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A slightly rustic name 🤠 A tech veteran navigating the internet wave Hardcore tech: fixing all bugs and tough challenges

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Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 24, 2026 · Databases

Splitting an Order Database into Hot and Cold Stores: Our Practical Approach

The article details how an e‑commerce platform re‑architected its order database by separating recent data into a hot store and historical data into a cold store, describing the motivations, design principles, write and read routing, downstream impacts, consistency safeguards, risks, and observed performance improvements.

Consistencybackend scalabilitybinlog
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Splitting an Order Database into Hot and Cold Stores: Our Practical Approach
Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 22, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Hands‑On Underground Personnel Control in Coal Mines with YOLOv8 and ReID

The article details a full‑stack solution for real‑time underground personnel monitoring in coal mines, covering why identity recognition is needed, the YOLOv8‑based detection pipeline, OSNet‑based ReID, edge‑box hardware choices, deployment costs, and practical pitfalls learned over two years of field work.

Coal Mine SafetyComputer VisionIndustrial AI
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Hands‑On Underground Personnel Control in Coal Mines with YOLOv8 and ReID
Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 21, 2026 · Operations

10 AM System Auto‑Paid ¥600K: A Full Post‑mortem of a Commission Settlement Incident

At 10 am a monitoring alarm revealed that the day's commission settlement jumped to ¥600 K—seven times the usual amount—prompting an immediate shutdown of withdrawals, a rapid root‑cause investigation that uncovered a missing else‑if condition, and a nine‑hour data rollback followed by the launch of a real‑time business monitoring platform.

Root Cause Analysisbusiness monitoring platformcommission settlement
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10 AM System Auto‑Paid ¥600K: A Full Post‑mortem of a Commission Settlement Incident
Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 19, 2026 · Big Data

Building a Real‑Time Risk Control Engine with Flink 2.2.1, CEP, and Aviator

This article details a real‑time risk control system for e‑commerce and finance built on Apache Flink 2.2.1 and CEP, featuring a dynamic Aviator rule engine, three Kafka event streams, multi‑channel output to Redis, MySQL and Kafka, a Spring Boot‑React management UI, and step‑by‑step deployment instructions.

AviatorCEPFlink
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Building a Real‑Time Risk Control Engine with Flink 2.2.1, CEP, and Aviator
Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 14, 2026 · Backend Development

Designing System Architecture for Small‑Medium Companies: When Do You Really Need 5,000 QPS?

The article outlines practical architecture strategies for small‑to‑medium enterprises, progressing from simple monolithic designs for a few thousand daily users to micro‑service and data‑sharding solutions for millions, emphasizing realistic scaling, avoiding premature complexity, and focusing on team capabilities and cost‑effective cloud services.

PerformanceScalabilityarchitecture
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Designing System Architecture for Small‑Medium Companies: When Do You Really Need 5,000 QPS?
Niu Liu
Niu Liu
Jun 13, 2026 · Big Data

Real‑Time Dashboard Stack (RocketMQ + Flink + Elasticsearch + Kibana): Part 2 – Development Environment Setup

This article walks through setting up a real‑time dashboard stack using RocketMQ, Flink, Elasticsearch and Kibana, covering environment preparation, order data simulation, Flink job creation with source, transformation and Elasticsearch upsert sink, and visualisation considerations.

ElasticsearchFlinkKibana
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Real‑Time Dashboard Stack (RocketMQ + Flink + Elasticsearch + Kibana): Part 2 – Development Environment Setup