This guide walks through creating a home temperature‑humidity monitoring system with a Raspberry Pi and DHT11 sensor, collecting data via JavaScript, sending it to Alibaba Cloud SLS, processing it through DataWorks and MaxCompute, and visualizing the results in QuickBI dashboards.
The 2022 AI‑2000 ranking highlights Alibaba Cloud as one of the ten most influential network research institutions worldwide, detailing its extensive publication record, breakthrough low‑latency RDMA technologies, NFC distance expansion, and the XLINK QUIC protocol that collectively reshape data‑center and wide‑area networking.
This tutorial explains how to create unique, anime‑style avatars from personal photos by leveraging Alibaba Cloud's Vision AI service, covering account setup, AccessKey creation, required SDK installations, Python code for configuring the client, sending requests, and retrieving the generated image URLs.
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 interview chronicles Liu Hongqiang’s journey from Tsinghua and Yale to becoming a leading Alibaba Cloud network researcher, highlighting his award‑winning papers, groundbreaking protocols such as HPCC, ACL automation, NFC+, and XLINK, and his philosophy of balanced, impact‑driven innovation.
On May 12, the inaugural Immersion Liquid Cooling Intelligent Computing Industry Forum held online featured nearly forty industry representatives and saw Alibaba Cloud unveil three new immersion liquid cooling technical standards and two whitepapers, highlighting material compatibility, cabinet and server structure guidelines, optical module reliability, and recent research achievements toward sustainable, high‑efficiency data center solutions.
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 walks through Alibaba Cloud EventBridge’s event standardization, shows step‑by‑step how to integrate OSS events for automatic file unzipping, demonstrates custom event source filtering to store data in RDS, and explains using EventBridge event streams to route RocketMQ messages to MNS, complete with code snippets and configuration details.
This guide walks you through deploying a static website on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute by creating an Express‑based HTTP server, adding a bootstrap script, configuring Serverless Devs with an s.yaml file, deploying the code, and setting up a custom domain for public access.
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 article explains the core concepts of Alibaba Cloud EventBridge for building event‑driven architectures, compares imperative and declarative IaC approaches, and provides detailed Terraform examples—including a DingTalk alert and a custom bus triggering FunctionCompute—complete with code snippets and deployment steps.
This article explains how integrating Alibaba Cloud's Log Service (SLS) with the Codeup code‑hosting platform creates a seamless log‑to‑source link, enabling developers and operators to quickly pinpoint problematic code in microservice environments without manual repository setup or local downloads.
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.
Learn how to create a personal, unlimited‑speed cloud drive that mimics a Windows experience by deploying the open‑source KodBox file manager on Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, using NAS for persistent storage and OSS for object storage, with detailed cost analysis and step‑by‑step deployment guide.
This article explains the memory challenges of containers in cloud‑native Kubernetes environments, describes how Kubernetes maps Request/Limit to cgroups, outlines the limitations of overcommit and mixed workloads, and details Alibaba Cloud Linux 2's Memory QoS features—including memory.min, memory.high, async reclaim, and global water‑mark adjustments—that improve fairness and latency, supported by Redis benchmark results.
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step Terraform tutorial for Alibaba Cloud, covering RAM account setup, environment variables, version configuration, VPC and security group creation, ECS provisioning, web service deployment, DNS addition, output handling, and resource cleanup, complete with code snippets and command illustrations.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's Application High Availability Service (AHAS) to monitor QPS, define granular rate‑limiting rules, prevent abuse, isolate upstream failures, and protect both HTTP and non‑HTTP workloads in microservice architectures.
This article chronicles the evolution of cloud‑native container technology—from early IaaS and PaaS concepts, through Docker’s rise, Kubernetes’s dominance, to modern serverless offerings like Alibaba Cloud’s ECI and ASK—highlighting how managed services simplify operations and enable rapid, pod‑level scaling.
