This article discusses MySQL high‑availability solutions, covering asynchronous and semi‑synchronous replication, monitoring with keepalived, Zookeeper, and custom agents, failover procedures using binlog positions, GTID and pseudo‑GTID techniques, and the author's practical experiences and future plans.
Discover how to replace cumbersome IP‑based connections with Apple’s Bonjour zero‑configuration networking, enabling iOS devices and printers to be automatically found and connected via service publishing, browsing, and resolution, while addressing power, stability, and dynamic IP challenges.
Bolt is a high‑performance real‑time image cropping and compression server that processes each image only once, uses an LRU cache to limit memory, and offers flexible command‑line options for installation, usage, and scaling on CPU‑rich servers.
The author recounts transitioning from PHP and .NET web development to building Android and iOS apps with Xamarin, describing the motivations, new programming paradigms like MVVM and async, the steep learning curve, and the ongoing commitment to mastering mobile development.
In a lively Q&A session, Oracle experts discuss how China’s “post‑IOE” shift, cloud migration, big‑data collaboration with Hadoop, and the strengths of In‑Memory, TimesTen, and Exadata shape the future direction of Oracle databases.
This guide explains how Nginx processes request URIs using the location directive, detailing its syntax, the four matching types, and the rule‑based priority system that determines which location block handles a request.
This article explains Linux cgroups—its subsystems, hierarchical structure, kernel implementation via VFS, mounting and configuration methods, and practical examples—showing how they provide fine‑grained resource control for processes and containers.
This article presents a detailed overview of Snowball's backend architecture, technology stack, service decomposition, and the series of performance and scalability optimizations—including quote server, IM service, database caching, monitoring, and deployment strategies—implemented to support rapid growth and market volatility.
This guide explains how to configure Nginx's global parameters, event settings, and HTTP block—including worker processes, error logs, connection limits, upstream load balancing, virtual hosts, and location directives—for optimal backend performance.
An experienced backend engineer shares practical strategies to prevent service failures, covering third‑party distrust, user‑side safeguards, robust API design, traffic limiting, resource management, and architectural best practices such as single‑responsibility and avoiding single points of failure.
Drawing on three decades of software development, this article shares sixteen practical lessons about client interaction, security, code simplicity, continuous learning, and evaluation that can help programmers and teams make better decisions and avoid common pitfalls.
This article outlines the four main types of MySQL physical files—system, log, replication, and data files—detailing their purposes and showing visual examples to help database administrators manage storage effectively and ensure optimal performance.
This guide walks software engineers through six career phases—from college student to tech director—offering practical advice on goal setting, choosing employers, early‑career pitfalls, management fears, and how to keep growing while avoiding common regrets.
This article examines the chaotic IoT market by breaking down the supply chain, demand hierarchy, and five‑level value model, highlighting why many IoT solutions fail to generate sustainable profit and what factors determine their long‑term viability.
An in‑depth look at Southeast Asia’s mobile gaming landscape reveals how traffic, content localization, payment methods, operational partnerships, and user‑retention strategies shape success across Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, offering actionable insights for developers targeting this fast‑growing region.
The article examines why technically brilliant founders often fail to grow their companies, highlighting mindset shifts, market‑oriented product thinking, team‑building, capability bridging, and the creation of open industry ecosystems as keys to turning technical talent into successful CEOs.
This article shares a comprehensive one‑year‑long Git usage summary, covering essential commands for configuration, SSH key management, remote URL changes, viewing history, handling push errors, submodule operations, branch management, conflict resolution, and best practices for committing and reverting code.
This article records a WeChat Q&A where industry experts discuss selecting open‑source big data solutions, advertising‑specific data scenarios, and share a practical lambda‑style platform architecture featuring Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Elasticsearch, Redis and MySQL.
This article explains MySQL’s internal architecture, covering the client connector, connection management, SQL processing layers—including parsing, optimization, and caching—and the pluggable storage engine, as well as system management tools such as backup, recovery, security, and replication.
This article walks through building a React‑based popup page by first dividing the UI into small, single‑responsibility components, creating a static version, distinguishing props from state, adding interactive state, and finally enabling component communication using Flux‑style PubSub events.
