This article introduces the Python pynput library, explains its mouse and keyboard sub‑packages, demonstrates how to control and monitor mouse movements and clicks as well as keyboard inputs, and details listener behavior, threading, and stopping mechanisms for event monitoring.
Facing soaring business scale, G Bank adopted Zabbix open-source monitoring to cut costs and boost automation, detailing its multi-layer architecture, support for open-source and Xinchuang platforms, diverse data collection methods, alert strategies, and extensive automation that now cover head-office and 39 branch sites.
A concise collection of 14 practical Linux shell commands and scripts—ranging from file searching and batch extraction to log cleanup, directory checks, sed replacements, network capture, and firewall rules—helps operations engineers work faster and solve common problems without constantly searching online.
This article explains how Python can replace or augment traditional Unix shell scripts for tasks like counting unique users, demonstrating the advantages of Python's readability, modularity, and extensive libraries while showing how to integrate Python scripts seamlessly into command‑line pipelines with tools such as sort, head, and tail.
This article explains how to bypass HCaptcha verification by leveraging the YesCaptcha service, detailing the required API parameters, Python code for extracting captcha images via Selenium, converting them to Base64, creating a solving task, and handling the solution to automate the verification process.
This tutorial explains how to create and configure a Jenkins shared library, organize its directory structure, set it up in Jenkins global settings, and reference it from a Jenkinsfile to simplify pipeline management across multiple projects.
This article details Meituan's journey from rapid database growth and operational bottlenecks to a multi‑year roadmap that combines platform‑level monitoring, rule‑based and AI‑enhanced root‑cause analysis, and automated remediation, ultimately delivering measurable improvements in alert accuracy, recall rates, and overall database reliability.
Facing high manual costs, steep data‑creation barriers, and a lack of test‑data support, Xianyu designed a configurable, multi‑endpoint platform that automates product, order, and discount data generation, dramatically speeding up testing and enabling left‑shift testing across PC, app, and DingTalk.
A law‑firm IT specialist shared on Reddit how he built a PowerShell script that scans, hashes, uploads, and re‑hashes electronic evidence to the cloud, allowing him to complete his full workload in just ten minutes each day while earning nearly $90,000 annually, sparking ethical debate about automation in the workplace.
This article explains how Jenkins Pipeline as Code replaces manual freestyle job configurations with version‑controlled code, streamlining bulk modifications, improving consistency across multiple projects, and highlighting best practices for managing complex Jenkinsfile setups.
PowerShell Core 7.2.4, a cross‑platform automation and configuration framework, introduces several build and packaging enhancements for Ubuntu 22.04, Docker image updates, security supply‑chain analysis, and fixes to web cmdlets and RPM packaging.
The ASLINE visual low‑code platform lets Shopee Supply Chain engineers turn Figma designs into editable Vue pages by automatically recognizing components, mapping them to internal libraries, generating API request code, and exporting semi‑finished code, achieving roughly 92% recognition accuracy and cutting development time by about 80%.
This article describes the motivation, micro‑service architecture, code implementation, V1.0 browser‑based NLP prototype, V2.0 AI‑enhanced version with BM25 and BERT, integration with ChatUI, DingTalk bot, command‑based automation, and future plans for the internal intelligent QA chatbot named Jarvis.
This article presents a comprehensive framework called the "Golden Triangle" for improving software development efficiency, detailing three interrelated components—efficiency practices, an integrated platform, and data‑driven metrics—along with their goals, value propositions, classification, and practical implementation recommendations.
This guide demonstrates how to configure GitLab and Jenkins to trigger a pipeline automatically after a merge request is merged, using Jenkins' Generic Webhook plugin, including job setup, webhook URL generation, GitLab project configuration, data analysis, and pipeline script examples.
This article explains how a Google engineer designed and implemented an automated system using Python and Selenium to book gym slots two days in advance, detailing problem definition, requirements, architecture, code snippets, and operational workflow for reliable, headless execution on macOS.