This article explains Event‑Driven Architecture, introduces Alibaba Cloud EventBridge's HTTP Source, and provides step‑by‑step guides for integrating DingTalk, GitHub, Grafana, and other SaaS services, covering configuration, security settings, and monitoring of asynchronous events.
This guide explains how to use Apache JMeter for native and distributed load testing, configure and execute tests on Alibaba Cloud PTS via the console, OpenAPI, or the PTS‑JMeter plugin, and how to monitor, analyze, and export detailed performance reports.
A developer recounts a frustrating exchange with an Alibaba Cloud support engineer over missing images, explains why HTTPS CDN links failed, and shares a step‑by‑step workaround using HTTP links and OSS to restore image accessibility for GitHub‑hosted sites.
This tutorial explains how to use Alibaba Cloud EventBridge together with MNS and RabbitMQ to implement message routing, multi‑active messaging, and protocol adaptation, providing detailed architecture, resource setup, step‑by‑step lab instructions, verification methods, and a summary of advantages.
Alibaba Cloud topped the 2021 Chinese green electricity procurement ranking with 269 GWh, highlighting the rapid growth of green power trading, its environmental significance, and the company's broader carbon‑neutral initiatives across its data centers and operations.
This guide details a low‑overhead, highly available Harbor deployment on Alibaba Cloud, covering preparation of SLB, ECS, NFS storage, installation of Docker‑Compose, configuration of image mirrors, installation of Harbor 2.3, setup of PostgreSQL 13 master‑slave replication, Redis integration, backup procedures, failover handling, and disaster‑recovery strategies.
Despite widespread cloud adoption, large‑scale outages still occur, prompting Alibaba Cloud’s high‑availability team to share the evolution, principles, and open‑source implementation of multi‑active disaster recovery (AppActive) that aims to achieve minute‑level failover and near‑zero downtime.
Alibaba Cloud's real‑time data warehouse Hologres passed a large‑scale performance test of up to 8,192 nodes, demonstrating how cloud‑native design, automated operations, and intelligent monitoring enable ultra‑large‑scale deployment and high‑availability for enterprise data platforms.
This article outlines the current data security challenges and trends in digital transformation, presents Alibaba Cloud's privacy-enhancing computing approach with the DataTrust product, and details the DSMM framework, lifecycle protection, and practical solutions for secure data sharing and usage.
This guide shows how to create a full‑duplex bullet‑screen (barrage) application on Alibaba Cloud using Serverless architecture, API Gateway, Function Compute, OSS and Tablestore, covering the overall design, data model, step‑by‑step deployment, and essential code snippets.
This guide explains why Spring Boot applications suffer 30‑second cold‑start delays on serverless platforms, breaks down each startup phase, and provides three practical optimization techniques—reserved instances, lazy initialization with JVM tweaks, and proper instance‑concurrency sizing—to dramatically improve response times.
The article recounts Alibaba Cloud’s large‑scale IPv6 rollout, highlighting a thank‑you letter from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the technical benefits of IPv6 over IPv4, deployment challenges, optimization efforts, and the broader impact on digital society.
This presentation details Alibaba Cloud DataWorks Data Integration (DataX), covering its architecture, core design principles, offline and real‑time synchronization mechanisms, deployment modes, product positioning, use‑case scenarios, and its role within the broader DataWorks ecosystem, highlighting its capabilities for large‑scale data movement and processing.
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.
The article examines how China’s domestic database market is shifting from legacy commercial systems to cloud‑native solutions like Alibaba Cloud’s PolarDB, highlighting Gartner’s recognition, architectural innovations, open‑source initiatives, and the broader impact on the nation’s digital economy.
This article explains Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes's differential SLO approach, detailing the reclaimed‑resource model, CPU burst and topology‑aware scheduling, kernel group identity, memory watermark tiering, and real‑world case studies that demonstrate significant improvements in cluster efficiency and latency‑sensitive workload performance.
