Cloud platform development in full swing

The rapid development of the Internet has given rise to the new trend of open platforms. Because of the innate platform nature of cloud computing and the increasingly hot concept, many open platforms also call themselves open platforms. The cloud platform can be divided into two categories, a class of platforms such as Sina SAE, Baidu cloud, they provide API for their own website, docking applications mainly for their own platform services, most of the open platform belongs to this category; less, the country is outside the cloud Ali, the country has google, applications on these platforms platform-independent business, developers have a broader space for development.

Developers with the platform is an important force for development, but also for all open platforms for the object. November 9, 2012, in order to show the importance of developers, Aliyun held in Hangzhou, the most important conference of the year, with the developer's name, the developer conference showed Aliyun's emphasis on developers , But also make people better understand Ali cloud cloud computing.

At the conference, Dr. Wang Jian, president of Aliyun, gave a speech entitled "Developer. Flying Sky. Cloud OS. Developer." Wang Jian portrayed the ecological outlook with cloud computing as a common IT service and developer as the main force , That regardless of software, hardware industry are developers, and cloud computing is to provide all developers a best platform.

Wang Jian: Ali cloud for developers to provide a better home

Wang Jian first explained his expectations of cloud computing, that cloud computing can provide universal IT infrastructure for all walks of life, eliminating differences between different industries IT solutions, "With this platform, a traditional enterprise, You can do what an Internet company does.A traditional Internet company can do what a mobile Internet company can do. "

At the same time, cloud computing should become an on-demand service capable of eliminating the differences between the size of the enterprise, "one can do what a large company can do on Alibaba Cloud's open platform, with thousands Tens of thousands of people have the technical ability to invest; flying also allows a large company to do what one can do, with a person's flexibility and efficiency. "

The elimination of industry and scale differences has laid an important foundation for the platformization of cloud computing, and Wang Jian also hopes to connect software and hardware developers through the open platform and cloud OS to further expand the cloud computing service space. "From the developer Point of view, whether software companies, hardware vendors, or the Internet and mobile Internet companies are cloud computing developers, Alibaba Cloud provides a platform for developers to turn cloud computing into a beautiful home. "

Wang Jian also believes that Ali cloud present achievements, all need to thank the developers, "Aliyun's cloud open platform to help domestic cloud developers to define how to do cloud computing, and developers and customers really teach Aliyun how Cloud computing. "Wang Jian redefines the developer as a" developer ", hoping that developers will provide marketable value applications and the desire to make cloud computing more pervasive, all through the developer's day-to-day lectures.

Chen Jinpei: 2012 is the first year of cloud computing practice

Chen Jinpei, general manager of Aliyun's cloud computing business, provided a full explanation of Wang Jian's vision.

Chen Jinpei introduction, July 28, 2011 Aliyun cloud computing cloud server products into the market, there are already tens of thousands of websites, applications or games deployed in Aliyun platform, daily support for billions of direct or indirect access. Aliyun Flying Open Platform provides a variety of cloud computing services such as ECS, relational database service RDS, open storage service OSS, open structured data service OTS, open data processing service ODPS, cloud rendering and cloud search. Chen Jinpei put these clouds Computing services can be summarized as flexible computing, storage and database services, large-scale computing three categories. ECS, RDS and OSS have relatively simple application modes and are the most popular cloud computing services in small and medium-sized enterprises. OTS, ODPS and other innovative cloud computing services satisfy the rigid demands of larger-scale enterprises.

On the afternoon of November 9, at the 5 special sessions, many of Aliyun's technical experts and customer representatives introduced various cloud computing services and numerous cases covering many fields ranging from Internet and mobile Internet, SaaS and traditional enterprises. Corresponding to Wang Jian's vision, cloud computing is not limited to small-scale applications. It also supports traditional enterprise transformation to the cloud, and provides the underlying support for many platform-based applications in addition to the services provided to enterprise users.

Internet and mobile internet

The Internet and mobile Internet are the main groups of developers. The value of cloud computing is to provide low-cost and flexible computing resources. For most developers, Alisun ECS, RDS and OSS can accomplish the basic IT deployment.

Sing it Technical Director Tian Ran introduced as one of the hottest applications of the mobile Internet, sing more than 1 million songs a day upload, upload more than 25 million pictures, download pictures more than 10 million bandwidth peak more than 5GB, traffic over 20TB, sing Deploy songs and images on OSS, which greatly saves costs and meets the explosive growth of mobile Internet.

In addition there are many well-known traditional Internet and mobile Internet applications such as Weekend Illustrated, Shimi Net, 囧 remember words are also deployed in Ali cloud.

Zhang Enmin, the founder of php100, said: "Alibaba Cloud provides a new solution to the problems of server stability, financial shortage, new product development, technical shortages and staff costs that plague Internet entrepreneurs. It is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises and for individual users , A cloud platform for Internet entrepreneurs. "This sentence confirms what Dr. Wang Jian said that cloud computing gives one person the power of having one big company, and it is one of the charms that cloud computing attracts many developers.

SaaS

Outside the traditional Internet and mobile Internet developers, traditional software vendors are another important developer force, Aliyun also covers this group. Aliyun supported the soft enterprise APP platform R1, Lynx Poly Pagoda PaaS platform, but also directly supports Chanjet, Teamcola and many other SaaS software vendors.

As representative of SaaS, Shen Xiuliang, director of the color scheme design, said Alibaba Cloud's security and brand trustworthy. The SaaS application Teamcola and Tower under the color scheme are all deployed in Aliyun, which is equal to putting all the others in Aliyun.