This guide explains how to configure Maven profiles and the assembly plugin to create a zip package for a Spring Boot application, then use a reusable shell script to unzip, start, stop, and restart the service on Linux, streamlining deployment across multiple environments.
This article describes how a Python Flask service was created and integrated with Java to automate the validation of complex Excel‑based mapping rules in a pricing estimator system, dramatically reducing manual effort and improving test speed and accuracy.
This article shares seven practical Python scripts—ranging from a 30‑line Zhihu image scraper and chatbot conversation loop to poetry author classification, lottery number generation, automatic apology letter creation, screen‑capture automation, and GIF assembly—demonstrating how to avoid reinventing the wheel while learning useful automation techniques.
The Meituan Accommodation data governance team shares how they evolved from ad‑hoc, single‑point fixes to a systematic, automated governance framework—covering management, standards, capability, execution, evaluation, and vision—using standardization, digitization, and systematization to achieve measurable quality, cost and efficiency gains across thousands of data assets.
This article explains Baidu's journey from traditional CI pipelines to a fully automated Pipeline‑as‑Code system called Tekes Actions, compares Jenkins and GitHub Actions DSLs, and details the architecture, runner, and workflow orchestration that enable customizable, reusable pipelines across product lines.
Airbnb’s Data Protection Platform (DPP) combines automated discovery, classification, encryption and privacy‑orchestration services—Inspekt, Angmar, Cipher, Obliviate, Minister, and the Madoka metadata system—to continuously inventory petabyte‑scale MySQL, Hive and S3 assets, track ownership and security attributes, and enforce GDPR, PIPL and CCPA compliance.
This article demonstrates how to package Ansible in a Docker container, use the mysql_db module to create MySQL backups, and run a simple playbook, highlighting the benefits of containerized deployment for clean, flexible operations automation.
This tutorial explains how to create a Python program that uses OpenCV to take a picture with the computer's webcam at startup, checks network connectivity, constructs an email with the photo attached, and automatically sends it, including setup for Linux auto‑start.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to continuous delivery, covering its definition, consensus and management mechanisms, required infrastructure, configuration and testing strategies, trunk and local development practices, six‑step commit workflow, code review, metrics, DevOps concepts, and information traceability.
This article describes how to reduce manual effort by automatically syncing sub‑task fields to TAPD requirement fields using webhooks and by batch‑creating TAPD sub‑tasks from OmniPlan files through XML parsing, providing a streamlined, visual project‑management workflow.
The article presents an end‑to‑end automated validation platform—combining teslaLab, Android and iOS SDKs, mock‑recording, scheduling and reporting—to reliably verify e‑commerce mobile app event tracking, address data‑source instability, streamline bug detection, and outline future cloud‑device integration.
This article explains why test data is essential, introduces the Apifox tool as a low‑cost, fast solution for creating both generic and domain‑specific test data, and provides step‑by‑step guidance on using its mock engine, custom rules, batch generation, and automation features to produce reliable testing datasets.
This article explains how to use Python to convert hundreds of long URLs into short ones and later restore them, covering the rationale for short links, free and paid service options, and providing complete code examples for both shortening and expanding URLs.
The article examines Alibaba Cloud's DNS operation platform, detailing its three‑stage evolution—standardization, automation, and intelligent automation—and how these practices achieve sub‑10 ms latency stability, zero‑downtime fault isolation, and scalable reliability for billions of daily queries.
This article introduces the DevOps culture and systematically categorizes a wide range of DevOps tools—including source‑code management, CI/CD, containers, cloud providers, automation, monitoring, project management, and secret management—to help teams improve productivity and collaboration.
This guide explains how to use the GitLab API together with simple Bash scripts to automatically retrieve a list of projects, extract their SSH URLs, and perform bulk cloning and updating of repositories, providing a practical semi‑automated solution for managing many GitLab projects at once.
