This article examines how computing power has become a key production factor, detailing the shift from traditional CPUs and GPUs to specialized processors like DPUs, and explores emerging paradigms such as in‑memory, near‑memory, and edge computing that reshape data‑center architectures.
The article explores the emergence of edge computing driven by digital transformation, outlines its evolution through three stages, examines industry demands across manufacturing, smart cities, and telecom operators, and discusses technical directions, edge‑cloud collaboration models, and typical deployment scenarios.
In just 27 days, Douyin and Volcano Engine's cloud‑native team built a Kubernetes‑based, elastically scalable infrastructure that supported 703 billion red‑packet interactions and over a trillion live‑stream views during the 2021 Spring Festival Gala, ensuring zero downtime and seamless user experience.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of modern server architecture, examining how 5G, edge computing, and AI are reshaping server designs, the requirements for edge, AI, and cloud servers, and highlighting key vendors and future technology trends.
This article compares three cloud‑edge open‑source projects—KubeEdge, OpenYurt, and SuperEdge—by examining their open‑source status, architectural differences, edge‑computing capabilities, and the impact on operations, helping readers select the most suitable solution for production.
This article explains what edge computing is, its origins with IoT and 5G, current industry developments, key advantages such as low latency and security, and introduces open‑source projects like Apache Edgent with example code for real‑time data processing.
This article explains the concept of edge computing, its relationship with AI, 5G and IoT, outlines its benefits such as reduced latency, lower energy consumption and improved security, and examines real‑world use cases, architectural models, and the impact on server‑side SoC designs.
This article surveys modern disaster‑recovery techniques, explaining how software‑defined storage, Ceph RBD Mirror, container platforms, hyper‑converged infrastructure, cloud and edge computing, and blockchain can be combined to achieve seamless, fault‑tolerant data protection across on‑premise and cloud environments.
EdgeRec explores how moving recommendation system components to the edge—leveraging real‑time user behavior, heterogeneous action modeling, on‑device reranking, mixed‑ranking, and personalized “thousand‑person‑one‑model” training—can reduce latency, improve relevance, and boost business metrics compared to traditional cloud‑centric pipelines.
The Linux Foundation and DARPA have forged a partnership to create open‑source software that will speed up U.S. government research and deployment of 5G, edge computing, IoT, AI, and security technologies, leveraging a shared architecture and community projects.
This article presents EdgeRec, a comprehensive edge‑computing framework for recommendation systems that redesigns the architecture, introduces on‑device real‑time user perception, proposes a context‑aware reranking model (CRBAN), details on‑device mixing and training pipelines, and demonstrates significant business improvements through extensive experiments and deployments.
The lecture presented by Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang introduces a compression‑compilation co‑design framework (CoCoPIE) that achieves real‑time deep‑learning inference on edge devices through novel pruning and quantization techniques, delivering up to 180× speedup without accuracy loss.
OpenYurt, the first non‑intrusive Kubernetes‑based edge computing platform, merges cloud‑native and edge paradigms to address scaling, autonomy, and network challenges, offering unitized management, edge autonomy, cloud‑edge collaboration, seamless conversion, and heterogeneous resource support, with real‑world cases from retail and transportation.
JD Tech’s recent online lecture outlines the rapid growth of IoT, explains its four-layer architecture—perception, network, platform, and application—highlights digital‑twin technology, and showcases practical deployments across consumer, real‑estate, and energy sectors, emphasizing challenges and future directions.
This article curates ten standout presentations from the 2020 NVIDIA GTC China conference, highlighting how DPU technology accelerates finance, 5G, edge computing, data science and high‑performance networking across industry‑leading experts.
The article outlines five major 2021 Kubernetes trends—simpler AI/ML workloads, better developer and ops experiences, heightened automation, rapid edge growth, and project overload—while offering practical advice for enterprises navigating the evolving cloud‑native landscape.
OpenYurt v0.3.0, released in November 2021, adds non‑intrusive edge extensions to native Kubernetes—including NodePool and UnitedDeployment controllers, a cloud‑side Yurt‑App‑Manager, and performance upgrades to yurthub, yurt‑tunnel and yurtctl—making edge workloads easier to deploy, manage, and operate offline.
