This guide explains how to quickly deploy the new Qwen3.5-397B-A17B open‑source large model using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute's serverless GPU service, covering model features, deployment steps, required commands, and performance benefits.
This guide walks through the step‑by‑step process of deploying a daily‑triggered Python program to Alibaba Function Compute, covering account login, function creation, code packaging, runtime configuration, network settings, trigger setup, and verification of execution logs.
This article explains how lightweight security sandboxes in serverless function compute provide strong process isolation, elastic resource scaling, and pay‑per‑use economics, enabling AI agents to execute untrusted code safely while supporting session lifecycle management, protocol extensions, and cost‑effective billing models.
This article explains the limitations of the traditional HTTP+SSE transport for MCP, introduces the new MCP Streamable HTTP protocol with its unified endpoint, on‑demand streaming and session recovery features, and shows how it improves connection count, success rate, latency, and overall reliability for serverless function compute workloads.
This guide explains how to address high deployment costs, slow iteration, and poor manageability of MCP Server by using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute for serverless execution and MSE Nacos Enterprise for automatic registration, dynamic configuration, and unified service governance.
From the early days of per‑hour VM rentals to today’s millisecond‑granular, resource‑aware pricing, serverless function compute has transformed its billing models across three stages, each driven by advances in request boundary detection, concurrency handling, and AI‑centric resource consumption, aligning cost with actual usage.
This article traces the evolution of browser automation from Selenium to Playwright, highlights emerging AI‑agent security risks such as prompt injection and credential theft, and provides a detailed cloud‑native sandbox architecture with deployment steps, usage examples for Playwright, Puppeteer, REST APIs, and code snippets for secure AI‑driven web interactions.
The article explains how Alibaba Cloud Function Compute upgraded its tracing capabilities from Jeager 2.0 to the OpenTelemetry W3C standard, delivering end‑to‑end observability, transparent cold‑start analysis, cross‑environment context propagation, dynamic sampling, and AI‑assisted debugging for serverless workloads.
This article walks AI developers through the design, implementation, testing, and cloud deployment of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering core capabilities, tool creation, best‑practice guidelines, and practical code examples.
This article explains how the MCP protocol adopts OAuth 2.1, Authorization Server Metadata (RFC 8414), Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) and Protected Resource Metadata (RFC 9728) to provide authentication for MCP services, and shows step‑by‑step how to deploy an MCP server with Bearer authentication on Function Compute, including supergateway configuration.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (FC) provides a serverless, pay‑per‑use environment for MCP Server, introduces the session‑affinity challenges that cause resource idle time, and details the idle‑billing mechanism that can reduce overall MCP Server costs by as much as 87% while preserving performance.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a de‑facto standard for AI interactions, and cloud‑hosted MCP servers are gaining traction by lowering developer barriers, enhancing SaaS integration, meeting enterprise compliance, while also facing deployment speed, traffic variability, and complex logic challenges that serverless function compute aims to resolve.
This guide explains how to transform community STDIO‑based MCP servers into plug‑in‑ready, Server‑Sent Events (SSE) MCP services on Function Compute, covering deployment templates, npx/uvx usage, OpenAPI conversion, security configurations, and debugging steps.
This article explores the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a universal USB‑C‑like interface for AI, detailing its client‑server architecture, the STDIO and SSE transport mechanisms, a stdio‑to‑SSE proxy, serverless deployment on Function Compute, performance benchmarks, and practical tips for production use.
This guide walks you through deploying the open‑source Bolt.diy platform on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, integrating Bailei model services, configuring API keys, and using AI‑assisted code generation for a full‑stack, serverless application.
This guide walks you through deploying the open‑source QwQ‑32B model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using the Cloud Application Platform (CAP), covering architecture, required services, account setup, step‑by‑step deployment, cost considerations, model interaction via Open WebUI and Chatbox, scaling configuration, and resource cleanup.
This guide walks you through deploying the open‑source QwQ‑32B model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute with CAP, covering required services, step‑by‑step deployment, cost notes, accessing the demo UI, interacting with the model, scaling settings, and resource cleanup.
This guide walks you through creating an AI English‑speaking companion by deploying a web app with Function Compute, integrating Alibaba's AI model platform, Intelligent Media Service, and real‑time audio (ARTC), covering architecture, workflow setup, service configuration, deployment steps, and validation.
This article explains a VPC NAT solution that lets function compute pods in a shared Kubernetes VPC securely access services in overlapping business VPCs by using NAT ENIs, MAC adjustments, VXLAN encapsulation, and SNAT/DNAT rules.
