Looking back on 2017, the cloud community has carried too much wonderful content. In this year, a large number of excellent teams entered the community. Over 600 bloggers became cloud experts. At the same time, the community is also integrating resources to output high-quality content, launched 100+ cutting-edge technology topics, and successfully released the “2017 Chinese Developer Survey Report” at the end of the year… It was a bumper year!
The cloud community content of 2017 special read address: click.aliyun.com/m/40560/
I. Technical topics with the highest evaluation
Cloud habitat community technology thematic module is the main gathering place of ali Cloud core technology. Here, friends can browse the wonderful technical interpretation of various technology masters. Too much technology can be confusing, but that’s okay, folks! That’s what the community has in mind for you, and now that 2017 is coming, let’s revisit their wisdom.
1, endless technology 2017 Double 11 core technology revealed
Double 11 is a technical training, is the Internet industry’s super project. Need to support as high as possible zero peak, to give users the best experience; Also to do as low as possible cost, extreme flexibility; But also to achieve overall system stability. Endless technology, 2017 Double 11 brought more core technologies, including the technical disclosure of distributed cache Tair, and the application of Ali’s new generation database technology in double 11.
2. Comprehensive interpretation of “Visual” unstoppable video cloud technology
In 2017, Alibaba Video cloud technology has been more comprehensive development, from video production, distribution, consumption three links to provide developers with powerful computing power, so that live streaming seconds become possible.
3, the most accessible deep learning introduction fourteen
From May to August 2017, Dr. Zhang Yuhong, the author of Savoring Big Data, serialized fourteen deep learning introductory articles in the Cloud Qi community. These articles were well received in the cloud community – “Easy to understand”, “Wait for updates”, “Can the great God update frequency faster?” … And I’ve read thousands of times.
20 + project selection: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40561/
2. The most popular online summit
Live every day in 2017, the cloud community in the spread of technology knowledge, this year launched more than 300 in total live online, covering multiple technologies and industries, in the process of the hundreds of televised, countless technology enthusiasts and lecturer at the online FAQ, community live channel has become a very important channel for the technology to share, Here are six of the most popular online summits.
1, 2017 Alibaba Double 11 technology twelve lectures
With its forward-looking perspective and innovative technology, Ali has always been committed to delivering sincere answers to the public on November 11. What finally settled down after the great wave washed away the sand is the glitter of technology. Want to know more about the technology behind alibaba Double 11 2017? Want to get the opportunity to communicate and learn with experts face to face? The Cloud Computing Community Online Technology Summit invited 12 technology masters who directly participated in this year’s Double 11 to explore the beauty of double 11 technology together with everyone, and comprehensively and deeply understand the innovative technology practices in cloud storage, video cloud, database, big data, security, middleware, Elasticsearch and other fields.
2. Alibaba Cloud Operation /DevOps Online Technology Summit
From traditional IT deployment to cloud, human operation and maintenance is a thing of the past. How should cloud operation and maintenance be carried out? Especially in the era of Cloud 2.0, operation and maintenance has been transformed into a global, process-based and refined mode. At the same time, the development of artificial intelligence, “threat theory” also hit — is operation and maintenance going to be useless? At present, many operation personnel are constantly thinking and searching for answers to how to do more intelligent living.
In this context, Ali Cloud Habitat community held an online “Operation /DevOps” technology Summit on April 20, during which 7 Ali technology gurus and an external senior practitioner gave speeches and shared their understanding of DevOps, architecture and practical experience in daily operation and maintenance.
3. The first Online Summit for Internet Recruits
For more than ten years, as soon as I step into the society, my student life which is looking forward to the end is often the beginning of entanglement: my eyes turn to the various offers obtained by my classmates, and I feel unwilling and helpless with empty hands, who can understand; With a cheerful mood toward the job, the fierce competition has been rebuffed everywhere. IT’s graduation season again. As IT recruits, we might learn something: two ali elders show you the planning of technology and interaction designers, and four new recruits share the interview experience and transformation process. One year and five years old each other shine!
