Alibaba Terminal Technology

Feb 18, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Serverless Transformed Front-End Development in Alibaba’s Waou Video Project

This article recounts the six‑month journey of migrating the Waou Video short‑video shopping feature to a Serverless Node FaaS architecture, highlighting business characteristics, development pain points, the upgraded R&D model, migration steps, performance gains, and future considerations for front‑end engineers.