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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 8, 2018 · Operations

How Cainiao Ark’s Elastic Scheduling Boosts Resource Efficiency and Cuts Costs

This article explains why Cainiao needed an elastic scheduling system, how its unique business and technical characteristics make it ideal for such a solution, and details the architecture, decision‑making layers, strategies, and real‑world results that together improve resource utilization, stability, and cost efficiency.

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How Cainiao Ark’s Elastic Scheduling Boosts Resource Efficiency and Cuts Costs
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 5, 2018 · Operations

Boosting Test Environment Stability: Automated Container Replacement & Buffer Pools

This article analyzes the instability of Alibaba's test environment container provisioning, identifies root causes, and presents a comprehensive solution—including automatic container replacement, a buffer pool, and resource‑pool rationalization—that raised the container success rate to 99.9% and stabilized performance.

Buffer PoolContainer OrchestrationOperations
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Boosting Test Environment Stability: Automated Container Replacement & Buffer Pools
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 23, 2018 · Cloud Native

Why Kubernetes Is Becoming the Invisible Backbone of Modern Cloud Applications

The article explains how Kubernetes has won the container‑orchestration battle, is evolving into a universal low‑level layer for multi‑cloud deployments, and is reshaping software standards, package management, serverless workloads, and the economics of distributed systems.

Cloud NativeContainer OrchestrationServerless
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Why Kubernetes Is Becoming the Invisible Backbone of Modern Cloud Applications
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 23, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Design and Practices of an Elastic Computing Platform for Efficient Resource Utilization

This article describes the design, challenges, and operational practices of a cloud‑native elastic computing platform that reuses idle resources from production servers to support massive image compression, video transcoding, AI inference, and log processing while ensuring online services maintain performance, latency, and reliability.

Container OrchestrationOOM handlingResource Scheduling
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Design and Practices of an Elastic Computing Platform for Efficient Resource Utilization
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 10, 2017 · Cloud Native

How a Container Cloud Platform Boosts 24/7 Continuous Delivery with Docker and Rancher

This article explains how a Docker‑based container cloud platform solves resource waste, isolation, and deployment challenges for startups by standardizing images, using Rancher for orchestration, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and managing logs and service registration to achieve seamless 24/7 continuous delivery.

CI/CDCloud NativeContainer Orchestration
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How a Container Cloud Platform Boosts 24/7 Continuous Delivery with Docker and Rancher
UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Oct 20, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Inside UCloud’s Compute Factory: Scaling VMs and Containers with Mesos

UCloud’s Compute Factory enables rapid provisioning of massive VM resources for compute‑intensive services by leveraging a Mesos‑based resource management platform that unifies multi‑region data centers, supports both VMs and containers, and addresses challenges in scheduling, networking, storage, and operational reliability.

Cloud ComputingContainer OrchestrationMesos
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Inside UCloud’s Compute Factory: Scaling VMs and Containers with Mesos
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 17, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

Scaling JD’s AI Platform: 5K+ Containers, GPU Management, and Multi‑Tenant Kubernetes

Since September 2016, JD’s AI foundation platform has leveraged Docker and Kubernetes to build a scalable machine‑learning infrastructure that now runs over 5,000 container instances, supports more than 20 AI services, and provides unified GPU, storage, networking, and multi‑tenant capabilities for both inference and training workloads.

AI platformContainer OrchestrationGPU scheduling
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Scaling JD’s AI Platform: 5K+ Containers, GPU Management, and Multi‑Tenant Kubernetes
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 19, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How Tencent’s Elastic Platform Powers Billions of Daily Image Compressions with 6K Containers

Tencent’s elastic computing platform replaces 24,000 physical servers with just 6,000 containers, delivering sustainable compute for billions of daily image compressions while also supporting video transcoding, Spark jobs, and AI workloads through dynamic resource isolation, named services, and intelligent scheduling.

