1. What This Article Mainly Discusses Never build a high tower on shifting sand. Business growth and the evolution of business forms both need solid, powerful IT systems to support them. Business content is transparent to the market, but IT systems cannot be built to perfection overnight. In the future, competition between companies will mainly come from competition between their IT systems, and the ability to respond quickly to business requirements will be the key to winning.

1. What Problem S2I Solves It is foreseeable that a large number of applications will be deployed as containers in the future. Container platforms care about images and containers, while application development cares about business code, and ultimately the code needs to be deployed as an image. From code to image — that is Source To Image, or S2I.

I have been learning Go recently, and the internal PaaS platform we commonly use happens to support Go as well as related Web frameworks. A PaaS system that supports multiple languages cannot do without the buildpack mechanism. Although PaaS platforms keep being upgraded, the buildpack mechanism has always been retained.