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IT Architects Alliance

Feb 5, 2025 · Cloud Native

Performance Optimization Strategies for Cloud‑Native Applications

This article examines the rapid adoption of cloud‑native architectures and presents a comprehensive guide to identifying performance bottlenecks and applying architectural, resource‑management, caching, networking, and tooling techniques—such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and JMeter—to achieve high‑performance, scalable cloud‑native systems.

CI/CDCachingKubernetes

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Performance Optimization Strategies for Cloud‑Native Applications

Linux Ops Smart Journey

Jan 19, 2025 · Cloud Native

How to Integrate GitLab with External MinIO and CertManager for Secure Cloud‑Native Storage

This guide walks you through configuring GitLab to use an external MinIO object store and CertManager for TLS certificates, covering credential setup, bucket creation, Helm chart adjustments, secret management, and verification steps to achieve a secure, efficient cloud‑native deployment.

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How to Integrate GitLab with External MinIO and CertManager for Secure Cloud‑Native Storage

Xiaohongshu Tech REDtech

Jan 16, 2025 · Cloud Native

Xiaohongshu Large-Scale Cloud-Native Mixed Deployment and Elasticity Practices

Xiaohongshu’s cloud‑native team transformed its over‑90% containerized services by introducing resource‑pooled mixed deployment, fine‑grained unified scheduling, and an elastic container pool with global HPA and cluster autoscaling—driving 35% of resources to mixed use, tens of millions of daily core‑hours, and roughly 30% cost savings while preparing for hybrid‑cloud expansion and FinOps.

ContainerizationOperating SystemResource Scheduling

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Xiaohongshu Large-Scale Cloud-Native Mixed Deployment and Elasticity Practices

Cloud Native Technology Community

Nov 26, 2024 · Cloud Native

Enabling Dual‑Stack Networking in KubeVirt with managedTap (Bridge Mode)

This guide explains how to use KubeVirt 1.4's managedTap feature to configure IPv4/IPv6 dual‑stack networking in bridge mode without modifying source code, covering subnet preparation, plugin registration, and virtual‑machine definition with example YAML and kubectl commands.

Dual-StackKube-OVNKubernetes

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Enabling Dual‑Stack Networking in KubeVirt with managedTap (Bridge Mode)

Didi Tech

Sep 26, 2024 · Cloud Native

Didi Internationalization Site Building: Application Modeling and Cloud‑Native Delivery Framework

Didi’s international travel platform created an application‑centric, cloud‑native delivery framework that uses an OAM‑based model, KubeVela, and CUE to standardize workload descriptions, automate multi‑cloud deployment, integrate with CI/CD pipelines, and dramatically improve planning, delivery, and refactoring efficiency.

CI/CDInfrastructure AutomationKubeVela

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Didi Internationalization Site Building: Application Modeling and Cloud‑Native Delivery Framework

Didi Tech

Sep 19, 2024 · Cloud Native

Configuration‑as‑Code Platform for Multi‑Region Deployment: Design, Implementation and Practices

To overcome Didi’s costly, months‑long, manual multi‑region rollouts, the team built a Configuration‑as‑Code platform that isolates environment settings in a dedicated repository, enforces a versioned template with validation rules, and integrates automated placeholder substitution into CI/CD, cutting manual effort by roughly 80 % and removing coordination bottlenecks.

CI/CDConfiguration ManagementDevOps

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Configuration‑as‑Code Platform for Multi‑Region Deployment: Design, Implementation and Practices

DevOps Operations Practice

Aug 27, 2024 · Cloud Native

Migration of In‑Tree Cloud Providers to External Plugins in Kubernetes

The article explains how Kubernetes removed built‑in cloud provider integrations, migrated them to external plugins—including a cloud controller manager, API server network proxy, kubelet credential provider, and CSI storage migration—reducing code size, improving vendor neutrality, and outlining future directions.

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Migration of In‑Tree Cloud Providers to External Plugins in Kubernetes

Linux Ops Smart Journey

Jul 21, 2024 · Cloud Native

Master Production-Ready Containerd Installation & Configuration

This guide walks you through preparing your Linux server, downloading and installing Containerd with its dependencies, configuring system settings, setting up systemd services, verifying the installation, pulling images, and applying security and performance best practices for production environments.

InstallationKubernetescloud-native

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Master Production-Ready Containerd Installation & Configuration

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Jun 17, 2024 · Cloud Native

Multi-Cluster Network Connectivity Practices on Alibaba Cloud: PrivateLink, CEN, and ASM East‑West Gateway

This article explains the challenges of multi‑cluster deployments and presents three Alibaba Cloud solutions—PrivateLink, Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), and ASM East‑West Gateway—detailing their mechanisms, trade‑offs, and typical scenarios such as isolation, distributed applications, disaster recovery, and multi‑environment testing.

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Multi-Cluster Network Connectivity Practices on Alibaba Cloud: PrivateLink, CEN, and ASM East‑West Gateway

AntData

Mar 21, 2024 · Cloud Computing

LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases

The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source cloud‑native storage‑pool architecture built on NVMe‑over‑Fabric that delivers high performance, low cost, and high availability for large‑scale distributed databases, and explains its design, scheduling, storage engine, and hot‑upgrade/migration capabilities presented at the 30th IEEE HPCA conference.