This guide shows how to create an Alfred Workflow that quickly searches local Git repositories on macOS, determines their types, caches results, and opens projects with the appropriate editor, terminal, or file explorer, dramatically reducing the time spent navigating directories.
This guide explains how to create a custom Enterprise WeChat application, obtain the required corp ID and secret, and use a Python script that calls the WeChat API to send text‑card notifications to specified users, departments or tags.
This article narrates the step‑by‑step evolution of a custom workflow engine, detailing how simple sequential approvers were transformed into a tree‑structured system supporting parallel, multi‑sign, conditional, delegation, and nested nodes, complete with status management and progress metrics.
This article describes how to capture Dingdong's delivery slot API using a mobile packet‑capture tool, set up a Node.js project that polls the API, parse the response, and send iOS notifications through the Bark service, enabling semi‑automatic grocery ordering.
This article describes the end‑to‑end design, architecture, code implementation, and deployment steps for an internal intelligent QA chatbot named “Jarvis”, covering its V1.0 browser‑based prototype, V2.0 AI‑enhanced version, DingTalk integration, automation features, and future roadmap.
Integrating a dynamic load‑testing model into the OKR workflow dramatically streamlines performance testing by allowing flexible pressure control, manual intervention at safe thresholds, and reducing the fatigue and errors associated with traditional static ramp‑up strategies.
This article explains common reasons why Selenium end‑to‑end tests become flaky—such as poor test isolation, reliance on unstable external services, and inadequate timeout settings—and provides practical solutions to improve test stability and overall CI reliability.
This guide walks you through configuring IntelliJ IDEA's File and Code Templates and Live Templates to automatically generate class and method Javadoc comments, including author, date, @param, and @return tags, with step‑by‑step screenshots, Groovy scripts, and a Q&A section.
This tutorial explains how to extract and download Amazon product videos by capturing m3u8 streams with Python, providing step‑by‑step code to retrieve .ts segments, merge them into an MP4 file, and alternative ffmpeg commands for quick conversion.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of DevOps tools, explaining their role in automating software development and operations, and presents a curated list of popular tools with key features, download links, and guidance on choosing the right solution for your team.
Unit testing is praised as essential yet dreaded, especially for legacy code, and the article explores why it feels burdensome, reviews tools like Squaretest that auto‑generate massive test suites, critiques other options, and offers practical advice for teams and managers to adopt sustainable testing practices.
This guide shows how to use a shell script to check delivery windows, set up AutoJsPro on Android for automated ordering, and run a Python program for Sam's Club, providing practical automation tools for securing groceries during lockdowns.
This guide explains why CI/CD is essential for modern development, outlines its key benefits, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for automating Serverless deployments using GitHub Actions, Jenkinsfile, and related tooling, including code samples and secret configuration.
This article walks through a real call‑center outage scenario, outlines systematic fault‑identification steps, practical emergency recovery actions, monitoring enhancements, concise emergency‑plan design, and introduces intelligent event‑handling to help operations teams resolve incidents faster and more reliably.
This guide shows how to connect an Epson TM‑T88IV thermal receipt printer to a Raspberry Pi Zero W, install a PHP ESC/POS library, configure udev rules, set up a GitHub webhook via ngrok, and automatically print issue details as receipts.
This article explains DevOps as a cultural, organizational, and technical shift that unifies development, operations, and quality assurance, outlines its benefits such as faster delivery and improved reliability, describes key practices like CI/CD, multi‑environment deployments, early failure detection, rollback, policy enforcement and observability, and discusses its potential drawbacks and considerations.
The article explains how to use FFmpeg within Tencent Cloud Serverless functions to build fully automated, scalable, and customizable batch video‑editing pipelines—covering use cases like personalized student highlights, avatar‑based marketing clips, and streamer promos—while detailing deployment via GitHub Actions or manual upload.
This article demonstrates how to automate the creation of Excel pivot tables using Python's pandas library, build a Tkinter GUI for user interaction, and package the solution into a standalone executable with PyInstaller, including steps for managing dependencies and reducing file size.
