your Own Images

This comprehensive guide introduces Docker’s origins, core concepts such as images, containers, and registries, explains installation on major platforms, demonstrates essential commands, shows how to run and manage containers, and walks through creating, tagging, pushing, and importing custom images using Dockerfile.

ContainersDockerImages
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Master Docker: From Basics to Building Your Own Images
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
May 18, 2019 · Cloud Native

Why Kubernetes Is the Bedrock of Cloud‑Native and How to Adopt It

This article explains Kubernetes' origins, its pivotal role in the cloud‑native ecosystem, practical steps for migrating legacy applications, common operational challenges, and emerging trends such as service mesh, serverless, and data‑service integration.

Container OrchestrationDevOpsKubernetes
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Why Kubernetes Is the Bedrock of Cloud‑Native and How to Adopt It
21CTO
21CTO
May 16, 2019 · Databases

How ICBC Transformed Its Legacy OLTP Systems with a Distributed MySQL Architecture

This article details the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's multi‑year migration from mainframe‑based DB2 to a high‑availability, distributed MySQL solution, covering the challenges, strategic decisions, technical stack, containerization, operational improvements, and measurable business outcomes.

Database MigrationDistributed DatabaseHigh Availability
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How ICBC Transformed Its Legacy OLTP Systems with a Distributed MySQL Architecture
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 16, 2019 · Game Development

Case Study: Deploying Pandora Marketing Solution on Tencent Cloud Kubernetes for Game Operations

The case study details how Pandora’s marketing solution for Tencent’s games was migrated to a managed Tencent Cloud Kubernetes cluster, compares container‑service, serverless, and self‑built options, outlines the new image‑based deployment workflow, autoscaling, monitoring practices, and demonstrates the operational benefits of tighter dev‑ops collaboration.

DevOpsGame MarketingKubernetes
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Case Study: Deploying Pandora Marketing Solution on Tencent Cloud Kubernetes for Game Operations
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
May 15, 2019 · Cloud Native

A Formal TLA+ Model of the Kubernetes Scheduler

This article presents a concise yet detailed formal model of the Kubernetes Scheduler, describing its control‑loop logic, scheduling and preemption processes, feasibility filters, viability scoring, and binding objects using TLA+ specifications and illustrative code snippets.

KubernetesSchedulerScheduling Algorithms
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A Formal TLA+ Model of the Kubernetes Scheduler
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 13, 2019 · Cloud Native

Reexamining Software Process Improvement in the DevOps and Cloud‑Native Era

The article revisits software process improvement, arguing that despite DevOps and cloud‑native advances—exemplified by Jenkins’s evolution from simple builds to fully programmable, Git‑and‑Kubernetes‑driven pipelines—continuous, metric‑driven refinement remains essential for boosting efficiency, quality, and resilience in modern, micro‑service‑centric delivery.

CI/CDDevOpsJenkins
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Reexamining Software Process Improvement in the DevOps and Cloud‑Native Era
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
May 11, 2019 · Cloud Native

Ant Financial’s Fifteen‑Year Technology Architecture Evolution and the Future of FinTech

In a QCon 2019 talk, Ant Financial’s deputy CTO Hu Xi outlines the company’s fifteen‑year journey reshaping payments and micro‑loans through blockchain, AI, security, IoT and cloud computing, and details the emerging cloud‑native, high‑availability, data‑intelligent architecture that will underpin the next generation of financial technology.

Big DataDistributed Systemsartificial intelligence
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Ant Financial’s Fifteen‑Year Technology Architecture Evolution and the Future of FinTech
AntTech
AntTech
May 9, 2019 · Cloud Native

Ant Financial’s Fifteen‑Year Technology Architecture Evolution and the Future of FinTech

The article reviews Ant Financial’s fifteen‑year journey reshaping payments and micro‑loans through blockchain, AI, security, IoT and cloud computing, explains how distributed middleware, OceanBase, service‑mesh‑based cloud‑native infrastructure and open intelligent computing architectures enable high‑availability, scalable financial services, and introduces the BASIC College talent program.

Big DataDistributed SystemsFinTech
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Ant Financial’s Fifteen‑Year Technology Architecture Evolution and the Future of FinTech
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 30, 2019 · Operations

How Alibaba’s Feature Environments Revolutionize Test Environment Management

Alibaba’s R&D team introduced a service‑level virtualization technique called “feature environments,” which uses shared base environments and virtual routing to provide lightweight, isolated test environments, reducing cost and improving stability while leveraging containers, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices for large‑scale projects.