Container OrchestrationResource Schedulingcloud infrastructure
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How Tencent’s Elastic Platform Powers Billions of Daily Image Compressions with 6K Containers
Hujiang Technology
Hujiang Technology
Aug 16, 2017 · Cloud Native

Implementing DevOps with Container Orchestration: CI/CD Pipeline, Docker Image Optimization, and Automated Operations

This article explains how to build a DevOps workflow using container orchestration, covering agile development with Docker image slimming, a Jenkins‑based CI/CD pipeline, simplified Gitflow, container monitoring with cAdvisor‑InfluxDB‑Grafana, and auto‑scaling via Marathon, while separating automated deployment from production release.

Auto ScalingCI/CDContainer Orchestration
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Implementing DevOps with Container Orchestration: CI/CD Pipeline, Docker Image Optimization, and Automated Operations
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 11, 2017 · Cloud Computing

How JD Built a Scalable Elastic Cloud Platform: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons

This article details JD.com's Elastic Cloud 1.0 platform—its massive container deployment, four‑principle philosophy, architectural design, operational challenges, performance optimizations, and the roadmap toward Elastic Cloud 2.0—offering practical insights for large‑scale cloud engineering.

Cloud ComputingContainer OrchestrationElastic Scaling
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How JD Built a Scalable Elastic Cloud Platform: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons
Hujiang Technology
Hujiang Technology
Mar 21, 2017 · Cloud Native

Docker and Microservices: Architecture, Orchestration, Networking, Storage, Monitoring, and Scaling at Hujiang

The article details Hujiang's practical experience deploying microservices with Docker, evaluating orchestration tools, network and storage solutions, monitoring approaches, and automatic scaling, and demonstrates how Docker improves deployment density, QPS, and resource efficiency compared to traditional architectures.

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Docker and Microservices: Architecture, Orchestration, Networking, Storage, Monitoring, and Scaling at Hujiang
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Mar 17, 2017 · Cloud Computing

Ctrip Container Cloud: Architecture, Elastic Scaling, and Monitoring Practices

This article details Ctrip's journey in building a private container cloud to support rapid business growth, covering elasticity challenges, container deployment principles, orchestration platform choices, network design, operational issues, custom executors, monitoring solutions, and the overarching CDOS system.

Cloud ComputingContainer OrchestrationDocker
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Ctrip Container Cloud: Architecture, Elastic Scaling, and Monitoring Practices
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 23, 2017 · Cloud Native

JD's Migration from OpenStack to Kubernetes: Lessons and Architecture of JDOS 2.0

Since the end of 2016, JD has been transitioning its infrastructure from OpenStack to Kubernetes, completing 20% of the migration and aiming for full conversion by Q2, and shares detailed experiences, architectural evolution, operational practices, and future directions for large‑scale container platforms.

Cloud NativeContainer OrchestrationJDOS
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JD's Migration from OpenStack to Kubernetes: Lessons and Architecture of JDOS 2.0
Hujiang Technology
Hujiang Technology
Dec 19, 2016 · Cloud Native

Architects' Roundtable: Container Practice and Orchestration Experiences

In this architects' roundtable, leading engineers from companies such as Hujiang, Didi, Mogujie, Qiniu, and Shanbay share practical experiences and challenges of adopting Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and Kubernetes for container deployment, orchestration, networking, storage, and auto‑scaling in production environments.

Cloud NativeContainer OrchestrationMesos
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Architects' Roundtable: Container Practice and Orchestration Experiences
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Sep 22, 2016 · Cloud Native

Master Docker Swarm 1.12: Build, Scale, and Manage High‑Availability Clusters

This article introduces Docker 1.12’s Swarm mode, detailing its new features such as service creation, health checks, scaling, scheduling constraints, load balancing, service discovery, and rolling updates, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for building a multi‑node Swarm cluster, deploying services, and handling node failures.

Container OrchestrationDockerSwarm
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Master Docker Swarm 1.12: Build, Scale, and Manage High‑Availability Clusters
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Aug 10, 2016 · Cloud Native

Master Docker Swarm: Build, Deploy, and Manage High‑Availability Clusters

This guide explains Docker Swarm’s architecture, installation methods, and step‑by‑step procedures for creating a high‑availability Swarm cluster, including manager and node setup, TLS security, service discovery with Consul, and essential Docker commands for operating and testing the cluster.

