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Introduction: This year, the "Cloud Native Architecture White Paper 2022 Edition" was officially launched. Compared with the 2020 version, this content has added dozens of companies' practical experience collections. At the same time, multiple core product families have been added to the cloud native product matrix. , such as container product family, microservice product family, cloud native technology mid-stage CNStack product family, etc., to help enterprises digital transformation in one-stop.

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Enterprise IT in the Cloud Native Era

It has been seven years since cloud native was first proposed by Pivotal in 2013. During these seven years, the definition of cloud native has changed many times, and the concept of cloud native itself has been constantly growing and expanding. Enterprises and developers have different interpretations, and all parties in the industry have different understandings.

There are many reasons that restrict the further implementation of cloud-native technologies. In addition to the vagueness of concepts and standards, there are also blurred perceptions of cloud-native value in traditional industries, uneven cloud-native technical capabilities of enterprises, in the wave of enterprise digital transformation. Cloud-native landing on the surface, cloud-native IT architecture transformation faces heavy historical burdens and other practical problems.

What enterprises lack is not an explanation of cloud native concepts, nor is it a design diagram of cloud native architecture, but a cloud native landing methodology that is truly based on scenarios and has been tested by practice. Alibaba has 16 years of accumulated practical experience in the field of cloud native. This is not only a valuable asset for Alibaba's technology exploration, accumulation, and innovation, but also the best reference from real scenarios, complex businesses, and massive concurrency for reference during the implementation of cloud native in the industry. best practice.

Ding Yu, head of Alibaba Cloud's cloud native application platform, mentioned in a previous interview with the media:

"In the past two years, enterprises have been impacted by online traffic, which has magnified the superiority of the IT architecture that was born in the cloud and grew up in the cloud, and accelerated the industry's acceptance of cloud native. Cloud native started in the Internet industry at the very beginning, and has gradually spread to finance. , government affairs, logistics and other industries have formed a phenomenon of thousands of industries embracing cloud native.

However, in the process of cloud native implementation, due to the different characteristics of various industries and the different growth periods of enterprises, there is still a large historical burden on the IT architecture. How to better embrace cloud native is not only the migration cost. , and there are many problems such as the time cycle and the change of developer concept. Alibaba Cloud hopes to bring these 16 years of cloud-native practical experience to the industry in the process of industry digital transformation and embrace cloud-native, so as to help everyone truly implement cloud-native. "

Ask for dividends from technology

The cloud native industry has encountered thousands of problems in the process of landing in thousands of industries. The vague concept and the uneven technical strength reflect the dilemma of enterprises when they implement cloud native: knowing that cloud native is very important, but not knowing how to use the value of cloud native to realize business innovation.

The process of cloud native landing is not complicated. In essence, it is to enjoy the dividends of technological development. For developers, the benefits are equally obvious. From a business perspective, application developers will pay less and less attention to infrastructure, and more focus on business logic itself. With the gradual standardization of various technologies under the cloud native concept, the development and production environments faced by application developers in the future will become more and more standardized, eliminating the need for complex environment construction and management.

In 2019, Alibaba realized the full cloud deployment of its core systems. In 2020, Alibaba realized the comprehensive cloud nativeization of its core systems. What is the logical relationship behind the alternation of the two major technology strategies, from the full cloud migration of the core system to the full cloud nativeization of the core system? This is actually a natural process.

From the core system to the cloud, it has brought a dimensional upgrade. Behind the cloud-native move to the cloud has become how to innovate on the cloud and how to better fully use cloud-native products to release the value of technology, which represents a good ecology, standardized services, and a complete technical system.

After the future enterprises go to the cloud, the next step must be to fully use the cloud. At this stage, the use of cloud by many enterprises is still in the IaaS stage. From the perspective of Alibaba Cloud, we need to help them implement a standard cloud-native cloud migration.

How to implement practical methods in the cloud native industry where "no standards, all standards"? On the one hand, it is the continuous improvement of cloud native capabilities brought about by Alibaba's own business scale, and on the other hand, it is the experience accumulated by Alibaba Cloud serving millions of customers. The verification and integration of the two have logically led to the cloud native industry. The birth of methodology.

In 2020, the "Cloud Native Architecture White Paper" jointly compiled by 20+ cloud native technical experts from Alibaba Cloud was officially released. This is the first white paper in the industry to comprehensively build a panorama of cloud-native architecture planning and practice. It not only elaborates the definition of cloud-native architecture, but also fully demonstrates the evolution path and design rules required for cloud-native architecture applications. The crystallization of wisdom from the actual combat experience of cloud native. This year, the "Cloud Native Architecture White Paper 2022 Edition" was officially launched. Compared with the 2020 version, this content has added dozens of enterprise experience collections. At the same time, in the cloud native product matrix, several core product families have been added, such as Container product family, microservice product family, cloud native technology mid-stage CNStack product family, etc., are more one-stop to help enterprises digital transformation.

The greatest significance of the cloud-native architecture maturity model is to provide evaluation and optimization directions for problems such as the current status, capabilities and development paths of enterprise cloud-native, helping enterprises to embark on the "shortest path" of digital transformation. At present, cloud native technology has also begun to be coupled with other advanced technologies in the process of business innovation. Personalized recommendation, automatic driving, etc., together with cloud native technology, shorten the time-consuming of business innovation. On the other hand, the technologies and concepts of the security front represented by confidential computing and DevSecOps have strengthened the security and credibility of the core business in the process of cloud native implementation. This is an imaginary space that the cloud native combat methodology brings to real and scenario-based businesses that can be used for reference.

This year, in the evaluation of the maturity model of cloud-native technology architecture released by the Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Alibaba Cloud has obtained the only global highest-level certification in China, which further proves Alibaba Cloud's leadership and strong strength in cloud-native technology architecture standards.

In the next ten years, cloud computing will be ubiquitous, and will become the infrastructure of the digital economy like water, electricity and coal. Cloud native makes cloud computing standard, open, simple, efficient, and accessible. How to better embrace cloud computing, embrace cloud native architecture, and use technology to accelerate innovation will become the key to the success of enterprise digital transformation and upgrading.

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