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High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Aug 3, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Roundtable on Serverless: Concepts, Value, Industry Practices, and Future Trends

The article summarizes a Serverless roundtable at ServerlessDays China 2021, where experts from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance, and Tencent Cloud discuss Serverless definitions, market adoption gaps, standardization needs, large‑scale implementations, cold‑start challenges, multi‑cloud strategies, and future directions for the technology.

FaaSServerlesscold start
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Roundtable on Serverless: Concepts, Value, Industry Practices, and Future Trends
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Jul 31, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Top Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2021: Hybrid, Edge, Serverless & More

2021’s cloud landscape is shaped by hybrid cloud’s flexibility, edge computing’s low‑latency processing, serverless architectures that offload infrastructure, AI/ML integration, rising cloud gaming demand, and cloud‑native application development, all driving businesses toward more agile, secure, and cost‑effective solutions.

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingServerless
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Top Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2021: Hybrid, Edge, Serverless & More
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 29, 2021 · Industry Insights

How Walmart’s Sam’s Club Accelerates Retail with Tencent Cloud Serverless

The article examines how Walmart’s Sam’s Club in China tackles rapid release cycles, user‑experience demands, and massive resource consumption by adopting Tencent Cloud Serverless SCF’s default‑alias gray‑release strategy, highlighting its technical advantages and real‑world e‑commerce use cases.

Cloud ComputingDeploymentGray Release
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How Walmart’s Sam’s Club Accelerates Retail with Tencent Cloud Serverless
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

Serverless Global Perspectives: Industry Leaders Discuss Current Status and Future Trends

At ServerlessDays China 2021, leaders from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance and Tencent Cloud examined serverless concepts, showcased cost‑saving implementations, discussed cold‑start optimizations, identified adoption hurdles such as tooling and lock‑in, and forecasted a future where serverless becomes a ubiquitous, hyper‑unified compute model integrating cloud, edge and storage.

Cloud Computing TrendsCloud NativeFaaS
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Serverless Global Perspectives: Industry Leaders Discuss Current Status and Future Trends
Architect
Architect
Jul 25, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Serverless: Concepts, Benefits, Limitations, and Knative Implementation

This article explains the motivations behind Serverless, defines its core concepts such as FaaS and BaaS, outlines key characteristics like one‑step deployment, auto‑scaling and event‑driven execution, discusses suitable use cases, current challenges, and introduces Knative as a cloud‑native implementation.

Cloud NativeFaaSKnative
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Understanding Serverless: Concepts, Benefits, Limitations, and Knative Implementation
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jul 24, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Top Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2021

This article examines how cloud computing is reshaping business operations and highlights the most important 2021 trends—including hybrid cloud, edge computing, serverless architectures, AI/ML integration, cloud gaming, and cloud‑native app development—while explaining their benefits and market outlook.

2021 TrendsServerlessedge computing
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Top Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2021
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 22, 2021 · Operations

Observability in Serverless Environments: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing, and Best Practices

In this talk, Gal Bashan explains how serverless architectures complicate observability and why metrics, logs, and especially distributed tracing with tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or commercial platforms are essential for gaining end-to-end visibility, automating instrumentation, and maintaining reliable, business-focused services across cloud providers.

Cloud NativeLoggingObservability
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Observability in Serverless Environments: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing, and Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 21, 2021 · Cloud Native

Ensuring Consistent Serverless Deployments with Serverless Devs

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.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeDeployment Consistency
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Ensuring Consistent Serverless Deployments with Serverless Devs
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 20, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Deploying AI Inference Functions on Tencent Cloud Serverless with Rust and WebAssembly

Michael Yuan’s ServerlessDays China 2021 talk shows how combining Rust with WebAssembly on Tencent Cloud Serverless lets developers deploy TensorFlow AI models in just a few lines, achieving 10‑20 fps inference, 100× faster cold starts than Python, and offering lightweight, secure, portable runtimes that could eventually supplant containers for edge and AI workloads.

