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Sep 16, 2025 · Backend Development

Why Tomcat Thread‑Pool Saturation Crashed Our Service and How to Avoid It

A detailed post‑mortem explains how a sudden traffic surge, insufficient pod count, and a custom thread‑pool bottleneck caused Tomcat thread‑pool saturation, health‑check failures, and a zone‑wide outage, and offers concrete lessons on capacity planning, monitoring, and safe coding practices.

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Why Tomcat Thread‑Pool Saturation Crashed Our Service and How to Avoid It
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Efficient Ops
Sep 15, 2025 · Operations

Mastering Prometheus Histograms: From Basics to Advanced Queries

This article explains the fundamentals of Prometheus Histogram metrics, covering data format, metric types, how histograms work as cumulative time series, provides Go code examples for collection, and demonstrates practical queries for rate, bucket analysis, and quantile calculations to monitor service performance.

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Mastering Prometheus Histograms: From Basics to Advanced Queries
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Efficient Ops
Sep 14, 2025 · Cloud Computing

Master Terraform: From Basics to Advanced CLI Commands

This guide introduces Terraform, an open-source IaC tool, covering its core concepts, key features, installation steps, command hierarchy, and execution workflow, enabling readers to confidently automate and manage cloud and on-premise infrastructure using declarative configurations.

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Master Terraform: From Basics to Advanced CLI Commands
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Efficient Ops
Sep 10, 2025 · Cloud Native

Unlock Docker Compatibility with nerdctl: A Guide to Containerd’s Powerful CLI

This article introduces nerdctl, a Docker‑compatible CLI built on containerd, outlines its key features, installation methods, and essential commands—including image building and Docker Compose support—providing developers and sysadmins a lightweight alternative for advanced container management.

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Unlock Docker Compatibility with nerdctl: A Guide to Containerd’s Powerful CLI
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Efficient Ops
Sep 9, 2025 · Fundamentals

Inside 3FS: How Distributed File Systems Hide Complexity and Scale

3FS is an open‑source distributed file system that abstracts multiple machines into a single namespace, offering massive scalability, fault tolerance, and high throughput through components like Meta, Mgmtd, Storage, and Client, and leveraging the CRAQ protocol for strong consistency and efficient reads and writes.

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Inside 3FS: How Distributed File Systems Hide Complexity and Scale
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Efficient Ops
Sep 9, 2025 · Information Security

What Dior’s Shanghai Data Breach Reveals About China’s Personal Information Protection Law

In May 2024, Dior Shanghai faced an administrative investigation for illegally transferring user data abroad, failing to obtain explicit consent, and neglecting encryption, highlighting critical compliance gaps under China’s Personal Information Protection Law and prompting a strong security reminder for data handlers.

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What Dior’s Shanghai Data Breach Reveals About China’s Personal Information Protection Law
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Efficient Ops
Sep 8, 2025 · Operations

Boost Your Terminal Workflow: 6 Modern CLI Tools to Replace ls, cat, cd, and More

This guide introduces six modern command-line utilities—exa, bat, zoxide, fd, nmon, and ncdu—that serve as powerful, Rust-based replacements for traditional Unix commands, offering enhanced visuals, smarter navigation, faster searching, and real-time system monitoring to streamline everyday terminal workflows.

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Boost Your Terminal Workflow: 6 Modern CLI Tools to Replace ls, cat, cd, and More
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Sep 2, 2025 · Operations

Essential Linux & Java Debugging Tools Every Engineer Should Know

This guide compiles a comprehensive set of Linux commands and Java diagnostic utilities—including tail, grep, awk, find, tsar, btrace, Greys, jps, jstack, jmap, and more—providing practical examples and code snippets to help engineers quickly troubleshoot and monitor system and JVM issues.

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Essential Linux & Java Debugging Tools Every Engineer Should Know
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Efficient Ops
Sep 2, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI Is Revolutionizing Knowledge‑Base Building for Smarter Operations

At the 27th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai (Oct 17‑18, 2025), Professor Wang Peng of Fudan University will reveal how large language models can extract and structure heterogeneous operational data into high‑quality knowledge bases, and how RAG‑driven Q&A enhances fault diagnosis, SOP generation, and automated decision‑making.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Knowledge‑Base Building for Smarter Operations