The article explains the different types of AI chips, focuses on FPGA technology, its advantages, market landscape, and its applications in cloud and edge AI inference, while also highlighting Intel's Agilex FPGA and the growing demand for reconfigurable hardware in AI workloads.
This article explains what data centers are, outlines their core components—compute, storage, and networking—covers architectural decisions, industry standards, and emerging technologies such as edge computing, micro‑data centers, cloud integration, SDN, HCI, containers, NVMe, and GPU acceleration, highlighting their impact on modern enterprise operations.
This guide walks through setting up a cloud‑hosted Kubernetes control plane with a Raspberry Pi edge node, demonstrates the limitations of a native cluster under edge conditions, converts the cluster to OpenYurt using yurtctl, and evaluates operation commands and network‑disruption scenarios to showcase OpenYurt’s edge‑native capabilities.
Last week’s developer newsletter spotlights the official C++20 standard launch, a surprising over‑100% growth in China’s AI cloud market, Nature’s discovery of universal facial expressions, DeepMind’s rule‑free MuZero game mastery, JD Cloud’s 99.995% SLA upgrade, mimik‑IBM edge‑computing partnership, a Fudan microservice fault‑localization thesis, and an AAAI paper on semantic relation modeling.
This article outlines Tencent's industrial IoT platform strategy, detailing demand drivers such as security, empowerment and ecosystem, the three‑tier hybrid architecture, edge‑container design, DevOps‑enabled operations, and real‑world AI quality‑inspection and IoT monitoring use cases.
This article explains how 5G expands communication beyond people to devices, outlines its three core scenarios, and argues that DevOps and agile practices are essential for overcoming the technical and operational challenges of deploying 5G networks.
A five‑person micro‑team built the E‑Min atmospheric monitoring system using Tencent’s IoT and cloud‑native services, creating a three‑layer prototype in 20 hours, scaling to 27 nodes and 20 million records, cutting yearly node costs below one yuan, and opening the architecture for broader ecosystem applications.
The Shenzhen Cloud+ Community Salon on December 5 showcased Tencent experts sharing practical insights on IoT‑cloud integration, Serverless full‑stack development, blockchain applications, edge‑container industrial platforms, and network operations, highlighting emerging opportunities and technical strategies for the next wave of cloud technologies.
This article explains what a data center is, its core components of compute, storage, and networking, the operational and architectural considerations for reliability and security, and reviews industry standards and emerging technologies such as edge computing, cloud integration, SDN, HCI, containers, NVMe, and GPU acceleration.
This article summarizes recent developments across data‑center, cloud, 5G, edge, AI, security, automotive and aerospace sectors, including new partnerships, product launches, government contracts, and emerging threats shaping the pervasive computing landscape.
Li Yongxiang, technical director at Suning Tech, outlines how AI-driven visual unmanned stores and integrated big‑data, cloud, and edge computing solutions enable low‑cost digital transformation across thousands of retail outlets, improving shopper experience, inventory management, and operational efficiency.
This article explores how leveraging Alibaba Cloud's EdgeRoutine for Edge Side Rendering (ESR) and streaming rendering can dramatically reduce first‑screen latency, improve cache hit rates, and boost page load metrics during high‑traffic events like Double‑11.
This article describes how Didi’s vehicle‑vision team built an ultra‑low‑power ADAS solution on the JueShi dash‑cam platform, using lightweight detection models, temporal fusion, camera‑calibration techniques and data‑driven optimization to cut rear‑end collision rates by over 11% and improve overall traffic safety.
DiDi’s ultra‑low‑power JueShi ADAS combines lightweight vision models, temporal‑fusion Kalman filtering, and camera‑calibration techniques to deliver real‑time forward‑collision warnings and brake‑light alerts, cutting rear‑end crashes by over 11% and overall accidents by 9% through continuous edge‑AI learning.
This article explains the concept of edge (client‑side) computing, demonstrates how to design a generic framework for fixing tracking data issues without consuming server resources, and shows practical improvements to the DinamicX engine for more flexible, data‑driven mobile applications.
This article introduces federated learning, edge computing, and cloud computing, explains each technology's principles and use cases, and then compares their similarities and differences, highlighting privacy‑preserving collaborative modeling, near‑source processing, and centralized resource provisioning.