DevOpsKubernetescloud-native
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How Alibaba’s Feature Environments Revolutionize Test Environment Management
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Apr 27, 2019 · Operations

Why Apache SkyWalking Became a Top‑Level Project and What It Offers for Modern APM

Apache SkyWalking, an open‑source observability platform that originated in 2015, has graduated to a top‑level Apache project, offering comprehensive APM features such as distributed tracing, metrics, service topology, root‑cause analysis, and flexible storage options for cloud‑native microservice environments.

APMApache SkywalkingPerformance Monitoring
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Why Apache SkyWalking Became a Top‑Level Project and What It Offers for Modern APM
AntTech
AntTech
Apr 26, 2019 · Cloud Native

Highlights from the 2019 Cloud Native Industry Conference: Whitepapers, SOFAStack, and Serverless Practices

The 2019 Cloud Native Industry Conference in Beijing showcased two authoritative whitepapers, detailed Ant Financial's SOFAStack and Serverless implementations in finance, honored leading experts, and announced the formation of a cloud native industry alliance, illustrating practical cloud native advancements and standards.

Ant FinancialFinTechMicroservices
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Highlights from the 2019 Cloud Native Industry Conference: Whitepapers, SOFAStack, and Serverless Practices
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Apr 23, 2019 · Cloud Native

Recap of the First Cloud Native Technology Practice Salon in Beijing – Kube‑OVN, Ksplice, Multi‑Cluster Management, Container Storage and CI/CD

The Beijing cloud‑native technology salon on April 20 showcased expert talks on Kube‑OVN networking, Oracle Linux Ksplice hot‑patching, 360’s Wayne multi‑cluster platform, YRCloudFile container storage, and CI/CD strategies, highlighting practical advances and open‑source projects for modern cloud environments.

CI/CDKspliceKube-OVN
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Recap of the First Cloud Native Technology Practice Salon in Beijing – Kube‑OVN, Ksplice, Multi‑Cluster Management, Container Storage and CI/CD
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 22, 2019 · Cloud Native

In-Place Container Upgrade in Kubernetes: Mechanism and Implementation

Kubernetes performs in‑place container upgrades by detecting spec changes, computing pod actions that selectively kill and restart only the affected containers while preserving the pod sandbox, allowing sidecar updates without full pod recreation, reducing downtime and enabling custom operators for gray‑scale rolling upgrades.

Container UpgradeKubernetescloud-native
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In-Place Container Upgrade in Kubernetes: Mechanism and Implementation
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Apr 21, 2019 · Cloud Native

What’s New in Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.9.x & 0.2.x? A Deep Dive into Updated Modules

The latest Spring Cloud Alibaba release, arriving four months after Nacos 1.0.0, introduces several new modules—including Dubbo integration, Seata distributed transactions, Sentinel‑Zuul filters, and SMS support—while upgrading core components such as Nacos to 1.0.0 and Sentinel to 1.5.2, and provides a detailed version‑compatibility matrix for Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Alibaba.

DubboMicroservicesSeata
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What’s New in Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.9.x & 0.2.x? A Deep Dive into Updated Modules
58 Tech
58 Tech
Apr 19, 2019 · Operations

Prometheus-Based Monitoring Solution for the 58 Cloud Search Platform

This article describes the challenges of scaling the 58 Cloud Search service, explains why Prometheus was selected as the monitoring stack, and details the architecture, data collection, storage, alerting, visualization, and future enhancements of the resulting cloud‑native monitoring system.

AlertmanagerGrafanaKubernetes
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Prometheus-Based Monitoring Solution for the 58 Cloud Search Platform
Qu Tech
Qu Tech
Apr 17, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Go Powers Service Mesh, Tracing, and Microservices in Leading Chinese Tech Companies

The Shanghai Go Language Tech Salon, co‑hosted by Qutoutiao and Jikebang, gathered senior architects from Qutoutiao, Qiniu, and Bilibili to share real‑world implementations of Go, covering a self‑built Service Mesh, full‑link tracing, and microservice governance, followed by an interactive Lean Coffee discussion on Go’s future.

Full‑Link TracingGoMicroservices
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How Go Powers Service Mesh, Tracing, and Microservices in Leading Chinese Tech Companies
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 14, 2019 · Cloud Native

AWS vs Kubernetes: The New Windows vs Linux Analogy

The article argues that AWS’s relationship to Kubernetes mirrors Windows’s historic dominance over Linux, examining vendor lock‑in, the evolution of cloud services, the economics of scaling, and why enterprises should consider open‑source alternatives and distribution‑based Kubernetes solutions to avoid being trapped.

