Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of the Apsara Developer Community, a global Apsara developer community. This community wants to be a link for developers with the various tools and resources they need.
The establishment of this community aims to support the growth of the developer community and facilitate further advancement of the digital economy.
"The developer community is an integral part of the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem. We look forward to providing the latest technology, ecosystem resources and business collaboration opportunities together with the developers," said Selina Yuan, Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International. Business Units.
From Web3 to Digital Intelligence
Launched at the Alibaba Cloud Global Developer Summit in Jakarta on Tuesday (9/1) the Apsara Developer Community offers resources and insights for global developers related to technology trends that are currently being discussed and are the center of attention starting from Web3, AI, to digital intelligence.
The resources provided also include access to some of the latest development tools and projects, training materials and tutorials, forums and blogs, community events and competitions to showcase their app development, as well as other networking and upskilling opportunities.
The competition has a prize of USD 30 thousand
The Alibaba Cloud Global Developer Summit event also announced the PolarDB Global Hackathon 2023 competition. The competition was held to encourage developers to explore cloud native database innovations.
From now until February 28, participants can submit their projects and the winner will be awarded a cash prize of USD 30 thousand or equivalent to IDR 457 million.
In addition, Alibaba Cloud launched the Alibaba SMART Scholarship to encourage students to join this developer community through cloud-based technology and become local digital talents. During the first year of the annual scholarship program, 20 apprentices from universities will be recruited to join Alibaba Cloud's local office to gain more experience in the field.
Superapp 'factory'
Alibaba Cloud also launched a new solution to help developers build superapps in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
Superapp is an application that includes various miniapps developed independently to meet the needs of different users.
By leveraging Alibaba Cloud's Enterprise Mobile Application Studio (EMAS), developers can quickly build superapps with rich platform capabilities in a matter of hours. This is claimed to add competitive advantage to global organizations and companies.
Taobao and Tmall, Alibaba's e-commerce superapps, are examples. The two superapps are touted as comprehensive solutions that provide a rich ecosystem for developers, including components in application infrastructure and business features, containers for running mini-apps, and services for DevOps and operations.
"We believe our proven technology and experience in supporting these successful superapps can be of benefit to developers around the world who wish to create their own superapps and a suitable platform ecosystem," said Head of International Industry Solutions and Architecture at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Raymond Xiao. .
"We can create more innovative technologies and solutions together with our developers, driving the further growth of the developer community," he said.
With the existence of a global scale developer community and supported by rich resources and ecosystem, the Apsara Developer Community is like being an Alibaba Cloud superapp factory. It is hoped that there will be many superapps coming from this community.
Alibaba Cloud is committed to contributing to the developer ecosystem including the open source community. Alibaba Cloud, together with more than 30 thousand contributors, has contributed to more than 2,700 open source projects on Github, and is a key holder in various open-source communities such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), The Linux Foundation, and RISC-V International.