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AI Trends Reshaping Data Engineering in 2026

Data engineers: Discover 5 key trends shaping the AI-native era with Alibaba Cloud. AI’s 2025 shift demands unified, real-time, multimodal infrastructure.

MiniMax Builds a Cloud-Native Data + AI Platform with Alibaba Cloud: A Case Study in Scaling Data Infrastructure for the LLM Era

Discover how MiniMax leveraged Alibaba Cloud to build a scalable, cloud-native Data + AI platform powering multimodal LLMs and global user growth.

MaxCompute Streaming Insert: Practices and Breakthroughs in Migrating High-volume Data Stream Ingestion

This article presents the architecture, optimizations, and business impact of MaxCompute Streaming Insert in migrating high-throughput real-time data streams from BigQuery.

Best Practice of Cross-border Data Warehouse Migration: MaxCompute-based Multi-tenant Big Data Platform Architecture

This article introduces how to build a MaxCompute-based multi-tenant big data platform on Alibaba Cloud with cross-tenant data access and control.

Smooth Conversion and Migration of 100,000 SQL Statements Based on Enhanced MaxCompute SQL Syntax and Functions

This article introduces MaxCompute’s enhanced SQL and BigQuery-compatible features for smoothly converting and migrating 100,000 SQL statements from BigQuery.

Best Practice of Cross-border Data Warehouse Migration: MaxCompute's Nearline Query Solution Boosts Query Efficiency for Real-time Scenarios

This article introduces how MaxCompute's MaxQA solution significantly boosts query efficiency for real-time scenarios by optimizing architecture and leveraging dedicated resources.

Best Practice of Cross-border Data Warehouse Migration: Enterprise-grade Upgrade to MaxCompute: Enhanced Cross-domain Access Control and Data Security

This article introduces MaxCompute’s upgraded enterprise permission system with cross-domain access control, hierarchical inheritance, and policy‑tag-based dynamic data masking.

Best Practice of Cross-border Data Warehouse Migration: Resource Consumption Reduced by 50% Based on Performance Optimization Technologies

This article introduces how MaxCompute reduced resource consumption by 50% through performance optimization technologies during a cross-border data warehouse migration.

Best Practice of Cross-border Data Warehouse Migration: Innovative Unified Storage Format of Append Delta Tables

This article introduces MaxCompute's innovative Append Delta Tables, a unified storage format designed to enhance data warehouse migration efficiency and flexibility.

MaxCompute SQL Execution Engine's Comprehensive Refactoring of Complex Data Type Processing Ensures Smooth Migration from BigQuery

This article introduces MaxCompute's comprehensive refactoring of its SQL execution engine to optimize complex data type processing, enabling smooth and high-performance migration from BigQuery.

MaxCompute Clustering Optimization Recommendation: Save 2 PB of Shuffle and 7,000+ CU-hours Daily!

This article introduces a new MaxCompute feature that intelligently recommends data clustering optimizations to dramatically reduce shuffle traffic and daily compute costs.

Unlocking the Power of Big Data: The Strategic Benefits of Alibaba Cloud's Comprehensive Big Data Platform Integration

This article introduces how enterprises can integrate Alibaba Cloud's comprehensive big data platform into multi-cloud and hybrid environments to achi...

Implementing CDC to MaxCompute with Apache Flink: A Case Study

This article is based on the keynote speech delivered by Fajar Tontowi, Lead Data Engineer for Ingestion and Analytics at Mekari, at Flink Forward Asia in Jakarta 2024.

ODPS SQL - Transpose Column to Row or Row to Column

This article describes how to use TRANS_ARRAY and LATERAL VIEW EXPLODE functions to transpose columns to rows in MaxCompute.

Big Data Cloud Fighter Bootcamp

This article introduces the Big Data Cloud Fighters bootcamp, which provides an intensive, hands-on experience in mastering big data principles and technologies.

Distributed Pandas Processing with MaxCompute MaxFrame

This article introduces how to use common Pandas operators with MaxFrame.

Introduction to MaxCompute's Unified Near Real-time Data Processing Architecture

This article introduces how the new offline near real-time integrated architecture based on MaxCompute supports comprehensive business scenarios.

AliORC: A Combination of MaxCompute and Apache ORC

In this blog, Senior Technical Expert Wu Gang discusses the differences between open-source storage formats ORC and Parquet, and the reason why MaxCompute chose ORC.

Practical Use of MaxCompute Metadata: Data Permission Statistics

This article introduces how to conduct permission statistics by using metadata-related permission views.

Practical Use of MaxCompute Metadata: Job Accounting

This article mainly introduces MaxCompute's tenant-level Information Schema and focuses on job accounting through the TASKS_HISTORY view of metadata.