Founded in 2013, Slamtec provides service robot autonomous localization and navigation solutions. In this fast-moving space, the company built its success on the ability of its R&D team to quickly introduce, and continually iterate on, its core products….
With more than 300 million active users and $55.7 billion in annual revenues last year, JD.com is China’s largest retailer, and its operations are the epitome of hyperscale. For example, there are more than a trillion images in…
中国零售巨头京东拥有超过 3 亿活跃用户，去年收入达到 557 亿美元，树立了超大规模运营的典范。 具体而言，京东产品数据库包含超过一万亿幅顾客图片，每天新增图片数量达到 1 亿幅。这一庞大的数据量需要具备即时可访问性，以成就流畅的在线顾客体验。 京东首席架构师刘海锋表示，2014 年，京东使用 OpenStack 和 Docker 将其应用迁移到在裸机上运行的容器中，以“加速计算资源交付，大幅简化运营”。他补充道，然而，到 2015 年年底，数十万个节点运行在多个数据中心内，“由于我们的平台不够强大，我们遇到了许多问题和瓶颈，包括可扩展性问题。我们需要强大的基础设施驱动未来 5 年的发展。” 在考虑多项编排技术后，京东最终决定采用 Kubernetes 支持其不断增长的集群。刘海锋表示：“对我们而言，Kubernetes 的主要优势是能够大幅简化应用部署，显著提升其效率和可扩展性，而且可帮助我们实施灵活的平台调度。” 此外，Kubernetes 基于 Google Borg，这也增强了京东对 Kubernetes 的信心。他的团队非常看重 Kubernetes 拥有清晰、简单的架构，而且主要使用了在京东广受欢迎的 Go 语言进行开发。 刘海锋表示，京东是在 Kubernetes“还不够成熟时义无反顾地采用了这一应用。” 他的团队花费了一年的时间开发基于 Kubernetes 的新容器引擎平台，并在 2016…
Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
With KubeCon Seattle now behind us, here’s a snapshot of all the cloud native goodness at our most jam-packed show to date. The sold-out KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 had the largest attendance and waiting list of…
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle. etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to…
A look back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai 2018
Now that we’ve finally caught our breath after a fantastic two days at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Shanghai, let’s dive into some of the key highlights and news. The best part is we get to see so…
JD.com recognized for cloud native open source technology usage with CNCF Top End User Award
JD.com, China’s largest retailer, has been presented with the Top End User Award by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for its unique usage of cloud native open source projects. The award was announced at China’s first KubeCon…
TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
Harbor started in 2014 as a humble internal project meant to address a simple use case: storing images for developers leveraging containers. The cloud native landscape was wildly different and tools like Kubernetes were just starting to see…
CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge how Asian…
The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
This blog was originally posted on the CloudOps blog, by Ayrat Khayretdinov The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant and expansive…