4. The first Alibaba R&D Performance Carnival
With the development of cloud computing, big data, AI and other cutting-edge technologies, the traditional speed of research and development is increasingly difficult to meet the needs of rapid development of enterprises. Research and development efficiency has become another core competitiveness after business model and technological breakthrough. On June 29, Aliyun R&D, together with RDC, Aliyun Cloud Effect and cloud community, jointly held the “First Alibaba R&D Efficiency Carnival” online live broadcast.
Alibaba senior technical expert, ten years agile coach, practice experts, take you fly! Whether it is project management, continuous delivery, test release, agile R&D, you will fully experience the whole r&d life cycle and personally experience alibaba’s mature R&D process and experience for many years. From theory to practice, from start-ups to large enterprises, double 11 project management, comprehensive interpretation of how to improve r&d efficiency.
5. The first Alibaba Middleware Technology Summit
Alibaba Middleware Technology Summit, revealed Ali’s 10 years of distributed technology dry goods. As the first Alibaba Middleware Technology Summit, alibaba middleware technical experts with years of experience in research and development combined with the accumulated experience of the team to share the cloud, distributed database, high availability evolution and other aspects of middleware for service architecture.
6. 2017 Ali Cloud Database Technology Summit
Ali Cloud database technology Summit invited ali Group and Ali cloud database old drivers to share front-line database practical experience and technical dry goods, to help you understand what practical scenarios ali cloud database product system can solve the problem, and to help you understand the principle of its solution.
100 + data collection: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40562/
The most discussed technical topics
Juneng Chat is a technical topic exchange platform for developers. Topics include hot news discussion, technical exchange and so on. Here, people can express their opinions freely. Here are two of the most discussed topics.
1. What skill tree does a qualified JAVA programmer need to light up?
This is from 450 companies’ recruitment information statistics, relatively true, although some companies’ recruitment requirements have remained unchanged for years, but it can roughly reflect the company’s recruitment requirements.
2. How do ordinary programmers get into AI under the wave of ARTIFICIAL intelligence?
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence is the hottest industry in the whole Internet field at present. With AlphaGo’s victory over the world Go champion, as well as the preaching of various unmanned driving and intelligent home projects, people have realized that AI is the next vent. Of course, programmers are the most sensitive group to new technologies I have ever seen. For example, when TensorFlow was just released, almost all students engaged in big data started to communicate about it as soon as they met, as if they all became “tensorflow_boys” overnight. I think there are two reasons why programmers are sensitive to new technologies. One is that technology forces you to keep learning, otherwise you will soon be obsolete. The second is that programmers are mostly men of science and engineering, who are curious about new things.
100 + topic highlights: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40563/
Fourth, the most attention to the technical field
In 2017, the total number of questions on the q&A channel of cloud computing community reached 6W+ times, among which Python, MaxCompute and domain name appeared the most frequently. The following are the three most concerned keywords q&A sets.
1. Basic language -Python
The phrase “Life is too short to use Python” is very popular in the software world recently. This shows the characteristics of Python, which is fast. Of course, this fast does not mean that Python runs fast, after all, it is a scripting language, no matter how fast it is, it is not faster than C and C++ and other low-level languages. By fast, I mean that developing in Python is very fast. Python relies on the open source community, so it has rich and powerful libraries that can be used to do a lot of functional development quickly. Python, often nicknamed the Glue language, makes it easy to link together various modules made in other languages (especially C/C++).
