A detailed case study reveals how Amazon Prime Video replaced a costly, serverless micro‑service monitoring system with a streamlined monolithic architecture on EC2/ECS, slashing infrastructure expenses by over 90 % and sparking a broader debate on the true merits of microservices versus monoliths.
The QTest and QClient technical journey event on May 23, 2023 features multiple expert talks on performance testing, AI‑enhanced frontend engineering, Serverless visualisation, user‑behavior replay, and a new React framework, along with registration details, promotional items, and recruitment information.
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.
A Prime Video case study shows that moving from a costly serverless micro‑service architecture to a streamlined monolith on EC2/ECS reduced infrastructure expenses by over 90% while improving scalability, sparking a heated debate about the true value of microservices and serverless in large‑scale video streaming.
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.
Apache OpenWhisk is an open‑source, distributed serverless platform that runs functions in Docker containers, supports multiple programming languages, can be deployed on various cloud or on‑premise environments such as Kubernetes, and offers seamless integration with popular services, scalable execution, and resource‑efficient operation.
This guide shows how to quickly deploy the open‑source FastChat AI assistant on Alibaba Cloud ASK's serverless Kubernetes platform, covering prerequisites, YAML configuration, GPU handling, verification steps, and three usage scenarios including web UI, API calls, and a VSCode extension.
This article examines Node.js’s strengths and weaknesses, its event‑driven architecture, practical code examples, middleware usage, impact on front‑end development, and forecasts its role in future trends such as cloud‑native, serverless, IoT, and AI applications.
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.
The article analyzes the operational, stability, and cost challenges of Haro’s AI platform, explains why a serverless FaaS architecture—specifically Knative—was selected, and details the implementation steps, performance gains, and future scenarios for AI workloads.
Alibaba Cloud unveiled the fully serverless Elasticsearch architecture at the 2023 Elastic China Developer Conference, highlighting cloud‑native upgrades, the OpenStore storage engine, and TimeStream time‑series enhancements that dramatically improve cost efficiency, scalability, and query performance.
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 article examines the advantages and disadvantages of serverless web development, including vendor lock‑in, cost predictability, scalability, and integration challenges, and outlines the scenarios where serverless is the optimal architectural choice versus when traditional approaches are preferable.
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.
From multi‑cloud and distributed cloud to low‑code/no‑code platforms, serverless computing, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps, this article outlines the six pivotal cloud‑native trends that enterprises must watch to accelerate product releases, enhance security, and stay competitive in the evolving digital landscape.
This article analyzes Baidu Intelligent Cloud's evolution from edge computing to a fully integrated distributed cloud, detailing the driving trends, four critical architectural paths, and concrete implementations such as multi‑chip clouds, same‑source stacks, hyper‑converged infrastructure, and cloud‑native serverless solutions.
This article surveys the diverse scenarios where WebAssembly is applied—from accelerating web applications and providing sandboxed plugins to powering cloud‑native workloads, edge computing, serverless functions, mobile/IoT devices, and blockchain—while also outlining current challenges and future development directions.
The article examines the evolution of big‑data technologies, outlines the operational, cost and security challenges enterprises face, and presents serverless data—particularly AWS’s cloud‑native services—as a scalable, low‑cost solution that eliminates maintenance while enabling real‑time processing and advanced analytics.
This article surveys WebAssembly's diverse application scenarios—from accelerating browser apps and enabling sandboxed plugins to powering cloud‑native, edge, and blockchain workloads—while highlighting current adoption statistics, key examples, and future development directions.
This comprehensive guide explains Serverless computing—from its CNCF definition and evolution through MVC, SOA, and microservices to modern cloud-native platforms—detailing its core FaaS and BaaS primitives, ecosystem tools, typical applications, challenges like vendor lock‑in and cold starts, and future market trends.
NetEase Cloud Music transitioned from public FaaS to a private Knative‑based serverless platform, delivering elastic audio‑video processing, multi‑language support, event‑driven scaling across hybrid private and public clouds, boosting resource utilization and cutting costs, though cold‑starts and container expertise remain challenges.