This guide explains the syntax, creation, and execution of Bash for loops, covering basic structures, numeric and string iteration, step values, conditional breaks, and essential commands like chmod and ./script.sh to automate repetitive tasks efficiently.
This article walks through a real‑world call‑center outage scenario, outlines practical fault‑handling methods, shows how to improve monitoring and alerting, and presents a comprehensive emergency response plan that helps operations teams resolve incidents faster and prevent future failures.
This article explores how banks and financial firms adopt DevOps to balance rapid business change, strict regulation, and high security, detailing common challenges, implementation patterns, step‑by‑step processes, best practices, and real case studies from Capital One, Chinese banks, and insurers.
This guide shows how to configure IntelliJ IDEA to automatically generate class and method Javadoc comments using File and Code Templates and Live Templates, including custom Groovy scripts for @param and @return tags, applicable contexts, and common pitfalls.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Python's SMTP libraries to programmatically send plain‑text, HTML, and attachment emails, covering SMTP basics, service activation, configuration steps, and complete code examples for each email type.
This article provides a detailed guide to structuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines for Java projects, covering job templates for building, testing, code analysis, artifact handling, and Kubernetes deployment, along with variable definitions, workflow rules, and stage configurations to enable flexible and automated DevOps workflows.
This guide demonstrates how to use various Ansible Windows modules—such as win_ping, raw, win_copy, win_unzip, win_service, win_command, win_file, win_user, win_shell, and win_reboot—to retrieve network information, transfer and unzip files, manage services, manipulate files, create users, and reboot remote Windows hosts.
Deploying and managing hundreds of production‑ready Kubernetes clusters is complex, but Qovery’s open‑source engine automates provisioning, operation, and upgrades on AWS using Terraform, Helm, and Rust, cutting setup time from days to minutes while ensuring reliability across global workloads.
This article translates a Google engineer's design document that explains how to build a Python‑based Selenium bot for automatically booking gym slots two days in advance, covering problem description, requirements, architecture choices, detailed implementation, and operational workflow.
This tutorial walks you through creating a Python web scraper that logs into Weibo, extracts the real‑time hot search list and top comments using requests, lxml and pandas, saves the data to Excel, and schedules the script to run hourly with Windows Task Scheduler.
This guide explains the fundamentals of CI/CD, the benefits of automation, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on configuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including .gitlab-ci.yml syntax, job and stage definitions, runner installation, manual approvals, and scheduled executions using cron syntax.
This article shows how to read a CSV file with pandas, sort its rows by a chosen column in descending order while preserving the header, and save the sorted data to a new CSV, providing a clear, step‑by‑step solution for Python automation tasks.
The article examines the growing complexity of multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud environments, identifies security, API, and logging challenges, and proposes a flexible, cloud‑neutral automation platform with clear communication, audit, planning, and incremental implementation steps to reduce operational overhead and cost.
This article walks through installing Jenkins, preparing the environment with JDK, Git, and Maven, configuring Jenkins plugins and a freestyle job, defining build parameters and shell scripts to clone a Gitee repository, build a Spring Boot jar with Maven, stop any running instance, and start the new application, followed by troubleshooting tips and a final summary.
This article details Qunar's end‑to‑end DevOps ecosystem, covering project workflow, goals, systematic methods, a complete cloud‑native toolchain, measurable outcomes, core practices such as standardization, quality gates, application profiling, and future roadmap for continuous delivery.
This article presents nine practical Bash scripts covering DOS attack mitigation, email alerts, MySQL backups, Nginx log rotation and analysis, network traffic monitoring, server initialization, and disk usage checks across multiple hosts, each with ready-to-use code examples.
The article explains why a fragile Shell script for comparing local RPM packages to a central repository was rewritten in Python using the rpm‑python library, demonstrates how to install and import the library, and showcases practical code examples for querying both installed and offline RPM packages.
