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DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Dec 6, 2020 · Cloud Native

Using Docker Multistage Builds to Create Small, Efficient Images

This article explains how Docker's multistage build feature, introduced in version 17.05, enables faster image creation and significantly smaller container sizes by separating build steps into distinct stages within a single Dockerfile, and shows how to target specific stages during the build process.

ContainerDockerfileGo
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Using Docker Multistage Builds to Create Small, Efficient Images
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 5, 2020 · Backend Development

Inside Sentinel Go: Meet the New Committers and Their Open‑Source Journey

Sentinel Go, Alibaba’s open‑source traffic‑control library for microservices, recently celebrated its GA release and welcomed three new committers, who share how they discovered the project, contributed code, overcame challenges, and stay motivated to improve high‑availability flow protection in cloud‑native environments.

Contributor ExperienceFlow ControlSentinel Go
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Inside Sentinel Go: Meet the New Committers and Their Open‑Source Journey
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 4, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Sentinel Go Guarantees Microservice Stability in Cloud‑Native Environments

This article explains how Sentinel Go, Alibaba’s open‑source flow‑control library, provides high‑availability protection for microservices through traffic shaping, warm‑up, concurrency control, hotspot limiting, and adaptive system protection, and describes its cloud‑native integrations such as Kubernetes CRD data sources, Service Mesh support, and HPA‑based scaling.

Gocloud-nativehigh availability
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How Sentinel Go Guarantees Microservice Stability in Cloud‑Native Environments
Laiye Technology Team
Laiye Technology Team
Dec 4, 2020 · Cloud Native

Evolution of CI at Laiye Technology: From Manual Processes to Cloud‑Native Prow and Tekton

This article details Laiye Technology’s CI journey, describing how the company progressed from manual and semi‑manual deployment of 30 microservices to a fully automated, cloud‑native CI pipeline built on Prow, Tekton, and Kubernetes, covering architecture evolution, workflow automation, testing, notification, and configuration management.

Configuration ManagementProwci/cd
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Evolution of CI at Laiye Technology: From Manual Processes to Cloud‑Native Prow and Tekton
TAL Education Technology
TAL Education Technology
Dec 3, 2020 · Operations

Leveraging Real Online Traffic for Quality Assurance and Efficiency in Online Education Platforms

This article explains how an online education quality team uses real user traffic to build a comprehensive platform that improves CI/CD maturity, automates testing, captures and replays traffic, and provides scalable services for continuous quality and efficiency across the entire development lifecycle.

Traffic Captureci/cdcloud-native
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Leveraging Real Online Traffic for Quality Assurance and Efficiency in Online Education Platforms
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Dec 3, 2020 · Cloud Native

Meituan's Practice and Challenges in Deploying Service Mesh in Private Cloud Clusters

Meituan’s rollout of a private‑cloud service mesh—built on an Envoy data plane, custom control plane, and language‑agnostic SDKs—overcame compatibility, scaling, and heterogeneity hurdles through isolation, standardized governance runtime, data sharding, and centralized health checks, now supporting hundreds of services with sub‑millisecond latency and unified multi‑language management.

MeituanOCTOScalability
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Meituan's Practice and Challenges in Deploying Service Mesh in Private Cloud Clusters
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 CloudFaaSServerless
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Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs: Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Trends
AntTech
AntTech
Dec 2, 2020 · Cloud Native

Nydus Container Image Acceleration: Design, Implementation, and Production Experience

The article introduces Nydus, an open‑source container image acceleration solution that replaces the traditional tarball‑based OCI format with a user‑space file system, enabling on‑demand loading, chunk‑level deduplication, secure distribution via Dragonfly, and demonstrates its large‑scale deployment success during Alibaba's 2020 Double‑11 event and in production workloads.

Container ImageFilesystemNydus
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Nydus Container Image Acceleration: Design, Implementation, and Production Experience
Practical DevOps Architecture
Practical DevOps Architecture
Nov 30, 2020 · Cloud Native

Step‑by‑Step Kubernetes Cluster Initialization: Host Configuration, CA Certificate Generation, etcd Deployment, and kubectl Setup

This tutorial walks through preparing the hostnames and /etc/hosts entries, generating a root CA and node certificates with cfssl, distributing those certificates, installing and configuring kubectl, creating admin credentials and kubeconfig, and finally deploying an etcd cluster with systemd units on a multi‑node Kubernetes environment.

