Alibaba Terminal Technology

Dec 31, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Ant Group Turned BFF Architecture into Serverless Frontend with SFF

The talk explains how Ant Group’s internal Node.js framework Chair evolved from a heavyweight BFF layer into a lightweight serverless‑for‑frontend (SFF) platform, detailing the challenges of BFF ops, the SFF function model, high‑density deployment, two‑layer scheduling, and the resulting gains in developer productivity and resource efficiency.