What is the use of cloud servers? What can individual developers do with cloud servers? In the face of the omnipresent “cloud”, I am confused……

But eager to learn like me, how can I be willing to have been confused? ! I decided to go to the cloud for the first time in my life.

Where to experience it? In a number of cloud platforms, I choose Ali cloud. Don’t think of anything else, just to collect the wool! I heard that you can experience this place for free. I quickly opened the Ali Cloud Experience Lab website.

(attach a url: https://developer.aliyun.com/… You’re welcome!

The first time on the cloud, Ali cloud experience laboratory brings me what novel feelings? Let’s see.

There are many practical scenarios and rich experience contents

Alibaba Cloud Experience Lab provides 82 experience scenes, and all of them are free. It seems impossible to achieve such large-scale free scene experience on other platforms.

To be specific, these experience scenarios are divided into three categories according to technology domain, cloud products, and difficulty, and each category covers multiple specific categories:

  • Technical fields: covering nine categories, such as program language, software development, software engineering, database and operating system;
  • Cloud products: 25 +, covering nine categories such as big data computing, elastic computing, Internet middleware, artificial intelligence, and developer platform;
  • Scene difficulty: It can be divided into three categories: easy, normal and hard.

From the above diagram, we can see the categories of all the scenarios visually. Developers can quickly find the scenarios they want to play by technology domain, cloud product and difficulty level.

Remote desktop environment, learn and do both

I tried out some of the 82 scenarios, and found a nice point: I could practice in the same window while reading the manual, and focus more on the technique I wanted to learn or the experiment I wanted to do.

For example, in the scenario of “SQL Basis Introduction”, the laboratory provides a remote desktop environment, and I can view the experience manual (including specific operation steps and knowledge points) on the left side and conduct actual operation on the right side window. I can immediately apply the knowledge or steps in the manual to practice and immerse myself in the cloud products.

And it’s still in dark mode! Dark mode YYDS! Of course, all scenes also provide light mode, light and dark mode optional.

New WebTerminal mode, assist developers to quickly go to the cloud

All scenes of AliCloud Experience Lab use ECS cloud server. According to the official definition, ECS (Elastic Compute Service) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) level cloud computing Service provided by AliCloud with excellent performance, stable and reliable, and Elastic expansion. It allows developers to use servers easily and efficiently. Realize out-of-the-box use and elastic scaling of computing resources.

However, how to use the cloud server is going to take some time for a new cloud user (like me)…

But I don’t seem to have to worry about that here. Experience Lab provides a new WebTerminal mode, which can help developers operate ECS server more conveniently and help us learn how to connect, operate and manage AliCloud resources by running cloud command line.

Cloud programming IDE environment: online development, one-click preview code online effect

What do developers do most often? Code, of course!

One nice thing about writing code in AliCloud Experience Lab is that you don’t have to open the IDE, because it comes with it. I can develop, debug, compile and run a variety of languages online, and preview the effect of the code with one key. Love love love!

There are Easter eggs? !

Do you think that’s all I got in Aliyun Experience Lab?

Aliyun Experience Lab has recently announced its name — YunqiExperiencing Lab. Following this, there is also a wave of activities with prizes: During the activity on July 6, solstice and July 30, you can get customized T-shirt of Aliyun after completing scene experience.

Don’t say a word! I’m getting my T-shirt! 😏

Poke here, experience cloud products together, get t-shirts together!