This guide walks you through using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute and Bailei Model Service to set up a cloud‑native, one‑click AI creation pipeline that turns scripts into subtitles, images, and videos for New Year storytelling.
This tutorial shows how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute to create a web service that automates script generation, illustration, voice synthesis, subtitles, and video composition, enabling anyone to produce personalized AI‑generated animations with minimal technical effort.
This guide walks you through using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute to quickly deploy the Flux‑powered ComfyUI model for generating fluffy pet images, covering setup, role creation, application configuration, workflow import, prompt customization, and important usage considerations.
This guide explains how to deploy the Qwen2.5 large language model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using Ollama and Open WebUI, covering model selection, resource configuration, deployment steps, interface setup, multilingual capabilities, and automatic scaling for high‑concurrency workloads.
This guide walks you through deploying the GPT‑SoVITS text‑to‑speech model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering architecture, step‑by‑step deployment, quick voice synthesis, and advanced fine‑tuning using NAS storage, VPC networking, and optional custom domains.
This guide explains how to quickly deploy popular AI image‑generation models such as ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion WebUI on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering architecture, step‑by‑step deployment, custom workflow creation, model management with NAS, and best‑practice tips for cost and performance.
This guide explains how to quickly launch an open‑source large language model from ModelScope on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering the required cloud services, step‑by‑step deployment, reserved‑instance configuration, and how to invoke the model via the provided domain.
This guide shows how to create a zero‑code AI chatbot using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute and the Bailei large‑model platform, configure API keys, deploy a sample site, embed the assistant, and enhance it with a private knowledge base for accurate product support.
This guide walks you through deploying the GPT‑SoVITS text‑to‑speech model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering application creation, quick voice synthesis, advanced model fine‑tuning, NAS file management, and optional promotional tasks for earning rewards.
This tutorial walks you through creating an AI summarization assistant on Alibaba Cloud Baichuan, covering application creation, API‑KEY setup, Function Compute deployment, and verification steps so you can automate document summarization efficiently.
This guide walks you through using Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Qianwen large model to analyze customer dialogues, generate detailed reports and scores, and improve service quality, while also showing how to set up the required cloud resources and claim promotional rewards.
This guide walks you through enabling Alibaba Cloud Function Compute and NAS, claiming free quotas, deploying the Flux text‑to‑image model with a LoRA, and using ComfyUI to create detailed, ultra‑realistic illustrations of classic Journey to the West scenes.
This guide walks you through deploying the open‑source AI image‑generation tool ComfyUI on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering prerequisite services, step‑by‑step configuration of the app and NAS storage, workflow execution, custom node installation, and cleanup to avoid unexpected charges.
This article explains how to transform ComfyUI into a serverless API using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing the challenges of GPU resource costs, high concurrency, and usability, while providing a step‑by‑step guide, code examples, and best‑practice recommendations for building scalable AI drawing applications.
This guide explains how to quickly host the open‑source GPT‑SoVITS text‑to‑speech model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering its application scenarios, cloud‑native architecture, step‑by‑step deployment, voice training workflow, and how to generate speech using provided demos.
This guide explains how to quickly deploy the node‑based AI image generation tool ComfyUI on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering prerequisites, step‑by‑step configuration, NAS integration, workflow loading, performance tips, and resource cleanup to achieve efficient, serverless AI drawing.
This article explains how to build a serverless image‑processing pipeline that automatically compresses and watermarks uploaded pictures by deploying Go functions, configuring event‑bus rules, enabling OBS notifications, and linking them together, highlighting cost, scalability, and maintenance advantages over traditional architectures.
This guide explains how to store only original images in Alibaba Cloud OSS and use Object Process Access Point (OPAP) together with Function Compute to dynamically transform images on demand for different devices, thereby reducing storage expenses while supporting flexible processing like watermarking, resizing, and format conversion.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute to inspect Kafka message keys and automatically perform insert, update, or delete operations on MongoDB, detailing the architecture, advantages, prerequisites, step‑by‑step deployment, and current limitations.
This guide shows how to quickly and cheaply deploy the open‑source Google Gemma large language model on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute GPU using the new idle‑billing mode, covering prerequisites, Docker image creation, function setup, idle reservation, testing, monitoring, and cost estimation.
This guide explains how to overcome GPU cost, high‑concurrency, and model‑switching challenges by using Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Stable Diffusion API, detailing deployment steps, supported use cases, performance advantages, and the full set of RESTful endpoints for AI image creation.
This guide walks readers through using ModelScope’s SwingDeploy service to locate, configure, and instantly deploy open‑source AI models to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, explaining the resources created, how to invoke the model via HTTP triggers, and how to optimize performance with provisioned instances, logging, and concurrency settings.
