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Node Underground
Node Underground
Feb 19, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path

This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.

Cloud ComputingDevOpscost optimization
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Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 8, 2021 · Big Data

How Serverless Architecture Supercharges Game Data Collection and Scaling

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.

Big Data IngestionCloud DeploymentFunction Compute
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How Serverless Architecture Supercharges Game Data Collection and Scaling
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Feb 8, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba’s Serverless FC Powers Double‑12 Traffic Peaks Without Ops

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.

Function ComputeScalinghybrid cloud
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How Alibaba’s Serverless FC Powers Double‑12 Traffic Peaks Without Ops
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 6, 2021 · Cloud Native

Boost Serverless Pod Creation Speed on Kubernetes: Practical Optimizations

This article examines why pod creation latency hurts serverless workloads on Kubernetes and presents a step‑by‑step guide that includes image pre‑warming, multithreaded decompression, non‑compressed images, P2P image distribution, and in‑place upgrade techniques to dramatically improve elasticity and startup performance.

Cloud NativeKubernetesPod creation
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Boost Serverless Pod Creation Speed on Kubernetes: Practical Optimizations
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 4, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Typical Serverless Architecture on AWS: Best Practices and Component Overview

This article presents a comprehensive guide to building a robust, fully managed serverless web application on AWS, covering the selection of services, micro‑service design, event‑driven communication, front‑end integration, security, monitoring, and cost‑effective best practices.

AWSCloudWatchEventBridge
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Typical Serverless Architecture on AWS: Best Practices and Component Overview
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Feb 2, 2021 · Frontend Development

Xianyu's Server-Side Rendering Architecture and Implementation

Xianyu’s server‑side rendering solution uses a serverless Node.js app on Alibaba Cloud to aggregate backend data and render HTML, routing through Nginx and caching via CDN, which cuts first‑meaningful‑paint time, maintains high stability with low O&M, and seamlessly falls back to client‑side rendering when needed.

FrontendNode.jsSSR
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Xianyu's Server-Side Rendering Architecture and Implementation
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 28, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Mastering Spring Cloud Function: Java Serverless Development Made Easy

This article explains how Spring Cloud Function extends the Java Spring Boot/Cloud ecosystem to support serverless and FaaS scenarios, covering core Java functional interfaces, cross‑cloud function deployment, automatic type conversion, composition, reactive support, and practical code examples with Spring Web, Stream, and Task.

Cloud NativeFaaSFunction
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Mastering Spring Cloud Function: Java Serverless Development Made Easy
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 27, 2021 · Backend Development

Mastering Spring Cloud Function: Java Serverless Development Made Simple

This article explains how Spring Cloud Function extends Java's core functional interfaces to provide a unified, cloud‑agnostic serverless programming model, covering definitions, key interfaces, code examples, and integration with Spring Web, Stream, and Task for building FaaS applications.

FaaSMicroservicesSpring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud Function: Java Serverless Development Made Simple
phodal
phodal
Jan 25, 2021 · Frontend Development

What’s Shaping Front‑End Development in 2022? Architecture, Micro‑Frontends, Low‑Code & Beyond

The article reviews current front‑end trends, covering architecture governance, the rise of micro‑frontends, the resurgence of low‑code platforms, cross‑language innovations, and serverless options, while offering practical advice on tooling, standards, and strategic choices for teams of any size.

Frontend ArchitectureLow-codeWeb Development
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What’s Shaping Front‑End Development in 2022? Architecture, Micro‑Frontends, Low‑Code & Beyond
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy

The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.

AWSCloud InfrastructureDevOps
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Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jan 16, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Cloud‑Native Architecture and Its Key Patterns

The article explains cloud‑native architecture as a set of principles and design patterns that offload non‑functional concerns to cloud services, and it details major patterns such as service‑oriented, mesh, serverless, storage‑compute separation, distributed transactions, observability, and event‑driven architectures.

Microservicescloud-nativeevent-driven
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Understanding Cloud‑Native Architecture and Its Key Patterns
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jan 11, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Insights on Serverless: Challenges, Opportunities, and Real‑World Adoption

The article presents an in‑depth interview with Alibaba Cloud Serverless leader Bu Chen, discussing the evolution, technical challenges, performance requirements, functional needs, and real‑world use cases of Serverless computing, while outlining Alibaba Cloud's vision to make Serverless the essential, user‑centric cloud infrastructure.