For traditional software vendors, Ali cloud value lies in the trusted, lower cost hardware platform, allowing software companies to focus on software solutions.

Innovative solutions in traditional industries

Aliyun also faces broader areas such as traditional industries to support enterprises in traditional fields to carry out innovative businesses. Ops and ODSP help Schneider to process various energy data, ODPS support Ali financial based on transaction records Automated credit evaluation and loan review through model calculation, processing an average of more than 9,000 loan applications per day to achieve traditional Bank can not complete the task. Cloud rendering can help the animation company significantly reduce rendering time and costs, 5 minutes of HD animation, cloud rendering 40 minutes to complete.

In traditional industries in different fields, cloud computing provides indiscriminate basic IT services, enabling traditional enterprises to also have strong computing resources and eliminate the differences in IT solutions in different fields so as to be able to focus on their core businesses.

3C industry and hardware vendors

Aliyun also provides traditional hardware manufacturers with the ability to build an interconnected infrastructure in which cloud OS plays an important role as a platform for software and hardware developers to provide basic IT services. Cloud OS also serves as an important application channel to help develop Move Internet service to the mobile Internet, magnify the value of the hardware, so that different services integrate with each other, resulting in differentiated value for users.

Through the open platform and cloud cloud OS, Aliyun unite a large number of traditional hardware manufacturers, there Skyworth, Haier, TCL, Hisense, and other traditional appliances giants, but also at the developer conference latest appearance of 100 abundance, pepper two Mobile phone manufacturers.

In addition to specifically mention big data, cloud computing platform based on the powerful computing power, there are already EasyHadoop, Mark Wei and other data analysis and processing tools running on Ali cloud in the future big data will gradually become the focus of the future, it is also worth One of the areas of concern for developers.

Chen Jinpei believes that in 2012 the first year of China's cloud computing implementation, Aliyun provided services to many industries. From the popularity of Aliyun cloud computing service, cloud computing is gradually playing a role in all walks of life and has an impact on business innovation by improving basic IT capabilities.

Developers on Alibaba Cloud platform, you can not rely on the platform of business, but can focus on their own industry experience and advantages, the original program to improve and innovate. Aliyun for the broadest developer community in the future will have a broader application prospects, developers are promising.

Tang Hong: Ali cloud both Google and Amazon

In retrospect, Aliyun such a stunning layout, but also will be on how to support Ali cloud cloud computing services in question, Tang Yun, senior director of Ali cloud computing provided the answer.

Tang Hong introduced the construction ideas and experience technical challenges of the open platform for flying. In view of the three essences of cloud computing: large-scale, low-cost and service features, the open platform for flying space set two goals at the beginning of the design: The system supports as many offline and online services as possible to achieve large-scale and low-cost: 1, put different applications on the same platform to expand the scale of the platform; 2, there is commonality between offline and online applications; 3, the nature of offline and online services There are differences, you can use complementary resources; Second, to provide services in the form of public services.

Tang Hong also introduced that in the process of achieving this goal, the large-scale and complexity of the system brought great challenges: 1, the small probability events become normal; 2, the global synchronization is expensive; 3, the test scene is limited ; 4, hot system dynamics. In the end, the flying world avoided global synchronization on the critical path of performance, reaching a compromise on inaccurate global conditions: 1. Reduce the coupling between modules; 2. Emphasize the diagnostics of the entire online system.

Tang Hong also introduced the main function module and technology improvement achievements and directions of the open platform of Altiris. Alisoft provides a large unified platform to provide as many off-line and online services as possible, flexible calculation, RDS, OSS, OTS, ODPS , Cloud rendering and other services are all deployed in the open space platform.

Tang Hong believes that Alibaba Cloud started with a unified structure of the way to build a platform for flying open space, flying platform to take into account the characteristics of Google and Amazon, similar to Google and the use of unified architecture clusters to improve resource utilization, but also can be limited The concentration of development resources, to achieve the optimization of physical resources and human resources, resulting in lower costs.

For developers, with Google and a unified technology platform, but also provide Amazon's diverse service capabilities, such a development environment is more reliable in terms of technical reliability and convenience.

150 million to support developers

Outside the technology platform, open platform support for developers policy is also the focus of attention.

Aliyun started the first Aliyun Developer Contest in July 2012 with a total of one million bonuses. Over the course of three months, a number of ground salon exchanges and trainings were held. Over 2,000 participants participated. On November 8, at the review meeting of 20 outstanding entries, 4 judges, including editor Liu Gang, the programmer, paid special attention to the application value of products and two principles of selecting excellent products: 1. Having a relatively clear positioning ; 2, practical, a wider user base, and purely technical work to develop the work is not optimistic. ECSMate, the creator of the ultimate developer Jiang Linjin, took the lead in providing web management tools for Aliyun server and won a bonus of 200,000 yuan for the Super Tools Award.

On the morning of November 9, Aliyun formally launched the Aliyun developer community. Chen Jinpei said Aliyun will launch a plan with a fund of 150 million yuan to support the "developer" as Alibaba helped network operators in the past. Alibaba Cloud launched its talent training program and published a tutorial on the development of open-air platforms. In 2013, Alibaba Cloud will support more SDKs, plan a complete API system and improve development documents.

As an open platform that focuses on providing cloud computing basic services, Aliyun has a clearer idea on the positioning and layout of the platform. The current market situation provides developers with a free space to play. Aliyun, on the other hand, Also have enough attention, in the open platform development system to further improve, it will form a more prosperous cloud computing ecology.