Invitation Letter | SOFA's 4th anniversary, open source is the time!

SOFAStack was announced as open source on April 19, 2018.
In 2022, the Year of the Tiger, the SOFAStack community will celebrate its fourth birthday after open source.
This also marks the gradual maturity of the community. We have always adhered to the concept of an open and interesting community, and shared with friends in the community through various channels such as GitHub, Meetup, live broadcast, official account, and video account. The best in the field of financial-grade cloud native practice.
In the future, we will continue to work on infrastructure, especially in the field of cloud native. We also look forward to colliding and communicating with more community friends, learning from and growing with each other, and building the SOFAStack community better and better together.

We sincerely invite you to:
April 16, 2022 (14:00-17:40)
Online https://yqh.aliyun.com/live/detail/28210
Witness the fourth anniversary of SOFAStack community open source !
Let's look back on these four years together,
We grow together.

"Large-scale Practice and Prospect of Ant Service Discovery"

Guest introduction: Li Xudong, flower name: Xiang Xu. Technical expert of Ant Group, currently responsible for the research and development of SOFARegistry in the middleware team of Ant Group.
Topic introduction: Naming is a field with a long history of development, and naming is the core of a distributed system. The scale of data it can support and the stability of SLO will have a significant impact on business. Ant Group operates and maintains hundreds of SOFARegistry clusters on the site, and has extremely high requirements for naming scale and stability. The largest cluster scale reaches tens of millions of pub/sub. We have also gradually formed ideas on how to evolve to a cloud-native architecture, carried out related explorations and practices, and achieved corresponding phased results.
Listeners get:

• Learn about Ant Group's thinking in SOFARegistry's new challenges and cloud-native era.
• Get hands-on experience with SOFARegistry.
• Learn about Ant Group's thinking on future naming and the exploration of naming in the cloud-native direction.
• Learn about future SOFARegistry developments and related community trends.

"Review and Prospect of Ant Group Service Mesh Progress"

Guest introduction: Shi Jianwei, flower name: Zhuo Yu. Senior technical expert of Ant Group, he has been focusing on middleware in the service field for many years, including microservices, Service Mesh, configuration center, and service registration center. Currently, he is mainly responsible for Ant's internal Service Mesh, SOFARPC, Layotto, SOFAGateway and other products.
Topic outline:

• Practice internal skills: Say goodbye to the technical challenges brought about by the large-scale expansion of internal clusters, the expansion of long-term connections, the intelligent evolution of service governance, and manual intervention.
• Criteria: Is Meshing the End? Apply runtime standards.
• Building access: the secret to rapid business development.
• Looking to the future: The next five years of cloud-native runtimes.

Listeners get:

• Learn about the evolution trend of the industry's cutting-edge Service Mesh, the direction of mesh-based optimization of large-scale clusters, service governance adaptive current limiting, adaptive traffic scheduling, and the attempt to integrate MOSN and Envoy.
• Learn about new technology solutions across clouds without vendor binding, application runtime, and multi-cloud exploration.

"MOSN 1.0 released, opening a new generation of architecture evolution"

Guest introduction: Zhu Dejiang, flower name: Rende. Core member of MOSN.
Topic introduction: With the large-scale application of MOSN in ants and the development of the open source community, the tempered MOSN is stable enough, and the MOSN 1.0 version comes out as the times require. At the same time, out of the vision of a unified gateway infrastructure, MOSN has launched a new generation of architecture evolution. The new architecture MOSN will use the underlying high-performance network framework to improve network performance, and build cloud-native north-south access layer gateways based on the istio control plane to realize the unification of gateway infrastructure.
Listeners get:

• Learn about the evolution of MOSN and what problems it solved at that time.
• Learn about the key features of MOSN 1.0.
• Learn the highlights of MOSN's new architecture and how it works.
• Learn about the development plan of the new architecture and how to build a cloud-native north-south access gateway.

"Ark Serverless System Helps Rapid Business Development"

Guest introduction:

• Zhao Zhenling, flower name: Youji. Ant Group technical expert, engaged in the research and development of Ark Serverless product technology system.
• Liu Jing, flower name: Fei Lian. Ant Group technical expert, engaged in the research and development of Ark Serverless product technology system.

Topic introduction: Ark Serverless technology system allows users to quickly launch new functions by developing modules (code blocks), and at the same time, module developers are not aware of infrastructure such as machines, environments, and capacities, helping enterprises to achieve rapid business development.
Listeners get:

• What benefits can the Ark Serverless system bring to users (including rapid R&D, collaboration, operation and maintenance, cold start, resource cost and service governance, etc.).
• How Ark Serverless can help enterprises upgrade traditional applications to serverless R&D experience without feeling.
• The best practice and business development form of Ark Serverless in Ant Group.
• The future community operation plan of the Ark Serverless system.