AI inferenceCloud NativeRust
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Deploying AI Inference Functions on Tencent Cloud Serverless with Rust and WebAssembly
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 19, 2021 · Cloud Native

Tencent Cloud EKS: The Elegant Balance Between Serverless and Serverful

Tencent Cloud’s Elastic Container Service (EKS) delivers a nodeless, Kubernetes‑compatible platform that blends serverless convenience with serverful flexibility, letting users migrate existing clusters with a single click, run hybrid and big‑data workloads across virtual nodes, and anticipate future usage‑based billing for truly elastic scaling.

Cloud ComputingContainer ServiceEKS
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Tencent Cloud EKS: The Elegant Balance Between Serverless and Serverful
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 14, 2021 · Cloud Native

Exploring Serverless Practices in Tencent Cloud Microservices

The talk explains why enterprise‑grade development needs serverless—boosting efficiency, cutting costs, eliminating ops, and enabling elastic scaling—then positions serverless within microservices, showcases Tencent Cloud’s TEM platform built on EKS with plug‑in services, and demonstrates serverless middleware such as Pulsar‑based queues, highlighting developer, ops, and business advantages.

Cloud NativeDevOpsServerless
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Exploring Serverless Practices in Tencent Cloud Microservices
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 13, 2021 · Backend Development

Function Mesh: Serverless Innovation in Message and Streaming Data Scenarios

The talk by Zha Jia showcases StreamNative’s open‑source Function Mesh, which builds on Apache Pulsar’s unified messaging and streaming platform and its lightweight Pulsar Functions, using Kubernetes CRDs to simplify deployment, management, and scaling of serverless data processing while highlighting the project’s rapid community growth.

Apache PulsarBackend DevelopmentCloud Native
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Function Mesh: Serverless Innovation in Message and Streaming Data Scenarios
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jul 12, 2021 · Cloud Native

From Internet Middleware to Cloud‑Native & Serverless: Alibaba’s Evolution Roadmap

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.

Alibaba CloudServerlessmicroservices
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From Internet Middleware to Cloud‑Native & Serverless: Alibaba’s Evolution Roadmap
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Jul 10, 2021 · Fundamentals

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

The article surveys the most significant software‑architecture trends of 2020—including micro frontends, AsyncAPI, data mesh, policy‑as‑code, serverless, low‑code platforms, GraphQL, and ethical considerations—highlighting their adoption status, challenges, and the viewpoints of leading industry experts.

Data MeshLow‑codeMicro Frontends
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Key Software Architecture Trends for 2020: Micro Frontends, AsyncAPI, Data Mesh, Policy as Code, Serverless, Low‑Code, GraphQL and Ethics
ByteDance Web Infra
ByteDance Web Infra
Jul 7, 2021 · Frontend Development

ByteDance's Serverless‑Based Frontend Development Model Upgrade

This talk by Wang Lei from ByteDance Web Infra outlines the evolution of front‑end responsibilities, challenges of traditional CSR + BFF development, and how a Serverless‑based platform redesign—including unified deployment, AB testing, monitoring, CI/CD, and micro‑frontend support—reduces cost, simplifies operations, and enables progressive development across CSR, SSR, BFF and micro‑frontend.

Serverless
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ByteDance's Serverless‑Based Frontend Development Model Upgrade
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 6, 2021 · Cloud Computing

MicroVMM and Firecracker: Core Technologies Behind Serverless Computing

The talk explains how a purpose‑built microVMM like Firecracker—an ultra‑lightweight, Rust‑based virtual machine monitor running on KVM—delivers the strong isolation, millisecond‑scale startup, and high‑density performance essential for modern serverless platforms, while outlining current benchmarks and future enhancements.

Cloud ComputingFirecrackerMicroVMM
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MicroVMM and Firecracker: Core Technologies Behind Serverless Computing
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 1, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Rethinking the Developer Experience: Building Applications in the Serverless Era

In his ServerlessDays China 2021 talk, Austen Collins explains how the Serverless Framework and the new Tencent‑backed Serverless Cloud let developers bypass local‑environment limitations by deploying, logging, and cloning applications directly in the cloud within seconds, dramatically boosting productivity, reducing configuration overhead, and enhancing the overall developer experience.

