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Top Architect focuses on sharing practical architecture knowledge, covering enterprise, system, website, large‑scale distributed, and high‑availability architectures, plus architecture adjustments using internet technologies. We welcome idea‑driven, sharing‑oriented architects to exchange and learn together.

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Feb 18, 2026 · Backend Development

Building a Million‑User Ticket‑Spiking System with Nginx Load Balancing, Redis, and Go

This article explores how to design a high‑concurrency ticket‑spike service inspired by China’s 12306 platform, covering multi‑layer load balancing, local stock pre‑allocation, Redis‑based global inventory control, Go implementation details, and performance testing that demonstrates handling millions of simultaneous requests.

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Building a Million‑User Ticket‑Spiking System with Nginx Load Balancing, Redis, and Go
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Feb 18, 2026 · Fundamentals

What’s New in Java 25? 10+ Game‑Changing Features Explained

The article outlines the most impactful Java 25 enhancements—including compact object headers, generational Shenandoah GC, ahead‑of‑time compilation, JFR improvements, security updates, and the removal of 32‑bit support—explaining how each change boosts performance, safety, and observability for developers.

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What’s New in Java 25? 10+ Game‑Changing Features Explained
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Feb 16, 2026 · Backend Development

Spin Up a Full Go Backend in Minutes with PocketBase

PocketBase is a Go‑based open‑source backend‑as‑a‑service that bundles an embedded SQLite database, authentication, file storage, real‑time sync and an admin UI into a single executable, allowing developers to launch a fully functional backend in minutes and even embed it directly into Go applications.

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Spin Up a Full Go Backend in Minutes with PocketBase
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Feb 15, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Did My Payment Service Lose Data? Uncovering Hidden Transaction Bugs in Spring

A payment service failed to insert orders despite successful payments, showing no errors, occasional lock timeouts, and intermittent success, which was traced to a missing transaction commit that polluted reused connections, causing unrelated business failures until the bug was fixed and preventive measures were added.

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Why Did My Payment Service Lose Data? Uncovering Hidden Transaction Bugs in Spring
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Top Architect
Feb 14, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Test‑Time Compute Is the Next Breakthrough for Large Language Models

The article explains how inference‑oriented large language models shift the focus from training‑time resources to test‑time computation, detailing scaling laws, verification techniques, reinforcement‑learning pipelines such as DeepSeek‑R1, and methods for distilling reasoning abilities into smaller, consumer‑grade models.

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Why Test‑Time Compute Is the Next Breakthrough for Large Language Models
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Feb 14, 2026 · Backend Development

When to Use SSE vs WebSocket vs Polling: A Practical Node.js Guide

This article explains the three common server‑to‑client push techniques—polling, WebSocket and Server‑Sent Events (SSE)—detailing their principles, advantages, drawbacks, browser compatibility, key APIs, and provides a complete Node.js/Express demo with front‑end code to help developers choose the right solution for real‑time data scenarios.

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When to Use SSE vs WebSocket vs Polling: A Practical Node.js Guide
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Feb 12, 2026 · Fundamentals

What’s New in Maven 4? Model Upgrade, Flattened POMs, and Parallel Builds

Maven 4, released at the end of 2025, introduces a 4.1.0 POM model, separates build and consumer POMs to flatten dependencies, adds explicit classpath‑jar and module‑jar artifact types, renames modules to subprojects, and implements a tree‑based lifecycle for true parallel builds, all while remaining backward compatible.

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What’s New in Maven 4? Model Upgrade, Flattened POMs, and Parallel Builds