This article explains how the team streamlined Dagster Cloud's serverless deployment pipeline by replacing slow Docker‑image builds with a fast‑path using PEX files, S3 storage, and optimized GitHub Actions, reducing end‑to‑end deployment time from over three minutes to just forty seconds.
This comprehensive guide explores cloud computing fundamentals, key professional roles, essential skills, service models, migration planning, security considerations, operations, governance, serverless computing, and how the cloud fuels AI adoption, offering developers a complete roadmap for success.
This article introduces a unified User‑Defined Function (UDF) solution on a cloud data platform, detailing its remote execution architecture, compatibility with Hive UDFs, resource isolation, hot‑update capabilities, internal platform implementation, open‑source contributions to PrestoDB, and future work plans.
This article explains how Baidu's Feed recommendation backend adopted a serverless approach, building elastic, traffic, and capacity portraits for each micro‑service to enable predictive, load‑feedback, and timed scaling, thereby reducing resource waste and operational costs in a cloud‑native environment.
This article details Baidu Feed's serverless transformation, describing how multi‑dimensional service profiling (elasticity, traffic, capacity) and three elastic strategies—predictive, load‑feedback, and timed—enable automatic scaling that reduces resource waste while maintaining 24/7 stability for billions of users.
This article explains how Baidu Feed’s backend services were transformed to a serverless model by building elastic, traffic, and capacity profiles for each service, enabling predictive, load‑feedback, and timed scaling strategies that automatically adjust resources with traffic fluctuations, reduce costs, and maintain stability.
This article traces a decade of Amazon Redshift’s evolution, detailing its shift from a traditional MPP warehouse to a fully cloud‑native Serverless architecture, exploring its underlying innovations, key features such as Concurrency Scaling, built‑in ML, Data Sharing, and offering practical best‑practice guidance for real‑time analytics across diverse industry scenarios.
Shuhe Technology leveraged Alibaba Cloud Container Service with Knative and ECI virtual nodes to achieve auto‑scaling, multi‑version management, and up to 60% cost reduction for AI model services, dramatically improving resource efficiency and stability under burst traffic.
Alibaba Cloud’s cloud‑native data lake analysis solution combines fully managed storage (OSS‑HDFS), a one‑stop lake management platform (Data Lake Formation), and multimodal compute capabilities, delivering high performance, massive scalability, and low cost for big‑data and AI workloads across offline, real‑time, and lake‑house scenarios.
This tutorial shows how to quickly create a ChatGPT‑enabled web application using the open‑source Laf cloud platform, covering API key setup, serverless cloud functions, frontend SDK integration, context tracking, and one‑click deployment to a live site.
This article summarizes Alibaba Cloud senior product expert He Yuan's presentation on EMR 2.0, outlining the challenges of open‑source big data, the evolution of EMR, and the new features—including cloud‑native architecture, enhanced performance, diverse resource models, and expanded analysis scenarios—aimed at reducing cost and complexity.
This article explains how eBPF technology provides a unified, zero‑intrusion monitoring solution for Serverless applications across any language, detailing its architecture, workflow, and the advantages it brings to cloud‑native operations such as low cost, high performance, and multi‑protocol support.
Viaduct, Airbnb’s data‑oriented service mesh built on GraphQL, replaces traditional procedural meshes by centralizing a schema that routes queries across thousands of micro‑services, enabling fine‑grained data access, serverless derived fields, automatic schema propagation, and improved observability, now handling most of Airbnb’s API traffic.
The article examines MatrixOne, a cloud‑native hyper‑converged database, detailing its storage‑compute separation, unified file service, resource isolation, HTAP streaming capabilities, and emerging serverless features, while outlining future directions such as CXL memory integration and broader cloud storage support.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Application Engine (SAE) leverages the open‑source KubeVela Workflow to overcome operational, scaling, and integration challenges, detailing the workflow design, step definitions, and three real‑world use cases that illustrate automated ops, release optimization, and rapid feature rollout.
