This article chronicles UPYUN’s evolution from a modest server setup in 2005 to a sophisticated cloud operations platform, detailing the challenges, automation strategies, monitoring practices, performance visualization techniques, and lessons learned for large‑scale CDN management.
This article explains why modern IT operations rely on monitoring-driven automation, template-based deployments, and containerized tools to dramatically improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and pave the way toward intelligent, DevOps-enabled operational platforms.
This article outlines twelve practical techniques—including TDD, ATDD, CI, pair programming, code reviews, static analysis, coding standards, automation, refactoring, early demos, user testing, and team cohesion—that collectively raise software quality while reducing bugs and development costs.
This article shares Tencent’s QQ operations team insights on handling legacy issues, standardizing package and configuration management, leveraging the ZhiYun automation platform, and applying capacity management and fault‑root analysis techniques to boost efficiency and reduce costs.
This article summarizes a seasoned operations expert’s insights on data‑center management, covering the evolution from ad‑hoc automation to a closed‑loop CMDB‑driven system, the six key capabilities for future data centers, and practical definitions of operations, automation, and DevOps.
The article explores Facebook’s experimental AI‑driven virtual assistant M, detailing its four‑step workflow, the role of human coaches, real‑world use cases like flower ordering and ticket booking, and the broader business implications for commerce and competition with Google.
This article details Meituan's supply‑chain system evolution—from its early manual processes to a highly automated, multi‑business platform—highlighting architectural redesign, dynamic forms, and product‑center structures that enabled rapid scaling and diversified service support.
This guide explains how to extract Zabbix graphs using screenid and graphid, download them via Python, store them temporarily, and attach the images to email reports for efficient database server monitoring.
This article reviews the five most popular open‑source mobile automation frameworks—Calabash, Appium, Robotium, Frank, and UIAutomator—detailing their key features, advantages, and drawbacks to help developers choose the right tool for iOS and Android testing.
The article describes how Ctrip built a large‑scale mobile testing infrastructure, including device selection, scheduling, monitoring, and the Automation Platform as a Service (APS) that integrates TestNG, Appium, Jenkins CI, and reporting to support rapid, reliable app releases.
Senior DBA and architect Bai Shan answers community questions on advancing from DBA to architect, future career routes, testing environment setup, interpreting AWR storage metrics, using sar and iostat for disk I/O monitoring, cache sizing, and the growing importance of automation in cloud-era database operations.
An in‑depth guide walks readers through building a comprehensive monitoring system for small‑to‑medium enterprises, covering hardware, system, application, network, security, traffic analysis, business metrics, log aggregation, automation, visualization, and practical integration with tools like Zabbix, IPMI, ELK, and Smokeping.
This article explores why operations teams must adopt a people‑centric mindset, outlines a three‑layer framework of framework, blood (processes & policies) and interface, and provides practical steps for improving processes, technology, and organization to boost efficiency and employee satisfaction.
JobCenter is a distributed task coordination platform that replaces crontab with a unified scheduling, monitoring, and alerting system, enabling e‑commerce teams to manage thousands of web‑service‑based jobs, ensure reliable execution, and gain clear visibility into task performance.
Clip is an automation operations tool that replaces traditional IP‑based server management with a flexible String naming scheme, offering C/S architecture, an SDK with multiple commands, and real‑world case studies that demonstrate reduced complexity and risk for large‑scale infrastructures.
This article details how to use PXE to automatically provision three‑node Oracle 11gR2 RAC clusters on bare‑metal servers, covering network planning, PXE server setup with a one‑click installer, required software download, MAC address collection, shared‑disk and node configuration, virtual tape library setup, time synchronization, and user creation.
This article explains how smart energy management, limiting overtime, saying no to low‑value tasks, delegating, avoiding perfectionism, automating repetitive work, using data‑driven decisions, and allowing idle time can dramatically improve personal and organizational productivity, backed by multiple research studies.
This article outlines a practical, resource‑conscious approach for small and medium‑size enterprises to design and implement an automated deployment pipeline using shell scripts, covering goal setting, process design, key deployment steps, tips, rollback procedures, and frequently asked questions.
The article examines how Amazon’s aggressive automation and AI initiatives transform both blue‑collar and white‑collar workers into robot‑like “Amabots,” highlighting surveillance, dehumanization, and the broader impact of machine learning on labor, decision‑making, and the future of human roles.
Grunt is a popular frontend build tool that automates tasks such as file merging, compression, linting, unit testing, and SASS/LESS compilation, helping large projects reduce network requests, improve load speed, maintain code quality, and streamline the release workflow.
The article examines recent high‑profile outages caused by human mistakes, analyzes why operational teams are prone to such errors despite automation and standards, and offers practical strategies—selecting the right people, fostering safety awareness, and turning professionalism into habit—to reduce future incidents.
This article explores the challenges of software documentation, proposes automated solutions using DevOps principles, and reviews tools that generate docs from code comments, manage versioned design documents, and integrate testing, offering practical guidance for teams to streamline documentation and improve development efficiency.
This article shares a developer’s hands‑on experience with cloud‑based automated deployment, outlining nine concrete rules—from version control of all release assets to treating deployment as a service—that dramatically improve deployment speed, reliability, and scalability across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
This article explains how Tencent Game's BlueKing platform redesigns operations by building open‑source PaaS capabilities, automating fault self‑healing, enabling fully automated game server region launches, supporting self‑service change releases, leveraging big‑data for real‑time decisions, and moving toward open‑source and hybrid‑cloud solutions.
This article outlines the evolution of Tencent Game’s BlueKing platform—from its origins in operations transformation to its modular design philosophy, six integrated services, and three maturity stages—showcasing how atomic automation, PaaS tools, and real‑time data empower scalable, data‑driven application operations.