This guide explains how to quickly select a ModelScope open‑source LLM, deploy it to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using the SwingDeploy one‑click feature, enable reserved idle billing, and evaluate the cost savings compared with traditional GPU provisioning.
Shuhe Technology replaced a cumbersome Kafka‑to‑ECS/K8s log‑processing pipeline with Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, achieving faster, more elastic, and cost‑effective handling of massive application logs while reducing operational overhead and simplifying maintenance.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Function Compute combined with Database Change Data Capture (CDC) creates a complete, real‑time ETL pipeline, detailing the ETL model, DTS integration, architecture components, event‑driven processing, and practical use cases such as OLTP‑to‑OLAP data flow.
This tutorial walks you through quickly setting up a Qwen‑based AI assistant on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering prerequisite API‑key acquisition, deployment steps, password protection, and how to access the running service.
This guide walks you through installing hard‑to‑set‑up Stable Diffusion plugins and deploying a fully functional Stable Diffusion WebUI on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering resource preparation, step‑by‑step deployment, model management, and cost considerations.
This guide walks you through registering an Alibaba Cloud account, enabling Function Compute and NAS, deploying a Stable Diffusion instance, adding ControlNet, and handling common cost questions, enabling you to create light‑shadow text images in just a few minutes.
This guide explains how to evaluate and tune Serverless function settings—balancing cost, performance, and workload complexity—using built‑in estimation tools, CPU/IO benchmark results, Little's Law‑based performance probing, and Alibaba Cloud's PTS testing workflow.
Alipay’s serverless Function Compute platform empowers mini‑program developers with a four‑stage architecture—mini program, Alipay app, gateway, and function—offering automatic elastic scaling, sub‑20 ms scheduling, sub‑100 ms cold‑starts, multi‑layer isolation, DDoS protection, and the ability to sustain 10 k QPS for reliable, low‑latency user experiences.
This guide walks you through registering for Alibaba Cloud, enabling Function Compute and NAS, creating a Stable Diffusion application from a template, configuring the admin console, uploading the model, optionally building a custom Docker image, and troubleshooting common issues, all with step‑by‑step instructions and code examples.
This guide shows how to map a Stable Diffusion container's dynamic paths to Alibaba Cloud NAS, configure Serverless Devs, deploy the application, and upload model files via a visual admin UI or NAS commands, enabling fast AI image generation on a cloud‑native platform.
This guide walks you through deploying the open‑source Stable Diffusion WebUI on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using Serverless Devs, covering prerequisites, a single‑line deployment command, configuration details, access URL, and practical tips for handling GPU rendering and cold‑start latency.
This case study describes how Hangzhou Mingshitang transformed its homework photo evaluation system from a Kubernetes‑based solution to an Alibaba Cloud Function Compute serverless architecture, achieving higher elasticity, lower latency, and reduced costs while handling peak traffic of over one million daily images.
This guide walks developers through setting up a stable overseas OpenAI API proxy using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering prerequisite installations, command‑line and Application Center deployments, and how to integrate the proxy with existing ChatGPT projects.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Function Compute together with Message Service and Connector to create a cost‑effective, high‑throughput, low‑latency message‑consumption pipeline, covering architecture, key features, step‑by‑step configuration, code examples, and best‑practice recommendations.
This article explains how front‑end engineers can transition from traditional static‑site deployment to fully cloud‑native web applications by leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless services—OSS, CDN, and Function Compute—to achieve automatic scaling, zero‑ops maintenance, cost efficiency, and enhanced security for dynamic APIs, tasks, and media processing.
Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute introduced a self‑select specification feature that decouples CPU, memory, disk, and GPU limits, enabling granular resource allocation, high‑density deployment, and scheduling optimizations that can cut serverless function costs by up to 56% while maintaining performance.
This guide walks you through the entire lifecycle of a Serverless application on Alibaba Cloud, covering function creation via the console, project initialization and deployment with Serverless Devs, various debugging techniques—including online, breakpoint, proxy, and local debugging—and best practices for dependency management and performance testing.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute layers—including custom and official public layers—to overcome large dependency packages, reduce deployment size, share code across functions, handle OS/architecture constraints, and provides step‑by‑step examples for Node.js Puppeteer and .NET 6 custom runtimes.
This tutorial explains the fundamentals of Serverless architecture, outlines its BaaS and FaaS components, presents three typical use cases, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including Python code and deployment instructions—to create an automated daily email service on Alibaba Cloud Serverless.