Alibaba CloudFunction-as-a-Serviceperformance
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Insights on Serverless: Challenges, Opportunities, and Real‑World Adoption
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 31, 2020 · Frontend Development

2020 Frontend Technology Trends: A Comprehensive Analysis from Tencent IMWeb Team

The Tencent IMWeb team’s 2020 analysis highlights seven key frontend trends—explosive TypeScript adoption, React’s dominance among major frameworks, the rise of WebAssembly, accelerating low‑code platforms, serverless full‑stack development, DevOps maturation, and booming WebRTC—while forecasting continued growth in these areas for 2021.

DevOpsFrontend TrendsLow-code
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2020 Frontend Technology Trends: A Comprehensive Analysis from Tencent IMWeb Team
Alibaba Terminal Technology
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.

Cloud NativeFunction-as-a-ServiceHigh Density Deployment
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How Ant Group Turned BFF Architecture into Serverless Frontend with SFF
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Dec 22, 2020 · Frontend Development

All Highlights & PPTs from the 15th D2 Frontend Tech Forum (Dec 19‑20)

The 15th D2 Frontend Technology Forum was held online on December 19‑20, featuring 21 talks—including international sessions—covering topics such as RxJS refactoring, cross‑platform solutions, web performance, WebAssembly IoT, large‑venue seat selection, AI‑driven code generation, ES2020/2021, fault drills, testing, serverless, SSR, and Node.js, with all presentation PPTs available via a QR code.

Node.jsWeb Developmentconference
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All Highlights & PPTs from the 15th D2 Frontend Tech Forum (Dec 19‑20)
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Dec 17, 2020 · Backend Development

Scaling from 20K to 1M Users: Service‑Size Strategies and Low‑Cost Refactoring

This article recounts a startup's journey from a tiny serverless stack to a 1‑million‑user architecture, analyzing systemic failures, cost issues, and architectural decay, then proposes service‑size classifications, dependency patterns, and a Minimal Business Unit refactoring approach to achieve scalable, low‑overhead growth.

backendrefactoringscalability
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Scaling from 20K to 1M Users: Service‑Size Strategies and Low‑Cost Refactoring
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Dec 17, 2020 · Cloud Native

Elastic Scaling in Serverless Cloud‑Native Applications

Elastic scaling, a cornerstone of Xianyu’s shift to serverless cloud-native architecture, leverages Kubernetes autoscaling components—Cluster‑Autoscaler, HPA, VPA—to dynamically adjust resources via reactive thresholds or predictive models, yet faces challenges like cold‑starts, lack of scale‑to‑zero, and optimal pod‑pool buffering, prompting ongoing research for faster, smarter, safer scaling.

Auto ScalingCloud-nativeElastic Scaling
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Elastic Scaling in Serverless Cloud‑Native Applications
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Dec 10, 2020 · Frontend Development

How JavaScript Dominated the Web: Alibaba’s Front‑End Innovations & Future Trends

From Jeff Atwood’s 2007 Atwood’s Law predicting JavaScript’s ubiquity to Alibaba’s decade‑long evolution of interactive front‑end technologies, this article explores web‑to‑media interaction, component‑based building systems, and the rise of serverless, highlighting how front‑end engineering now drives business innovation across platforms.

Alibabainteractiveserverless
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How JavaScript Dominated the Web: Alibaba’s Front‑End Innovations & Future Trends
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 9, 2020 · Industry Insights

What Future Cloud Technologies Were Unveiled at the Shenzhen Cloud+ Community Salon?

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.

Cloud NativeEdge computingIndustry Insights
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What Future Cloud Technologies Were Unveiled at the Shenzhen Cloud+ Community Salon?
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 2, 2020 · Cloud Native

Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs: Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Trends

This interview explores the origins, team structure, real‑world deployments, open‑source components, and research directions of Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs platform, highlighting its multi‑cloud toolchain, advantages over existing solutions, and its impact on backend development and micro‑service architectures.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeFaaS
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Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs: Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Trends
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 26, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How Gaode Scaled Serverless to Handle 2 Million Calls per Minute During China’s Travel Festival

During the 2020 "Golden Week" travel festival, Gaode Maps leveraged Alibaba Cloud Serverless to sustain nearly two million function invocations per minute, achieving over 99.99% success rate, sub‑60 ms latency, and demonstrating significant gains in efficiency, elasticity, cost savings, and observability for large‑scale map services.