CA CertificatesCluster Setupcloud-native
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Step‑by‑Step Kubernetes Cluster Initialization: Host Configuration, CA Certificate Generation, etcd Deployment, and kubectl Setup
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Nov 28, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why API Gateways Face an Identity Crisis: Roles, Patterns & Service Mesh

API gateways serve three core roles—API management, cluster ingress control, and gateway pattern—each with distinct responsibilities, and their relationship with service meshes is explored, helping readers understand how to choose and combine these components for optimal API infrastructure across various layers.

API ManagementService Meshapi-gateway
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Why API Gateways Face an Identity Crisis: Roles, Patterns & Service Mesh
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 27, 2020 · Mobile Development

How Mobile DevOps Transforms App Delivery: Challenges and Solutions

This article explains how DevOps principles are adapted for mobile app delivery, detailing the unique challenges of fragmented build environments, device diversity, longer release cycles, and massive scale, and describes Alibaba Cloud’s EMAS Mobile DevOps solution, its architecture, security, scalability, and future roadmap.

AndroidMobile DevOpsVirtualization
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How Mobile DevOps Transforms App Delivery: Challenges and Solutions
JavaEdge
JavaEdge
Nov 26, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Docker Transforms Microservice Development and DevOps Automation

The article explains how the rise of containers addresses the testing, deployment, and machine‑initialization challenges of microservices, introduces DevOps principles, details Docker’s image layering and Dockerfile syntax, and shows a practical four‑layer Docker image example for streamlined production workflows.

ContainerizationDevOpsDocker
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How Docker Transforms Microservice Development and DevOps Automation
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Nov 25, 2020 · Cloud Native

Using Spinnaker for Continuous Delivery in Kubernetes Environments

This article provides a comprehensive guide to Spinnaker, covering its role in Kubernetes, integration with cloud providers, detailed architecture, pipeline design, workflow steps, and best practices for implementing continuous delivery in cloud‑native environments.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsci/cd
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Using Spinnaker for Continuous Delivery in Kubernetes Environments
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Nov 25, 2020 · Industry Insights

Key Takeaways from the 3rd Cloud Native Technology Practice Summit (CNBPS 2020)

The 3rd Cloud Native Technology Practice Summit gathered over 10,000 IT professionals worldwide, showcased six comprehensive cloud‑native forums, presented award‑winning industry and container‑application cases, and highlighted how leading banks and solution providers are leveraging cloud‑native platforms for digital transformation.

Best PracticesDigital TransformationIndustry Insights
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Key Takeaways from the 3rd Cloud Native Technology Practice Summit (CNBPS 2020)
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Nov 25, 2020 · Cloud Native

Mastering Kustomize: Simplify Multi‑Environment Kubernetes Deployments

This guide explains how Kustomize streamlines Kubernetes configuration across multiple environments by eliminating YAML duplication, using base and overlay patterns, and integrating with kubectl and CI/CD pipelines, complete with installation steps, practical examples, and deployment commands.

Configuration ManagementDevOpsKustomize
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Mastering Kustomize: Simplify Multi‑Environment Kubernetes Deployments
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.

ContainerFunction ComputePaaS
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Understanding Serverless: Evolution, Definitions, and Its Role in Cloud‑Native Architecture
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Nov 19, 2020 · Backend Development

Apache Pulsar Go Client 0.3.0 Release Highlights

The Apache Pulsar Go client, a Go‑language SDK for the cloud‑native distributed messaging platform, has been updated to version 0.3.0, adding Key Shared support, schema capabilities for producers and consumers, and configurable reconnection retry attempts.

Apache PulsarBackendDistributed Messaging
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Apache Pulsar Go Client 0.3.0 Release Highlights
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 18, 2020 · Cloud Native

What Is KubeVela and How It Simplifies Cloud‑Native Application Delivery

KubeVela, an open‑source cloud‑native application delivery platform built on Kubernetes and OAM, offers developers a low‑cognitive‑load way to define and deploy apps via simple Appfiles, while giving platform teams a highly extensible engine to create custom PaaS, Serverless, and AI services.