AWSKubernetescloud-native
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AWS vs Kubernetes: The New Windows vs Linux Analogy
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 12, 2019 · Cloud Native

What New Features Does Kubernetes 1.14 Bring to Windows and Native App Management?

The article reviews Kubernetes 1.14, highlighting major advances such as full Windows node and container support, the integration of Kustomize for native application management, performance optimizations for large‑scale clusters, and enhancements to extensibility and stability that signal the platform’s continued evolution.

KubernetesKustomizePerformance Optimization
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What New Features Does Kubernetes 1.14 Bring to Windows and Native App Management?
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Apr 9, 2019 · Cloud Native

Microservice Gateway (Kong) and Container Service Integration

This article explains microservice architecture and the role of API gateways, introduces Kong as a high‑availability gateway, and provides a step‑by‑step guide for deploying containerized AI services (face, pet, and content moderation) and integrating them with Kong for authentication, rate‑limiting, and secure access.

API-gatewayAuthenticationKong
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Microservice Gateway (Kong) and Container Service Integration
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 9, 2019 · Big Data

How Compute‑Storage Separation Cuts Costs and Boosts Performance for Big Data on Kubernetes

This article examines the challenges of big‑data storage in containerized environments, compares compute‑storage‑separated architectures with traditional setups, presents performance and cost benchmarks of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances, and outlines practical storage options such as OSS, NAS, and DFS for Spark workloads on Kubernetes.

Compute‑Storage SeparationKubernetesSpark
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How Compute‑Storage Separation Cuts Costs and Boosts Performance for Big Data on Kubernetes
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 4, 2019 · Cloud Native

2019 Cloud Native Landscape: Trends and Forecasts

Looking ahead to 2019, the article forecasts that Kubernetes will mature and accelerate adoption, service meshes like Istio and Envoy will dominate multicloud networking, containerized micro‑service marketplaces will expand, SaaS providers will deepen enterprise app portfolios, and hybrid‑cloud and edge computing will grow, driven by cloud‑native architectures.

Edge ComputingKubernetesService Mesh
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2019 Cloud Native Landscape: Trends and Forecasts
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 4, 2019 · Cloud Native

Design and Optimization of CynosDB for PostgreSQL: One‑Primary Multi‑Read Architecture

The article details CynosDB’s cloud‑native PostgreSQL design—using compute‑storage separation, log sinking with asynchronous replay, and multi‑version reads—to enable a one‑primary multi‑read architecture that delivers elastic scaling, reduced I/O, stateless instances, and rapid failover and efficient resource utilization through parallel log‑based recovery.

CynosDBPostgreSQLcloud-native
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Design and Optimization of CynosDB for PostgreSQL: One‑Primary Multi‑Read Architecture
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Mar 26, 2019 · Cloud Native

Cable: A Unified Virtual Network Architecture for OpenStack and Kubernetes

The article introduces Cable, a new virtual network architecture that unifies management of physical, virtual, and container networks across OpenStack and Kubernetes, detailing its design, key components such as a virtual data plane and self‑developed control plane, compatibility with existing OpenStack APIs, and future development plans.

Cable architectureKubernetesNetwork Virtualization
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Cable: A Unified Virtual Network Architecture for OpenStack and Kubernetes
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 21, 2019 · Operations

How Ctrip Scales Continuous Delivery: 6000 Daily Deploys with Jenkins & K8s

This article details Ctrip's large‑scale continuous delivery practice, describing their deployment pipeline, unified build platform, Jenkins integration, Kubernetes‑based elastic agents, monitoring, and the challenges and improvements they encountered while handling thousands of daily deployments across multiple environments.

CI/CDContinuous DeliveryJenkins
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How Ctrip Scales Continuous Delivery: 6000 Daily Deploys with Jenkins & K8s
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Mar 20, 2019 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Architecture Analysis and Comparison of Scheduling Models with Mesos

This article explains the Kubernetes architecture, details each core component, demonstrates how a Deployment is created, and critically compares Kubernetes' two‑layer scheduling model with Mesos, evaluating resource utilization, scalability, flexibility, performance, and scheduling latency while discussing why cluster schedulers struggle with horizontal scaling.

KubernetesMesosResource Management
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Kubernetes Architecture Analysis and Comparison of Scheduling Models with Mesos
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Mar 12, 2019 · Industry Insights

What Does F5’s $670 Million Purchase of Nginx Signal for the Cloud‑Native Future?

F5’s $670 million acquisition of Nginx brings together a leading open‑source web server with a cloud‑security vendor, prompting industry analysts and netizens worldwide to debate the deal’s impact on multi‑cloud application delivery, pricing, open‑source sustainability, and future competition.