Cloud Computingcost optimizationperformance
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How Gaode Scaled Serverless to Handle 2 Million Calls per Minute During China’s Travel Festival
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Nov 21, 2020 · Cloud Native

Understanding Serverless: Evolution, Definitions, and Its Role in Cloud‑Native Architecture

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.

Cloud NativeFunction ComputePaaS
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Understanding Serverless: Evolution, Definitions, and Its Role in Cloud‑Native Architecture
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Nov 17, 2020 · Cloud Native

What Is Cloud Native? Core Concepts, Technologies, and Benefits Explained

This article defines cloud native as an optimal, low‑overhead approach to designing software that lives in the cloud, outlines its key technology domains—including containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, observability, and serverless—and explains why evolving infrastructure to the cloud brings consistency, scalability, and immutable deployment advantages.

Container TechnologyInfrastructure as CodeKubernetes
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What Is Cloud Native? Core Concepts, Technologies, and Benefits Explained
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Nov 16, 2020 · Frontend Development

Taobao Frontend Secrets Behind Double 11: FaaS, D2C, Performance Hacks

This article details how Taobao's frontend team tackled the double‑peak Double 11 challenge with massive workload, introduced Design‑to‑Code automation, Serverless FaaS, progressive hybrid apps, edge rendering and smart UI, achieving higher efficiency, stability, and conversion gains across the massive shopping festival.

Double11Optimizationdesign-to-code
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Taobao Frontend Secrets Behind Double 11: FaaS, D2C, Performance Hacks
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 9, 2020 · Cloud Native

Serverless Components: Principles, Deployment Process, Ecosystem, and Cross‑Border Collaboration

The article explains Serverless Components—a higher‑level, open‑source solution from the Serverless Framework that streamlines infrastructure orchestration on Tencent Cloud through unified CLI tools, reusable component catalogs, rapid deployment workflows (including a Next.js example), and a year‑long cross‑border collaboration that expands the ecosystem and addresses common usage questions.

Cloud NativeCross-border CollaborationServerless Framework
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Serverless Components: Principles, Deployment Process, Ecosystem, and Cross‑Border Collaboration
政采云技术
政采云技术
Nov 8, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Understanding FaaS and Serverless with Alibaba Cloud Function Compute

This article explains the concepts of Serverless, FaaS and BaaS, demonstrates how to build and deploy a Todo List application using Alibaba Cloud Function Compute and the Midway FaaS framework, and discusses advantages, pricing, cold‑start issues, and best‑practice optimizations for serverless development.

Alibaba CloudCloud FunctionsFaaS
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Understanding FaaS and Serverless with Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Nov 2, 2020 · Cloud Computing

High-Concurrency Architecture and Optimization Strategies in Cloud Development

During the pandemic, the Yunnan “Anti‑Epidemic” mini‑program faced over 80 W requests per minute, prompting an analysis of how cloud development’s serverless, auto‑scaling architecture—covering data pipelines, cloud functions, and cloud databases—can ensure high performance, availability, and cost‑effective handling of massive concurrent traffic.

Cloud ComputingCloud FunctionsDatabase Scaling
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High-Concurrency Architecture and Optimization Strategies in Cloud Development
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Oct 29, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Distributed Atmospheric Monitoring System – Cloud Architecture, Module Implementation, and Cost Analysis

The paper describes Tencent’s community‑driven distributed atmospheric monitoring platform, detailing its multi‑layer cloud architecture, data ingestion and aggregation modules built with API Gateway, Serverless Functions, MySQL, and Cloud Map, and compares Phase II and Phase III operational costs while outlining future enhancements.

Data PipelineDistributed MonitoringIoT
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Distributed Atmospheric Monitoring System – Cloud Architecture, Module Implementation, and Cost Analysis
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Oct 27, 2020 · Frontend Development

15th D2 Frontend Technology Forum

The 15th D2 Frontend Technology Forum, an Alibaba‑hosted online conference on Youku (Dec 19‑20 2020), offers early‑bird (30 CNY) and regular (98 CNY) tickets and features five tracks—including language frameworks, cross‑end tech, serverless Node.js, security, and diversified applications—showcasing ECMAScript, RxJS, Flutter, IoT, game‑level interaction and multimedia in a non‑profit, coffee‑price experience.