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Master Docker Swarm: Build, Deploy, and Manage High‑Availability Clusters
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 6, 2016 · Cloud Native

How Docker Transforms Cloud Delivery: Real‑World Practices from Alibaba

This article summarizes a 2016 Global Operations conference talk that explains how Docker and micro‑services reshape software delivery, covering Alibaba's container usage, cloud‑native principles, continuous integration, immutable infrastructure, and practical tips for deploying containers at scale.

Container OrchestrationContinuous DeliveryDocker
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How Docker Transforms Cloud Delivery: Real‑World Practices from Alibaba
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 2, 2016 · Cloud Native

How Ping An Built a Scalable Mesos + Marathon PaaS for Financial Services

This article details how Ping An Technology designed and operated the Padis platform—an internal Docker‑based PaaS that evolved to Mesos + Marathon, providing independent container IPs, automated networking, load balancing, CMDB integration, monitoring, and log aggregation to support thousands of containers in production financial applications.

Container OrchestrationMarathonPaaS
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How Ping An Built a Scalable Mesos + Marathon PaaS for Financial Services
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Dec 14, 2015 · Cloud Native

Building Scalable Development Environments with Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes: Lessons Learned

This article details a year‑long journey of designing, deploying, and operating container‑based development environments using Docker, Apache Mesos, and Kubernetes, covering the challenges of version consistency, rapid environment switching, resource isolation, and the practical solutions and lessons gathered from real‑world production use.

Container OrchestrationDockerMesos
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Building Scalable Development Environments with Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes: Lessons Learned
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 9, 2015 · Cloud Native

What Is Kubernetes? A Beginner’s Guide to Core Concepts and Components

This article introduces Kubernetes, Google's open‑source container orchestration platform, explaining its core concepts such as Pods, ReplicationControllers, Services, and Labels, and detailing the main components like kubectl, kube‑apiserver, controller‑manager, scheduler, proxy, and kubelet, along with their OpenStack equivalents.

Cloud NativeContainer Orchestrationdevops
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What Is Kubernetes? A Beginner’s Guide to Core Concepts and Components
Architect
Architect
Nov 25, 2015 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Architecture Overview and Practical Insights

This article introduces Kubernetes, explains why it is used, outlines its core goals, describes the main components and their functions, discusses the architectural improvements it enables, and shares practical deployment experiences and common issues encountered during real‑world usage.

Container Orchestrationdevopsinfrastructure
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Kubernetes Architecture Overview and Practical Insights
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jun 17, 2015 · Cloud Native

Project Eru: Scaling a Custom Docker Orchestration Platform to 10k Nodes

Project Eru, a homegrown Docker‑based orchestration system developed at Mango TV, replaces earlier PaaS attempts with a stateless, scalable core and agent architecture, leveraging Redis clusters, MacVLAN networking, and fine‑grained CPU allocation to achieve rapid, automated scaling across thousands of containers.

Container OrchestrationMacvlanRedis
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Project Eru: Scaling a Custom Docker Orchestration Platform to 10k Nodes
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
May 24, 2015 · Cloud Native

Design and Implementation of Project Eru: A Docker‑Based Cloud Native Scheduling Platform at Mango TV

The article recounts the evolution from Douban's App Engine to Mango TV's Nebulium Engine and finally Project Eru, describing how Docker, Redis Cluster, MacVLAN networking, and custom resource scheduling were combined to build a scalable, cloud‑native platform for heterogeneous workloads.

Cloud NativeContainer OrchestrationDocker
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Design and Implementation of Project Eru: A Docker‑Based Cloud Native Scheduling Platform at Mango TV
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jan 31, 2015 · Cloud Native

Docker Introduction and Architecture

Docker, an open-source tool written in Go, packages applications into lightweight Linux containers that share the host kernel, offering near-native performance, a client-server architecture with images and containers, simple bridge networking, essential CLI commands, and an evolving ecosystem including CoreOS, Kubernetes, and PaaS platforms.

Container OrchestrationDockerDocker Architecture
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Docker Introduction and Architecture