Application DeliveryKubeVelaOAM
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What Is KubeVela and How It Simplifies Cloud‑Native Application Delivery
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 16, 2020 · Cloud Native

What’s New in Fluid 0.4? DataLoad, Small‑File Boost, HDFS Support & Multi‑Dataset Deployment

Fluid 0.4 introduces a DataLoad custom resource for declarative data pre‑warming, enhances support for massive small‑file datasets, adds HDFS‑compatible access for Spark and other big‑data frameworks, and enables mixed‑deployment of multiple datasets on a single node, all backed by significant performance gains.

AIAlluxioBig Data
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What’s New in Fluid 0.4? DataLoad, Small‑File Boost, HDFS Support & Multi‑Dataset Deployment
Top Architect
Top Architect
Nov 14, 2020 · Cloud Native

Docker Architecture Overview: Overall Structure and Component Analysis

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Docker's architecture, detailing the client‑server model, the roles of Docker Daemon, Engine, Registry, various drivers, Libcontainer, and how containers are created, managed, and delivered within a cloud‑native environment.

ContainerDockercloud-native
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Docker Architecture Overview: Overall Structure and Component Analysis
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Nov 14, 2020 · Operations

How Alibaba Scales Double 11: Inside the Tech Behind 5,000 Billion‑Yuan Sales

Alibaba's Double 11 set a new record with 498.2 billion yuan in sales and a peak of 583,000 orders per second, prompting the Taobao tech team to confront unprecedented concurrency, live‑streaming spikes, and evolving consumer behavior through advanced cloud‑native architectures and real‑time content integration.

OperationsScalabilitycloud-native
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How Alibaba Scales Double 11: Inside the Tech Behind 5,000 Billion‑Yuan Sales
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Nov 13, 2020 · Cloud Native

Mastering Harbor: Efficient, Secure Docker Image Distribution in Cloud‑Native Environments

This article introduces Harbor, an enterprise‑grade Docker image registry designed for cloud‑native environments, detailing its efficient distribution mechanisms, security features such as signing and vulnerability scanning, HA solutions, and step‑by‑step installation methods using offline packages, Docker‑compose, and Helm charts.

Docker RegistryHarborImage Distribution
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Mastering Harbor: Efficient, Secure Docker Image Distribution in Cloud‑Native Environments
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Nov 13, 2020 · Industry Insights

Inside Taobao’s Record‑Breaking Double 11: Tech Challenges and Solutions

Taobao set new records during this year's Double 11 with 49.82 billion yuan in sales and a peak of 583,000 orders per second, prompting the platform to deploy large‑scale live‑streaming, cloud‑native infrastructure, full‑chain merchant stress tests, AI‑driven features and ultra‑low‑latency GRTN networking to handle unprecedented traffic and evolving consumer behavior.

Scalabilitycloud-nativee‑commerce
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Inside Taobao’s Record‑Breaking Double 11: Tech Challenges and Solutions
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.

Cross-border CollaborationServerlessServerless Framework
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Serverless Components: Principles, Deployment Process, Ecosystem, and Cross‑Border Collaboration
Practical DevOps Architecture
Practical DevOps Architecture
Nov 5, 2020 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Cluster Setup: Environment Preparation and Master Node Initialization

This guide walks through preparing three CentOS servers—configuring hostnames, disabling firewalls and swap, setting up Docker and Kubernetes repositories, installing Docker and Kubernetes components, adjusting kernel parameters, and finally initializing the Kubernetes master with kubeadm before joining worker nodes.

CentOSCluster SetupDocker
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Kubernetes Cluster Setup: Environment Preparation and Master Node Initialization
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
Nov 5, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Transwarp Scheduler Tackles Mixed Workloads in Unified Cloud‑Native Infrastructure

This article reviews the challenges of scheduling heterogeneous workloads—micro‑services, big‑data, AI, and HPC—on a unified cloud‑native platform, compares existing schedulers like Mesos and YARN, examines Kubernetes ecosystem extensions such as Volcano and YuniKorn, and details the design and components of the Transwarp Scheduler built on Kubernetes Scheduling Framework v2.

