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.
This article introduces Ansible’s agent‑less architecture, explains its reliance on SSH and Python, and demonstrates common copy, command, and backup tasks through clear command‑line examples for remote hosts.
This article demonstrates how to employ Ansible, a Python‑based SSH automation framework, to create a user with a home directory on multiple remote servers, verify the creation, and then remove the user and its home directory in a batch operation.
This article demonstrates two Python‑based solutions for automatically replacing placeholders in a Word document with data from an Excel sheet—one using python‑docx (with win32com conversion for .doc files) and another leveraging the zipfile module to edit the underlying XML—complete with code, troubleshooting tips, and handling of formatting issues.
This article introduces a Python 2.7 script that automates the creation of iOS and Android app icons and screenshots, detailing required environments, usage commands, code explanation, and platform-specific considerations such as icon sizes, rounding for Android, and handling of portrait and landscape images.
This tutorial explains how to build a high‑performance Minesweeper bot in Python by capturing the game window, segmenting the board into 16×16 pixel cells, recognizing each cell’s state via OpenCV color analysis, and applying a simple logical algorithm to flag mines and click safe squares.
The author recounts how feeling stuck in API testing led to exploring full‑chain load testing, switching jobs to focus on high‑scale performance engineering, adopting Go and new frameworks, and setting ten‑fold goals that transformed career stagnation into rapid professional growth.
This document provides a comprehensive technical overview of Elasticsearch, comparing it with Solr and ClickHouse, detailing common operational pain points and configuration solutions, describing containerized and ECK deployments, and outlining a company‑wide automation platform for cluster provisioning, monitoring, index and security management, with future directions for lifecycle and backup strategies.
This article demonstrates how to use a Python script to perform a brute‑force attack against the DVWA login page by sending HTTP GET requests with custom headers and payloads, iterating over username and password dictionaries, recording response status, content length, and saving results to CSV or TXT files.
This guide explains how to use Selenium to automate testing of Electron desktop applications on macOS, covering ChromeDriver selection, Electron project creation, packaging into a DMG, writing Python test scripts, and controlling already‑running apps via remote debugging.
This guide explains how to set up an Enterprise WeChat alert application, obtain the required corpid and secret, and use a Python script with WeChat Work APIs to send real‑time notification messages to all users on mobile devices.
This article details Ctrip’s mini‑program collaborative development process, covering modular repository management, automated CI pipelines using GitLab and miniprogram‑ci, and continuous delivery via the MCD platform, illustrating how these practices streamline code integration, testing, packaging, and release for dozens of business lines.
This article provides a Python script that uses the itchat and schedule libraries to automatically log in to WeChat, select friends with remarks, and send randomly chosen New Year greeting messages to each contact at a specified date and time.
This article explains what a distributed database ecosystem is, using TiDB as a case study to detail upstream/downstream tools, backup and monitoring solutions, automation platforms, and emerging projects that together form a comprehensive TiDB ecosystem.
The article outlines the four progressive stages of test left‑shift in DevOps—small batch testing, follow‑up testing, test‑first approach, and trunk testing—explains their characteristics, challenges in sustaining them, and why excessive reliance on end‑to‑end automation can become counterproductive.
This guide explains how to keep Swagger annotations in sync with Yapi by generating a swagger.json file, exposing it via Nginx, and configuring Yapi’s automatic import, so that API documentation updates automatically after each code change without manual effort.
This guide introduces game automation testing, explaining its benefits and limitations, outlining when it is appropriate, and providing a detailed two‑part tutorial on building an automated testing framework—including outer process setup, server and client components, and using third‑party tools like Airtest.
This guide walks you through installing Multipass, launching Ubuntu virtual machines, managing them with commands, and automating setup via cloud‑init, providing a lightweight, cross‑platform solution for developers and ops engineers.
This article explains DevOps by tracing its 2008 origins, summarizing evolving wiki definitions, outlining the business drivers behind its popularity, detailing its three core principles—flow, feedback, and continuous learning—and providing concrete technical practices, organizational patterns, and key takeaways for effective adoption.
This guide shows how to configure IntelliJ IDEA to automatically insert class and method Javadoc comments using file and code templates and live templates, including custom Groovy scripts for @author, @date, @param, and @return annotations.
This guide walks developers through installing Apifox, importing API specifications, designing and debugging endpoints, configuring environments, creating custom scripts, and generating realistic mock data, demonstrating how the all‑in‑one platform can replace Postman, Swagger, JMeter and other tools for comprehensive API documentation, testing, and automation.