Cloud ComputingCloud NativeDeveloper Experience
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Rethinking the Developer Experience: Building Applications in the Serverless Era
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

Serverless + X: Evolution, Low‑Code Integration, and Ecosystem Development

Serverless has evolved from pure FaaS to a comprehensive stack that combines functions, databases, storage and low‑code platforms, enabling developers to become full‑stack engineers, empowering non‑technical staff to build applications quickly, and fostering an integrated ecosystem with seamless WeChat and third‑party extensions.

Cloud NativeDevOpsLow‑code
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Serverless + X: Evolution, Low‑Code Integration, and Ecosystem Development
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 28, 2021 · Cloud Native

Effective Service Governance for Serverless: Challenges and Solutions

Effective serverless governance requires comprehensive observability, traffic management, and service registration built on Kubernetes, using either a mesh sidecar with Istio or an embedded SDK, to simplify complex operational tasks such as discovery, fault tolerance, gray releases, and metric correlation for large‑scale function deployments.

Cloud NativeObservabilityOperations
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Effective Service Governance for Serverless: Challenges and Solutions
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 24, 2021 · Cloud Native

Serverless Adoption: Trends, Challenges, and Architectural Insights from ServerlessDays China 2021

At ServerlessDays China 2021, CTO Wang Xiaobo explained how his team’s shift to a serverless‑first platform—driven by the need for rapid idea rollout, reduced operational overhead, and faster code‑to‑production cycles—reveals both the strategic advantages of serverless for accelerating monetization and the trade‑offs and pitfalls, such as microservice sprawl and workflow complexity, that must be managed through unified DevOps and architectural evolution.

Cloud NativeDevOpsScalability
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Serverless Adoption: Trends, Challenges, and Architectural Insights from ServerlessDays China 2021
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 22, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Let's Dive Into Serverless World: Tencent Cloud's Serverless Development and Latest Trends

Tencent Cloud’s serverless platform, now serving over a million developers and billions of daily invocations, accelerates business and education workloads, enables massive elastic scaling, integrates video, GPU, and event‑bus services, and simplifies migration, debugging, and SaaS integration, heralding serverless as the next mainstream cloud paradigm.

Cloud ComputingCloud NativeDeveloper Experience
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Let's Dive Into Serverless World: Tencent Cloud's Serverless Development and Latest Trends
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 21, 2021 · Frontend Development

What the 2021 WebAssembly Survey Reveals About Language Trends and Future Impact

The 2021 WebAssembly survey of over 250 developers shows Rust dominates language usage, AssemblyScript climbs, and respondents expect major impact on web, serverless, and containerized applications while calling for better debugging support and richer runtime features.

AssemblyScriptRustServerless
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What the 2021 WebAssembly Survey Reveals About Language Trends and Future Impact
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jun 17, 2021 · Cloud Computing

What Datadog’s 2022 Serverless Report Reveals About Lambda Usage and Costs

Datadog’s 2022 Serverless report shows a rapid expansion of Lambda usage worldwide, with call frequencies 3.5 times higher than two years ago, average daily runtimes of 900 hours, shorter execution times, growing adoption of Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions, and detailed cost analyses that highlight both the economic benefits and optimization challenges of serverless architectures.

AWS LambdaCloud ComputingFunction-as-a-Service
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What Datadog’s 2022 Serverless Report Reveals About Lambda Usage and Costs
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 10, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Which Serverless Platform Leads the Market? Inside Forrester’s 2021 FaaS Wave

Based on 40 evaluation criteria, Forrester’s 2021 Q1 Wave report ranks nine leading FaaS providers—Amazon, Alibaba, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Nimbella, Oracle, Tencent and Huawei—into Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders and Challengers, highlighting each platform’s strengths, weaknesses, and suitability for developers.