This article explains why real‑time audio/video (RTC) quality testing is critical in the 5G era, outlines an ideal communication model, details common audio issues, and presents both subjective and objective evaluation methods along with a fully automated laboratory setup for reproducible results.
This article explains the most important DevOps metrics—such as deployment frequency, lead time, automated test pass rate, change failure rate, MTTR, and others—and how tracking them helps teams improve software delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
This article outlines a comprehensive approach to handling call‑center system failures, covering rapid fault identification, emergency recovery steps, enhanced monitoring visualisation, and the creation of sustainable, automated incident‑response plans to improve overall operational resilience.
This article compiles 109 practical shell scripts covering a wide range of Linux automation tasks such as security, monitoring, backup, deployment, and system management, providing clear, copy‑ready code for hands‑on practice and interview preparation.
This tutorial walks you through using the jsrpc tool to reverse‑engineer a site’s encrypted parameters, extract data from 100 pages, and automate requests with Python, providing detailed code snippets, debugging tips, and a complete end‑to‑end example.
This tutorial explains how to use Python, ADB commands, OpenCV image recognition, and Tencent OCR to automate weekly tasks in the Onmyoji mobile game, including boss battles, realm breakthroughs, and resource farming, while handling multi‑instance switching and random delays for stability.
In the sixth Airbnb Android testing article, the team identifies flaky‑test sources such as nondeterministic sharding, asynchronous execution, view and drawable caching, shared‑preference leaks, time drift, and RecyclerView pre‑fetching, and resolves them by clearing shared state, injecting test‑scoped coroutine scopes, forcing view refreshes, mocking time, clearing drawable caches, disabling pre‑fetching, using synchronous drawables, and wrapping WebViews to block network loads while logging details.
NetEase’s cloud‑native operations team shares how they confront new challenges of Kubernetes adoption—ranging from technical stack shifts and knowledge‑base gaps to capacity planning, automated diagnostics, monitoring, alerting, and cost‑saving strategies—offering practical insights for building efficient, stable, and scalable ops systems.
This article explains the concept of Remote Procedure Call (RPC), demonstrates how to apply RPC for web reverse engineering by injecting JavaScript through WebSocket communication, and introduces the Sekiro framework and related tools for automating encryption parameter retrieval in browser environments.
This article traces the development of DevOps, explains how its evolution into DevSecOps integrates security early in the software lifecycle, outlines the resulting benefits of faster, cheaper, and safer delivery, and discusses the technical, cultural, and organizational challenges that must be overcome for successful adoption.
This article demonstrates eight practical ways to leverage Python's built‑in modules directly from the command line—such as testing ports, launching a web server, formatting JSON, creating a simple editor, building executable archives, encoding/decoding data, retrieving system metadata, and compressing files—without writing any Python code.
This article examines the challenges of modernizing legacy systems and presents a comprehensive open‑source toolkit—including syntax analysis, visualization, automated refactoring, and architecture guarding—that enables developers to quickly assess, visualize, and evolve outdated codebases across multiple platforms.
This article reviews the historical evolution of system architecture—from single‑application monoliths through vertical splitting, distributed services, SOA, and finally microservices—explaining their advantages, drawbacks, design principles, remote‑call mechanisms, automation, monitoring, and the relationship between SOA and microservices.
This article details Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's multi‑year journey to design, implement, and standardize a DevOps toolchain that unifies development, testing, and operations, dramatically shortening build and deployment cycles while supporting safe, automated delivery of financial products.
The article explains how Huawei Cloud Stack leverages a modular, high‑cohesion low‑coupling architecture and an automated deployment platform to replicate a full‑stack cloud environment in a data center within a day, dramatically reducing construction time, labor costs, and ensuring sustainable, scalable digital transformation for enterprises.
This article compiles a collection of practical Bash scripts for Linux system administrators, covering automatic DDoS IP blocking, email alert setup, single‑ and multi‑database MySQL backups, Nginx log rotation and analysis, real‑time network traffic monitoring, server initialization, and bulk disk‑usage checks across many hosts.
