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Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Jun 12, 2026 · Industry Insights

Inside Alibaba’s Same‑City Active‑Active Architecture: A Complete Visual Guide

The article breaks down Alibaba’s same‑city active‑active high‑availability architecture, detailing its four design layers—traffic scheduling, stateless application services, data replication, and operational automation—while illustrating how each component ensures continuous service during data‑center failures.

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Inside Alibaba’s Same‑City Active‑Active Architecture: A Complete Visual Guide

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

May 25, 2026 · Operations

Deep Dive into 4 Popular High‑Concurrency Testing Tools

The article compares four major high‑concurrency testing tools—JMeter, LoadRunner, wrk, and Apache Bench—detailing their features, strengths, limitations, and ideal scenarios, helping engineers choose the right tool for performance validation.

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Deep Dive into 4 Popular High‑Concurrency Testing Tools

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

May 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Demystifying AI Large Models: Architecture, Principles, and Workflow

The article explains that large language models are massive probability engines built on the Transformer architecture with self‑attention, trained through costly pre‑training on trillions of tokens, then refined by instruction fine‑tuning and RLHF, ultimately predicting the next token to generate text.

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Demystifying AI Large Models: Architecture, Principles, and Workflow

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

May 18, 2026 · Operations

Boost Nginx High-Concurrency Performance by Up to 10×: Practical Tuning Guide

This article explains how to unleash Nginx's full potential for high‑concurrency workloads by adjusting worker processes, raising file‑descriptor limits, enlarging TCP connection queues, and persisting sysctl settings, enabling up to ten‑fold throughput improvements in production environments.

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Boost Nginx High-Concurrency Performance by Up to 10×: Practical Tuning Guide

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Apr 23, 2026 · Industry Insights

What TPS Levels Define High Concurrency in Financial Systems?

The article explains how financial systems define high concurrency by the TPS they can sustain, detailing the strict consistency, millisecond‑level response, and architectural patterns required for banking, securities, payment, and internet‑finance workloads.

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What TPS Levels Define High Concurrency in Financial Systems?

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Apr 20, 2026 · Operations

Choosing the Right Load Balancer: LVS vs Nginx vs HAProxy

This article provides a detailed technical comparison of LVS, Nginx, and HAProxy, explaining their layer operation, performance characteristics, configuration complexity, and ideal use‑cases to help architects select the most suitable load‑balancing solution for high‑traffic environments.

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Choosing the Right Load Balancer: LVS vs Nginx vs HAProxy

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Apr 15, 2026 · Information Security

How Does Single Sign-On (SSO) Work? A Deep Dive into CAS Architecture

This article explains the core concepts of Single Sign‑On (SSO), detailing the roles of the CAS Server, CAS Client, and browser, and walks through the complete authentication flow with diagrams, illustrating how a single login grants access to multiple systems.

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How Does Single Sign-On (SSO) Work? A Deep Dive into CAS Architecture

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Apr 9, 2026 · Fundamentals

Mastering Domain-Driven Design: Core Concepts and Practical Guide

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) centers software architecture on business domains, breaking complex problems into clear subdomains, defining bounded contexts, ubiquitous language, and key building blocks such as entities, value objects, and aggregates, while guiding layered architecture and microservice decomposition for maintainable, collaborative systems.

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Mastering Domain-Driven Design: Core Concepts and Practical Guide

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 27, 2026 · Backend Development

Mastering Nginx Reverse Proxy: Architecture, Workflow, and Config Guide

This article provides a comprehensive technical guide to Nginx reverse proxy, explaining forward vs reverse proxy concepts, architecture layers, event‑driven model, detailed configuration examples, and a step‑by‑step request flow that illustrates how Nginx hides backend servers while enabling load balancing and high availability.

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Mastering Nginx Reverse Proxy: Architecture, Workflow, and Config Guide

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 26, 2026 · Industry Insights

How Alibaba Achieves Multi‑Site High Availability: Architecture Deep Dive

This article explains Alibaba's multi‑site high‑availability architecture, covering its origins after Double 11 bottlenecks, core principles like decentralization and consistency‑availability trade‑offs, layered design from traffic routing to data storage, and a real‑world deployment example.

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How Alibaba Achieves Multi‑Site High Availability: Architecture Deep Dive