The article outlines strategic thinking for DevOps product planning, emphasizing open‑source logic, automation installation, high‑availability design, hybrid‑cloud bridge gateways, and the shift from raw resources to declarative service consumption in cloud‑native environments.
This guide explains how to automate common Linux tasks such as boot‑time service startup, one‑off scheduling with at, and recurring jobs with crontab, covering runlevel management, rc.d editing, command syntax, and integrating shell scripts for efficient system operations.
This guide demonstrates how to automate the installation, configuration, and service management of Nginx across multiple hosts using Ansible roles, detailing environment setup, directory structure, task definitions, and execution commands.
This article examines the challenges of traditional API automation testing and presents an intelligent testing approach that combines data and algorithms to optimize the entire API test lifecycle, improving efficiency, maintainability, and quality through automated case generation, execution, analysis, and evaluation.
This article demonstrates how to use Python and pandas to automatically add a column containing each workbook or sheet name to every sheet in multiple Excel files and then merge all the data into a single file, dramatically reducing manual effort.
The article explains the importance of responsive web design for mobile users, outlines various mobile web testing approaches—including Chrome DevTools, simulators, real devices, and cloud‑based automation—and highlights how these strategies ensure consistent, high‑quality user experiences across diverse devices and network conditions.
The article shares a senior DBA's journey from early database engine development to modern MySQL operations, outlining practical methods for improving efficiency, automating monitoring, building data‑driven processes, and redefining the DBA role for proactive, high‑impact service delivery.
The article shares the author’s journey from early database development at DM6/DM7 through MySQL operations at Qunar, offering practical advice on demand‑driven implementation, data‑driven management, intelligent alerting, full‑log analysis, slow‑query risk modeling, high‑availability, and automation to transform traditional DBA work into a proactive, efficient New DBA role.
This guide walks you through analyzing a target e‑commerce site, using Selenium to automate searches, extracting product details across multiple pages, handling pagination, parsing HTML with PyQuery, and persisting the collected data into a MySQL database with robust error handling.
The article explains how to keep external API contracts unchanged while replacing a data source by importing all microservice endpoints into Postman, writing pre‑request and test scripts, and optionally using a Python Flask service with deepdiff to automatically compare old and new JSON responses.
The article chronicles Laiye Technology’s journey from early manual on‑premises deployments to a fully automated, Kubernetes‑based private deployment platform, detailing the challenges faced, the incremental optimizations introduced, and the current standardized tools that now serve hundreds of enterprise customers.
This guide walks you through downloading the Roamer tool, using it to scrape and batch‑export your CSDN articles, handling cookies via cURL, and converting the exported HTML files to clean Markdown with a Node.js service, all with step‑by‑step screenshots.
This article explains why and how to convert Jenkins Freestyle projects to Pipeline jobs, covering trigger mechanisms, global and repository configurations, shell build steps, and a complete scripted pipeline example that automates building, testing, reporting, and email notifications.
This guide explains how to use Apifox for API automation, covering parameter extraction, external data sources, assertions, environment switching, and batch testing to build maintainable, efficient test suites for backend services.
This tutorial shows how to extract Kindle eBooks, convert them to HTML, clean the markup with BeautifulSoup, and batch‑translate the content line‑by‑line using DeepL API Pro, producing a bilingual eBook with minimal manual effort.
This article describes the design and implementation of a cloud‑native automated web‑page recording system for Douyu advertising, covering the problem background, technology stack, end‑to‑end workflow, Chrome extension tricks, containerization with Docker, database handling, and deployment on Kubernetes, enabling scalable, hands‑free video capture and delivery.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Selenium to crawl short comments from a Douban movie page, extract them via XPath, paginate through results, and finally create a visual word cloud using Python's wordcloud library.
This tutorial walks you through installing the itchat Python library, logging into WeChat, searching friends, sending messages, registering message handlers for text, images and recordings, storing media files, and capturing withdrawn messages, all with clear code examples and screenshots.
This article details ByteDance Quality Lab’s SmartUnit system, which intelligently generates and validates backend unit tests using AST analysis, genetic algorithms, and instrumentation, achieving automated test creation, high coverage, precise assertions, and seamless CI integration while addressing the high cost and complexity of traditional unit testing.
In this panel discussion, three seasoned operations leaders share how traditional IT operations evolve into cloud‑native practices, covering continuous iteration, container‑based automation, DevOps collaboration, observability, chaos engineering, and the strategic balance between specialization and versatility for modern SRE teams.