AIBig DataScheduler
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How Transwarp Scheduler Tackles Mixed Workloads in Unified Cloud‑Native Infrastructure
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Oct 31, 2020 · Cloud Native

What Is Cloud Native? Origins, Core Concepts, and Why It Matters

Cloud native, coined by Matt Stine in 2013, blends DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and agile infrastructure into a philosophy that redesigns applications for any public, private, or hybrid cloud, emphasizing container packaging, automated pipelines, and cultural shifts to boost scalability and delivery speed.

ContainerizationContinuous DeliveryDevOps
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What Is Cloud Native? Origins, Core Concepts, and Why It Matters
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 29, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Cloud‑Native Technologies Boost Delivery Speed from IaaS to PaaS

This article explains how cloud‑native techniques transform application architecture from IaaS to PaaS, outlines three practical steps to accelerate delivery, and provides concrete examples such as Service Mesh, lightweight containers for log collection, and health‑probe driven lifecycle management.

Delivery SpeedGitOpsPaaS
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How Cloud‑Native Technologies Boost Delivery Speed from IaaS to PaaS
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 28, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Container Networking Shapes Modern Cloud‑Native Architectures

This article explains why containers and Docker are popular, outlines the network and security challenges of building container cloud platforms, compares bridge, host, container and none networking modes, reviews major CNI solutions such as Calico, Flannel, Weave and Macvlan, and discusses how service mesh complements CNI in multi‑cluster environments.

CNIDockerService Mesh
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How Container Networking Shapes Modern Cloud‑Native Architectures
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Oct 28, 2020 · Cloud Native

Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC): Exploring Kubernetes Multi‑Tenant Model and Practical Use Cases

This article introduces the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC) for Kubernetes, explains how to install and use it to create parent‑child namespaces, demonstrates role inheritance and two real‑world scenarios—self‑provisioning and application templating—while highlighting current limitations and community‑driven improvements.

DevOpsHNCcloud-native
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Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC): Exploring Kubernetes Multi‑Tenant Model and Practical Use Cases
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Oct 27, 2020 · Cloud Native

Common Kubernetes and Docker Commands

This article provides a concise reference of frequently used Kubernetes (kubectl) and Docker command‑line instructions, covering cluster inspection, pod and service queries, resource creation, deletion, as well as container inspection, logging, and interactive shell access.

CLIContainersDocker
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Common Kubernetes and Docker Commands
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 25, 2020 · Big Data

How Alibaba’s Cloud‑Native Data Lake Solves Big Data Challenges

Alibaba Cloud’s Data Lake Analytics (DLA) tackles the growing complexity of data scenarios by offering cloud‑native, serverless solutions for data lake management, massive metadata construction, and high‑performance Spark and Presto engines, while addressing challenges such as high entry barriers, stability, and multi‑tenant isolation.

Data LakeServerless Sparkcloud-native
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How Alibaba’s Cloud‑Native Data Lake Solves Big Data Challenges
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 19, 2020 · Information Security

Ensuring Security in Open Source Projects: Insights from Kata Containers and Community Practices

The article examines how open‑source projects can achieve robust security through organized vulnerability management teams, active collaboration with security researchers, and community‑driven initiatives, using Kata Containers and the broader cloud‑native ecosystem as illustrative examples.

Vulnerability Managementcloud-nativecontainer-runtime
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Ensuring Security in Open Source Projects: Insights from Kata Containers and Community Practices
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Oct 15, 2020 · Cloud Native

Explore Cutting-Edge Cloud Native Innovations at COSCon'20: AI, Rust, Serverless, and More

COSCon'20 presents a rich lineup of talks covering AI microservices with Rust and WebAssembly, scalable cloud‑native application management, serverless rendering, HTTP/3 for IoT, cloud‑native trends, RocketMQ, CloudBase Framework, event mesh, Podman, Quarkus, Go microservices, Pulsar, Kubernetes stateful services, dubbogo, ElasticJob, Seata, SkyWalking on Kubernetes, and Spring on Azure, inviting developers to deepen their expertise in modern cloud‑native technologies.

