See webinar recording of this presentation at https://resource.alibabacloud.com/webinar/live.htm?&webinarId=68 In 2018, serverless computing dominated the headlines, tech shows, and radio waves, but why? In this webinar, we will explore the key concepts of serverless computing and introduce Function Compute, Alibaba Cloud’s event-driven and fully-managed compute service. Function Compute enables users to build and run applications with minimal effort on underlying compute infrastructure. We will also explore some of the basic patterns and leading practices on deploying serverless architecture. And learn how to get started with serverless computing by using Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute. Learn more about Alibaba Cloud’s Function Compute: https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/function-compute

1. Serverless Computing
Driving Innovation and Business Value
Nishant Agrawal, Alibaba Cloud

2. 01
02
Introduction to Serverless
Agenda
Introduction to Alibaba Cloud
03 Function Compute on Alibaba Cloud
04 Q&A

3. Hypervisors
•Virtualize
Hardware
•Unit of scaling:
VMs
Containers
•Virtualize OS
•Unit of scaling:
Applications
Serverless
(FPaaS)
•Virtualizes
Runtime
•Unit of scaling:
Functions
Evolution in Computing Models

4. • Capacity planning is hard
• How many machines? VMs?
• How to configure CPU/memory?
• How to configure disk/network/…?
However, Challenges Still Remain …
• Fault tolerant is hard
• How to handle failures?
• How to execute the function reliably?
• Auto scaling is hard
• Machine level auto scaling is cumbersome
• How to manage real-time auto scaling?
• How to manage load-balancing?
• Maintenance is hard
• How to setup OS/network?
• How to deploy the software stack?
• How to monitor and issue alerts?
Our goal at Alibaba Cloud is to provide a leading infrastructure and operations enabled platform in
order to help developers to focus on application delivery

5. Serverless Computing
Zero Management/DevOps Flexible Scaling
Pay as You Go Automated High Availability

6. Serverless : CNCF Member Hosted Platforms
https://landscape.cncf.io/landscape=hosted-platform

7. 02 Introduction to Alibaba Cloud
Agenda

8. 101%
YoY Growth
Available Zones
worldwide
52
1,011,000+ 19
200+ 1500+
45.5% 1/3 3rd
Paying Customers Regions Globally
Cloud Solutions Access Points
worldwide
Over one-third of China’s
Top 500 Companies
are on Alibaba Cloud
IaaS China Market
Share *
Alibaba Cloud
ranks 3rd IaaS Provider
in the World **
Alibaba Cloud Overview
** Gartner Market Share: Public Cloud Services,
Worldwide, 2016
* IDC Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker, 2017H1

9. Global Connectivity
Global Networking
ExpressConnect 600+ Access Points
#1 CDN
Largest CDN footprint
Over 1,300 nodes in China
Over 200 nodes around the world
#1 coverage in China
7 regions
Go-China
Go-Asia
Cross-border Solution Hybrid Cloud Solution
Unified Products and Architectures Meeting the Diverse Needs of Customers Helping China Customers Go Abroad

10. Comprehensive Product Portfolio
Tmall Data Manufacturing Industry IT Provider Digital Media & EntertainmentTaobao Logistics Financial
Business Platform
ML, Speech, NLP, Image & Video Search Engine AD Engine
Computing Platform
Graph / Stream / Batch
Data Platform
OneID / OneData / OneSearch / GProfile
Algorithm Platform
Algorithm Component / Deep Learning Framework /
Visualization
Operation System
Container / Visualization /
Scheduling
Database
Cloud Oriented / Based on
Heterogeneous Computing
Platform
Storage
High Throughout /
Low Latency
Middleware
EDAS / MQ / ARMS
Major
Software
IDC
Green
Server
Modularity / Customization
Network
Programmable
GOC
Intelligent Operation and
Maintenance
Infrastructure
Research&DevelopmentEfficiency
Security
Anti-fraud/Privacy/CloudComputingSecurity

11. Compliance

12. 03 Function Compute on Alibaba Cloud
Agenda

13. Alibaba Cloud Serverless Platform
Compute
• Function Compute
• Serverless Kubernetes
• Service Mesh
Storage
• Object Storage Service
• NAS
Analytics
• LogHub
• Log Service (SLS)
• Data Lake Analytics
Messaging
• MQ
• MNS
API Proxy
• API Gateway
• Open API
Data Stores
• TableStore

14. Function Compute Workflow

15. Fully Integrated

16. Serverless Applications
IoT
Function Compute
API Gateway
OSS
Table Store
Web user
Transaction
App client
Device Image editing
Video transcoding
Content distribution
Log storage
Data processing
Analytics
Filtering
Status monitoring
GPS tracking
Notification Service
Business workflow
…
…

17. Pattern 1: Analysis and management of media assets

18. Pattern 2: Serverless backend services

19. Pattern 3: Real-time IoT message processing

20. Function Compute Pricing Model
Requests Duration
Public
Network
Traffic
• $0.2 per million function calls • $ per GB• $0.00001667 per GB-second
• Code execution memory and time
Free Tier: First 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month

21. 04 Q&A
Agenda