On September 18, during the 2020 Yunqi Conference, Alibaba formally established the Cloud Native Technology Committee (hereinafter referred to as the committee). Alibaba senior researcher Jiang Jiangwei served as the head of the committee, Li Feifei, chief scientist of the Dharma Academy database, and Jia Yangqing, senior researcher of Alibaba Cloud Computing Platform , Alibaba Cloud Native Application Platform Researcher Ding Yu and many other Alibaba technical leaders participated. At the same time, Alibaba Cloud has launched a variety of cloud-native products, including the sandbox container 2.0 that combines software and hardware, the offline real-time integrated data warehouse MaxCompute, and the cloud-native multi-mode database Lindorm.
Cloud native is a new technology system, which is regarded as the future development direction of cloud computing. Cloud-native applications are applications designed for the "cloud". After using cloud-native technologies, developers do not need to consider the implementation of the underlying technology, but only need to do their own business to give full play to the elasticity + distributed advantages of the cloud platform , To achieve rapid deployment, on-demand scaling, non-stop delivery, etc.
Jiang Jiangwei stated that the committee will vigorously promote the full cloud nativeization of the Alibaba economy and accumulate Alibaba’s more than 10 years of cloud native practices, empower millions of companies to carry out cloud native transformations, improve R&D efficiency by 30% and reduce IT by 30%. Costs help customers enter the digital native era.
The establishment of the committee also means that Ali has upgraded cloud native to a new technological strategic direction. Jiang Jiangwei introduced that Ali has more than 10 years of cloud-native practical experience. From the first launch of the core middleware system in 2009, to the use of container scheduling technology on Taobao Tmall in 2011, to the launch of self-developed cloud-native hardware Shenlong server and cloud-native database PolarDB . On Double 11 in 2019, 100% of Alibaba's e-commerce core systems will be on the cloud, which is also the world's largest cloud native practice.
Public information shows that Alibaba Cloud currently has the largest cloud-native product family and open source ecosystem in China, providing cloud-native bare metal servers, cloud-native databases, data warehouses, data lakes, containers, microservices, DevOps, Serverless, and more than 100 innovations Products cover various fields such as government affairs, retail, education, and medical care. In the 2020 Public Cloud Container Report released by Gartner, Alibaba Cloud Container ranks first in the world in 9 product selections with its rich product layout, and is the world's most comprehensive cloud service provider for container products.
During the epidemic this year, based on the Alibaba Cloud container solution, Dingding expanded the capacity of 10,000 cloud hosts to support 200 million office workers online within 2 hours; Shentong Express moved the core system to Alibaba Cloud, and carried out application containerization and microservices With the transformation, IT costs are reduced by 50% with an average daily processing of 30 million orders; the application of China Unicom's number card application on the Alibaba Cloud native PaaS platform has increased the card opening business efficiency by 10 times and the demand response time has been shortened by 50%. Support visits rose from 10 million to 110 million...
Earlier, Alibaba Cloud announced that it would invest 2 billion in preferred cooperation with 10,000 partners in the next year to jointly serve millions of customers and accelerate the digital transformation of hundreds of industries. At the same time, Alibaba Cloud also launched the "Cloud Native Talent Program", which will integrate production and education into 300 colleges and universities within three years, and cultivate 1 million new cloud native developers.