With the continuous emergence of cloud computing, big data, AI intelligence, blockchain and other emerging technologies, enterprises are paying more and more attention to the research and development efficiency. 2016 China white paper statistics found that software developers, enterprise cloud service utilization rate is on the rise, with 27% of companies are using cloud services, increased by 8% compared with last year (2015), 86% of companies use different level enterprise related tools, nearly 8 into enterprises have formal development process to guide the software development activities, 21% of developers expect their company to spend more on tools during the year.
Alibaba launched the strategy of “big center stage and Small Front Stage” in 2015. As an enterprise with more than 20,000 engineers, r&d technology center stage is a core part of it, hoping to “centralize” the underlying technology and products, so as to make the process of product iteration technology innovation and expansion more flexible and business more agile.
Cloud effect (internal call Aone) is ali’s more than 20000 engineers and tens of thousands of employees cooperation communication tools, to provide a standardized product research and development platform, from research and development, to release, to the daily operations of the one-stop platform, to develop students through this platform, low cost shall be carried out in accordance with the unified process research and development activities, reduce errors, improve efficiency. As a one-stop enterprise collaborative RESEARCH and development cloud, it supports project management and collaborative research and development of large-scale teams under the three modes of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, making delivery more efficient and collaboration easier
The cloud effect platform has been iterated for 9 years, and alibaba has accumulated years of management philosophy and engineering practice. It provides end-to-end collaborative services and r&d tool support from “demand -> coding -> testing -> release -> operation -> operation”. It serves corporate management, business leaders, R&D engineers, test engineers, PM/PMO, ScrumMaster, etc. This platform has also experienced the practice test of r&d by tens of thousands of Ali’s R&D students, and supports the double-11 large-scale project management and project collaboration of thousands of people.
At present, Yunsiao has introduced strategic planning, agile RESEARCH and development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, DevOps and other concepts into large enterprises and Internet start-ups such as banks, insurance, civil aviation, and supports collaborative research and development of public cloud, proprietary cloud and hybrid cloud.
Cloud efficiency is the precipitation of Alibaba’s research and development philosophy and engineering practice for many years. A set of one-stop service is explored and combined with middleware, container services and other products to create a one-stop Devops service platform. Relying on the security, storage and stability technical guarantee of Alibaba Cloud, distributed code hosting services are realized. Multi-center, de-storage, strongly dependent operation and maintenance monitoring and automated quality assurance.
Finally, through data collection and analysis feedback, anomalies in the release process are identified and reasonable measures are taken in time to avoid online faults.
This tool has also passed the test of Alibaba’s business. In the annual double 11 large-scale project management practice, this tool supports 30+ business divisions, 100+ core products, and 1000+ vertical projects, and thousands of people work together to complete the preparation work of the double 11. Create more than 50,000 work items per week, build more than 300,000 continuous integration times per week, execute more than 190,000 tests per week, scan code more than 250,000 times per week, and experience the actual combat test of more than 20,000 engineers in Alibaba.
Responsible for the management of millions of large-scale servers of alibaba group, supporting the operation of 500,000 servers in one minute, the distribution of files 1 billion times/month, and the distribution volume of 2000TB. Release system: the number of daily release is 2W, with unattended application operation and maintenance solutions based on hybrid cloud as well as automation, data-based and intelligent application operation and maintenance solutions.
At present, there are more than tens of thousands of enterprises providing cloud effect services. Every day, there are more than 100 new enterprise users of public cloud, and tens of thousands of innovation and delivery and release online work items. It has provided one-stop service for tmall, Hema, Dingding, Ant Financial, Youku, Autonavi and other internal departments of Alibaba Group, as well as new innovative collaborative network services for external enterprises such as China Everbright Bank, Tianhong Fund, SAIC General Motors, Ford, Vanke, China Southern Airlines, Lenovo, And ChemChina. The value that enterprises gain from cloud efficiency is not only software r&d engineering efficiency, but also new technological innovation, Internet product operation, new business model and new innovation ecology.
Ali Technology has gradually penetrated into the industry, helping more enterprises to carry out business transformation and capacity upgrading.