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This public account is maintained by Xiaotianguo and friends, regularly publishing widely-read original technical articles. We focus on operations transformation and accompany you throughout your operations career, growing together happily.

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Dec 15, 2025 · Operations

Mastering nvitop: Interactive NVIDIA GPU Monitoring and Management

This guide introduces nvitop, an interactive NVIDIA‑GPU process viewer and resource manager, explains its key features, shows how to install it via uvx/pipx, demonstrates basic device and process commands as well as the real‑time monitoring mode, and provides troubleshooting tips for common issues.

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Mastering nvitop: Interactive NVIDIA GPU Monitoring and Management
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Dec 14, 2025 · Information Security

Detect and Respond to Linux Server Intrusions with Log Analysis

This guide walks you through using Linux log tools such as last, lastb, grep, and sshd_config to identify suspicious logins, trace malicious IPs, and apply immediate remediation steps for compromised servers, targeting ops engineers and developers.

Incident ResponseSSHforensics
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Detect and Respond to Linux Server Intrusions with Log Analysis
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Dec 10, 2025 · Operations

5 Essential Skills Ops Engineers Need to Stay Valuable in the K8s & AI Era

In the fast‑changing world of Kubernetes and AI, operations professionals must cultivate five compound abilities—communication, problem‑solving, ownership, stress handling, and continuous improvement—to transform technical expertise into lasting career growth and higher compensation.

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5 Essential Skills Ops Engineers Need to Stay Valuable in the K8s & AI Era
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Efficient Ops
Dec 7, 2025 · Cloud Native

Deploy and Use Kite: A Lightweight Kubernetes Dashboard

Kite is a modern, lightweight Kubernetes dashboard built with Go and React that offers real‑time metrics, multi‑cluster support, and enterprise‑grade security, and this guide explains its features, Helm or YAML installation methods, service exposure via LoadBalancer or Ingress, and post‑deployment setup.

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Deploy and Use Kite: A Lightweight Kubernetes Dashboard
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Dec 3, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking AI Agent Paradigms: 6 Patterns to Supercharge Operations

This article introduces six core AI agent paradigms—Prompt Chain, Routing & Handoff, Parallelization, Tool Use, ReAct, and Multi‑Agent—explaining their concepts, real‑world analogies, and practical examples for enhancing efficiency and intelligence in operational workflows.

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Unlocking AI Agent Paradigms: 6 Patterns to Supercharge Operations
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Efficient Ops
Nov 30, 2025 · Databases

Why MySQL’s utf8 Isn’t True UTF‑8 and How utf8mb4 Solves It

MySQL’s original utf8 implementation was a limited, buggy version that only supported three‑byte characters, leading to data loss for emojis and rare symbols, so MySQL introduced utf8mb4 as a full UTF‑8 solution and now recommends it as the default encoding.

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Why MySQL’s utf8 Isn’t True UTF‑8 and How utf8mb4 Solves It
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Efficient Ops
Nov 23, 2025 · Cloud Native

Deploy Traefik as a Dynamic Cloud‑Native Reverse Proxy with Docker

This guide explains what Traefik is, highlights its automatic service‑discovery and dynamic routing features, and provides step‑by‑step Docker‑Compose instructions to install Traefik, deploy a sample service, and verify the setup using curl or a browser.

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Deploy Traefik as a Dynamic Cloud‑Native Reverse Proxy with Docker
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Nov 19, 2025 · Information Security

Master HTTPS Certificate Creation: From CA Basics to Automated Shell Scripts

This guide walks you through the four core stages of HTTPS certificate handling—CA distribution, domain request, validation, and data encryption—while providing detailed OpenSSL commands, Linux/Windows/macOS trust‑store paths, and a ready‑to‑run shell script for fully automated certificate generation.

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Master HTTPS Certificate Creation: From CA Basics to Automated Shell Scripts