In an interview, ByteDance edge‑computing architect Zhou Chaoyong explains how CDN and storage architectures have evolved with rising data demands, predicts NVMe's dominance in the storage market, and previews his upcoming SACC 2020 talk on high‑performance XFS storage systems.
This article analyzes how traditional CDN infrastructure can be transformed into a comprehensive edge computing platform, covering CDN fundamentals, edge computing layers, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS models, container and Kubernetes deployment, future trends, and practical Q&A insights.
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.
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.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of China's IDC market—highlighting its 29.8% year‑over‑year increase in 2018, the drivers behind this surge, regional distribution patterns, emerging trends such as large‑scale and edge data centers, and how these compare with global data‑center dynamics.
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.
iQIYI’s IPES platform unifies cloud‑edge collaboration by managing millions of heterogeneous devices, deploying Docker, native and function‑as‑a‑service workloads, scheduling tasks, and providing logging, storage and messaging services, enabling edge video caching, live‑stream mirroring, conferencing and ad‑violation detection to cut latency and bandwidth costs while planning full Kubernetes compatibility.
DiDi’s IFX AI inference platform, built since 2018, uses a four‑layer architecture spanning access, software, engine, and compute to deliver cloud, edge, and device inference with high‑performance kernel optimizations, model and binary compression, uniform multi‑framework deployment, automated testing, and end‑to‑end security for billions of daily calls.
The article introduces EdgeRec, an edge‑computing powered recommendation framework that moves user‑interest perception and ranking to the client side to overcome latency in traditional cloud‑centric recommender systems, detailing its architecture, heterogeneous behavior modeling, attention‑based reranking, and experimental gains.
This article explains the concept of the Internet of Things, illustrates common examples like shared bikes and smart lockers, describes its core components—cloud, communication pipelines, edge computing, and terminals—and discusses industry practice and future outlook.
This article introduces OpenYurt's YurtHub component, detailing its architecture and five major extensions—including edge network autonomy, multi‑cloud endpoint support, node‑level flow control, certificate rotation, and additional features—while explaining how it enables non‑intrusive Kubernetes edge deployments.
This article examines how 5G‑enabled Multi‑Access Edge Computing (MEC) and Tencent’s TMEC platform, built on TKEStack, deliver low‑latency services such as high‑precision positioning, video processing, QoS control and 5G slicing to support autonomous driving, V2X, cloud gaming and other emerging use cases.
This article explains how TKE@EDGE implements edge autonomy mechanisms—including lite‑apiserver, network snapshot, and distributed health checks—to keep edge containers and services highly available even when network connectivity to the cloud is unreliable or intermittent.
The article analyzes the rapid rise of edge computing in China, detailing its technical drivers, definitions, global trends, challenges, and the strategic role of operators, cloud providers, and equipment vendors, while outlining three deployment phases and seven key measures to accelerate its growth in the 5G era.
This article explains OpenYurt’s non‑intrusive architecture that extends native Kubernetes to edge scenarios, detailing its edge‑autonomy features, the challenges it solves, and the two main design approaches—kubelet reconstruction and the YurtHub proxy—along with their trade‑offs and implementation details.
This article explains the fundamentals and challenges of edge computing, compares it with centralized cloud, outlines current research hotspots, and details Tencent's TKE@edge solution—including its architecture and key components—that adapts Kubernetes for edge environments.
This weekly digest explores model‑centric front‑end architecture challenges, monorepo benefits, new Chrome performance metrics, a hands‑on evaluation of Webpack 5, and edge‑enabled rendering techniques, offering concrete examples and practical insights for modern web developers.
This article explains how leveraging edge computing, CDN‑based SSR caching, and TESI tags can dramatically improve first‑screen performance, reduce server pressure, and enable efficient static rendering for massive, mostly static content while maintaining up‑to‑date data and robust fallback mechanisms.
This article explains the fundamentals and advantages of edge computing, examines how Kubernetes can be applied to edge scenarios, discusses the challenges involved, and reviews major open‑source Kubernetes‑based edge projects such as K3s, Microk8s, and KubeEdge.