AIContainerscloud-native
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Explore Cutting-Edge Cloud Native Innovations at COSCon'20: AI, Rust, Serverless, and More
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Oct 15, 2020 · Cloud Native

Mastering Kubernetes‑Based DevOps: End‑to‑End CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Helm, and Docker

This comprehensive guide walks you through preparing hardware and network resources, setting up a private Git repository, installing Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Baget, Harbor, and SonarQube, writing Dockerfiles and Helm charts, and configuring a Groovy Jenkinsfile to achieve a fully automated CI/CD workflow on a Kubernetes cluster.

DevOpsDockerJenkins
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Mastering Kubernetes‑Based DevOps: End‑to‑End CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Helm, and Docker
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Oct 13, 2020 · Cloud Native

Designing Fault‑Tolerant Microservices Architecture

Microservice architectures increase system complexity and failure rates, so this article explains key reliability patterns—such as graceful degradation, change management, health checks, self‑healing, fallback caches, retry logic, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and testing—to help engineers design resilient, high‑availability services.

Circuit BreakerOperationscloud-native
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Designing Fault‑Tolerant Microservices Architecture
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 13, 2020 · Cloud Native

Understanding Docker Images, Layers, Volumes, and Dockerfile Usage

This article explains Docker images as lightweight, executable software packages, describes the UnionFS layering mechanism, outlines image characteristics, shows how to commit images, use container volumes (including named, anonymous, and bind mounts), and provides step‑by‑step Dockerfile examples for building custom CentOS, Tomcat, and SpringBoot images as well as uploading images to Alibaba Cloud.

ContainerDockerDockerfile
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Understanding Docker Images, Layers, Volumes, and Dockerfile Usage
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
Oct 9, 2020 · Cloud Native

Why Learn Spring Cloud: Core Concepts, Architecture, Projects and Best Practices

This article explains the motivations for adopting Spring Cloud, defines its components and design goals, compares it with Spring Boot and other frameworks, outlines its main sub‑projects, versioning scheme, and provides practical guidance on configuration, service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, and gateway development for cloud‑native microservices.

BackendDistributed SystemsJava
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Why Learn Spring Cloud: Core Concepts, Architecture, Projects and Best Practices
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Oct 9, 2020 · Cloud Native

What Is Cloud Native? Unpacking Its Core Concepts and Benefits

This article explains the origins, core principles, and practical components of Cloud Native—including microservices, containerization, DevOps, continuous delivery, and cloud infrastructure—showing how they reshape development culture, organization, and technology adoption for modern software teams.

ContainerizationContinuous DeliveryDevOps
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What Is Cloud Native? Unpacking Its Core Concepts and Benefits
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Oct 8, 2020 · Industry Insights

Explore Alibaba’s Top 29 Open‑Source Projects Shaping Modern Architecture

This article presents a curated list of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Ant Design, Druid, Fastjson, Dubbo, JStorm, Nacos, Sentinel, and many more—detailing their core purpose, key features, and GitHub repositories for developers seeking robust solutions across cloud, micro‑services, frontend, and data processing domains.

AlibabaBackendFrontend
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Explore Alibaba’s Top 29 Open‑Source Projects Shaping Modern Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 2, 2020 · Cloud Native

Unlock Seamless Service Governance: Dubbo Spring Cloud Meets Spring Cloud Stack

This article explains how Dubbo Spring Cloud bridges Apache Dubbo 3.0 with the Spring Cloud ecosystem, covering version compatibility, service registration and discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, service introspection, migration strategies, and provides step‑by‑step Maven and YAML configurations with complete code examples for both provider and consumer applications.

DubboJavacloud-native
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Unlock Seamless Service Governance: Dubbo Spring Cloud Meets Spring Cloud Stack
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 30, 2020 · Cloud Native

Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade Guide: Pre‑Checks, Methods & Step‑by‑Step

This article explains why Kubernetes clusters need regular upgrades, outlines the challenges, details essential pre‑upgrade health checks for core components, nodes and cloud resources, compares in‑place and replacement upgrade strategies with their pros and cons, and presents a three‑stage upgrade process covering master, worker and core system components.

Cluster UpgradePre‑checkReplacement Upgrade
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Kubernetes Cluster Upgrade Guide: Pre‑Checks, Methods & Step‑by‑Step
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 27, 2020 · Backend Development

How Circuit Breakers Safeguard Microservices: A Deep Dive into Resilience

This article explains the concept, states, and practical benefits of circuit breaker mechanisms in microservice architectures, illustrating how they prevent cascading failures, improve system stability, and provide configurable recovery strategies for robust cloud‑native applications.