D2FrontendJavaScript
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15th D2 Frontend Technology Forum
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Oct 15, 2020 · Industry Insights

Cutting Data Dashboard Development Time from Days to Hours: Xianyu’s 3‑Layer Serverless Solution

Xianyu transformed its slow, manual data‑analysis workflow— plagued by BI bottlenecks, slow SQL, and cumbersome front‑end integration—into a three‑layer, serverless architecture that abstracts SQL into reusable atoms, automates data pipelines, and delivers smart, seconds‑level visual dashboards, slashing development effort from five days to half a day.

Data PipelineData VisualizationLow-code
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Cutting Data Dashboard Development Time from Days to Hours: Xianyu’s 3‑Layer Serverless Solution
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 23, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Serverless FaaS Still Needs Containers: Overcoming the Barriers

The article examines the limitations of traditional Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) such as environment inconsistency, learning cost, and vendor lock‑in, and explains how supporting container images in serverless platforms addresses these issues while improving portability, CI/CD integration, cold‑start performance, and hybrid deployment scenarios.

Cloud NativeFaaScontainer images
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Why Serverless FaaS Still Needs Containers: Overcoming the Barriers
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Sep 22, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Xianyu Scaled to Billions with Cloud‑Native Serverless Architecture

This article explores how Alibaba's Xianyu marketplace transformed its massive C2C platform by adopting cloud‑native and serverless technologies, detailing the motivations, phased implementation, technical challenges, and future considerations that enabled rapid development, reduced operational costs, and improved scalability.

AlibabaCloud Nativeflutter
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How Xianyu Scaled to Billions with Cloud‑Native Serverless Architecture
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Sep 18, 2020 · Cloud Native

Xianyu's Cloud-Native Serverless Architecture Journey

Facing monolithic bottlenecks, Alibaba’s Xianyu marketplace embarked on a four‑year serverless transformation—building a Dart FaaS layer, unifying Flutter and backend via the Nexus API, standardizing tooling with GCLI, and cutting development effort by ~30 % and bugs by ~20 %, while tackling Java heterogeneity, environment consistency, and security, and now aims to complete the migration within months.

AlibabaCloudNativeXianyu
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Xianyu's Cloud-Native Serverless Architecture Journey
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Sep 15, 2020 · Backend Development

How Midway Serverless Redefines Cloud‑Native Backend Development with React‑Style Hooks

This talk walks through Alibaba's Node.js Serverless landscape, introduces the Midway Serverless framework and its new cloud‑integrated development model, and details its functional R&D, hook‑based APIs, performance optimizations, and real‑world adoption, highlighting future open‑source plans.

Cloud NativeMidwayNode.js
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How Midway Serverless Redefines Cloud‑Native Backend Development with React‑Style Hooks
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 15, 2020 · Backend Development

Build and Deploy a Spring Boot App Using Alibaba Cloud Development Platform

This article walks through creating, configuring, testing, and deploying a Spring Boot application on Alibaba Cloud's Development Platform, covering both online and local development modes, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and practical tips for smoother serverless workflows.

Alibaba CloudCI/CDCloud Development Platform
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Build and Deploy a Spring Boot App Using Alibaba Cloud Development Platform
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 11, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Build a Java Hello World on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in 8 Simple Steps

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 CloudCloud ComputingFunction Compute
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Build a Java Hello World on Alibaba Cloud Serverless in 8 Simple Steps
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Sep 9, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Serverless Introduction for Front-End Engineers

This article explains the concept, evolution, architecture, advantages, disadvantages, and typical use cases of Serverless computing, highlighting its rapid growth, core components like FaaS and BaaS, and how front‑end developers can leverage it to focus on business logic while reducing infrastructure concerns.

BaaSCloud ComputingFaaS
0 likes · 10 min read
Serverless Introduction for Front-End Engineers
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Sep 2, 2020 · Backend Development

Unlocking Language Limits in Tencent Cloud SCF with Custom Runtime

Tencent Cloud’s Serverless Cloud Function (SCF) removes its language restrictions by providing a Custom Runtime that runs any Linux binary or script as a bootstrap, communicates with SCF via an HTTP API during cold‑start initialization and hot‑start invocations, enabling developers to deploy functions in unsupported languages such as .NET, Rust, Deno, Swift or WebAssembly, as shown by a Deno example.