This article details Taobao’s serverless architecture upgrade for its homepage, covering the background of the Cloud Native 2.0 initiative, the three‑pronged system transformation, risk analysis, and a comprehensive quality‑assurance plan that includes pre‑release verification, traffic switching, and stress testing.
ByteDance’s cloud‑native transformation details a layered technical system, multi‑year Kubernetes‑based evolution, unified multi‑cluster resource management, and hierarchical scheduling, illustrating how the company achieves high development speed, resource efficiency, and prepares for next‑generation serverless infrastructure.
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 article details how Qunar improved its Serverless FAAS platform by introducing Node.js worker_threads for parallel computation, designing a thread‑pool with shared buffers and postMessage communication, and implementing comprehensive cache pre‑heating and governance, resulting in a 72% reduction in P99 latency and more stable service performance.
This article describes the background, design decisions, architecture, core concepts (Serverless, BFF, FAAS), implementation details, performance results, and future plans of the internally built Seras platform that enables front‑end teams to write cloud functions without managing servers, improving code reuse, traceability, and deployment speed.
This article explains the fundamentals of CI/CD, why it is critical for Serverless architectures, and provides step‑by‑step guidance with code snippets for integrating Serverless Devs into GitHub Actions, Gitee Go, Jenkins pipelines, and CloudEffect, including tool installation, secret configuration, and deployment commands.
This article outlines ten indispensable cloud‑native tools—from Docker and Kubernetes to Serverless, Helm, Ansible, and Wireshark—explaining how each supports modern agile development, improves infrastructure stability, and accelerates digital transformation in post‑pandemic enterprises.
Noslate is Alibaba’s new open‑source, cloud‑native serverless JavaScript runtime that combines a custom cold‑start‑optimized Node.js distribution, the Aworker container with Warmfork and V8 startup snapshots for sub‑millisecond launches, a Noslated control plane for flexible worker orchestration, and a Corefile‑based debugger for low‑impact diagnostics.
This article examines the challenges of traditional Spark clusters and explains how integrating Spark with cloud‑native platforms—through Kubernetes deployment modes, EMR on ACK practices, Remote Shuffle Service, and serverless Spark on DLF—provides elastic scaling, lower operational costs, and advanced features such as executor rolling and custom scheduler support.
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.
The article examines the inherent and accidental complexities of Kubernetes as a distributed cluster manager, discusses challenges in resource scheduling, infrastructure diversity, and operational overhead, and explores how cloud‑native solutions such as managed services, nodeless and serverless Kubernetes architectures attempt to reduce these complexities while introducing new trade‑offs.
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.
Noslate is an open‑source, cloud‑native project from Alibaba that introduces a lightweight JavaScript runtime, optimized Node.js distribution, and an offline debugger to dramatically improve serverless cold‑start times, elasticity, and diagnostic capabilities across diverse platforms, including ARM and traditional x86 environments.
Noslate is an open‑source, cloud‑native suite comprising a custom Node.js distribution, the lightweight Aworker runtime with Warmfork and Startup Snapshot technologies, all designed to dramatically reduce cold‑start latency and improve JavaScript task elasticity in serverless environments.
Since 2019, Alibaba’s Big Taobao team has pioneered FaaS adoption across multiple business scenarios, sharing why, what, and how they migrated front‑end‑centric data‑assembly logic to serverless functions, detailing architectural changes, benefits, migration strategies, stability measures, and low‑code tooling insights.
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.
This article introduces the first industry model for estimating total Serverless function costs, analyzes key cost factors such as memory, concurrency, and execution time, and proposes five optimization strategies along with Huawei Cloud's transparent, one‑click Cost Research Center to help users achieve economical Serverless deployments.
This article explains how Amazon EMR Serverless leverages serverless architecture to simplify, scale, and reduce the cost of big data analytics by providing managed Hadoop‑based services, flexible resource allocation, built‑in security, and seamless integration with the AWS data lake ecosystem.
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.