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 article presents a step‑by‑step guide for constructing a hybrid cloud disaster‑recovery solution using MSHA's multi‑active architecture, covering business background, design challenges, dual‑active deployment, traffic routing, data synchronization, one‑click failover, and validation of sub‑minute RPO/RTO for e‑commerce platforms.
This article explains how Spring Cloud Alibaba provides a one‑stop microservices solution, details its components and migration costs, offers practical learning steps, and recommends resources for mastering the framework, making it ideal for businesses seeking rapid digital transformation.
This article explains the background, design, and usage of Alibaba Cloud Function Compute's Instance Exec capability, showing how developers can securely access live function instances via the console or SDK, and apply it to troubleshooting, performance profiling, and custom runtime optimization.
This guide walks through a hybrid cloud disaster‑recovery demo for an e‑commerce platform, detailing business background, requirements, challenges, the MSHA‑based active‑active solution, step‑by‑step implementation, and verification of sub‑minute RPO/RTO using Alibaba Cloud services and Chaos engineering.
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 article introduces Alibaba’s Nacos, tracing its origins from an internal project to an open‑source configuration service, and explains its core capabilities, basic configuration model, namespace design for multi‑tenant isolation, and provides visual diagrams to illustrate these concepts.
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology suspended Alibaba Cloud for six months after the company failed to promptly report a critical Log4j2 vulnerability, highlighting the importance of timely disclosure and compliance with national cybersecurity regulations.
This article explains the total number of IPv4 addresses worldwide, details China's allocated IPv4 blocks, shows how to extract and sum them using a script, and compares the IP holdings of major Chinese cloud providers and global giants like Amazon.
The Chinese cybersecurity authority has suspended Alibaba Cloud’s partnership for six months after the company discovered a critical Log4j2 vulnerability but failed to promptly report it, highlighting gaps in vulnerability disclosure and threat‑management processes.
This article introduces the Alibaba Cloud Community's big‑data section, outlines its extensive learning resources—including e‑books, Q&A, learning paths, open courses, and activities—explains why the industry has shifted toward cloud‑based platforms, and provides links for deeper exploration, all aimed at helping newcomers advance in big data engineering.
Alibaba Cloud’s 10 kV AC‑input DC UPS system and high‑elasticity cooling technology were officially listed in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s 2021 National Telecom Energy‑Saving Product Catalog, highlighting significant efficiency gains and supporting China’s green data‑center initiatives.
This article explains the background, architecture, and performance of Alibaba Cloud's SMC‑R technology, which enables transparent, zero‑modification use of RDMA over standard socket interfaces, offering higher throughput and lower latency for cloud workloads while providing automatic fallback to TCP.
This article details Baicaowei's migration from an IDC‑hosted Hadoop cluster to a cloud‑native data lake on Alibaba Cloud, outlining the business drivers, pain points of the legacy platform, architectural goals, design principles, solution selection, implementation steps, and future outlook for the new big‑data ecosystem.
In a seven‑day sprint, Nanguo Film transformed its entire streaming platform by moving over 30 systems to Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Application Engine, cutting operational effort by 70%, reducing costs by more than 40%, and achieving ten‑fold faster scaling while maintaining zero downtime.
This guide walks through purchasing an Alibaba Cloud ECS instance, selecting configurations, setting up networking and security groups, and using SSH tools, covering steps from initial purchase to server management and optional upgrades such as bandwidth, disk reset, and system replacement.
This tutorial introduces Knative, explains its architecture and core components, and provides a detailed, image‑rich walkthrough for deploying Knative on Alibaba Cloud, testing a sample serverless application, and managing the cluster via CloudShell.
Full‑link tracing links users, back‑end services, and cloud components into a comprehensive topology, delivering three core benefits—end‑to‑end diagnosis, dependency mapping, and custom tag propagation—while addressing multi‑language protocol unification, front‑back‑cloud coordination, and cross‑cloud data fusion with practical ARMS integration steps.