F5acquisitioncloud-native
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What Does F5’s $670 Million Purchase of Nginx Signal for the Cloud‑Native Future?
Zhuanzhuan Tech
Zhuanzhuan Tech
Feb 26, 2019 · Cloud Native

Automated Business Log Collection in Zhaozhuan Container Cloud Platform Using Log‑Pilot

This article describes how Zhaozhuan built an automated, business‑transparent log‑collection solution for its container cloud platform by evaluating several approaches, adopting Alibaba Cloud's open‑source log‑pilot, customizing its deployment, and addressing practical issues such as time‑zone bugs, latency, and duplicate collection.

FluentdFlumecloud-native
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Automated Business Log Collection in Zhaozhuan Container Cloud Platform Using Log‑Pilot
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Feb 21, 2019 · Cloud Native

Building a Custom Kubernetes Cluster on AWS for Hybrid‑Cloud Container Deployment at Ctrip

The article describes Ctrip's motivation, design choices, and implementation details for deploying a self‑managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS, covering network architecture with VPC and ENI, custom image distribution, logging and monitoring, data synchronization, and operational challenges such as ELB loopback and kubelet configuration.

AWSDevOpsKubernetes
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Building a Custom Kubernetes Cluster on AWS for Hybrid‑Cloud Container Deployment at Ctrip
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 14, 2019 · Operations

Scaling a 10,000‑Node Container Cloud: Ctrip’s Ops Practices and Lessons

This article details Ctrip's journey of building and operating a massive container cloud platform, covering its architectural evolution, operational challenges, tooling, capacity management, and future directions, offering practical insights for large‑scale cloud‑native environments.

Capacity ManagementKubernetesOperations
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Scaling a 10,000‑Node Container Cloud: Ctrip’s Ops Practices and Lessons
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 12, 2019 · Cloud Native

Building a Private Cloud with Kubernetes: Architecture, Challenges, and the Wayne Platform

This article details 360 Search's journey of constructing a Kubernetes‑based private cloud, covering its evolution, network and storage designs, logging pipeline, the Wayne management platform, encountered pitfalls, and future open‑source plans, offering practical insights for similar deployments.

KubernetesWayne Platformcloud-native
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Building a Private Cloud with Kubernetes: Architecture, Challenges, and the Wayne Platform
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Feb 1, 2019 · Cloud Native

Master Multi‑Environment Configurations in Nacos: DataID, Group & Namespace Strategies

This tutorial walks through three practical ways to manage multi‑environment configurations in Nacos—using Data ID with profiles, leveraging Group, and applying Namespace—detailing setup steps, sample code, log verification, and a comparative analysis of their pros, cons, and best‑practice recommendations.

Multi-Environmentcloud-nativespring-cloud
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Master Multi‑Environment Configurations in Nacos: DataID, Group & Namespace Strategies
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 31, 2019 · Cloud Native

China’s First CNCF TOC Member on Shaping Cloud‑Native’s Future

Chinese cloud‑native pioneer Li Xiang, the first Chinese member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, discusses his open‑source contributions, Alibaba’s large‑scale cluster management, the evolution of cloud‑native technologies, and offers advice for young engineers on mastering code, design, and emerging trends.

AlibabaCNCFKubernetes
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China’s First CNCF TOC Member on Shaping Cloud‑Native’s Future
Meitu Technology
Meitu Technology
Jan 30, 2019 · Cloud Native

Meitu's Container Platform: Architecture, Network, Load Balancing, Logging, Scheduling, and Autoscaling

Meitu’s container platform, built on Kubernetes with Calico networking, a custom Nginx load‑balancer, unified logging, refined scheduling, autoscaling, and comprehensive monitoring, enables seamless multi‑cluster hybrid‑cloud operations for its hundreds‑of‑millions‑user services while providing CI/CD tooling and future‑ready extensions such as service mesh and edge computing.

AutoscalingKubernetesLogging
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Meitu's Container Platform: Architecture, Network, Load Balancing, Logging, Scheduling, and Autoscaling
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 28, 2019 · Cloud Native

Is Docker a Bad Bet? Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Containerization

The article critically examines Docker’s promised benefits—portability, security, and orchestration—by highlighting design flaws, added complexity, vendor lock‑in, and the often‑overlooked costs of standardizing on containers, while contrasting them with simpler, script‑based deployment approaches.

ContainersDevOpsDocker
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Is Docker a Bad Bet? Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Containerization
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 26, 2019 · Cloud Native

Spring Cloud Greenwich Release – New Features, EOL Alerts, and Migration Tips

Spring Cloud Greenwich.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, introducing Java 11 compatibility, new projects like Spring Cloud GCP and Kubernetes, while announcing EOL for Edgware and Finchley, moving many Netflix modules into maintenance mode, and providing extensive updates across Sleuth, Config, Vault, OpenFeign, and other components with migration guidance.