Cloud FunctionsSCFTencent Cloud
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Unlocking Language Limits in Tencent Cloud SCF with Custom Runtime
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Sep 1, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Serverless Is the Future of Cloud Computing: Insights from Alibaba Cloud’s Leader

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.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeFunction Compute
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Why Serverless Is the Future of Cloud Computing: Insights from Alibaba Cloud’s Leader
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Aug 28, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Unlocking Serverless: Real-World Alibaba Cloud FaaS Use Cases & Deployment Guide

This article explains what serverless computing is, outlines its key advantages and limitations, presents typical use cases such as video transcoding and IoT monitoring, compares it with micro‑services, and provides a step‑by‑step Alibaba Cloud FaaS deployment tutorial using Funcraft scripts and CLI commands.

Alibaba CloudCloud ComputingFaaS
0 likes · 17 min read
Unlocking Serverless: Real-World Alibaba Cloud FaaS Use Cases & Deployment Guide
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 20, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How Yuque Scaled from Prototype to Cloud‑Native Service with Serverless Function Compute

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.

Function ComputeMicroservicesNode.js
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How Yuque Scaled from Prototype to Cloud‑Native Service with Serverless Function Compute
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 20, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Yuque Scaled from Prototype to Cloud‑Native Service with Serverless Functions

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.

Backend ArchitectureCloud NativeFunction Compute
0 likes · 18 min read
How Yuque Scaled from Prototype to Cloud‑Native Service with Serverless Functions
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Aug 19, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Serverless: Promise or Panic? Uncovering the Real Benefits and Risks

The article examines the evolution of cloud computing, highlighting 2009’s pivotal milestones and the 2019 rise of Serverless, then critically assesses Serverless’s touted advantages—elasticity, reduced operations, rapid deployment—against practical challenges such as cold‑start latency, vendor hype, and migration complexities.

Cloud Computingcold startelasticity
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Serverless: Promise or Panic? Uncovering the Real Benefits and Risks
Tencent Cloud Middleware
Tencent Cloud Middleware
Aug 12, 2020 · Big Data

How Serverless Functions Can Replace Traditional Kafka Data Pipelines for Lower Cost and Easier Scaling

This article explains how Tencent Cloud CKafka works, describes the challenges of traditional open‑source data‑flow solutions, and demonstrates a Serverless Function approach—complete with architecture diagrams and code examples—to achieve low‑cost, auto‑scaling Kafka‑to‑Elasticsearch pipelines.

Big DataCKafkaData Pipeline
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How Serverless Functions Can Replace Traditional Kafka Data Pipelines for Lower Cost and Easier Scaling
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Aug 7, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Midway Serverless Simplifies Multi‑Cloud Function Deployment

This article introduces Midway Serverless, explains its background in the serverless trend, details its architecture, directory structure, toolchain, dependency‑injection mechanism, anti‑corruption layer, lifecycle hooks, and how it enables seamless migration of traditional Node.js applications to multiple cloud platforms with minimal code changes.

Cloud NativeFunction-as-a-ServiceMidway
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How Midway Serverless Simplifies Multi‑Cloud Function Deployment
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Aug 7, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Alibaba's FaaS Platform for Content Distribution: Design and Implementation

Alibaba’s FaaS platform for Youku content distribution replaces traditional Java services with a gateway‑driven, containerized function runtime and one‑stop development/ops portal, delivering low‑cost development, isolated JVM execution, transparent monitoring, and rapid API and data‑source integration, dramatically speeding iteration while addressing classloader and lifecycle challenges.

AlibabaContent DistributionFaaS
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Alibaba's FaaS Platform for Content Distribution: Design and Implementation
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 5, 2020 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba’s FaaS Platform Boosts Content Delivery with Serverless Tech

This article outlines the design, key technical challenges, and practical implementation of Alibaba’s Youku FaaS platform, detailing its architecture, runtime environment, development workflow, and how serverless functions improve development efficiency, deployment speed, resource isolation, and operational monitoring for large‑scale content distribution.

