Getting Started on Chen Kai Bloghttps://www.chenk.top/en/tags/getting-started/Recent content in Getting Started on Chen Kai BlogHugoenTue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000Alibaba Cloud Full Stack (1): The Ecosystem Map — What Alibaba Cloud Actually Ishttps://www.chenk.top/en/aliyun-fullstack/01-ecosystem-map/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://www.chenk.top/en/aliyun-fullstack/01-ecosystem-map/<p>I spent my first week on Alibaba Cloud completely lost in a sea of product names. ECS, SLB, SLS, RDS, OSS, NAS, PAI, ARMS, ACK, FC, CDN, WAF, RAM, KMS, ROS, CloudMonitor, EventBridge, PolarDB, Lindorm, AnalyticDB, MaxCompute, DataWorks, Flink, DashScope, Bailian, OpenSearch&hellip; Every console page links to three more products I haven&rsquo;t heard of. The documentation assumes you already know what everything is. The English translations are sometimes literal, sometimes creative, and occasionally missing. This is the guide I wish someone had handed me before I burned my first weekend clicking through consoles and reading translated docs that explained feature flags without ever explaining what the product does.</p>