Circuit BreakerResiliencebackend pattern
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How Circuit Breakers Safeguard Microservices: A Deep Dive into Resilience
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 24, 2020 · Cloud Native

Tackling Ultra‑Large‑Scale Service Mesh Deployment: Lessons from Alibaba

This article details Alibaba's practical experience deploying Service Mesh at massive scale, covering architectural evolution, key challenges, traffic interception, hot‑upgrade mechanisms, performance optimizations, and operational tooling that together enable reliable, low‑overhead service communication in a cloud‑native environment.

EnvoyIstioOperations
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Tackling Ultra‑Large‑Scale Service Mesh Deployment: Lessons from Alibaba
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
Sep 24, 2020 · Cloud Native

Zero‑Downtime Upgrade Strategies for Xianyu Search Service

Xianyu’s zero‑downtime upgrade strategy for its multi‑microservice search stack combines rigorous forward/backward compatibility checks, batch‑wise stateless updates, careful stateful migrations via hot‑updates or dual‑write sync, robust service‑discovery traffic control, and Alibaba‑style monitoring, gray‑release testing, and rapid rollback to ensure uninterrupted service.

Zero Downtimecloud-nativecompatibility
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Zero‑Downtime Upgrade Strategies for Xianyu Search Service
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.

FaaSServerlesscloud-native
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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.

AlibabaFlutterServerless
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How Xianyu Scaled to Billions with Cloud‑Native Serverless Architecture
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Sep 21, 2020 · Cloud Native

Design and Considerations of a CDN‑Based Edge Computing Platform

This article explores how traditional CDN infrastructure can be transformed into a large‑scale edge computing platform, covering architectural layers, cloud‑edge collaboration, container‑based deployment with Kubernetes, emerging technologies such as programmable CDN, secure containers, and practical Q&A from real‑world implementations.

5GCDNContainers
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Design and Considerations of a CDN‑Based Edge Computing Platform
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 21, 2020 · Operations

Why Chaos Engineering Is Essential for Cloud‑Native High Availability

This article explains the need for chaos engineering in modern distributed and cloud‑native systems, outlines the challenges faced by architects, developers, testers and product teams, and provides step‑by‑step guidance on using ChaosBlade and Alibaba's AHAS platform for effective fault‑injection experiments.

Operationschaos engineeringcloud-native
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Why Chaos Engineering Is Essential for Cloud‑Native High Availability
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 20, 2020 · Cloud Native

Step-by-Step Guide: Deploy Ceph‑CSI (v3.1.0) with RBD on Kubernetes

This tutorial walks through deploying the Ceph‑CSI driver version 3.1.0 on a Kubernetes cluster using RBD as persistent storage, covering environment setup, Ceph pool and user creation, ConfigMap and Secret configuration, RBAC, CSI sidecar deployment, storage class definition, and a complete end‑to‑end test with PVC and pod.

CSICephRBD
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Step-by-Step Guide: Deploy Ceph‑CSI (v3.1.0) with RBD on Kubernetes
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 19, 2020 · Cloud Native

Inside Eastern Securities' Multi-Language gRPC-Nebula Platform for Microservice Governance

This article examines Eastern Securities' transition to a microservice architecture by detailing the design, implementation, and performance of its gRPC‑Nebula service‑governance framework and the Star‑Chen platform, covering challenges such as heterogeneous interfaces, service registration, load balancing, fault tolerance, traffic control, multi‑registry support, and real‑world deployment results.

Distributed Systemscloud-nativegRPC
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Inside Eastern Securities' Multi-Language gRPC-Nebula Platform for Microservice Governance
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Sep 17, 2020 · Backend Development

Evolution of CTrip's Microservice Framework: From Self‑Developed Service Framework to CDubbo and Service Mesh

This article details CTrip's journey from its early .Net‑based ESB architecture through a self‑developed Java microservice framework to the current CDubbo platform, covering registration, monitoring, dynamic configuration, protocol compatibility, performance gains, extensibility, and future Service Mesh integration.