MaxCompute 2, MaxCompute
Big Data Computing Services (MaxCompute, formerly ODPS) is a fast, fully managed GB/TB/PB level data warehouse solution. MaxCompute provides users with a comprehensive data import solution and a variety of classical distributed computing models, which can quickly solve the problem of computing massive data for users, effectively reduce enterprise costs, and ensure data security. At the same time, the big data development suite is closely related to MaxCompute. The big data development suite provides MaxCompute with one-stop data synchronization, task development, data workflow development, data management, data operation and maintenance, etc. You can refer to the Introduction of the Big Data development suite for further understanding. MaxCompute = MaxCompute = MaxCompute = MaxCompute
Domain name record novice hundred ask
In the era of mobile Internet, both individuals and enterprises cannot do without the network. Traditional enterprises also began to develop online business, making website construction increasingly hot. Enterprises can not only use the website as a low-cost way to better display themselves, for their own publicity, and can get business opportunities for cooperation. Personal website as a personal blog to record their own life bit by bit, learning comprehension is also a very respected thing. Enterprises and individuals will encounter some problems in the process of website construction, and the domain name record is a vexing thing. In this article, we sorted out the questions about domain name registration in the cloud q&A, hoping to help you better complete the website construction.
14 the big ask highlights: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40564/
Five, the most read forum hot posts
In 2017, the Cloud Community forum deposited a large number of hot technical posts, they were talked about with great delight, countless developers left footprints here, some of which were read more than 10W+, these content should be recorded.
1. Aliyun global evaluation and analysis of fifteen nodes and regional selection of servers
With the continuous development of Ali Cloud, there are only a few points on the picture of data centers on the original home page, but now there are a lot of data centers deployed at home and abroad, leading to the small edition of my order to sort out this article, it is really unbearable, how can there be so many data centers!
So what’s the difference between so many data centers? How should data center choices be considered? How to get the best deal?
2. Configure different SSL certificates (SNI) for phpStudy Apache on Windows 2008
I want to configure SSL certificate security access for Apache in phpStudy suite.
BBS annual highlights: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40565/
6. The most influential technical team
In 2017, the community formed a group of 100+ professional team blog lineup composed of Alibaba Group technology team, ecological partners and community technology alliance, these teams contributed a wealth of technology and product learning materials for readers every day, the following is the annual selection of public accounts.
1. Alibaba Cloud database ApsaraDB
Ali cloud database: to help users assume all database risks, to give you more than peace of mind! Supported relational databases include MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, PPAS (perfectly compatible with Oracle), Petadata, a distributed database for PB-level data storage, and OceanBase, a financial cloud database. NoSQL databases include: MongoDB, Redis, Memcache more chu Ba, Dingqi, Dege, Peng Lixun, Xuan Xian, Ye Xiang and other top database experts services.
2. Alibaba Cloud storage service
Ali cloud storage official team, to provide professional and rich cloud storage solution ApsaraStor — unlimited storage possibilities.
3. Ali Cloud Container Service
Container Service Provides high-performance and scalable Container application management services. It supports Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application lifecycle management, provides multiple application distribution modes and continuous delivery capabilities, and supports microservices architecture. Container service simplifies the construction of container management cluster, integrates ali Cloud virtualization, storage, network and security capabilities, and creates the best container operating environment in the cloud.
4. Alibaba Big Data — player community
Ali big data blog, Q&A, community, practice, friends from afar, not to mention…
5. Ali iDST intelligent voice interaction
IDST – Intelligent Voice Interaction team was established at the end of 2014. Our mission is to provide intelligent voice interaction experience for Alibaba Group and small and medium-sized enterprises in Alibaba ecosystem on alibaba’s technology platform. The team has carried out systematic infrastructure construction and accumulation in core technologies such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, voiceprint verification, natural language understanding and human-machine dialogue. At present, we have built a set of first-class intelligent voice interaction system with the speed of light, and have taken root in intelligent customer service system, YuNOS system, intelligent hardware equipment and other businesses.
180 + technical team: http://click.aliyun.com/m/40566/
7. The most comprehensive developer report
More than 14,992 developers participated in the 2017 Chinese Developer Survey Report, which was launched in October 2017. 7,032 of them completed all 118 questions, resulting in the report of more than 100 pages. The report itself covers artificial intelligence, big data and other fields that the developer community is most concerned about. Painted a comprehensive portrait of Chinese developers.
