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Soul Technical Team
Jan 24, 2025 · Operations

Migration from Thanos to VictoriaMetrics: Architecture, Plan, Issues, and Benefits

This article details the end‑to‑end migration from Thanos to VictoriaMetrics, covering background analysis, architectural comparison, a phased migration plan, encountered configuration and performance issues, resolution strategies, and the resulting performance, cost, and scalability improvements for the monitoring system.

MonitoringThanosVictoriaMetrics
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Migration from Thanos to VictoriaMetrics: Architecture, Plan, Issues, and Benefits
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Oct 11, 2024 · Mobile Development

Implementing a Pre‑Ads Initialization Process for Faster Android App Startup

This article explains why a pre‑ads loading step is required for Android apps, analyzes the limitations of the current linear startup flow, and details several technical solutions—including system‑API checks, exclusion rules, handler hooking, and initialization reversal—to reliably detect icon‑click launches and reduce startup latency.

Ad PreloadingAndroidHandler Hook
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Implementing a Pre‑Ads Initialization Process for Faster Android App Startup
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Sep 30, 2024 · Cloud Native

Practical Experience with Envoy in Soul: Cloud‑Native Traffic Management and Service Mesh

This article shares Soul's two‑year practice of using the cloud‑native Envoy proxy for high‑performance, high‑throughput, and highly available traffic management across north‑south and east‑west flows, covering architecture, dynamic service discovery, load balancing, health checks, WASM extensions, service‑mesh integration, Redis proxying, and future directions.

Cloud NativeEnvoyKubernetes
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Practical Experience with Envoy in Soul: Cloud‑Native Traffic Management and Service Mesh
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Sep 30, 2024 · Mobile Development

Implementing Dynamic Code Splitting and Hot Updates in React Native with Metro Bundler

This article explains how to analyze React Native bundle contents, customize Metro's module ID generation to achieve stable code splitting, and integrate the resulting base and feature packages with a hot‑update workflow that preloads the base bundle, loads feature bundles on demand, and handles loading failures on iOS.

Code SplittingHot UpdateMetro bundler
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Implementing Dynamic Code Splitting and Hot Updates in React Native with Metro Bundler
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Sep 29, 2024 · Cloud Computing

Soul's Container Cluster Cost Governance: A Case Study on Resource Optimization

Soul's container cluster cost governance case study details their approach to optimizing resource utilization through Kubernetes-based solutions, addressing challenges like resource fragmentation and implementing strategies such as SNAS for elastic scaling and HPA+CronHPA coordination to achieve significant cost reductions.

Cloud ComputingKubernetesResource Management
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Soul's Container Cluster Cost Governance: A Case Study on Resource Optimization
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Jul 23, 2024 · Big Data

Kafka Stability Challenges and Governance Framework at Soul

This article analyzes the role, application scenarios, stability challenges, and comprehensive governance framework of Apache Kafka at Soul, covering deployment, configuration, monitoring, standard controls, common misuse, and future directions toward cloud‑native solutions.

KafkaMonitoringOperations
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Kafka Stability Challenges and Governance Framework at Soul
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Apr 15, 2024 · Mobile Development

Integrating React Native 0.72.10 into an Existing Mobile App: Challenges, Project Structure, and Platform-specific Solutions

This article details the process of introducing React Native 0.72.10 into an existing mobile application, covering the rationale for selection, project structure adjustments, iOS and Android integration challenges, script modifications, dependency management, and solutions to common issues such as path configuration, Gradle compatibility, and library conflicts.

AndroidIntegrationReact Native
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Integrating React Native 0.72.10 into an Existing Mobile App: Challenges, Project Structure, and Platform-specific Solutions
Soul Technical Team
Soul Technical Team
Jan 9, 2024 · Mobile Development

Package Size Optimization: Large Resource Detection, Unused Assets Scanning, and Resource Size Gatekeeping for Mobile Apps

This article describes a systematic approach to reducing mobile app package size by detecting oversized resources, scanning unused assets, enforcing size checkpoints during development, and integrating automated validation into the CI/CD pipeline, illustrated with tools, workflows, and results.

CI/CDPackage SizeResource Optimization
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Package Size Optimization: Large Resource Detection, Unused Assets Scanning, and Resource Size Gatekeeping for Mobile Apps