This guide explains how to debug serverless applications using online console debugging, remote breakpoint debugging, command‑line tools, IDE plugins, web‑framework local testing, event simulation, and offers optimization tips such as resource assessment, code‑package sizing, instance reuse, and advanced platform features like pre‑freeze, pre‑stop, and single‑instance concurrency.
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 reviews Alibaba Cloud senior algorithm expert Chen Mosha's presentation on medical NLP, covering Alibaba's healthcare business, data types, electronic medical record quality inspection, span‑based and nested NER models, term normalization, clinical trial outcome prediction, knowledge‑enhanced language models, and the CBLUE benchmark dataset.
The 2020 IDC report shows Alibaba Cloud leading China’s relational database market with over 28% share, pioneering cloud‑native solutions like PolarDB and RDS, while public‑cloud deployments surpass traditional on‑premises databases, a trend expected to reach 73.5% by 2025.
Alibaba Cloud's server R&D team presented a paper on signal‑integrity analysis for immersion liquid‑cooled servers at DesignCon 2021, introducing a novel analytical method, experimental findings on material effects, and design recommendations that support large‑scale data‑center liquid‑cooling deployments.
This article explains the rapid growth of data, the limitations of traditional warehouses, and how a cloud‑based data lake built on object storage with Delta Lake format provides low‑cost, flexible, and ACID‑compliant analytics, followed by a step‑by‑step guide to ingest, manage, and analyze data using Alibaba Cloud DLF and Databricks DDI with Spark streaming and batch jobs.
This article walks through a personal tutorial on using Alibaba Cloud's Serverless platform to deploy a handheld NES game console, detailing the setup of Function Compute, one‑click deployment steps, code snippets, and how to load and play classic games on your phone.
This guide explains how to use Windows Containers on Alibaba Cloud ECS and ACK to containerize and run .NET Framework 4.x applications, covering Windows Container basics, Alibaba Cloud image support, step‑by‑step deployment commands, networking, resource limits, and Docker Compose usage.
Alibaba Cloud’s Zhangbei data center in Hebei leverages abundant wind energy, advanced air‑handling units, and pioneering liquid‑cooling technology to achieve a PUE below 1.2, cutting carbon emissions and exemplifying the green, low‑carbon infrastructure goals outlined in China’s new data‑center development plan.
This guide explains how Serverless Devs detects online changes to prevent deployment conflicts in Alibaba Cloud Function Compute, covering three scenarios—new resources, updates after online changes, and redeploying existing resources—while providing step‑by‑step experiments and a non‑interactive CI flag.
The article reviews the evolution of internet middleware presented at Alibaba Cloud’s Yunqi conference, detailing how massive user scale drove its growth, the shift toward cloud‑native and serverless technologies, and the practical benefits and challenges of adopting platforms like EDAS, Kubernetes, service mesh, and SkyWalking.
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.
Alibaba Cloud’s Multimedia AI team won five first‑place titles and one runner‑up across six major video‑action challenges at CVPR2021, showcasing advanced transformer‑CNN hybrids, self‑supervised initialization, and spatio‑temporal relation modeling that now power their multimedia AI cloud products.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to create, configure, and launch a personalized graduation album using Alibaba Cloud's Cloud Development platform, covering app creation, resource authorization, code deployment, domain binding, and customizable front‑end features with code examples.
This article introduces Knative, the open‑source serverless framework built on Kubernetes, explains its core Serving and Eventing components, details Alibaba Cloud’s deep integration and enhanced capabilities such as traffic management, auto‑scaling policies, and provides a step‑by‑step example of a real‑time bullet‑screen application.
The article analyzes Alibaba Cloud President Zhang Jianfeng’s view that the traditional middle‑platform must evolve into a “thick” platform that functions as a new operating system for the cloud, big data, AI, IoT and mobile era, highlighting strategic shifts and the role of KPIs.