The 120 – page report: http://click.aliyun.com/m/37587/
8. The Most influential Summit
In 2017, cloud Computing Conference was successively held in eight cities across China, with more than 300 technology theme forums throughout the year, covering a number of cutting-edge scientific and technological fields such as artificial intelligence, big data, fintech, quantum computing, life science, IoT, multimedia, VR and so on. From the world’s top academic experts, enterprises in various fields and executives of hundreds of start-up companies shared cutting-edge technology, practical experience and entrepreneurial experience, a total of nearly 800 PPT.
800 + assembly essence PDF:http://click.aliyun.com/m/38468/
Cloud Habitat Warrior looks ahead to 2018
He Yunfei, Ali Cloud senior product expert
In 2017, the technological upsurge of cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and IoT was ignited in waves. Individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, governments, financial and manufacturing enterprises and other large enterprises all embraced the most advanced technology, expecting technology to drive business model innovation and further reflect corporate value. 8 years, millions of users trust, ali cloud has completed the perfect transformation of ToB, enterprise computing examples of ECS, storage, global private network, middleware, database PolarDB gradually, at the same time ali cloud middle office also provides business and data solutions, digital transformation from IaaS to PaaS implementation for the enterprise to provide a complete infrastructure; From manufacturing and urban transportation, we see that some enterprises have taken the lead in realizing enterprise data intelligence, which greatly improves the operational efficiency of cities and enterprises. 2018 is the year of digital transformation of enterprises. Before the 20th National Congress, whether they can outperform the market depends on the driving force of technology. Ali Cloud is ready for the arrival of the era of digital transformation of enterprises with abundant product and technology stacks and global services that never set on the sun.
Yi Li, ali Cloud senior technical expert
Container ecological development is becoming mature, and most manufacturers have supported the mainstream technical standards advocated by CNCF and OCI organizations. Container ecology promotes the further development of cloud native architecture, and Service Mesh deserves more expectations in exploring service governance, security, monitoring and other directions. In the coming year, the industry will continue to innovate deeply in the use of enterprise production environments and focus more firmly on application value, based on the standardization consensus. Container technology will be ubiquitous, better able to support more new workloads and give us more surprises in areas like deep learning, blockchain and IoT.
Wang Jingyu, senior technical expert of Alibaba
The mid-stage structure advocated by Alibaba has been applied and promoted in many governments and large enterprises, and has become a key force driving business development and transformation. We are pleased to see that more and more customers have achieved both business and technical success thanks to our mid-platform architecture. The core delivery system of China Post, based on microservitization, realized the flexible business drive with customer as the center, and successfully dealt with the business peak of Double 11. The CBSS system of China Unicom deals with tens of millions of card inquiries every day, which is as steady as a rock. Sinopec yipaike has accumulated transaction volume of hundreds of billions, and has gone abroad with the Belt and Road initiative. Manufacturing enterprises, which are usually considered to have a low level of information technology, are also actively embracing micro services. Haier, BOE, BYD, Geely and other companies have achieved obvious results. Looking forward to 2018, our expectation for the business is that Zhongtai can become the first power to help enterprises better serve consumers and help more enterprises make money.
Lei Ming, Alibaba iDST senior algorithm expert
Ai will have a profound impact on society and individuals, whether it is the food, clothing, housing and transportation that individuals face on a daily basis or every aspect of business society. In the past 2017, ARTIFICIAL intelligence experienced the continuous progress of its own technology and the expansion of more industries, and gained the favor of many fields in the whole society, and constantly saw the entry of new enterprises and exploration of new industries. In 2018, ARTIFICIAL intelligence is on its way to solving cognitive intelligence problems. In the field of human-computer interaction, more human-understanding and more intelligent systems are expected to emerge. In more vertical fields, it is expected to complete the automatic processing and intelligent assistance of complicated affairs. In the field of complex decision-making, large-scale comprehensive artificial intelligence systems are expected to play more decision-making roles. Ai is expected to bring more efficient, more comfortable and more convenient changes to human life!
