*By Qingfeng* 1. Background Java applications are expected to start quickly because of the advent of the cloud-native era. It is becoming increasingly popular to reduce resource costs by dynamically scaling and using serverless computing. Alibaba has done a lot of work and exploration to meet the demands for quick start of…

1. Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is to coordinate the internal and external resources of the enterprise to jointly meet the needs of consumers. When we regard the enterprises in each link of the supply chain as a virtual enterprise alliance, and regard any enterprise as a department in this virtual enterprise alliance…

A tag cloud is a set of related tags and their corresponding weights. A typical tag cloud has 30 to 150 tags. Weights affect the font size or other visual effects used. Meanwhile, histograms or pie charts are most commonly used to represent about 12 different weights. Therefore, tag clouds…

E-HPC (Elastic High-Performance Computing) is a high-performance computing service with excellent performance, stability, reliability, and elastic expansion provided by Alibaba Cloud. Elastic high-performance computing accumulates computing power and uses parallel computing to solve larger-scale scientific, engineering and commercial problems. …

In the Hadoop entry learning stage, many students know that in the Hadoop framework, HDFS provides distributed storage support, so they often misunderstand HDFS: Is HDFS a database? What kind of database is HDFS? …

Business problems are too broad, deep, and complex for one tool to solve them all, especially in the field of big data and analytics. This article describes 6 alternative technologies for data storage. 1. Structured data storage Structured data storage has been around for decades and is the most familiar data storage technology. Most…

Blockchain definition What is blockchain technology. An easy way to understand blockchain is to visualize it as a database that is publicly shared among many participants. Each of these participants is connected to the network through their computer, and all of these participants maintain the same copy of the database.Therefore, one of…

The Internet of Things(IOT) refers to the real-time collection of any objects or processes that need to be monitored, connected, and interacted through various information sensors, radio frequency identification technology, global positioning systems, infrared sensors, laser scanners and other devices and technologies. Light, heat, electricity, mechanics, chemistry, biology, location and…

NAS is Network Attached Storage. As the name suggest NAS is usually attached to your computer through ethernet port via router or a network switch and allow multiple computers to connect to your NAS device at the same time. Network Attached Storage is a dedicated file storage system which can…