Since 2017, the first line on a number of small programs, more and more of the mobile terminal applications presented in the form of applets. Applet has fingertips, run advantage and go, which greatly reduces the burden on the user to use the applet has been widely spread. Ali small program is also widely used in Taobao / Alipay / nails / High German and other platforms, such as double this year 11 people participated in Taobao / Lynx activities, mostly provided by small programs.
A small program can be divided into client and server: clients include presentation and interaction logic interface, server-side include processing and analyzing the data. In order to support a large number of small programs, platform challenges facing the service side are:
- A large number of small program is not active, the traditional way of at least one server will be a waste of resources
- Call the program a small amount of surge in the peak of activity, requires the server can quickly be resilient and elastic
For applets scene, Ali cloud provides a complete solution applet: applet cloud . Effective use of resources and resilient and elastic, is one of the core capabilities provided by the cloud applet, which relies on the behind, Ali cloud is a function of computing services. It is a full-function computing