The article summarizes insights from Tencent’s TVP closed‑door tech forum, explaining what cloud native means, its evolution, benefits such as platformization and automation, challenges in adoption, Kubernetes’s growing role in serverless, edge computing, and service mesh, and how developers and enterprises can navigate the shift.
At Tencent Cloud’s closed‑door TVP meeting, experts traced cloud‑native’s evolution from monolithic to PB‑scale distributed platforms, highlighted its ecosystem of infrastructure, service‑mesh and Kubernetes‑driven scheduling, noted widespread Fortune‑100 and Tencent adoption, and stressed that successful implementation hinges more on organizational and developer mindset shifts than on technology maturity.
While 5G’s radio link can reach about 1 ms, true end‑to‑end latency remains dominated by core and internet delays, so 4G, 5G‑NSA and 5G‑SA differ only modestly; however, combining 5G Standalone with Multi‑access Edge Computing can cut total latency below 10 ms, enabling ultra‑reliable low‑latency applications.
The article questions the demise of traditional cloud models, examines the shift toward browser‑centric workflows, compares Chromebook and desktop capabilities, and highlights edge computing and hybrid solutions as emerging architectures that could reshape how we use personal and enterprise computing resources.
This article explains edge computing, its distributed architecture, key advantages such as higher security, lower latency and reduced bandwidth costs, explores major application scenarios like smart manufacturing and autonomous driving, and analyzes how 5G both drives and benefits from edge computing development.
This article surveys the seven pivotal technology trends for 2020—including hyper‑automation, edge computing, artificial intelligence, human augmentation, DARQ, IoT, and personalized healthcare—explaining how each can transform businesses and why staying ahead of them is essential.
This article outlines eight breakthrough technologies—including edge computing, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, extended reality, smart interfaces, blockchain, digital identity, and DNA data storage—that are poised to drive the next wave of digital transformation and reshape industries over the coming decade.
Alibaba’s Taobao team applied large‑scale edge computing and deep neural networks on the client side to continuously sense user intent, enabling real‑time, personalized recommendations that significantly boosted click‑through rates and GMV during major shopping events.
This article explores how cloud‑native principles and Kubernetes enable seamless integration of cloud and edge computing, detailing the challenges of edge infrastructure, the layered architecture of Kubernetes, the evolution of Alibaba Cloud's ACK@Edge service, real‑world use cases, and practical Q&A for developers.
This article explains how the Tmall Genie CC/CCL smart speaker uses AI‑driven interest prediction, edge‑cloud collaboration, and automatic video editing to capture, select, and compile engaging pet VLog clips, addressing common photography pain points while preserving user privacy.
This article explains how cloud‑native technologies—including containers, Kubernetes, serverless platforms, service‑mesh architectures, standardized application management, and edge computing—are reshaping digital transformation by delivering extreme elasticity, security isolation, and seamless cloud‑to‑edge integration.
At the Cloud+ Community Developer Conference, Tencent’s Liao Long highlighted how 5G’s high bandwidth and low latency are driving CDN edge‑computing innovations—such as live‑edge transcoding, smart‑retail analytics, voice‑assistant processing, MEC‑based low‑latency services, and dynamic burst‑resource systems—to meet the surge in mobile users and bandwidth‑intensive applications.
The article proposes moving real‑time feature engineering for recommendation systems from cloud to edge devices, enabling second‑level updates of user behavior features such as exposure, scroll speed, and clicks, which reduces latency, improves model freshness and recommendation accuracy through edge‑cloud collaboration.
The article summarizes the 2019 CAICT white paper on cloud‑edge collaboration, outlines nine key application scenarios—from next‑gen CDN to smart healthcare—and highlights the early‑stage challenges, standards needs, and strategic recommendations for integrating cloud and edge computing.
The article explains how cloud computing’s centralized model faces latency and bandwidth limits, introduces edge and mobile edge computing as complementary solutions, outlines their technical benefits, and examines their critical role in autonomous driving and upcoming 5G ecosystems.
Tencent Future Network Lab, founded in 2017 as China’s first internet‑company 5G research team, drives an application‑first 5G roadmap by uniting standards work, open‑source contributions, and real‑world pilots such as cloud gaming, 4K video, autonomous‑driving, and smart‑factory solutions, while building a converged cloud‑mobile ecosystem through network slicing and intelligent edge integration.