Distributed DatabasesLiteIONVMe-oF

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LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases

DeWu Technology

Dec 27, 2023 · Cloud Native

DeWu's Cloud-Native Container Management Practices

Since August 2021, DeWu App has built a cloud‑native, multi‑cluster Kubernetes platform that uses an OAM‑style CloneSet model, Helm‑generated resources, Karmada‑based federation, custom scheduler plugins for reservation and node‑balance, offline mixing for Flink, a unified KubeAutoScaler, and a self‑built KubeAI stack, achieving significant cost cuts and improved stability while planning further middleware containerization and multi‑cloud expansion.

AICost ManagementKubernetes

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DeWu's Cloud-Native Container Management Practices

AntTech

Dec 25, 2023 · Databases

HoraeDB Joins Apache Incubator: Design Goals, Architecture, and Core Features of the Cloud‑Native Time‑Series Database

HoraeDB, the next‑generation cloud‑native time‑series database originally from Ant Group, has been accepted into the Apache Incubator, and this article outlines its design motivations, distributed architecture, key technical components, and core capabilities such as high performance, low cost, SQL‑based analytics, storage‑compute separation, high availability, and open‑source ecosystem compatibility.

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HoraeDB Joins Apache Incubator: Design Goals, Architecture, and Core Features of the Cloud‑Native Time‑Series Database

Qunar Tech Salon

Nov 22, 2023 · Operations

Optimizing Qunar's Monitoring System for Faster Fault Detection and Root‑Cause Analysis

This article details Qunar's comprehensive overhaul of its monitoring platform—introducing second‑level metrics, redesigning storage with VictoriaMetrics, optimizing client and server data collection, and building a root‑cause analysis tool—to dramatically reduce order‑related fault discovery time from minutes to under one minute.

MicroservicesTSDBcloud-native

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Optimizing Qunar's Monitoring System for Faster Fault Detection and Root‑Cause Analysis

Big Data Technology Architecture

Nov 14, 2023 · Big Data

Open Source Big Data Platform 3.0: Streaming Lakehouse, Serverless Architecture, and AI Integration

The talk outlines the evolution of Alibaba Cloud's open‑source big data platform from Hadoop‑based EMR to a 3.0 architecture featuring a streaming lakehouse, full serverless compute and storage, AI‑driven operations, and upcoming vector search services, highlighting technical motivations, challenges, and product releases.

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Open Source Big Data Platform 3.0: Streaming Lakehouse, Serverless Architecture, and AI Integration

Cloud Native Technology Community

Sep 19, 2023 · Cloud Native

Understanding Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies with Practical Examples

This article explains how Kubernetes Admission Controllers work, introduces the new Validating Admission Policies feature that uses CEL for native policy enforcement, and provides a step‑by‑step demonstration with YAML and kubectl commands showing how to limit deployment replicas in a namespace.

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Understanding Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies with Practical Examples

Baidu Geek Talk

Sep 6, 2023 · Cloud Native

DeeTune: Baidu’s eBPF‑Based Cloud‑Native Network Framework for Service Topology, Traffic Recording, and Non‑Intrusive Monitoring

DeeTune is Baidu’s eBPF‑based cloud‑native network framework that automatically builds complete service topologies, records configurable inter‑service traffic, and provides non‑intrusive metric monitoring with minimal CPU and memory overhead, enabling efficient fault localization and performance analysis across heterogeneous PaaS and container environments.

BaiduNetwork FrameworkService Topology

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DeeTune: Baidu’s eBPF‑Based Cloud‑Native Network Framework for Service Topology, Traffic Recording, and Non‑Intrusive Monitoring

Cloud Native Technology Community

Jul 20, 2023 · Information Security

Implementing Zero‑Trust Security in Kubernetes with Service Meshes (Linkerd)

This article explains how to achieve zero‑trust security in Kubernetes by using a service mesh such as Linkerd, covering workload identity, mTLS, certificate management, policy definition with CRDs, and the practical limitations of mesh‑based protection.

KubernetesLinkerdService Mesh

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Implementing Zero‑Trust Security in Kubernetes with Service Meshes (Linkerd)

Ant R&D Efficiency

Jun 12, 2023 · Cloud Native

Platform Engineering: Challenges and Best Practices in Large-Scale Implementation

Platform engineering at scale requires unified self‑service abstractions, domain‑specific languages like KCL, divide‑and‑conquer monorepo structures, robust modeling and automation, and a collaborative culture, as demonstrated by Ant Group’s KusionStack implementation that supports thousands of projects with a sub‑one‑to‑nine platform‑to‑developer ratio.

DevOpsGitOpsKCL

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Platform Engineering: Challenges and Best Practices in Large-Scale Implementation

Bilibili Tech

Mar 28, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Multi‑Cloud Management Platform ARES: Architecture, Features and Practices

ARES, Bilibili’s multi‑cloud management platform, unifies resource provisioning, asset inventory, user access, and cost optimization across public clouds through a layered architecture, project‑centric tagging, Terraform‑based orchestration, and centralized security, while addressing manual provisioning, fragmented permissions, and visibility challenges, and plans to extend into hybrid‑cloud automation.

Cost ManagementIaCMulti-Cloud

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Multi‑Cloud Management Platform ARES: Architecture, Features and Practices

政采云技术

Feb 28, 2023 · Cloud Native

Understanding Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and KEDA for Elastic Scaling in Kubernetes

This article explains pod‑level elasticity in Kubernetes by detailing the principles, metric types, and limitations of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and then introduces KEDA as an event‑driven extension that adds true scale‑to‑zero capabilities, complete with configuration examples and code snippets.

DevOpsHPAKubernetes

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Understanding Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and KEDA for Elastic Scaling in Kubernetes