BackendDubboService Mesh
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Evolution of CTrip's Microservice Framework: From Self‑Developed Service Framework to CDubbo and Service Mesh
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Sep 15, 2020 · Cloud Native

Challenges and Solutions for Large-Scale Service Mesh Deployment at Alibaba

Alibaba’s large‑scale Service Mesh deployment faces challenges such as smooth technology evolution, business‑technical balance, technical debt, massive sidecar operations, and scaling, which it addresses through staged architecture evolution, traffic‑transparent interception, hot upgrades, and open‑source contributions to Istio and Envoy.

EnvoyIstioService Mesh
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Challenges and Solutions for Large-Scale Service Mesh Deployment at Alibaba
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 14, 2020 · Backend Development

How Eastern Securities Built a Multi-Language gRPC-Nebula Service Governance Platform

This article details Eastern Securities' journey from monolithic systems to a microservice architecture, describing the design and implementation of the gRPC-Nebula service governance framework and the Starry Service Governance Platform, their technical features, performance tests, multi‑language support, and the practical outcomes of the digital transformation.

Backend Developmentcloud-nativegRPC
0 likes · 34 min read
How Eastern Securities Built a Multi-Language gRPC-Nebula Service Governance Platform
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 14, 2020 · Cloud Native

Achieving Zero‑Downtime Deployments with Spring Cloud on Kubernetes

This article explains how to implement graceful up‑ and down‑scaling for Spring Cloud applications running on Kubernetes, covering design principles, signal handling, resource cleanup, Spring Boot configuration, multiple deployment scenarios, and integration with Kubernetes health probes to ensure lossless traffic flow.

Graceful ShutdownZero Downtimecloud-native
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Achieving Zero‑Downtime Deployments with Spring Cloud on Kubernetes
TAL Education Technology
TAL Education Technology
Sep 10, 2020 · Cloud Native

Accelerating Project Deployment with a Container Platform and Domain Convergence

This article describes how the infrastructure team reduced new project deployment time to under an hour by combining a container platform with domain convergence, detailing the processes, automation pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployment, autoscaling, logging, and security considerations for efficient, cloud‑native operations.

Deployment AutomationOperationscloud-native
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Accelerating Project Deployment with a Container Platform and Domain Convergence
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Sep 10, 2020 · Cloud Native

Resolving Application Startup Failures Caused by Istio Sidecar Initialization Delays

This article analyzes why applications fail to start when the Istio sidecar proxy has not finished its xDS configuration, presents three practical solutions—including health‑check gating, pod container start order control, and Kubernetes startup dependencies—and recommends adopting design‑for‑failure principles for robust microservice deployments.

IstioService MeshStartup Dependency
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Resolving Application Startup Failures Caused by Istio Sidecar Initialization Delays
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 10, 2020 · Databases

7 Critical Reasons Why Docker Isn't Ideal for Deploying Databases

Although Docker has become popular for containerizing applications, this article outlines seven key drawbacks—ranging from data safety and performance to networking, statefulness, resource isolation, cloud platform incompatibility, and hardware demands—that make deploying databases in Docker containers generally unsuitable.

ContainerizationData SafetyDatabase
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7 Critical Reasons Why Docker Isn't Ideal for Deploying Databases
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 9, 2020 · Cloud Native

How Nacos and Spring Cloud Alibaba Powered MasterClass’s Cloud‑Native Microservice Migration

This article details MasterClass Education’s end‑to‑end cloud‑native migration using Spring Cloud Alibaba, Nacos, Sentinel and related tools, covering registry selection, Nacos server deployment, monitoring, logging, performance testing, high‑availability sync with Eureka, CI/CD pipelines, gray releases, APM integration and disaster‑recovery drills.

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How Nacos and Spring Cloud Alibaba Powered MasterClass’s Cloud‑Native Microservice Migration
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 6, 2020 · Industry Insights

Why Open x86 Platforms and Microservices Are Shaping the Future IT Architecture

The article outlines how open x86 hardware, solid‑state storage, high‑speed networking, resource pools and containers form the foundation for modern IT architecture, while national emphasis on innovation and security elevates open‑source software, driving a shift toward layered, service‑oriented, microservice‑centric systems integrated with DevOps pipelines.

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Why Open x86 Platforms and Microservices Are Shaping the Future IT Architecture