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Mar 15, 2024 · Backend Development

Why RPC Is Essential for Building Scalable IM Clusters: A Beginner’s Guide

This article explains the fundamentals of Remote Procedure Call (RPC), why it is crucial for developing production‑grade instant‑messaging clusters, how it differs from plain HTTP, the typical RPC call flow, common frameworks such as gRPC, Thrift and Dubbo, and practical considerations for high‑throughput distributed systems.

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Why RPC Is Essential for Building Scalable IM Clusters: A Beginner’s Guide

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Mar 14, 2024 · Backend Development

Mastering Load Balancing: Which Strategy Suits Your System?

This article explains the role of load balancing in distributed systems and details five common strategies—Round Robin, Weighted Round Robin, IP Hash, Least Connections, and Least Response Time—highlighting their mechanisms, advantages, drawbacks, and suitable scenarios for optimal system performance.

Load Balancingip hashleast connections

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Mastering Load Balancing: Which Strategy Suits Your System?

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Mar 12, 2024 · Databases

Mastering Redis AOF: How Append‑Only Files Ensure Data Persistence

This article explains Redis AOF persistence, covering how the Append‑Only File logs write commands, the configuration options for enabling and syncing AOF, the rewrite process that compresses the log, and how AOF compares with RDB snapshots and hybrid persistence for reliable data recovery.

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Mastering Redis AOF: How Append‑Only Files Ensure Data Persistence

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Mar 7, 2024 · Databases

Mastering Redis RDB Snapshots: SAVE vs BGSAVE Explained

This article explains how Redis RDB snapshots work, compares the blocking SAVE command with the asynchronous BGSAVE command, outlines their impact on performance, and provides best‑practice guidance on snapshot frequency and trade‑offs.

BGSAVEPersistenceRDB

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Mastering Redis RDB Snapshots: SAVE vs BGSAVE Explained

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Mar 5, 2024 · Databases

How Database Middleware Solves High‑Traffic Challenges: Connection Pools, Sharding, and More

This article examines how database middleware tackles the demanding needs of large‑scale internet services by providing centralized connection‑pool management, transparent read‑write splitting, diverse load‑balancing algorithms, sharding support, automatic failover, security controls, comprehensive monitoring, and flexible backup‑recovery mechanisms.

Connection PoolMonitoringMySQL

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How Database Middleware Solves High‑Traffic Challenges: Connection Pools, Sharding, and More

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Feb 13, 2024 · Backend Development

How to Evolve High‑Traffic Data Architecture: From Simple Reads to Decentralized Caching

This article explains how internet‑scale services can progressively upgrade their data architecture—from a single read/write instance to read‑write separation, multi‑region “two‑site three‑center” designs, cache fallback, and local decentralised caching—to achieve high availability and scalability.

CachingRead-Write Separationscalable architecture

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How to Evolve High‑Traffic Data Architecture: From Simple Reads to Decentralized Caching

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Jan 28, 2024 · Backend Development

How Baidu’s Unified Long‑Connection Service Scales Millions of Real‑Time Connections

This article details Baidu’s internally built unified long‑connection service in Go, covering its motivation, architecture, functional implementation, performance optimizations, multi‑business support, deployment strategy, and lessons learned for delivering secure, high‑concurrency, low‑latency real‑time connectivity across mobile applications.

GolangHigh Concurrencybackend architecture

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How Baidu’s Unified Long‑Connection Service Scales Millions of Real‑Time Connections

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Jan 18, 2024 · Databases

Mastering Redis Modules: From Basics to Practical RedisJSON Guide

This article explains what Redis Modules are, lists the most popular official modules, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on installing Redis, setting up RedisJSON, and using its commands for creating, reading, updating, and deleting JSON data.

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Mastering Redis Modules: From Basics to Practical RedisJSON Guide

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Jan 14, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

How Baidu Scales Content Understanding to Trillions of Pages with AI Engineering

This article explains how Baidu processes internet‑scale content by applying deep AI‑driven understanding, detailing cost‑optimization, efficiency improvements, model‑service frameworks, resource‑scheduling systems, and batch‑compute platforms that together enable trillion‑level indexing and feature extraction.

AI engineeringBatch ComputingHTAP storage

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How Baidu Scales Content Understanding to Trillions of Pages with AI Engineering

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Jan 8, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

How Baidu Comate Supercharges Coding: A Practical AI Assistant Guide

This article introduces Baidu Comate, an AI-powered coding assistant built on the Wenxin model, explains how to install it, demonstrates its real-time code completion, comment generation, test creation, and optimization features across multiple languages and IDEs, and highlights its benefits for developers.

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How Baidu Comate Supercharges Coding: A Practical AI Assistant Guide