Gartner outlines ten strategic technology trends for 2020—including hyperautomation, multiexperience, democratization, human augmentation, transparency, empowered edge, distributed cloud, autonomous things, practical blockchain, and AI security—explaining their disruptive potential, how they interrelate, and what implications they hold for enterprises over the next five to ten years.
The Beijing Cloud+ Developer Conference gathered experts from Tencent, Tongcheng‑Yilong and Beike Jinfu to examine 5G’s technical challenges, emerging application scenarios, reactive programming solutions, and edge‑cloud strategies, offering practical insights for developers and product teams navigating the new network era.
This article reviews Huawei's ModelArts platform, detailing its data processing, algorithm development, high‑performance training, edge‑cloud model deployment, auto‑learning capabilities, and real‑world use cases such as invisible payment and intelligent waste classification, while outlining future ecosystem prospects.
The 2019 Tencent Cloud "5G Wind Rising" event examined how 5G's high bandwidth and low latency drive edge computing, reshaping CDN architectures, revealing new business opportunities, technical challenges, and real‑world case studies such as smart retail, voice assistants, and cloud gaming.
By moving real‑time recommendation computation to users’ devices and using a two‑stage edge‑cloud CTR model to gate Xianyu’s Mario feature, the system cut server requests by 28%, boosted Mario’s click‑through rate by 31% and lifted overall conversion by 10% while preserving user privacy.
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy launched the Qingcheng Award, granting nine sub‑35 researchers a million‑yuan prize and extensive resources, and this article shares their diverse journeys—from distributed optimization and edge‑computing to AI and quantum research—highlighting how they balance scientific ambition, societal impact, and personal life.
iQIYI and Huawei verified a 5G MEC + CDN edge‑acceleration solution that reduced end‑to‑end latency from 60 ms to under 10 ms, boosted 1080p/4K video download speeds by 400%, and paved the way for large‑scale VR, AR, and ultra‑HD streaming in the 5G era.
This article explains Alibaba Cloud’s Edge@ACK edge container solution, covering the rise of edge computing, the architecture and standardization of cloud‑edge‑device integration, autonomous edge node management, and real‑world IoT and CDN use cases, illustrating how cloud‑native Kubernetes enables a unified edge infrastructure.
The article presents a comprehensive technical overview of TencentOS tiny, an ultra‑lightweight real‑time operating system for IoT, covering its market background, core features such as low power consumption and modularity, software architecture, component stack, migration steps, development workflow, AT‑module framework, and integration with Tencent Cloud C‑SDK.
This article explains the concept, architecture, and operation of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), using logistics analogies to illustrate how edge nodes, global load balancing, and content routing improve web performance, reduce latency, and enhance reliability for various online services.
Tencent Cloud’s AIoT solution combines edge AI processing with a cloud‑edge collaboration framework, using container‑orchestrated microservices, AI chips and IoT connectivity to cut latency to milliseconds, lower bandwidth by sending only structured data, and enable real‑time applications such as smart retail, manufacturing, agriculture and building security.
At the July 27 Tencent Cloud IoT Salon in Beijing, over 400 developers explored the latest in IoT platforms, edge computing, security, operating systems, and AIoT, with speakers highlighting market growth, architectural designs, challenges, and practical solutions that lower development barriers and enhance reliability.
The article outlines Alibaba Cloud's ACK migration solution, detailing how ACK ensures reliability and security, the three key questions to address, comprehensive migration design—including cluster planning, data transfer, monitoring, and traffic switching—along with open‑source tools, hybrid management 2.0, edge integration, and real‑world case studies.
Edge computing moves processing, storage, and networking nearer to users and devices, boosting real-time efficiency, security, and bandwidth savings while complementing cloud services, and open-source platforms like StarlingX and KubeEdge provide standardized, high-availability solutions for diverse smart-city, automotive, and AI edge applications.
The Open Compute Project, backed by leading tech giants, is driving open‑hardware standards, accelerating AI and edge computing, and fostering collaboration across data‑center operators, telecoms, and hardware vendors, as highlighted by the upcoming OCP China Day conference.