Cloud ComputingFaaSForrester
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Which Serverless Platform Leads the Market? Inside Forrester’s 2021 FaaS Wave
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Jun 9, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Knative Eventing: Broker & Trigger Architecture and Implementation

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Knative Eventing's Broker and Trigger model, detailing background concepts, event routing patterns, data‑plane and control‑plane workflows, and includes practical YAML and command‑line examples for deploying and managing the components in a Kubernetes environment.

BrokerCloud NativeKnative
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Understanding Knative Eventing: Broker & Trigger Architecture and Implementation
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jun 7, 2021 · Cloud Native

Master Knative Serverless: Serving, Eventing, and Alibaba Cloud Integration

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.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeKnative
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Master Knative Serverless: Serving, Eventing, and Alibaba Cloud Integration
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
May 28, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Design and Implementation of a FaaS Platform for the Tongtian Tower Activity System

The article describes how the Tongtian Tower activity platform adopted a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) architecture to improve development flexibility, reduce integration costs, enable local function execution, and support rapid iteration across multiple channels, while outlining its core components, features, SDK design, and future directions.

Backend ArchitectureFaaSFunction as a Service
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Design and Implementation of a FaaS Platform for the Tongtian Tower Activity System
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
May 21, 2021 · Frontend Development

Amap Lowcode Platform: Architecture, Serverless, and AI Applications in Frontend Development

The Amap Lowcode platform combines a visual JSON‑based builder, serverless functions, and AI‑driven design‑to‑code tools to let both developers and product staff rapidly create, deploy, and iterate recommendation cards across native and H5 clients, leveraging the existing gateway for stable, low‑cost delivery.

AILow‑codeServerless
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Amap Lowcode Platform: Architecture, Serverless, and AI Applications in Frontend Development
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
May 20, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Improving R&D Efficiency with Serverless: Goals, Obstacles, and Practices

The article discusses how R&D efficiency can be enhanced by adopting Serverless technologies, outlining the goals of efficiency governance, the typical obstacles faced in infrastructure, architecture, and team collaboration, and presenting concrete measures and future trends for cloud‑native development.

InfrastructureR&D efficiencyServerless
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Improving R&D Efficiency with Serverless: Goals, Obstacles, and Practices
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
May 20, 2021 · Cloud Native

Key Findings from CNCF 2020 China Cloud Native Survey: Serverless, Containers, Service Mesh, and Open‑Source Tools

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.

Alibaba CloudCNCFCloud Native
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Key Findings from CNCF 2020 China Cloud Native Survey: Serverless, Containers, Service Mesh, and Open‑Source Tools
NetEase Smart Enterprise Tech+
NetEase Smart Enterprise Tech+
May 20, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How AWS Lambda Powers Serverless Apps: A Practical Guide to Cloud Development

This article, based on a live stream by NetEase Cloud Communication backend engineer Ge Xinni, explains the fundamentals of AWS Serverless, details how Lambda integrates with services like API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, and demonstrates building a simple web service, message-driven architectures, and best‑practice considerations.

LambdaServerlessaws
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How AWS Lambda Powers Serverless Apps: A Practical Guide to Cloud Development
Top Architect
Top Architect
May 15, 2021 · Fundamentals

Overview of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless

This article introduces the concept of software architecture and compares four major styles—monolithic, distributed, microservices, and serverless—detailing their structures, advantages, disadvantages, and typical use cases, helping developers understand how architectural choices affect scalability, maintainability, and operational complexity.

DistributedScalabilityServerless
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Overview of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless
Xueersi Online School Tech Team
Xueersi Online School Tech Team
May 14, 2021 · Cloud Computing

SSR Deployment with Serverless: A Practical Guide

This article explains the concepts of SSR and CSR, introduces Serverless cloud functions, details the installation and configuration steps for deploying a Serverless‑based SSR application using Tencent Cloud, and shares practical tips, component choices, and billing considerations.