Facing occasional traffic spikes and high server costs, the author migrated a holiday gift‑distribution project from an ALB‑ECS‑MySQL‑Redis stack to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing cost reductions, zero‑idle‑instance savings, custom runtime setup, logging adjustments, VPC networking, deployment via Serverless Devs, and domain binding.
This case study explains how Shenzhen Yichuan Technology migrated its high‑traffic Alipay mini‑program to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, detailing the development workflow, CI/CD pipeline, operational monitoring, performance gains, cost savings, and future improvement suggestions.
Learn step‑by‑step how to build a cost‑effective, pay‑per‑use WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud Serverless using Function Compute, NAS storage, RDS, and SLS, covering service activation, NAS setup, function configuration, custom domain binding, code deployment, and final verification.
This article explains the evolution and core principles of Serverless computing, outlines its benefits for reducing operational complexity and cost, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for building, testing, and exposing a function on Alibaba Cloud using Function Compute and API Gateway.
This guide shows how to deploy a Python‑based image‑to‑sketch function on Alibaba Cloud Serverless Function Compute, automatically converting photos uploaded to one OSS bucket into sketch images stored in another bucket, covering prerequisites, environment setup, code implementation, deployment steps, testing, and troubleshooting.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to enable Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, create a service and Java 17 function, configure a custom domain, export and edit the generated Spring Boot project, and adjust the listening port, enabling rapid serverless deployment for beginners.
This guide walks beginners through the concepts, advantages, and practical steps of using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute to deploy popular web frameworks like Spring Boot and Express, create a custom Web IDE, and configure domains, while highlighting serverless architecture benefits and cost considerations.
This article explains how to migrate a traditional Node.js Express web application to a serverless environment by using an adaptation layer that maps function‑compute events to HTTP requests, covering both API‑gateway and HTTP triggers, core implementation steps, and alternative deployment methods.
This guide explains the concept of serverless computing and gray (canary) releases, compares manual console methods with the FC-Canary plugin, and provides step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and best‑practice tips for configuring and testing automated canary deployments on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute.
This article explains the various execution states of Serverless Task, the state‑transition flow, runtime instance management, and how to gracefully stop tasks using PreStop hooks and SDK calls, providing practical guidance for cloud‑native developers.
Serverless Task provides exactly‑once task triggering by combining system‑side failover protection with user‑level deduplication, using a robust queue, scheduler, and globally unique TaskID to ensure each task is executed only once even under failures, network partitions, or retries.
Wolai’s shift to a Serverless architecture using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute cut operational costs by over 50%, accelerated development cycles, and enabled reliable real‑time collaborative editing through a snapshot system, illustrating how small teams can leverage cloud functions for scalable, cost‑effective services.
The article explains Alibaba Cloud Function Compute’s new three‑layer model—Function, Service, Application—detailing each concept, its benefits for lifecycle management, open template ecosystem, and a step‑by‑step example of deploying a serverless personal net‑disk application.
This guide walks through assigning a custom domain to a Function Compute‑hosted static blog, configuring Alibaba Cloud CDN as the acceleration layer, fixing Cache‑Control headers, and verifying cache hit improvements, providing step‑by‑step instructions and screenshots for each stage.
This guide explains how to use the new asynchronous invocation feature of Alibaba Cloud Function Compute HTTP triggers, covering the limitations of synchronous calls, the required request header, testing methods, and a best‑practice video‑transcoding example with step‑by‑step commands.
This guide explains how to deploy existing RESTful applications, such as WordPress, on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute by leveraging the fcapp.run domain for production and the fcapp-test.run domain for local web testing, without modifying any business code.
Developer Xiao Wang evaluates three deployment options—traditional SLB + ECS, Kubernetes, and Alibaba Function Compute—to build a highly elastic, low‑cost, low‑maintenance architecture for two online apps, then adopts FC’s reserved‑instance mode and idle‑billing feature to eliminate cold‑starts and reduce expenses.
This guide shows how to quickly deploy a pre‑built static website to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using the @serverless-devs/s CLI and the website-fc plugin, covering project setup, s.yaml configuration, one‑click deployment, and custom domain binding.
This guide walks you through creating a simple Express‑based HTTP server, packaging it with a bootstrap script, configuring the @serverless-devs/s tool and an s.yaml file, and finally deploying the static site to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute with a custom domain.
This article explains the challenges of debugging Serverless applications, introduces the innovative End‑to‑Cloud (端云联调) feature that creates a secure tunnel between a local development environment and the cloud VPC, and provides step‑by‑step commands and real‑world examples to streamline testing and troubleshooting.
Learn how to construct a cost‑effective, scalable dynamic web site using Serverless Devs, Alibaba Cloud API Gateway, Function Compute, and OSS, covering architecture overview, prerequisite services, step‑by‑step deployment, HTTPS setup, traffic limiting, monitoring, and links to relevant resources.
