Alibaba Tech
Hacker Noon
Contact Alibaba
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Alibaba:
AspectD: An Effective AOP Solution for Flutter
With the rapid development of the Flutter framework, more and more businesses begin to use Flutter to refactor or build new products. However, in practice, we have found that, on the one hand… → Read More
A Deep Dive into Cloud Native: From Basics to Applications
The cloud native concept emerges as cloud computing enjoys rapid development. Cloud-native has become extremely popular. You will be considered outdated if you do not understand Cloud-native as of… → Read More
Lower Cost with Higher Stability: How Do We Manage Test Environments at Alibaba?
By Lin Fan, Senior Engineer from Alibaba’s R&D Efficiency Team → Read More
How to Use Flutter for Hybrid Development: Alibaba’s Open Source Code Instance
How Alibaba’s Xianyu enables hybrid integration of Flutter to existing Native apps through incremental migration with Flutter Boost → Read More
Hearing the Character in Things: Alibaba Improves Mandarin Speech Recognition
This article is part of the Academic Alibaba series and is taken from the ICASSP 2019 paper entitled “Investigation of Modeling Units for Mandarin Speech Recognition Using DFSMN-CTC-sMBR” by Shiliang… → Read More
A Reliable Approach to Unreliable Caching Environments
This article is part of the Academic Alibaba series and is taken from the WWW 2019 paper entitled “Counterintuitive Characteristics of Optimal Distributed LRU Caching Over Unreliable Channels” by… → Read More
UI2code: How to Fine-tune Background and Foreground Analysis
UI2code uses deep learning to analyze a UI design and convert it directly into skeleton code for front-end developers, saving them huge amounts of time when implementing designers’ work into apps… → Read More
I See What You’re Saying: From Audio-only to Audio-visual Speech Recognition
This article is part of the Academic Alibaba series and is taken from the ICASSP paper entitled “Robust Audio-visual Speech Recognition Using Bimodal DFSMN with Multi-condition Training and Dropout… → Read More
Better to Give and to Receive: Alibaba’s Open-source Contributions to Flink
Between its SQL and Runtime layers, Alibaba has helped optimize Apache Flink for large-scale production environments like its own → Read More
Writing Sky-high Applications: A Guide to Cloud Native Development
Best practice from the Alibaba tech team to build flexible and scalable applications in the Cloud Age → Read More
Exploring Distributed System Theory: Availability and Consistency
A senior Alibaba technical expert introduces the algorithms that overcome limits proposed in the CAP theorem → Read More
In Search of Data Dominance: Spark Versus Flink –
When it comes to big data, there’s no avoiding the importance of stream computing and the powerful analytics it enables in real time. It also goes that when it comes to stream computing, there’s no… → Read More
Rendering “External Texture”: A Flutter Optimization Story
In computing, as in much of life, any given method can see a lot of use before its latent flaws reach a decisive impasse. For Alibaba, discovering one such flaw in software development kit Flutter… → Read More
AI Acrobatics: Cainiao’s Flexible Automated Warehouse
What do warehousing and computing have in common? As Alibaba logistics affiliate Cainiao’s Zhu Lijun told audiences at the 2018 Global Smart Logistics Summit in Hangzhou, their common reliance on… → Read More
Optimizing Test Environments by Containing Stability
Test environments are an important aspect of any software R&D process and provide a system for effectively testing new features before release. The stability of such systems is one of the biggest… → Read More
Why the Blank Expression? Solution to App White-screen Syndrome
As web content is making its way into all parts of daily life and mobile device performance continues to improve, developments allow content to be accessed across various platforms and devices… → Read More
AR for a Richer Cup of Coffee –
Opened in 2017, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room in Shanghai is the world’s first retail coffee shop with an Augmented Reality (AR) experience. Developed by Alibaba’s AR platform… → Read More
How to Improve Hotspot Data Hashing on an Elastic Cache Platform
When shoppers went crazy for the good deals on Alibaba’s Single’s Day sale, its engineers were facing the challenge of hotspot data hashing… Access to hotspot data is an issue often encountered on… → Read More