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Mar 16, 2024 · R&D Management

How to Boost R&D Efficiency: Strategies, Pitfalls, and a Golden Triangle Framework

This article explores the concept of R&D efficiency, outlines its goals, debunks common misconceptions, and presents a practical framework—including practice, platform, and measurement components—supported by visual models to help technology organizations improve delivery speed, quality, reliability, and sustainability.

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How to Boost R&D Efficiency: Strategies, Pitfalls, and a Golden Triangle Framework

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Mar 13, 2024 · Fundamentals

A Thread’s Journey: From Birth to Deadlock – Lessons on Concurrency

This article narrates a thread’s life inside an operating system, using vivid analogies and stories to explain processes, thread states, mutexes, semaphores, locking strategies, deadlock scenarios, and best practices for safe concurrent programming in Java.

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A Thread’s Journey: From Birth to Deadlock – Lessons on Concurrency

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Mar 6, 2024 · Fundamentals

Why Quick Fixes Kill Code Quality and How to Avoid Them

The article warns that relying on quick, superficial bug fixes creates hidden technical debt, explains why deep understanding of code changes matters, and offers practical advice to keep code clean, maintainable, and resilient in complex systems.

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Why Quick Fixes Kill Code Quality and How to Avoid Them

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Mar 4, 2024 · Databases

Mastering Elasticsearch: Core Concepts, Indexing, and Performance Tips

This article explains Elasticsearch fundamentals—including clusters, nodes, shards, replicas, segments, routing, indexing, updates, deletions, search flow, pagination methods, and visualization tools—while offering practical optimization recommendations for high‑performance and scalable deployments.

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Mastering Elasticsearch: Core Concepts, Indexing, and Performance Tips

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Dec 16, 2023 · Backend Development

Reliable MQTT File Transfer with FastDFS and Redis

This article presents a complete solution for reliable, resumable file upload and download over MQTT in distributed IoT platforms, leveraging FastDFS for storage and Redis for caching file metadata and progress, detailing the architecture, data structures, and handling of packet fragmentation, offsets, and cluster coordination.

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Reliable MQTT File Transfer with FastDFS and Redis

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Jul 24, 2022 · Backend Development

Unlocking Spring Boot Starters: Simplify Java Projects with Auto‑Configuration

This article explains the principles behind Spring Boot Starters, how auto‑configuration works via META‑INF/spring.factories, provides practical code examples, and lists the most common starters to help Java developers streamline dependency management and reduce configuration complexity.

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Unlocking Spring Boot Starters: Simplify Java Projects with Auto‑Configuration

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May 10, 2022 · Operations

How to Build Truly High‑Availability Systems: Redundancy, Failover, and Layered Architecture

High availability (HA) is essential for distributed systems, requiring redundancy and automatic failover across each architectural layer—from client to proxy, gateway, business logic, cache, and storage—to minimize downtime, achieve desired “nines” of uptime, and prevent cascading failures such as service snowballing.

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How to Build Truly High‑Availability Systems: Redundancy, Failover, and Layered Architecture

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May 3, 2022 · Databases

Why RedisJSON Outperforms MongoDB and ElasticSearch in Real‑World Benchmarks

A comprehensive performance benchmark shows RedisJSON delivering dramatically higher throughput and lower latency than MongoDB and ElasticSearch across isolated writes, isolated reads, and mixed workloads, highlighting its superior scalability and stability for modern data‑intensive applications.

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Why RedisJSON Outperforms MongoDB and ElasticSearch in Real‑World Benchmarks

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Feb 26, 2022 · Backend Development

Mastering Arthas: Practical Guide to Java Process Debugging and Monitoring

This article walks through installing Arthas, selecting Java processes, and using core commands such as session, exit, dashboard, thread, jvm, trace, and monitor to diagnose, profile, and troubleshoot Java applications in production environments, complete with command examples and output snippets.

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Mastering Arthas: Practical Guide to Java Process Debugging and Monitoring

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Sep 11, 2021 · Operations

Mastering Arthas: A Practical Guide to Java Runtime Debugging and Monitoring

This article introduces Arthas, a Java online diagnostic tool, explains its instrumentation‑based runtime principle, guides installation on various platforms, and provides a comprehensive command reference—including basic, system, class, and enhancement commands—for effective debugging, monitoring, and performance analysis of Java applications.

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Mastering Arthas: A Practical Guide to Java Runtime Debugging and Monitoring