Front-endNode.jsSSR
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SSR Deployment with Serverless: A Practical Guide
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 13, 2021 · Cloud Native

From Code Prison to Service: How Infrastructure‑as‑Code Powers the New Cloud‑Native Era

The article outlines the evolution from traditional code repositories to a code‑as‑service model, describing how pipeline‑as‑code, machine‑as‑code, server‑cluster‑as‑code and infrastructure‑as‑code (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) enable cloud‑native development, DevOps automation, and platform‑centric R&D ecosystems.

Cloud NativeDockerGitOps
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From Code Prison to Service: How Infrastructure‑as‑Code Powers the New Cloud‑Native Era
Xianyu Technology
Xianyu Technology
May 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

Idleapi Monolith-to-FaaS Migration Case Study

Facing stability problems and slow development in its monolithic backend serving over 1,200 gateways, Idleapi split the system into function‑as‑a‑service units using an automated code‑splitting tool and one‑click migration, achieving sub‑3% function size, five‑minute deployments, and markedly better stability after migrating 30+ interfaces, while planning to optimise cost and unified upgrades.

FaaSMigrationServerless
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Idleapi Monolith-to-FaaS Migration Case Study
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
May 8, 2021 · Fundamentals

Why Understanding Software Architecture Evolution Matters for Developers

This article outlines the evolution of software architecture—from monolithic to distributed, microservice, and serverless models—detailing each pattern’s structure, advantages, and drawbacks, helping developers understand how architectural choices impact scalability, maintenance, and innovation in modern software projects.

Distributed SystemsScalabilityServerless
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Why Understanding Software Architecture Evolution Matters for Developers
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
May 7, 2021 · Cloud Native

iTech Talk – Cloud‑Native Serverless Practice at iQIYI

At iQIYI’s April 10 technical salon, experts detailed the company’s private‑cloud serverless journey—from early adoption of Oracle’s Fn for FaaS, through the creation of the Airworkflow engine for event‑driven orchestration, to plans for an internal Dev App Store that eases integration and highlights the distinct needs of private‑cloud environments.

AirworkflowCloud NativeEvent-driven
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iTech Talk – Cloud‑Native Serverless Practice at iQIYI
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Apr 24, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How Netflix Built the Cosmos Platform to Power Massive Media Workflows

The article explains why Netflix created the Cosmos platform, how it combines microservices, asynchronous workflows, and serverless computing to handle resource‑intensive media processing at scale, and shares the architectural decisions, components, and lessons learned from its development and operation.

CosmosNetflixServerless
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How Netflix Built the Cosmos Platform to Power Massive Media Workflows
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Apr 22, 2021 · Cloud Native

Meituan Serverless Platform: Architecture, Practices, and Optimization

Meituan’s Nest Serverless platform, built on native Kubernetes with Knative‑inspired components, delivers elastic scaling, rapid cold‑start reduction, multi‑region high availability, and integrated developer tools, enabling higher resource utilization, lower costs, and up to 40 % faster development across diverse business scenarios.

Cloud NativeFunction as a ServiceKubernetes
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Meituan Serverless Platform: Architecture, Practices, and Optimization
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 17, 2021 · Fundamentals

Evolution of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless

The article explains the progression of software architecture from simple monolithic designs through distributed applications and microservices to modern serverless solutions, outlining each model's structure, advantages, disadvantages, and impact on development, deployment, and operational complexity.

ServerlessSoftware Architecturemicroservices
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Evolution of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Apr 16, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba’s Light Store Uses Serverless FaaS to Boost Front‑End Efficiency

Alibaba’s Light Store team leveraged internal Serverless platforms to redesign their front‑end development workflow, introducing a sidecar‑and‑bottle architecture, unified FaaS SDK, and a layered service model that together accelerate development, reduce coordination costs, and enhance system stability across multiple business domains.

Cloud NativeFaaSFrontend Development
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How Alibaba’s Light Store Uses Serverless FaaS to Boost Front‑End Efficiency
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Apr 15, 2021 · Backend Development

Why Understanding Software Architecture Evolution Is Key for Developers

This article outlines the four main software architecture styles—monolithic, distributed, microservices, and serverless—detailing their structures, advantages, drawbacks, and how each impacts development, maintenance, scalability, and operational costs for modern software engineers.