Cloud ComputingContent DistributionFaaS
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How Alibaba’s FaaS Platform Boosts Content Delivery with Serverless Tech
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Jul 30, 2020 · Cloud Native

Improving FaaS Development Experience with Task Orchestration in a Flutter+Serverless Architecture

The article shows how a three‑tier Flutter‑Serverless setup uses the Jade task‑orchestration framework to turn each FaaS operation into reusable tasks that can be chained serially or in parallel, clarifying workflow, reducing boilerplate, improving error handling, monitoring, and overall development quality.

FaaSQualityTask orchestration
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Improving FaaS Development Experience with Task Orchestration in a Flutter+Serverless Architecture
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 29, 2020 · Mobile Development

Flutter Cloud-End Integration: Practice and Future Outlook

The article traces development from separate Android, iOS, and Web codebases through unified big‑frontend frameworks like Flutter to a cloud‑end integration model that lets frontend developers directly consume cloud services, outlines Tencent Cloud’s SDKs and phased migration strategy, addresses current Dart and tooling gaps, and predicts developers will need combined client‑side and cloud expertise.

BaaSTencent Cloudcloud development
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Flutter Cloud-End Integration: Practice and Future Outlook
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 29, 2020 · Databases

How Tencent CloudBase Powers Mini‑Program Development with a High‑Performance Distributed NoSQL Database

This article explains the background, competitive landscape, requirements, and architectural design of Tencent CloudBase's cloud database for mini‑programs, detailing its security, ease of use, low‑cost, high‑performance, and flexible solutions, including access control, data safety, elastic scaling, hot migration, and intelligent DBA features.

DatabasesNoSQLsecurity
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How Tencent CloudBase Powers Mini‑Program Development with a High‑Performance Distributed NoSQL Database
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 22, 2020 · Cloud Native

Serverless and Cloud‑Native Applications: Concepts, Architecture, and SSR Implementation

The talk reviews Serverless origins, defines its cloud‑native architecture that lets developers focus on business logic, highlights benefits like pay‑per‑use scaling, demonstrates rapid Next.js SSR deployment via the Serverless Framework with built‑in monitoring, and outlines a top‑down development and operations workflow.

Cloud ComputingCloud NativeFunction-as-a-Service
0 likes · 20 min read
Serverless and Cloud‑Native Applications: Concepts, Architecture, and SSR Implementation
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 19, 2020 · Industry Insights

Why Serverless Is Accelerating in China: Trends, Challenges, and Tencent Cloud’s 1 ms Billing Breakthrough

The article reviews the rapid growth of Serverless in China, highlights key technical and cost challenges, outlines Tencent Cloud’s ecosystem, product, and community initiatives—including the 1 ms billing granularity—and cites industry recognition such as Forrester’s Top‑3 ranking.

Billing GranularityCloud NativeIndustry Trends
0 likes · 8 min read
Why Serverless Is Accelerating in China: Trends, Challenges, and Tencent Cloud’s 1 ms Billing Breakthrough
58 Tech
58 Tech
May 27, 2020 · Backend Development

Building a One‑Stop Serverless Node Service Management Platform: Architecture, Development, Deployment, and Monitoring

This article describes the design and implementation of a Serverless‑based one‑stop node service management platform, covering its full‑stack engineering architecture, frontend and backend project organization, logging, process monitoring, one‑click deployment, and a comparison of Serverless solutions, while sharing practical challenges and technical solutions.

Cloud NativeNode.jsserverless
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Building a One‑Stop Serverless Node Service Management Platform: Architecture, Development, Deployment, and Monitoring
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
May 27, 2020 · Cloud Native

GCLI: A Command-Line Tool for Unified Serverless FaaS Development

GCLI, a Docker‑driven command‑line tool created by Xianyu, unifies Flutter‑based serverless FaaS development by providing consistent, cross‑OS environments and simple commands for hot‑deploy, invocation, logging, and local debugging, cutting deployment time from ten minutes to five seconds and lowering entry barriers to about thirty minutes.

CLIDockerFaaS
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GCLI: A Command-Line Tool for Unified Serverless FaaS Development
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 26, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Serverless Containers Are Shaping the Future of Cloud‑Native Kubernetes

This article examines the rising trend of serverless containers, their application value, architectural design for cloud‑native Kubernetes, key challenges such as startup latency and scalability, and how Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Kubernetes and ECI solutions address these issues while offering a free learning course.