This guide explains how Fluid, a Kubernetes‑native data orchestration engine, can be deployed on Alibaba Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) to cache and pre‑warm large datasets from OSS, enabling elastic bandwidth, reducing latency, and cutting costs for data‑intensive serverless applications.
Starlink is JD Tech's low‑code, serverless platform that streamlines backend service development, deployment, and operations by offering visual microservice (VMS) creation, declarative Serverless deployment, and extensive integration capabilities, dramatically boosting efficiency and reducing costs across diverse business scenarios.
Serverless Devs, an open‑source, CNCF‑sandbox serverless development platform, offers a plug‑in architecture supporting multiple cloud providers, lifecycle management, and extensible components, with six key advantages, a clear design philosophy, a growing history, and future plans to expand cloud vendor support and tooling.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud EventBridge’s open API target enables event‑driven automation for managing cloud resources, covering event bus types, official event sources, required parameters, and step‑by‑step examples such as creating RocketMQ topics and ECS snapshots.
This article reviews the evolution of data warehouse architectures, explains Amazon's serverless real-time data lake design and its key services, and details Amazon Redshift's cloud-native real-time data warehouse features, streaming ingestion, and integrated machine learning capabilities.
This article examines the rise of edge computing, detailing its business and technical drivers, various definitions from standards bodies and academia, industry adoption patterns, the convergence with serverless and cloud-native technologies, and forecasts for its evolving architecture and market impact.
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 article explains the definition of cloud native, its industry impact, technical characteristics, architectural design principles, and the essential technologies—including containers, serverless containers, bare‑metal containers, microservices, serverless computing, specialized chips, networking, and databases—that together enable elastic, resilient, and observable cloud‑first applications.
This article explains cloud native as a design philosophy that maximizes cloud efficiency through elastic, loosely coupled, observable systems, outlines its industry benefits, technical characteristics, architectural principles, and reviews core technologies such as containers, serverless, microservices, networking, chips, and databases.
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.
Alibaba's Big‑Taobao team describes how shifting data‑assembly logic to front‑end Function‑as‑a‑Service transformed engineers into business partners, cut integration costs, boosted development speed, and required careful cost‑benefit analysis, incremental migration, traffic safety measures, and a low‑code orchestration platform to ensure stable, scalable adoption.
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 explains how to leverage Alibaba Cloud Serverless and the Deno runtime to quickly migrate, build, and deploy a TypeScript‑based web application, covering the benefits of serverless, Deno advantages, code examples, configuration files, and step‑by‑step deployment commands.
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 guide explains how enterprises can leverage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to automate the creation, management, and scaling of Alibaba Cloud Serverless App Engine (SAE) applications across staging and production environments, including advanced integration with RDS.
From renting physical servers to leveraging scalable cloud services, Cloud Studio turns the browser into a full‑featured IDE that lets developers build, preview, and deploy static or framework‑based websites with a single click, supporting custom domains, serverless functions, and collaborative workflows, dramatically simplifying modern web production.
This article examines post‑2022 DevOps trends—including GitOps, AIOps/MLOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, DataOps, chaos engineering, SRE, hybrid deployment, automation, IaC, serverless, cloud‑native, microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, edge computing, data observability, and platform engineering—illustrating each with real‑world case studies that show measurable improvements in speed, reliability, cost, and scalability.
This case study details SKG's transition from a hybrid IDC/ECS setup to a serverless, cloud‑native channel middle‑platform on Alibaba Cloud SAE, covering pain points, technology selection, deployment workflow, performance metrics, and lessons learned for future improvements.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Function Compute asynchronous tasks for large‑scale data analysis, database autonomous services, Kafka‑based ETL pipelines, and high‑performance video transcoding, highlighting architecture migration, cost reduction, deployment steps, and observable serverless task capabilities.
This newsletter curates recent technical insights covering the high‑performance Bun JavaScript runtime, ESM Loader Hooks for module processing without bundlers, deep dives into Canvas and CSS graphics, practical guides on unit testing, serverless deployment, and advanced JavaScript features like Proxy and Reflect, offering developers a comprehensive overview of modern frontend engineering trends.
