Alibaba was granted a patent for organizing serverless applications in memory.

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    "patent_abstract": "An application management method includes collecting a plurality of objects in an application instance used for serverless computing and generating a base tree according to a reference hierarchical relationship of the plurality of objects; performing internal memory object rearrangement on a plurality of application instances according to the base tree; and performing internal memory merging on the plurality of rearranged application instances.",
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