The article analyzes Alibaba Cloud’s shift from the traditional “mid‑platform” concept to a “thick” cloud‑era operating system that integrates big data, AI, IoT and mobile capabilities, explaining why the original mid‑platform has been dismantled and how each business unit now functions as its own platform.
The talk from SACC2021 outlines Alibaba Cloud's edge cloud‑native journey, detailing the evolution of cloud‑native concepts, the specific challenges of extending them to edge environments, and the architectural solutions and use cases that enable low‑latency, high‑bandwidth services in the 5G‑driven digital transformation.
This guide walks through building a highly available Harbor container registry across multiple nodes by selecting a shared storage backend, configuring Redis and PostgreSQL as external services, mounting Alibaba Cloud high‑performance NAS via NFS, and exposing the service through Alibaba SLB.
This article explains what cloud‑native architecture is, why it is essential for modern SaaS businesses, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including maturity models, serverless migration, namespace and application setup, load‑balancer binding, service/configuration centers, elasticity, observability, resilience, and automation—using Alibaba Cloud SAE and MSE services.
This article explains the evolution of cloud native practices—from Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration to service mesh technologies—highlights Alibaba Cloud's strategic commitment, and introduces a comprehensive 14‑chapter handbook that guides readers through core Kubernetes concepts, configuration management, and networking strategies.
The 2021 Data Center High‑Quality Development Conference in Beijing showcased the release of industry indexes and low‑carbon white papers, awarded Alibaba Cloud for liquid‑cooled cloud computing innovations, and detailed China's rapid data‑center growth, emerging liquid‑cooling technologies, and collaborative standard‑setting efforts.
The CNCF 2020 China Cloud Native Survey of 439 participants reveals rapid growth in serverless adoption, a surge in container and Kubernetes usage, expanding service mesh deployment, and increasing reliance on open‑source automation tools, highlighting China’s emerging role as a major CNCF contributor.
Over more than a decade, the article examines the development of cloud infrastructure, comparing the strategies and product evolution of AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, and highlights how elastic IT resources, hybrid cloud solutions, AI integration, and scale economies have shaped the competitive landscape of China's cloud computing market.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud's ACK Cloud Controller Manager now supports attaching both in‑cluster nodes and external ECS instances to the same CLB backend, enabling smooth traffic migration, canary releases, and multi‑cluster high‑availability with step‑by‑step instructions and code examples.
The article explains the concept and advantages of data lakes, outlines the major storage and acceleration challenges they face, provides a checklist for ideal data‑lake solutions, and details how Alibaba Cloud's JindoFS addresses those challenges with object‑storage‑based, high‑performance, scalable features.
Alibaba Cloud's Zhenduan heterogeneous computing acceleration platform achieved historic breakthroughs in the MLPerf inference benchmark, processing over 1.07 million images per second on 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, setting multiple first‑place records and dramatically improving e‑commerce recommendation speed and overall AI workload efficiency.
This article explores the definition, evolution, and recent technical upgrades of Serverless computing, highlights Alibaba Cloud's journey and challenges such as vendor lock‑in and workflow shifts, and outlines future opportunities across e‑commerce, AI, gaming, and IoT.
This article examines the rapid growth of low‑code platforms, explains why the IoT sector remains a blue‑ocean market, and details how Alibaba Cloud’s IoT Studio combines no‑code app building with low‑code services to accelerate device management, fault prediction, and production optimization for industrial IoT applications.
This article explores Alibaba Cloud's Feitian big data platform and its front‑end intelligent solutions—covering smart editors, code recommendation, code diagnostics, automated visualization, and algorithm engineering—to illustrate how AI enhances developer productivity and product intelligence.
This guide explains how to use GitHub Actions together with Alibaba Cloud Container Service (ACK) and Container Registry (ACR) to build a lightweight, automated CI/CD pipeline that packages an Nginx app into a container, pushes it to ACR, and deploys it to ACK, illustrating a practical DevOps workflow.