This guide explains how to use Python's requests library to brute‑force DVWA login pages at low and medium security levels, detailing code snippets, request headers, payload construction, response handling, and result logging to CSV or TXT files.
This talk explores how mid‑office designers can dramatically improve productivity by evolving from reusable component libraries to design‑system principles and finally to an intelligent low‑code platform that automates UI generation, reduces hand‑off friction, and reshapes the future role of designers.
This article introduces the GerapyPlaywright package, explains how to install it, configure Scrapy to use Playwright via middleware and PlaywrightRequest, and provides a complete example spider with code snippets and logging output for JavaScript‑rendered page crawling.
This tutorial demonstrates how to programmatically obtain a QQ Music QR‑code login session using Python by fetching the QR image, extracting and decrypting the required cookies, handling dynamic parameters, and completing the login flow with detailed code examples and explanations.
The article explains how the author built a Groovy‑based scraper that reads a Markdown list of WeChat links, fetches each article’s HTML, extracts the hidden publication timestamp with a regex, and rewrites the Markdown file to include the dates, using simple HTTP calls and a brief pause to avoid anti‑scraping measures.
This article provides a collection of ready‑to‑use Bash scripts that automate DoS attack blocking, email alerts, MySQL single‑ and multi‑database backups, Nginx log rotation and analysis, network traffic monitoring, system initialization, and disk usage checks across many servers.
This article presents a collection of practical Bash scripts for Linux servers, covering DOS attack IP blocking, alert emailing, MySQL backup (single and multi‑loop), Nginx log rotation and analysis, real‑time network traffic monitoring, system initialization, and disk usage checks across multiple hosts.
This article walks through two common Excel‑automation tasks—merging a named sheet from two workbooks and consolidating the second sheet of every file in a folder—using concise pandas code, complete with step‑by‑step explanations and runnable examples.
This guide explains how to automate common Linux tasks for web servers, covering boot‑time service startup with chkconfig and rc.local, one‑off scheduling using at, and recurring jobs with cron, including syntax, examples, and integration with shell scripts.
This article outlines a comprehensive data quality assurance framework for a massive reporting platform, covering the data pipeline architecture, detailed testing methods for timeliness, completeness, and accuracy, as well as application‑level checks, downgrade and backup strategies, and future automation plans.
This article explains how front‑end engineers can shift their mindset, adopt a BFF layer and GraphQL, and automate the integration with a data warehouse to become data owners, improve efficiency, and reduce reliance on back‑end resources in large‑scale data platforms.
This article introduces a custom MySQL data consistency verification tool inspired by pt-table-checksum, explains the challenges of handling complex primary keys, details the implementation logic with shell scripts and SQL, and provides installation, configuration, and usage instructions including parallelism, network monitoring, and scheduling.
This article provides an in‑depth overview of CI/CD within DevOps, covering its core concepts, benefits, implementation steps, tool selections, measurement metrics, real‑world case studies from major enterprises, and future trends such as AIOps and ChatOps.
This article explores Qunar's practical implementation of chaos engineering, detailing its value, the four strategic directions, shutdown and application drills, strong‑weak dependency handling, container support, and automated closed‑loop testing that together boost system resilience, process robustness, and user experience.
This guide explains why and how to migrate an HTTP website to HTTPS, covering the differences between the protocols, options for obtaining SSL certificates, step‑by‑step installation of the acme.sh script, generating, installing, and automatically renewing certificates using both HTTP and DNS validation methods.
This article explains the theory and practice of game stress testing, covering four test types (server, client, third‑party services, cloud gaming), key performance indicators such as CPU, memory, network and log metrics, and the use of server and client robots to simulate real‑world load.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to implementing DevSecOps in enterprises, covering fundamental principles, collaboration between security and development teams, integration of security testing, building a secure toolchain, and practical strategies for scaling security within DevOps pipelines.