InfrastructureKubernetescontainer
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Why Serverless Containers Are Shaping the Future of Cloud‑Native Kubernetes
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 20, 2020 · Operations

5 Emerging DevOps Trends to Watch in 2020

The article outlines five major DevOps trends for 2020—including AI‑driven automation, the rise of Golang, serverless architecture, cloud‑native practices, and the growing focus on DevSecOps—explaining how each will reshape software delivery and operational efficiency.

AIDevOpsgolang
0 likes · 7 min read
5 Emerging DevOps Trends to Watch in 2020
Node Underground
Node Underground
May 20, 2020 · Frontend Development

Build a Serverless React App with Midway FaaS: Step‑by‑Step Guide

This tutorial walks you through creating a React front‑end integrated with Midway FaaS, covering installation, project scaffolding, local development, and cloud deployment, while highlighting the benefits of a unified front‑end and serverless architecture.

Midway FaaSReActTutorial
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Build a Serverless React App with Midway FaaS: Step‑by‑Step Guide
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
May 15, 2020 · Frontend Development

Serverless: A New Front‑End Development Paradigm

This article explores how Serverless computing reshapes front‑end development by tracing the evolution of front‑end architectures, introducing Serverless concepts and services, presenting practical frameworks, CLI tools, and code examples, and offering best‑practice guidance on testing, performance optimization, and deployment patterns for modern web and mini‑program applications.

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Serverless: A New Front‑End Development Paradigm
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
May 15, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Serverless Is Redefining Frontend Development: From BFF to JAMS

This article explores how the shift from traditional Backend‑For‑Frontend (BFF) to Serverless‑For‑Frontend (SFF) and the evolution of JAMstack into JAMS, combined with FAB bundles and serverless‑side rendering, can dramatically improve developer experience, performance, and scalability for modern web applications.

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How Serverless Is Redefining Frontend Development: From BFF to JAMS
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
May 12, 2020 · Cloud Native

How to Dodge the Top Pitfalls of Using Midway FaaS for Serverless Front‑End Development

This guide walks front‑end developers through the major traps when adopting Alibaba’s Midway FaaS serverless framework—covering platform selection, CLI usage, code structure, local debugging, deployment configuration, and cost‑saving tips—so you can launch cloud‑native applications quickly without costly mistakes.

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How to Dodge the Top Pitfalls of Using Midway FaaS for Serverless Front‑End Development
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
May 9, 2020 · Fundamentals

Key Software Architecture Trends for 2020: Micro Frontends, AsyncAPI, Data Mesh, Policy as Code, Serverless, Low‑Code, and More

The article surveys the most significant software‑architecture trends of 2020—including micro frontends, AsyncAPI, data mesh, policy‑as‑code, serverless, low‑code/no‑code, and GraphQL—highlighting expert opinions, adoption status, and the ethical considerations shaping modern distributed systems.

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Key Software Architecture Trends for 2020: Micro Frontends, AsyncAPI, Data Mesh, Policy as Code, Serverless, Low‑Code, and More
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Apr 29, 2020 · Cloud Native

Unifying TypeScript and Dart for a Serverless FaaS Platform at Xianyu

Xianyu unified its front‑end TypeScript and back‑end Dart by building a source‑to‑source translator that converts TS syntax, maps native methods, bridges business frameworks and dependencies, enabling a single scaffold to manage FaaS projects, reducing silos and streamlining serverless development.

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Unifying TypeScript and Dart for a Serverless FaaS Platform at Xianyu
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 26, 2020 · Cloud Native

How to Build Serverless Cloud‑Native Apps with RocketMQ and Knative

This article explains how to combine RocketMQ with Knative to create cloud‑native, event‑driven serverless applications, covering cloud‑native fundamentals, Knative architecture, RocketMQSource integration, a food‑delivery use case, deployment steps, command‑line examples, and additional scenarios.

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How to Build Serverless Cloud‑Native Apps with RocketMQ and Knative
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 22, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Build a Turnip Price Tracker with Alibaba Cloud Serverless Mini‑Program

Learn how to create a mini‑program that records and shares Animal Crossing turnip prices by leveraging Alibaba Cloud Serverless, including cloud functions, MongoDB‑based storage, and front‑end development with JavaScript, while walking through registration, tool setup, and architecture overview.