GradleGreenwich ReleaseJava 11
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Spring Cloud Greenwich Release – New Features, EOL Alerts, and Migration Tips
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
Jan 25, 2019 · Cloud Native

Mastering kube-scheduler: How Kubernetes Schedules Pods Efficiently

This article explains how kube-scheduler in Kubernetes orchestrates pod placement by applying pre‑selection (predicates) and scoring (priorities) strategies, discusses fairness, resource efficiency, speed, flexibility, details common predicate and priority algorithms, and demonstrates practical scenarios with YAML and command‑line examples.

Pod SchedulingPredicatescloud-native
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Mastering kube-scheduler: How Kubernetes Schedules Pods Efficiently
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 24, 2019 · Cloud Native

What’s New in Nacos 0.8.0? Key Features, Installation & First‑Run Guide

The article introduces Nacos 0.8.0, highlighting its three major production features—user login, Prometheus metrics, and namespace isolation—while providing step‑by‑step download links, startup commands for Linux and Windows, and instructions to access the default login console.

Installation guidecloud-nativeprometheus
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What’s New in Nacos 0.8.0? Key Features, Installation & First‑Run Guide
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Jan 22, 2019 · Cloud Native

Microservice Design Patterns: Database, Observability, and Cross‑Cutting Concerns

This article introduces a series of microservice design patterns—including database isolation, observability, and cross‑cutting concerns—explaining the underlying problems each pattern solves and providing concrete solutions such as CQRS, Saga, log aggregation, health checks, and blue‑green deployments.

Design PatternsSAGAbackend architecture
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Microservice Design Patterns: Database, Observability, and Cross‑Cutting Concerns
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Jan 19, 2019 · Cloud Native

Three Common Microservices Integration Pitfalls and Their Mitigation Strategies

This article examines three frequent pitfalls encountered when integrating microservices—complex communication, asynchronous challenges, and distributed transaction difficulties—and proposes mitigation techniques such as rapid failure handling, workflow engines, timeout management, and compensation patterns to improve resilience and reduce system complexity.

MicroservicesWorkflowcloud-native
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Three Common Microservices Integration Pitfalls and Their Mitigation Strategies
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jan 16, 2019 · Operations

Understanding DevOps and Tencent Hub: A Cloud‑Native Operations Platform

The article explains how modern DevOps, revitalized by cloud computing, is embodied in Tencent Hub—a cloud‑native platform that combines container‑based artifact storage and a reusable, Kubernetes‑driven workflow engine with DAG‑modeled pipelines, enabling scalable, secure CI/CD for enterprises and public‑cloud users.

DevOpsKubernetesTencent Hub
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Understanding DevOps and Tencent Hub: A Cloud‑Native Operations Platform
NetEase Game Operations Platform
NetEase Game Operations Platform
Jan 9, 2019 · Cloud Native

The Evolution of Service Architecture: From Load Balancing to Service Mesh and Cloud‑Native Governance

This article traces the historical shift from program‑centric sockets to service‑oriented architectures, explaining how performance, stability, and access control drove the rise of load balancing, DNS, service governance, micro‑services, and ultimately cloud‑native service‑mesh solutions like Istio.

IstioMicroservicesService Governance
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The Evolution of Service Architecture: From Load Balancing to Service Mesh and Cloud‑Native Governance
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jan 8, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba’s PouchContainer Achieves Seamless Internal‑External Version Consistency

This article explains how PouchContainer, Alibaba’s open‑source container runtime, aligns its internal and external codebases through detailed difference analysis, a plugin architecture, rigorous testing, and a disciplined Git workflow to ensure stable, extensible, and synchronized releases.

cloud-nativecontainer runtimeplugin architecture
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How Alibaba’s PouchContainer Achieves Seamless Internal‑External Version Consistency
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 19, 2018 · Cloud Computing

How to Build and Operate a National-Scale Private Cloud: Lessons and Trends

This talk outlines why organizations pursue cloud adoption, defines cloud‑native goals, reviews emerging trends such as bare‑metal and hyper‑convergence, and shares practical private‑cloud operation experiences, including ITIL processes, project management, and tooling, offering a comprehensive view of national‑level private‑cloud practice.