ServerlessSoftware Architecturemicroservices
0 likes · 11 min read
Why Understanding Software Architecture Evolution Is Key for Developers
Top Architect
Top Architect
Apr 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

Netflix Cosmos: A Cloud‑Native Platform Combining Microservices, Workflows, and Serverless

Netflix’s Cosmos platform, introduced in 2021, unifies microservice principles with asynchronous workflows and serverless execution to handle resource‑intensive media processing, offering observability, modularity, productivity tools, and a managed delivery pipeline that scales from tens of thousands to millions of CPU cores.

Serverlesscloud-nativemedia processing
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Netflix Cosmos: A Cloud‑Native Platform Combining Microservices, Workflows, and Serverless
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 5, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Knative Enables Traffic‑Based Autoscaling and Gray Deployments

This article explains Knative’s traffic‑driven autoscaling and gray‑release capabilities, detailing the request flow architecture, the roles of Service, Configuration, Route and Revision, and walks through built‑in scaling strategies such as KPA, HPA, scheduled‑HPA, event‑gateway and custom plugins, with practical examples.

AutoscalingCloud NativeGray Deployment
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How Knative Enables Traffic‑Based Autoscaling and Gray Deployments
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Apr 3, 2021 · Backend Development

Evolution of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless

The article explains the progression of software architecture from simple monolithic designs through distributed applications and microservices to modern serverless solutions, outlining each model's structure, advantages, disadvantages, and impact on development and operations for software engineers.

Distributed SystemsServerlessmonolithic
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Evolution of Software Architecture: Monolithic, Distributed, Microservices, and Serverless
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 1, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Observability Is the Next Frontier for Serverless Computing

The article explains how Serverless is becoming the default cloud programming model, outlines the observability challenges it introduces, and details Alibaba Cloud Function Compute's evolution from basic logging to a comprehensive, open‑source‑compatible monitoring platform.

APMCloud NativeFunction Compute
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Why Observability Is the Next Frontier for Serverless Computing
UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Apr 1, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Serverless Containers Achieve Service Discovery Without kube-proxy Using eBPF

This article explains how UCloud's Serverless container product Cube integrates Virtual Kubelet with Kubernetes, why kube-proxy is unsuitable for lightweight serverless VMs, and how an eBPF‑based Rust proxy (cproxy) provides efficient service discovery and superior performance across different service scales.

Cloud NativeKubernetesServerless
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How Serverless Containers Achieve Service Discovery Without kube-proxy Using eBPF
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Mar 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Tencent Cloud’s Native Data Lake Redefines Big Data Analytics

This article examines the evolution of data lakes, outlines the challenges enterprises face with massive, heterogeneous data, and details Tencent Cloud’s native data lake architecture and its serverless Data Lake Compute service, highlighting performance, cost‑efficiency, and future development directions.

AnalyticsCloud NativeServerless
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How Tencent Cloud’s Native Data Lake Redefines Big Data Analytics
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 27, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Knative? Simplifying Serverless on Kubernetes with ASK Integration

This article explains why Knative is needed to simplify Kubernetes‑based serverless workloads, describes its core modules and traffic‑based gray release capabilities, and shows how Alibaba Cloud's ASK platform integrates with Knative to reduce operational complexity, improve elasticity, and lower costs.

ASKCloud NativeGray Release
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Why Knative? Simplifying Serverless on Kubernetes with ASK Integration
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 20, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Knative Enables Low‑Code Serverless Workflows for Complex Business Logic

This article explores the evolution of microservices, the challenges they introduce, and how Knative’s Cloud‑Native serverless framework—through its Build, Serving, and Eventing modules—can be leveraged to create a low‑code, production‑grade workflow platform that simplifies complex business logic while reducing development overhead.