The article reveals how operating‑tool systems, often underestimated, demand high technical rigor to ensure automation success rates and absolute reliability for emergency actions, requiring sophisticated failure handling, capacity awareness, and scalable design—challenges comparable to core online services.
This article presents two practical automation operations case studies—Xiaomi's three‑year journey to platform‑managed, self‑scheduling services and a trading exchange's step‑by‑step build from zero automation—highlighting standards, tooling, and cultural challenges for modern ops teams.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to Ansible, covering its purpose, installation via pip, ad‑hoc command usage, MySQL replication with the mysql_replication module, role‑based playbook structure, sample YAML files, execution output, and a comparison with other configuration‑management tools.
The article examines how Facebook’s massive data centers operate at scale, detailing server serviceability, automated fault‑diagnosis systems like CYBORG, staffing ratios, and the engineering practices that enable reliable service for billions of users worldwide.
This article details how Dianping’s sub‑40‑person operations team structures its groups, designs a dual‑datacenter architecture, and creates comprehensive monitoring, automation, configuration, and analysis systems—including Zabbix, Cat, workflow, Button, and a custom radar platform—to achieve high‑availability, self‑service, and continuous improvement.
This article summarizes the key insights from Dazhong Dianping's operations talk, covering team organization, multi‑datacenter architecture, comprehensive monitoring, automation workflows, configuration management tools, incident analysis systems, common pitfalls, and future directions such as PaaS and Docker adoption.
The article outlines how narrowing operational permissions, automating processes, and adopting data‑center operating systems enhance security, scalability, visibility, and fault handling while reducing manual effort and enabling rapid, low‑risk changes across large infrastructures.
This article explains the concept of DevOps, analyzes Baidu’s product‑line data to identify inefficiencies in the software delivery process, and proposes automation‑driven, lean‑focused measures such as continuous integration, script‑based testing and deployment, and single‑branch development to eliminate waste and improve collaboration between development and operations.
This guide walks you through Linux's task‑scheduling tools—at, batch, crontab, and anacron—covering one‑time and periodic job setup, command syntax, permission files, and practical examples to automate system administration tasks.
This guide explains how to use logrotate on Linux to automatically rotate, compress, and delete log files, covering installation, configuration examples for size‑based and time‑based rotation, and essential options to keep server storage under control.
The article explains how visualizing both service delivery and service metrics is essential for modern operations, describing the evolution from ITIL processes to DevOps automation, continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications, and data‑driven measurement techniques that enable consistent, agile, and measurable operational performance.
This article explains why many IT teams struggle with code that works in development but fails in production, introduces Puppet as a configuration‑management platform, describes its declarative language, resources, types, providers, classes, manifests and modules, and shows how it enables reliable, collaborative DevOps workflows.
Learn why a Bash script that reads IPs from a file and uses SSH in a while loop only processes the first host, and discover two reliable solutions—switching to a for loop or adding the -n option to SSH—to ensure all servers are queried correctly.
The article examines how modern cloud services, version‑control platforms, and automation tools can be combined to create a unified artifact repository and consistent deployment pipelines across environments, offering practical steps and cultural tips for achieving true continuous delivery.
This article compiles nine practical Bash techniques—from inserting text at the top of files and appending multiline blocks, to recursive search‑replace, temporary Vim files, secure downloads, Bashmarks, column extraction, word skipping, and custom command packages—each illustrated with ready‑to‑use code snippets.
This article introduces a ten‑year journey of a sysadmin turned operations director, outlining why efficient operations are hard, what efficient ops mean, and seven practical strategies—including clear responsibilities, professional processes, and a good service interface—to boost productivity and satisfaction across IT teams.
This article outlines a comprehensive set of principles and practical components for evolving a large‑scale system architecture, covering rapid deployment, scalability, automation, framework standardization, monitoring, tracing, storage, resource control, and continuous integration to support reliable PaaS operations.
This article shows how to replace repetitive rsync deployments with a concise Python Fabric script that automates packaging, uploading, extracting, permission setting, symlink updating, and service restarting, while explaining key Fabric APIs and error‑handling options.
This article explains how applying the NGOSS methodology to CMDB construction can clarify management scope, define granularity, automate discovery, and handle lifecycle changes, ultimately reducing operational costs and improving accuracy in IT infrastructure management.
The author recounts how a university encounter and later work demands led them to master Unix, using tools like awk, Perl, Python and Ruby to automate massive data tasks, teach courses, and champion Ubuntu and other Unix-like systems as essential, productivity‑driving platforms.
Learn how to create SSH tunnels for forward and reverse connections, set up SOCKS5 proxies, configure Windows SSH tools, and automate persistent connections with scripts like autossh, complete with practical command examples and step‑by‑step guidance for Linux and Windows environments.
This article explores the definition, workflow, essential skills, responsibilities, current challenges, and future prospects of large‑scale website operations, offering practical guidance for engineers who aim to ensure stability, scalability, and automation in high‑traffic online services.
This guide explains what the Linux cron service is, how to configure it via /var/spool/cron and /etc/crontab, the syntax of cron expressions, environment variables, and provides practical examples for scheduling recurring tasks.
This guide walks you through creating a Linux shell script that uses mysqldump to back up a MySQL database, organizing old backups, setting execution permissions, and scheduling the process with cron for reliable, automated daily backups.
The article presents a curated Chinese‑language reading list for application operations and system administration, dividing essential titles into technical culture, core technical, and peripheral works, and recommending classics such as The Pragmatic Programmer, Unix Super Tools, Continuous Delivery, Mastering Regular Expressions, Ruby Metaprogramming, and even interdisciplinary books like The Zen of Presentation and Approaching Chinese Medicine.