Zhang Jie is a senior technical expert at Alibaba’s ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Lab
In 2018, VR & AR will have a huge impact on the enterprise market, whether it is machinery, automotive, aerospace, power, construction, or retail. From apple’s successful launch of ARKit and Google’s ARCore in 2017 and Qualcomm’s official launch of the 845 Snapdragon chip, the development of AR/VR in 2018 will be phenomenal. AR/VR technology on wearable devices continues to evolve, the competition for AR glasses has begun, and the next battleground in the tech industry is your field of vision. We look forward to more breakthroughs in VR/AR/MR in the New Year, wider and deeper applications, and more powerful products in the consumer end.
Hu Danqing is senior product expert of Ant Financial
Evolution and development of long public chain: Bitcoin, Ethereum and other winners still need time to test; Transaction confirmation time is long and cost is high: confirmation takes nearly an hour; Electricity costs per transaction are surprisingly high; Mainly driven by the community, community enthusiasm is more attracted by how to do ICO; The foundation of alliance chain technology is closer to maturity: the competition between open source and enterprise-level schemes is fierce, POC scenarios of major institutions blossom in many places, and breakthrough production-level applications have not yet appeared. The biggest bottleneck is that there is no application that can reflect the core value of blockchain except for virtual currency scenarios.
Zhou Zhengzhong, ali Cloud senior technical expert
Along with the development of business and technology, database products more and more vertically, some database products seize business pain points at that time, but this makes the business system have to choose more products to meet the needs of the business, bring inconvenience, such as data synchronization, data redundancy and data consistency, technical problems such as stack depth. Over the past few years, technology has spread across products. PostgreSQL was named database of the Year by DB-Engines for its fastest open penetration architecture, reaching OLTP, OLAP, search, stream computing, graph computing, spatial databases, and recommendation databases. 2018 will continue to stage a war of ecological and technological penetration, database ecology, computing and storage capabilities, functions will become the focus of users. Ecology is divided into three aspects: cloud, software, talent ecology. Computing and storage capacity: storage computing separation, combined with FPGA and other technologies to squeeze performance, including PolarDB represented by Ali Cloud for MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible version. Function aspect: penetrate into each demand point of business, shorten user technology stack.
Zhu Jirong, aliyun senior technology development expert
After more than a decade of development, the Internet of Things is returning to the forefront, driven by broad commercial prospects and mature enabling technologies. In the industrial chain, application solutions and iot platforms account for almost 60-80% of the high value-added; In vertical industries, smart city, smart industry and smart life have become the main battlefield. In terms of technology and products, cloud computing capability extends to the edge and artificial intelligence penetrates more into the Internet of Things, which is the focus of well-known enterprises such as Amazon and Microsoft in 2017. In 2018, the Internet of Things industry will become more and more hot and move towards refinement, scale and commercialization. Practitioners will focus more on industry scenarios, on solutions where customers have value and a strong desire to pay, on development platforms, enabling PaaS, edge computing, cloud integration, and vigorously expand the ecosystem. The market pattern will change from a group of competitors to a few strong competitors, everything will change from connecting the cloud to predictive analysis and intelligent intervention, and the benefits will change from reducing cost and increasing efficiency to exploring more business opportunities based on business insights. In 18 years and the next two or three years, the Internet of things will benefit all walks of life and consumers.
Cao Long, aliyun senior technical expert
In 2017, we saw: First, Hadoop and other low-level platform-based technologies gradually became the foundation, and more attention was paid to the development of AI, blockchain, IOT and other big data applications; Secondly, the cloud is gradually becoming a trend on big data. Elastic storage of computing resources and products on the cloud can maximize the reduction of big data input resources and labor costs. Finally, the boundaries of big data and Database are becoming more and more blurred. HTAP, NewSQL, multi-Model Database Service and other technologies are also developing constantly. The ability of stand-alone Database and distributed ability are being continuously integrated, so as to look forward to one-stop solution for customers’ large-scale data and computing problems.