KnativeKubernetesServerless
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How Knative Enables Low‑Code Serverless Workflows for Complex Business Logic
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Mar 19, 2021 · Cloud Native

Building a Serverless Workflow Platform with Knative: Architecture and Implementation

The article describes how the team built a production‑grade serverless workflow platform on Knative by creating four modules—a dashboard, API, operator, and syncer—that generate Kubernetes resources, automate CI/CD, monitor via Prometheus, and aim to cut boilerplate while supporting future extensions such as richer constructs, multi‑language support, and synchronous invocations.

Cloud NativeEvent-drivenKnative
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Building a Serverless Workflow Platform with Knative: Architecture and Implementation
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 13, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Quarkus Is the Ideal Cloud‑Native Java Framework for Kubernetes

Quarkus is an open‑source, lightweight Java framework optimized for Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering fast startup, low memory usage, native compilation via GraalVM, reactive and imperative programming models, and seamless integration with Red Hat OpenShift, making it a compelling choice for modern cloud‑native development.

KubernetesOpenShiftQuarkus
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Why Quarkus Is the Ideal Cloud‑Native Java Framework for Kubernetes
Node Underground
Node Underground
Mar 12, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability and Scheduling in the Cloud‑Native Era

Alinode expands its Node.js performance diagnostics into a full‑stack observability and scheduling platform for serverless workloads, offering traffic monitoring, white‑screen logs, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardized metrics, and a cloud‑native runtime that balances cost and performance.

Cloud NativeNode.jsObservability
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How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability and Scheduling in the Cloud‑Native Era
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Mar 12, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability & Scheduling in Serverless Cloud Native Era

This article outlines how Alinode has evolved from a Node.js performance diagnostic tool into a comprehensive observability and scheduling platform for serverless environments, detailing its Insight monitoring features, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardization efforts, and runtime optimizations that improve cost and performance.

AlinodeCloud NativeNode.js
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How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability & Scheduling in Serverless Cloud Native Era
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Feb 22, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How a Small Startup’s Cloud Run Misstep Led to a $72,000 Bill – Lessons Learned

A U.S. startup’s attempt to use Cloud Run and Firebase for an AI‑driven alert service spiraled into a $72,000 cloud bill due to automatic upgrades, delayed billing, and unbounded POST requests, highlighting the dangers of unchecked serverless deployments and the importance of rigorous cost monitoring.

Cloud RunCost ManagementGoogle Cloud
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How a Small Startup’s Cloud Run Misstep Led to a $72,000 Bill – Lessons Learned
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 ComputingDevOpsServerless
0 likes · 15 min read
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 IngestionFunction ComputeKafka
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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 ComputeRate LimitingScaling
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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 NativeImage OptimizationKubernetes
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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.

CloudWatchEventBridgeLambda
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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 NativeFaaSJava
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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.

FaaSJavaServerless
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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‑codeServerless
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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.

DevOpsLoggingServerless
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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.

Event-drivenObservabilityServerless
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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 ServiceServerless
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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.jsServerlessconference
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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.

ScalabilityServerlessService Architecture
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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-nativeKubernetes
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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.

AlibabaServerlessWeb
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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 NativeIndustry InsightsIoT
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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 ComputingScalabilityServerless
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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 NativeContainerFunction Compute
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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 TechnologyKubernetesObservability
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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.

Double11OptimizationServerless
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Taobao Frontend Secrets Behind Double 11: FaaS, D2C, Performance Hacks
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Nov 13, 2020 · Frontend Development

How Serverless SSR Boosted Mobile H5 Performance for Alibaba's Feizhu Event

Facing slow page loads on weak mobile networks, Alibaba’s Feizhu marketing team adopted a Serverless Faas SSR solution combined with async rendering, reducing first‑screen time to under one second, improving offline capabilities, and addressing challenges like image flicker, titlebar support, and scaling performance.

Mobile H5SSRServerless
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How Serverless SSR Boosted Mobile H5 Performance for Alibaba's Feizhu Event
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 CollaborationDeployment
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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 FunctionsDeployment
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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 FunctionsPerformance Optimization
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High-Concurrency Architecture and Optimization Strategies in Cloud Development