Bare MetalITILOperations
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How to Build and Operate a National-Scale Private Cloud: Lessons and Trends
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Dec 14, 2018 · Cloud Native

Overview of Spring Cloud: Components, Architecture, and Typical Workflow

Spring Cloud is a comprehensive suite built on Spring Boot that simplifies microservice development by providing tools for configuration management, service discovery, circuit breaking, routing, and more, and this article outlines its main modules, architecture diagram, and a typical request processing flow.

backendcloud-nativeconfiguration management
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Overview of Spring Cloud: Components, Architecture, and Typical Workflow
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 13, 2018 · Cloud Native

Why etcd Became the Backbone of Cloud‑Native Systems

The article outlines etcd's evolution from its 2013 inception to becoming a CNCF‑graduated project, highlights its core raft implementation and widespread adoption in Kubernetes and major distributed databases, and details Alibaba's extensive use and future development plans for the system.

CNCFKubernetescloud-native
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Why etcd Became the Backbone of Cloud‑Native Systems
Zhongtong Tech
Zhongtong Tech
Dec 7, 2018 · Information Security

Designing a Cloud‑Native IAM for Zero‑Trust Security at a Leading Courier

This article explains how ZTO Express built a cloud‑native Identity and Access Management platform to support zero‑trust security, detailing business‑driven risk challenges, design goals, core modules such as identity space, account system, organization support, integration, authorization, micro‑service security, certificate management, automated auditing, and a mobile app.

Cloud securityIAMIdentity Management
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Designing a Cloud‑Native IAM for Zero‑Trust Security at a Leading Courier
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 7, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba’s Nacos Revolutionized Microservice Configuration Management

This article traces the evolution of Alibaba’s internal microservice configuration center—from a group‑wide tool to a commercial cloud product and finally an open‑source project—detailing design decisions such as centralized control, dynamic push, namespace isolation, release governance, capacity limits, and console UX improvements.

NacosOpen Sourcecloud-native
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How Alibaba’s Nacos Revolutionized Microservice Configuration Management
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Dec 5, 2018 · Cloud Native

Designing a Unified Dev Platform for Traditional and Internet Business Models

This article explains how to construct a Dev platform that supports both traditional enterprise delivery and internet‑centric business models, detailing the Dev stages (Code, Build, Assemble, Deploy, Monitor), their objectives, required tooling, and the architectural patterns needed for automated microservice packaging and deployment.

CI/CDDevOpsDocker
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Designing a Unified Dev Platform for Traditional and Internet Business Models
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 1, 2018 · Cloud Native

What Red Hat Revealed About Cloud‑Native Development and Hybrid Cloud at Forum 2018

The Red Hat Forum 2018 recap explains Red Hat's cloud‑native application development approach, hybrid‑cloud infrastructure strategy, OpenShift platform details, NetApp integration, and a step‑by‑step migration solution, offering practical guidance for enterprises adopting modern cloud technologies.

ContainersInfrastructure MigrationNetApp
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What Red Hat Revealed About Cloud‑Native Development and Hybrid Cloud at Forum 2018
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 29, 2018 · Cloud Native

50+ Essential Kubernetes Tools for Deployment, Monitoring & Security

This article compiles over fifty open‑source and free Kubernetes tools, organized into categories such as cluster deployment, monitoring, testing, security, CLI utilities, development aids, CI/CD pipelines, serverless frameworks, service discovery, and native visualization, providing concise descriptions, repository links, and cost information for each.

DevOpsKubernetesOpen Source
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50+ Essential Kubernetes Tools for Deployment, Monitoring & Security
Liulishuo Tech Team
Liulishuo Tech Team
Nov 29, 2018 · Cloud Native

Building an Efficient Machine Learning Training Platform on Kubernetes

This article describes how the Liulishuo algorithm team designed and implemented a Kubernetes‑based training platform that addresses the iterative, data‑intensive, and resource‑dynamic characteristics of machine learning workloads by pooling resources, enabling rapid provisioning, and optimizing scheduling and storage.

KubernetesMachine Learningcloud-native
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Building an Efficient Machine Learning Training Platform on Kubernetes
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Nov 22, 2018 · Cloud Native

Interview with Kubernetes Contributor Lei (Harry) Zhang on CRI Shimv2 and Cloud‑Native Trends

In this interview, Kubernetes contributor Lei (Harry) Zhang explains the CRI Shimv2 interface, its benefits for developers and end‑users, reflects on the 2018 container ecosystem evolution, shares highlights from KubeCon Shanghai, and discusses balancing open‑source engineering with technical evangelism.

