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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

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 23, 2026 · Backend Development

Designing a Million‑QPS Multi‑Level Cache Architecture

This article outlines a multi‑level cache system for handling over a million QPS, detailing the architecture from client to database, key components like Caffeine and Redis Cluster, and providing concrete code examples for read‑through and write‑through flows.

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Designing a Million‑QPS Multi‑Level Cache Architecture

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 20, 2026 · Cloud Native

How to Deploy Microservices: From Single‑Process to Serverless and Kubernetes

This article compares four microservice deployment models—single‑machine multi‑process, containerized, serverless, and Kubernetes‑based orchestration—detailing their architectures, advantages, drawbacks, and ideal use cases for modern cloud‑native applications.

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How to Deploy Microservices: From Single‑Process to Serverless and Kubernetes

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 18, 2026 · Backend Development

Designing Scalable Load‑Balancing Architectures: From Single to Multi‑Layer

This article explains single‑layer, dual‑layer, and multi‑layer load‑balancing architectures, detailing their structures, deployment scenarios, advantages, and trade‑offs for building reliable and scalable backend systems.

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Designing Scalable Load‑Balancing Architectures: From Single to Multi‑Layer

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 6, 2026 · Backend Development

How to Tune Nginx for Million‑Level Concurrency: Practical Configurations

This guide explains how to configure Nginx and Linux kernel parameters to support up to a million concurrent connections, covering worker processes, connection limits, system file‑descriptor settings, caching strategies, static file handling, and key reverse‑proxy directives with concrete code examples.

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How to Tune Nginx for Million‑Level Concurrency: Practical Configurations

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Mar 4, 2026 · Backend Development

Understanding QPS vs. TPS: Measuring High Concurrency in Backend Systems

The article explains high‑concurrency scenarios and how to quantify them using QPS (queries per second) and TPS (transactions per second), highlighting their definitions, typical system capacities, and the distinction between request‑level and business‑level throughput.

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Understanding QPS vs. TPS: Measuring High Concurrency in Backend Systems

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Feb 28, 2026 · Cloud Native

Master Essential Docker Commands: A Quick Reference for Container Operations

This guide presents a concise, step‑by‑step reference of the most frequently used Docker commands for managing images, containers, troubleshooting, data volumes, networks, and system cleanup, and highlights five core commands that can resolve the majority of everyday container issues.

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Master Essential Docker Commands: A Quick Reference for Container Operations

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Feb 27, 2026 · Backend Development

Mastering Nginx Static‑Dynamic Separation for High‑Performance Web Architecture

This guide explains how to split static and dynamic traffic with Nginx, outlines the architecture, showcases CDN caching, and provides concrete configuration tweaks such as sendfile, tcp_nopush, tcp_nodelay, gzip/brotli, and cache‑control to dramatically improve web performance and scalability.

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Mastering Nginx Static‑Dynamic Separation for High‑Performance Web Architecture

Mike Chen's Internet Architecture

Feb 13, 2026 · Backend Development

How to Calculate and Tune Nginx’s Maximum Concurrent Connections

This article explains how Nginx’s maximum concurrent connections are determined by worker_processes and worker_connections, provides a sample configuration, discusses OS‑level limits such as file descriptors and kernel parameters, and offers practical tuning steps to scale Nginx to tens of thousands of connections.

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How to Calculate and Tune Nginx’s Maximum Concurrent Connections