This guide walks through using Serverless Devs to collect real‑time logs, query metrics, perform local debugging, and enable cloud‑edge debugging for a Spring Boot e‑commerce application running on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, with step‑by‑step commands and screenshots.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to prepare a VM, clone the open‑source Mall project, build Docker images for its dependencies, push them to Alibaba Cloud Container Registry, configure Serverless Devs, and finally deploy both the backend and Vue‑based frontend to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, including log inspection and verification.
This guide explains how to migrate classic web frameworks such as Bottle and Flask to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute using request integration, custom runtimes, and Serverless Devs, providing step‑by‑step code examples, deployment configurations, and alternative solutions for other FaaS platforms.
This article explains how to build a custom serverless runtime and a custom container runtime on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering the background of FaaS, the concept of custom runtimes, step‑by‑step development using TypeScript, Docker, and deployment with the Fun tool.
Tencent Cloud’s serverless platform, now serving over a million developers and billions of daily invocations, accelerates business and education workloads, enables massive elastic scaling, integrates video, GPU, and event‑bus services, and simplifies migration, debugging, and SaaS integration, heralding serverless as the next mainstream cloud paradigm.
This article explains how ByteDance’s Volcano Engine video platform handles the entire video lifecycle—from client‑side capture to cloud processing, delivery, and playback—by employing a multi‑plane architecture, scalable workflow system, function compute platform, and the dynamic BMF framework to meet massive scale, ensure high availability, improve user experience, and reduce costs.
The article explains how Serverless is becoming the default cloud programming model, outlines the observability challenges it introduces, and details Alibaba Cloud Function Compute's evolution from basic logging to a comprehensive, open‑source‑compatible monitoring platform.
Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute now offers a container image acceleration feature that reduces pull and decompression times by 50‑80% across various workloads, leveraging on‑demand loading and faster algorithms, with no extra cost, and provides simple enablement via console, CLI, or SDK.
This article explains how to build a highly scalable, cost‑effective game data collection pipeline using Serverless function compute, Kafka, and cloud services, covering architecture design, function implementation, deployment with Fun, Kafka configuration, and performance testing to handle massive traffic spikes.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Function Compute (FC) was integrated into internal services to support the Double‑12 promotion, detailing the business requirements, network challenges, hybrid‑cloud solutions, container types, auto‑scaling, rate‑limiting, and the serverless platform’s deployment and gray‑release mechanisms.
This article explains how SaaS providers can overcome rigidity by using Alibaba Cloud Serverless Workflow and Function Compute to orchestrate a customizable order‑processing module, detailing the architecture, FDL definitions, Java SDK integration, Vue front‑end, and payment routing logic.
This article explains how Alibaba’s Serverless Cloud Development Platform, built on Function Compute, enables thousands of engineers to develop, deliver, and operate large‑scale applications faster and more reliably by providing integrated solutions, customizable capabilities, and comprehensive stability and operations tools.
This article traces the six‑year evolution of Serverless from its 2012 concept to modern cloud‑native products, explains its definition, explores the rebirth of PaaS, examines Function Compute, container‑based Serverless, BaaS, and how these technologies complement microservices and accelerate digital transformation.
This guide walks you through Alibaba Cloud's Serverless experience, showing how to create a Java Hello World function, configure the application, write and deploy the code, and test the endpoint, all with clear screenshots and a detailed walkthrough.
Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless lead, known as “不瞋”, discusses how serverless transforms cloud computing into a simple utility, outlines performance, security, and operational challenges, and shares real-world use cases like video processing and large-scale traffic handling, emphasizing cost savings, elasticity, and the future roadmap.
This article chronicles Yuque's evolution from a low‑cost prototype built on internal BaaS services to a fully commercialized, cloud‑native knowledge platform, highlighting the shift to IaaS, micro‑services, and serverless function compute to improve scalability, stability, security, and cost efficiency.
This article chronicles Yuque's evolution from a hobbyist prototype to a commercial cloud‑native knowledge platform, detailing its backend migrations, adoption of Node.js, Egg, React, serverless function compute, micro‑service splits, and the architectural lessons learned for stability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
This article explains how to design and implement an elastic, high‑availability video‑on‑demand solution on Alibaba Cloud using Function Compute and Function Flow, covering simple and full‑featured architectures, performance and cost comparisons, and practical deployment steps.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute to create a serverless, elastic backend for mini‑apps, covering the challenges of high‑traffic mini‑programs, the service template workflow, authentication, data access, deployment steps, and client‑side setup.