CRI Shimv2Open Sourcecloud-native
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Interview with Kubernetes Contributor Lei (Harry) Zhang on CRI Shimv2 and Cloud‑Native Trends
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Nov 21, 2018 · Cloud Native

Mapping the Docker Ecosystem: From Early Jails to the Moby Project

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker’s ecosystem, tracing its roots from early container technologies like chroot and FreeBSD Jails through Docker’s own components, key concepts such as libcontainer and OCI, and the evolution into the modular Moby project with related tools such as containerd, Linuxkit, and Infrakit.

DockerKubernetesMoby
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Mapping the Docker Ecosystem: From Early Jails to the Moby Project
DevOps
DevOps
Oct 19, 2018 · Cloud Native

Docker and Windows Containers: Overview, Architecture, and Usage

This article explains how Docker works on Windows, covering boot2docker, Docker for Windows, native Windows containers, their architecture, image options, licensing, and how developers can leverage both Linux and Windows container formats for modern cloud‑native deployments.

Container ArchitectureDevOpsDocker
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Docker and Windows Containers: Overview, Architecture, and Usage
Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Oct 17, 2018 · Cloud Native

Spring Cloud Overview, Architecture, and Comparison with Dubbo

This article introduces Spring Cloud as a comprehensive microservice solution, outlines its key features and typical microservice architecture requirements, and compares its advantages and disadvantages with Dubbo, highlighting differences in community activity, architectural completeness, and documentation quality.

DubboFramework ComparisonMicroservices
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Spring Cloud Overview, Architecture, and Comparison with Dubbo
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Oct 16, 2018 · Cloud Native

What Is Kubernetes? A Complete Overview of Its Architecture and Benefits

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes, explaining its purpose as an open‑source platform for automating container deployment, scaling, and management, detailing its advantages over traditional VM approaches, and outlining the core features, capabilities, and limitations of the system.

Container OrchestrationDevOpsKubernetes
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What Is Kubernetes? A Complete Overview of Its Architecture and Benefits
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 16, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Achieved 100% Containerization with PouchContainer

Alibaba’s PouchContainer, an internally built container runtime, combines LXC and Docker technologies to enable full‑scale, non‑intrusive containerization of online services, offering rich features such as systemd‑based rich containers, enhanced isolation, P2P image distribution, in‑place upgrades, and native Kubernetes integration.

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How Alibaba Achieved 100% Containerization with PouchContainer
Manbang Technology Team
Manbang Technology Team
Oct 12, 2018 · Cloud Native

Case Study: Migrating Manbang Group’s Microservices to Kubernetes

Manbang Group transformed thousands of mixed‑deployed Java microservice instances into Docker containers managed by Kubernetes, addressing resource isolation, manual fault handling, slow rollbacks, and DEV/QA release friction while implementing load balancing, service discovery, high availability, rolling upgrades, auto‑scaling, rapid deployment, and resource limits across a multi‑cluster cloud‑native architecture.

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Case Study: Migrating Manbang Group’s Microservices to Kubernetes
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 29, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba’s Open‑Source Journey Shapes the Future of Cloud‑Native Architecture

This article recounts Alibaba middleware leader Bi Xuan’s reflections from the 2018 Hangzhou Cloud Expo, highlighting three key projects—HSF, HBase, and Pouch Container—while exploring the broader impact of open‑source technologies such as Linux, Kubernetes, Dubbo, RocketMQ, and OpenMessaging on modern cloud‑native software development.

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How Alibaba’s Open‑Source Journey Shapes the Future of Cloud‑Native Architecture
JD Tech
JD Tech
Sep 28, 2018 · Operations

JD's J-one Unified Release Platform: Architecture, Features, and Recent Enhancements

Since its launch in 2016, JD's J-one unified release platform has evolved through multiple large‑scale promotions, introducing container‑based compilation, auto‑scaling, and a new image‑deployment capability that dramatically speeds up releases while improving success rates and providing a suite of automation tools for developers.

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JD's J-one Unified Release Platform: Architecture, Features, and Recent Enhancements
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 26, 2018 · Cloud Native

Key Takeaways from the 2018 Cloud Native Best Practices Summit in Beijing

The 2018 Cloud Native Best Practices Summit in Beijing gathered over 200 industry leaders and experts who shared insights on cloud native trends, standards, Kubernetes, service mesh, product launches, and the formation of the Cloud Native Practice Alliance, marking a milestone for China's cloud native ecosystem.

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Key Takeaways from the 2018 Cloud Native Best Practices Summit in Beijing
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 26, 2018 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Achieved 100% Containerization with PouchContainer – A Deep Dive

This article chronicles Alibaba's eight‑year journey from monolithic applications to a fully containerized, image‑based infrastructure, detailing the evolution of PouchContainer, its technical architecture, large‑scale deployment, Docker compatibility, and the operational practices that enabled seamless migration across the group.