Meitu replaced on-device beautification and video processing with a cloud-native architecture that routes requests by region, uses a dedicated upload SDK for detailed monitoring, employs edge-computing, a configuration-driven plug-in framework and Kubernetes-based elastic scaling, enabling fast, reliable, globally-distributed image and video services.
This article explains the design of ACE (AI Labs Compute Engine), a heterogeneous edge compute platform that combines model quantization, GPU/DSP/VPU acceleration, cloud‑edge model management, and custom algorithm integration to enable low‑latency AI services such as gesture, pet, and pen‑tip detection on resource‑constrained devices.
The article explains edge computing concepts, its value, application scenarios, and its close relationship with 5G, highlighting how distributed processing at the network edge reduces latency, bandwidth costs, and enhances security, while outlining industry use cases such as smart manufacturing, smart cities, live gaming, and vehicular networks.
The article explains cloud computing fundamentals, highlights its limitations, introduces edge and mobile edge computing (MEC) as complementary solutions, and details how MEC reduces latency and bandwidth usage to enable advanced use cases such as autonomous driving in the 5G era.
The article analyzes the rapid rise of industrial IoT, outlines four key obstacles—high investment cycles, fragmented connectivity, security risks, and immature standards—and explains how Tencent Cloud’s full‑stack IoT portfolio, including TencentOS tiny, IoT Explorer, Trust ID, and the IoT Marketplace, addresses these issues with real‑world smart‑manufacturing case studies.
Edge computing is emerging as a crucial IoT trend because it reduces data transmission and storage costs, enables sub‑second response times for safety‑critical operations, enhances security and privacy, and is supported by a growing ecosystem of cloud providers, vendors, and open‑source projects.
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.
The article details JD's borderless retail concept by presenting the experience architecture, AI‑driven interaction, edge‑perception layers, technical stack, and data‑driven metrics that together enable a low‑cost, scalable digital transformation of fashion brick‑and‑mortar stores.
ARM has introduced the Neoverse N1 and E1 platforms, built on a 7nm process to deliver high scalability, performance and power efficiency for 5G, IoT and next‑generation cloud‑to‑edge infrastructure, while sparking debate among industry leaders about the future of server architectures.
The article outlines eight emerging technology trends for 2019—including autonomous objects, augmented analytics, AI‑driven development, digital twins, autonomous edge computing, immersive AR/VR experiences, blockchain, and smart spaces—explaining their current state, future potential, and impact on work and daily life.
An in‑depth analysis of China's IDC market predicts continued growth beyond 200 billion yuan by 2020, outlines evolving development models that combine large‑scale, energy‑efficient facilities with micro‑IDC edge deployments, and examines technological trends such as cloudification, modular data centers, high‑density, green, and customized solutions.
This article details Alibaba's end‑to‑end solution for digitizing offline retail foot traffic, combining existing surveillance cameras, RFID tags, and advanced AI techniques such as lightweight YOLO detection, knowledge distillation, and multi‑level pedestrian re‑identification to capture, analyze, and act on shopper behavior for both business operations and personalized in‑store experiences.
This article explains why video streams can still lag on high‑speed mobile networks, introduces the origin and principles of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and shows how CDNs reduce latency, improve user experience, and benefit both internet and telecom operators.
The article reviews the latest IoT and edge‑computing trends, outlines Tencent’s multi‑layer IoT platform, edge solutions, LoRa network deployment, and how AI‑driven data analysis will transform the fragmented IoT market into a smarter, more integrated ecosystem.
Alibaba’s latest AI breakthroughs—including a voice assistant that understands hidden user intent, a new edge‑cloud computing whitepaper, record R&D spending, and a medical AI project for flu prediction—showcase the company’s rapid advances across artificial intelligence and cloud technologies.
This article traces OpenStack’s rise, decline, and recent resurgence, describing how the foundation refocused on core services, launched pilot projects in CI/CD, containers, edge computing, and AI, and positioned the platform as a mature, widely‑adopted private‑cloud solution.
Alibaba’s senior tech expert explains the concept, architecture, core AI capabilities, real‑world case studies, and future roadmap of the Tmall “Future Store”, a vision‑driven, sensor‑rich unmanned retail experience that merges computer‑vision, edge computing, and data‑driven operations.