Alibaba’s KubeNode platform tackles the challenges of massive, heterogeneous node fleets by using Kubernetes CRDs and custom operators to provide declarative lifecycle management, automated component upgrades, and rapid fault self‑healing across hundreds of clusters and millions of containers.
The article explains the causes and impacts of hotspot key problems in high‑traffic systems, reviews traditional mitigation methods and their drawbacks, and details Alibaba Cloud's read‑write separation and proxy‑based hotspot data solutions that improve scalability, transparency, and performance.
To support Gaode Taxi’s soaring order volume, the team expanded from four to eight ECS instances, re‑sharded 256 tables into 4,096, built a custom binlog‑to‑Kafka sync middleware for full‑load and incremental migration, implemented rigorous validation and repair processes, and employed a gray‑rollout with ABC verification, completing the migration without code changes or incidents.
This guide explains how to push WebAssembly modules to an OCI‑compatible ACR registry using the ORAS client, enable Wasm support in Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM), and deploy Envoy filters via the ASMFilterDeployment CRD, covering Envoy filter types, pros and cons of Wasm, required CLI commands, and verification steps.
The article chronicles Wang Jian’s humble beginnings, rapid rise to academic and corporate leadership, his decisive role in creating Alibaba’s cloud architecture, the challenges of the "Fly‑Sky" project, and his visionary push for the City Brain, illustrating how belief, focus, and system‑level thinking drive transformative technology.
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.
The article reviews the evolution of database systems driven by cloud computing, big‑data demands and distributed architectures, highlights Alibaba Cloud’s cloud‑native offerings such as PolarDB and AnalyticDB, and discusses trends, security, and best practices for modern enterprise data platforms.
As 2020 ends, Alibaba Cloud Developer Community highlights the most valuable live streams across ten categories—including databases, cloud‑native microservices, big data, AI, IoT, and more—providing links, keywords, and brief overviews so developers can revisit the year’s top technical insights and plan for 2021.
This article chronicles Taobao’s rapid growth from a simple LAMP stack in 2003 to a sophisticated, cloud‑native architecture, detailing each major redesign, the challenges faced, and the best‑practice migration strategies that enabled high availability, scalability, and performance on Alibaba Cloud.
This talk explores how to conduct user behavior analysis on massive data sets, compares existing analytics tools, and presents Alibaba Dataworks' end‑to‑end solution—including funnel and link visualizations, a big‑data processing architecture, and future intelligent link capabilities—to uncover and resolve user‑experience issues efficiently.
This step‑by‑step tutorial shows how to purchase an Alibaba Cloud lightweight server, set up an Apache web container, upload custom Christmas‑tree source code, and share the personalized greeting via a browser link, all for under $30.
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.
This article explains the purpose of API gateways in microservice architectures, outlines their key capabilities such as unified routing, security, logging and rate limiting, describes when they are needed, and reviews popular open‑source and cloud offerings like Kong, Alibaba Cloud, and Goku.
This article explains the concept and benefits of data lakes, outlines the storage and acceleration challenges they pose, presents an ideal checklist for selecting a data lake solution, and evaluates Alibaba Cloud's JindoFS against that checklist, highlighting its capabilities for big‑data and AI workloads.
The article describes Alibaba Cloud's Data Lake Formation service, presenting a unified, real‑time, and low‑latency solution for ingesting heterogeneous data sources—including RDS, DTS, TableStore, and SLS—into an OSS‑backed data lake using templates, a Spark‑based ingestion engine, and modern file formats such as Delta Lake.
Discover a curated list of fifteen popular Alibaba ecosystem developer tools—from Java scaffolding and diagnostics to cloud‑native services, performance testing, and mobile frameworks—each with key features and typical use cases designed to help developers streamline development, monitoring, and deployment.