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How Alibaba Achieved 100% Containerization with PouchContainer – A Deep Dive
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Sep 21, 2018 · Backend Development

Microservice Practices and Lessons from iQIYI Video Backend Development Team

The iQIYI video backend team outlines their microservice journey, detailing service decomposition strategies, choosing Spring Cloud for its low migration cost and rich ecosystem, and building a shared platform of registries, configuration, gateways, monitoring, and CI/CD to boost efficiency, reliability, and scalability while planning future adoption of service mesh and domain‑driven design.

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Microservice Practices and Lessons from iQIYI Video Backend Development Team
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 19, 2018 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Log Management: Challenges, Logtail Solution & Architecture

Amid the rise of serverless Kubernetes, growing pod volumes, and real-time log demands, this article examines emerging log-handling challenges, evaluates traditional collection methods, and presents a comprehensive “Logtail + Log Service + Ecosystem” architecture that delivers high-throughput, reliable, and scalable logging for cloud-native environments.

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Kubernetes Log Management: Challenges, Logtail Solution & Architecture
Java Captain
Java Captain
Sep 2, 2018 · Cloud Native

Curated List of Notable Spring Cloud Open‑Source Projects

This article presents a curated collection of outstanding Spring Cloud open‑source projects, describing their purpose, key features, and providing direct GitHub links to help developers quickly adopt microservice solutions and related tools in Java‑based cloud‑native environments.

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Curated List of Notable Spring Cloud Open‑Source Projects
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Aug 21, 2018 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Namespace Resource Quotas: Set Defaults, Limits, and Enforce Policies

This guide explains how Kubernetes namespace-level resource management lets administrators set default CPU/memory requests, define minimum and maximum constraints, and enforce resource quotas, with step‑by‑step commands and YAML examples to create namespaces, ResourceQuota objects, and pods while handling quota limits.

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Kubernetes Namespace Resource Quotas: Set Defaults, Limits, and Enforce Policies
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Aug 21, 2018 · Cloud Native

An Overview of Docker: Architecture, Networking, Storage, and Its Role in Cloud Native, PaaS, IaaS, DevOps, and Microservices

This article provides a comprehensive introduction to Docker, covering its open‑source origins, client‑server architecture, networking and storage solutions, integration with PaaS/IaaS platforms, impact on DevOps practices, and its pivotal role in enabling modern microservice architectures.

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An Overview of Docker: Architecture, Networking, Storage, and Its Role in Cloud Native, PaaS, IaaS, DevOps, and Microservices
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Aug 10, 2018 · Cloud Native

Deep Dive into Ant Financial’s Service Mesh Data Plane SOFAMosn

This article provides a comprehensive technical overview of Ant Financial’s Service Mesh data‑plane SOFAMosn, covering its architectural background, layered design, core modules, performance optimizations, supported protocols, and future roadmap within a cloud‑native microservices ecosystem.

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Deep Dive into Ant Financial’s Service Mesh Data Plane SOFAMosn
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 6, 2018 · Cloud Native

How We Built a Hybrid Container‑VM Private Cloud: Lessons from a Large‑Scale Deployment

This article details the challenges and solutions encountered while transitioning a rapidly growing financial services platform from a VM‑centric private cloud to a hybrid environment that combines containers and virtual machines, covering network integration, IP management, container image standards, resource isolation, scheduling compatibility, and future lightweight container strategies.

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How We Built a Hybrid Container‑VM Private Cloud: Lessons from a Large‑Scale Deployment
JD Tech
JD Tech
Jul 25, 2018 · Cloud Native

JD.com’s Large‑Scale Kubernetes Refactoring and Operational Lessons

This article shares JD.com’s extensive experience redesigning Kubernetes for massive production use, covering custom DNS and load‑balancing, scaling clusters to ten‑thousand nodes, adapting controllers, building the Archimedes scheduler, and practical insights on resource isolation, deployment, and high‑traffic elasticity.

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JD.com’s Large‑Scale Kubernetes Refactoring and Operational Lessons
AntTech
AntTech
Jul 24, 2018 · Cloud Native

Insights on Service Mesh and Kubernetes from Ant Financial Experts at ArchSummit 2018

In a detailed Q&A session at ArchSummit 2018, Ant Financial and Alibaba UC experts discuss the fundamentals, challenges, implementation strategies, and future directions of Service Mesh and Kubernetes, covering performance, multi‑language support, open‑source efforts, and practical advice for developers and operators.

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Insights on Service Mesh and Kubernetes from Ant Financial Experts at ArchSummit 2018