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Build a Turnip Price Tracker with Alibaba Cloud Serverless Mini‑Program
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 21, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why OAM Makes Serverless on AWS ECS a One‑Click Deployment

This article explains how the Open Application Model (OAM) abstracts away infrastructure details, enabling developers to define applications with concise YAML files and deploy them to AWS Fargate via the Amazon ECS for OAM project using just a few simple commands.

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Why OAM Makes Serverless on AWS ECS a One‑Click Deployment
Youku Technology
Youku Technology
Apr 13, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Youku Revamped Its Frontend: From PHP to Node.js and React SSR

The article chronicles Youku’s front‑end transformation over the past two years, detailing the migration from PHP to Node.js, the shift from Bigpipe + jQuery to React server‑side rendering, performance gains, component‑level isomorphism, serverless SSR strategies, and the open‑source framework that underpins these changes.

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How Youku Revamped Its Frontend: From PHP to Node.js and React SSR
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 8, 2020 · Cloud Native

Serverless Is Like Teenage Sex – Unpacking the Hype and Reality

The article explores the current state of Serverless, comparing its hype to teenage sex, examines why many talk about it without practical implementation, outlines its vision of abstracting servers, discusses gaps in programming models and cloud native tooling, and identifies the real needs for stability, security, and cost‑effective resource management.

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Serverless Is Like Teenage Sex – Unpacking the Hype and Reality
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 3, 2020 · Cloud Native

TVP Technical Closed-door Conference Summary: Exploring the Dawn of Technology Trends

The TVP Technical Closed‑door Conference gathered 44 experts across eight sessions to examine post‑pandemic technology trends—including blockchain as institutional infrastructure, cloud‑native databases and serverless computing, industrial internet transformation, data‑driven online education, federated learning for privacy‑preserving AI, and the shift toward resource‑focused technical entrepreneurship.

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TVP Technical Closed-door Conference Summary: Exploring the Dawn of Technology Trends
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Apr 1, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Serverless Cloud Development for Mini Programs: Overview and Opportunities

Wang Lihua’s talk introduces Tencent Cloud Base’s serverless cloud development platform for Mini Programs—an integrated, one‑cloud‑multiple‑clients solution that eliminates backend setup, offers elastic resources, rich SDKs, and pre‑packaged services—enabling rapid, low‑cost app creation, real‑time scaling, and new developer roles across web, mobile, and cloud.

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Serverless Cloud Development for Mini Programs: Overview and Opportunities
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Mar 23, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Understanding Serverless: Concepts, Architecture, and Practical Deployment

The article explains serverless computing—distinguishing it from pure FaaS, outlining its layered architecture, core principles of the Serverless Framework, and step‑by‑step deployment using the CLI—showing how developers can quickly turn ideas into scalable products while abstracting infrastructure management.

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Understanding Serverless: Concepts, Architecture, and Practical Deployment
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 20, 2020 · Cloud Native

Build Elastic, Low‑Cost Serverless Video Processing on Alibaba Cloud

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.

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Build Elastic, Low‑Cost Serverless Video Processing on Alibaba Cloud
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Mar 19, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Cloud Native Is Reshaping Enterprises: Key Takeaways from Tencent’s TVP Forum

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.

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Why Cloud Native Is Reshaping Enterprises: Key Takeaways from Tencent’s TVP Forum
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Mar 19, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Serverless vs Containers: Which Cloud Model Wins for Your Apps?

This article compares Serverless and container-based microservices, covering definitions, cost and maintenance benefits, use cases, limitations, and when to choose each approach or a hybrid model for modern cloud applications.

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Serverless vs Containers: Which Cloud Model Wins for Your Apps?
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 18, 2020 · Cloud Native

From Java Monolith to Serverless Kubernetes: Building a Custom Container Orchestration System

This article recounts a developer's journey from a single‑machine Java monolith to a full‑stack container orchestration platform, explaining why Kubernetes was needed, how master‑worker components like kube‑apiserver, scheduler, etcd, kubelet and kube‑proxy work together, and how the design evolves toward a serverless model.

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From Java Monolith to Serverless Kubernetes: Building a Custom Container Orchestration System
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Mar 18, 2020 · Cloud Native

Cloud Native Technology Insights from Tencent Cloud TVP Technical Closed-Door Meeting

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.

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Cloud Native Technology Insights from Tencent Cloud TVP Technical Closed-Door Meeting