Today's serverless approach truly achieves out-of-the-box use of cloud products and cloud technologies. Enterprises and developers no longer need to pay attention to the underlying resource configuration, and focus more on the development of business systems.
On April 26, at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Partner Conference , Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, delivered a keynote speech "Walking with partners, making innovation within reach". In his sharing, he introduced in detail Alibaba Cloud's product layout in the serverless field, Technological innovation and service partner and customer experience.
He mentioned:
Alibaba Cloud further lowers the threshold for enterprises to go to the cloud and use the cloud through a wealth of serverless products. At present, Alibaba Cloud has provided nearly 30 serverless products, covering containers, functional computing, databases, big data, machine learning, storage, microservices and other fields. Serverless is also helping more and more ecological partners to fully enjoy the dividends of cloud computing, serve customers and create greater social value.
To a certain extent, Serverless truly releases the capabilities of the cloud. From the elasticity of resources to the elasticity of business, enterprises no longer need to pay for resources, but for business and experience. Enterprises and developers leave the daily tedious operation and maintenance work To the cloud, let the value of the cloud to the extreme.
"National-level" application to explore new technologies
Taking AutoNavi as an example, AutoNavi’s launch business is closely related to users’ life scenarios, and its functions are changeable; the recommended downstream business categories are growing rapidly, and its launch business strategies are changeable; moreover, the entire business is closely related to user travel, with obvious peaks. valley property.
With the growth of business, the original architecture of the delivery platform faces some obvious pain points:
- heavy client. Card processing, navigation planning, page display and other logic are all placed on the web or mobile devices, resulting in slow client release and bloated code.
- Business functions are tightly coupled and cannot keep up with business iteration requirements. The delivery strategy is changeable, and each release has a large impact.
- The load has obvious peaks and valleys, resident instances, and low resource utilization.
The serverless architecture can well solve the above pain points. First, slim down the client, and move a large amount of logic on the client to the BFF layer (Backends for frontend). Since serverless computing has zero operation and maintenance, only the business logic needs to be developed, which is completely released by the client personnel, avoiding the problem of team collaboration. With the smooth application release capability built into the platform, client personnel can quickly iterate and release with peace of mind.
Back-end services such as delivery strategies are also decoupled into functions, including rule filtering functions, fatigue reminder functions, content assembly functions, and so on. These functions are used as independent back-end service development iterations, and the impact of each release is small, and the explosion radius is controlled.
By carefully sorting out hotspot logic and upstream and downstream dependencies, full link flexibility and interface-level flow control capabilities are realized. Elastic scaling is not only fast, but also safe, resource usage matches load peaks and valleys, and has high efficiency. At present, the Gaode business delivery platform based on the serverless architecture and assembled R&D has carried 100% of the production traffic, the business scale has reached one million QPS, the function delivery has been reduced from several days to several hours, and the overall cost has been reduced by 38%.
Let ecological partners make full use of Serverless
Under the serverless strategy, Alibaba Cloud is making great strides forward. At the same time, more and more ecological partners are using Serverless to provide customers with better services.
Titanium Platinum Data (Tapdata) is a modern data platform built with low-latency data movement as its core advantage. Based on the cloud-native architecture, Tapdata is the first in China to launch a "real-time data integration and service SaaS platform" - Tapdata Cloud, which releases real-time synchronization of heterogeneous databases and real-time data service platform capabilities on the cloud. Tapdata solves the problems of real-time data synchronization/backup and integration between enterprise cross-systems with 0 code and visual operation experience, and supports one-click access to the enterprise's built-in database, external SaaS, and file enterprise core data, helping enterprises to release data The energy in the preparation stage is more focused on the development and innovation of data services.
Based on Alibaba Cloud's Serverless application engine SAE, PolarDB database and other products, Titanium Platinum Data has achieved an 80% increase in R&D efficiency, a 40% reduction in application deployment time, a 50% reduction in cloud migration costs, and a huge breakthrough in business. A total of 10,000+ enterprise users have been testing and using Tapdata Cloud.
The rapid development of cloud native technology not only enables developers to develop and deploy applications more efficiently, but also provides enterprises with more room for business imagination. The new-generation R&D paradigm represented by containers and Serverless makes innovation within easy reach through simplified architecture and accelerated development.