This article introduces EasyFunction, JD's serverless FaaS platform built on iPaaS, detailing its background, applicable scenarios such as BFF, data processing, SSR and admin panels, the business benefits, core product features, and several real‑world deployment cases.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of how Amazon EMR Serverless leverages serverless technology to simplify, scale, and cost‑optimize big data analytics, covering the evolution of serverless services, the intelligent lakehouse architecture, core concepts, key benefits, common use cases, and available documentation.
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.
The first Cloud‑Native Practitioners Conference brought together engineers from Zuoyebang, Zhihu, Zhuanzhuan and others to share large‑scale Kubernetes, serverless and Istio experiences, industry trends, and practical solutions that drive stability, efficiency and digital transformation.
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.
The ByteDance Dev Better technical salon brought together ByteDance and Huatai Securities front‑end teams to share practical experiences on serverless‑based web development, modern build tools, DevOps adoption, and front‑end efficiency improvements, followed by a detailed Q&A session.
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.
This article curates key frontend topics—including Web3.0 debates, Serverless lightweight development, CDN design principles, content‑visibility versus lazyload, advanced TypeScript techniques, and user‑experience fundamentals—offering a concise overview for developers seeking to stay ahead of emerging trends.
Deno Inc, the creator of the TypeScript‑first Deno runtime, has launched Deno Deploy—a globally distributed serverless platform integrated with GitHub, and the Fresh framework built on Deno and Preact, offering a build‑free, edge‑focused development experience while still in early beta.
This article explains the distinct roles of Serverless Devs and Terraform, compares multi‑environment deployment with direct Terraform usage, clarifies the concepts of environments versus environment variables, and details why the multi‑environment feature is implemented as a component rather than a CLI tool.
This article explores Ant Group's front‑end R&D system, the challenges of large‑scale financial applications, and how a serverless, low‑code platform with BFF, function‑level deployment, and documentation‑as‑code practices can boost efficiency, safety, and scalability.
This talk explains Ant Group’s serverless‑based front‑end platform, detailing the current front‑end architecture, challenges of large‑scale financial services, and three core efficiency ideas—document‑as‑code, function‑level deployment, and integrated plugin capabilities—to streamline development and ensure safe production.
This article explains how enterprises can streamline multi‑environment serverless workflows by templating infrastructure and services, using Terraform‑based environment templates within Serverless Devs, and automating CI/CD pipelines to let platform, infra, and development teams work independently yet securely.
Alibaba Mama’s advertising engine has been transformed into a serverless, cloud‑native platform that unifies runtime, data, and business abstractions, adopts vector‑ and model‑based recall with offline pre‑computed pipelines, implements multi‑stage AI‑driven bidding and auction mechanisms, and leverages large‑scale generative AI for creative assets, thereby accelerating feature rollout, cutting latency, and boosting merchant value.
This article describes the challenges encountered when migrating tens of thousands of Kubernetes cronjobs from VMs to a cluster—node instability, low resource utilization, and scheduling delays—and explains how introducing a serverless architecture with virtual nodes, a custom job scheduler, unified logging and monitoring, and sandbox reuse restored stability, improved performance, and reduced resource costs by about 70%.
Serverless, once a niche concept, is rapidly becoming a core paradigm in cloud computing, offering resource decoupling, automatic scaling, and usage‑based billing, while its adoption in databases introduces unique challenges such as persistence, connection handling, and performance, prompting ongoing research and evolving commercial implementations.
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.
Zuoyebang’s shift to cloud‑native architecture leveraged Alibaba Cloud’s Kubernetes Serverless virtual nodes, achieving a 22.5% cost reduction during peak traffic by dynamically scaling workloads, while addressing scheduling, observability, and performance challenges through custom schedulers, enhanced monitoring, and careful testing.
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 article walks through a developer's journey from traditional and Kubernetes architectures to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, explaining how reserved instances, pre‑warming, and the new idle‑billing feature together deliver high elasticity, zero‑maintenance operation, and up to 30% cost reduction for latency‑sensitive online services.
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.
