This article presents a comprehensive study of continuous operations, defining its meaning, outlining the three key stages of continuous deployment, operation, and feedback, reviewing ITIL and DevOps practices, and sharing real-world case studies from major tech companies to illustrate effective implementation.
The 2022 TVP Cloud Hosting forum examined Serverless’s seven‑year evolution, exploring market growth, technical opportunities, real‑world challenges, and future directions through expert talks, a hands‑on demo, and a round‑table discussion, highlighting why Serverless may be the next big step in cloud computing.
The article explains why software development efficiency has become a buzzword, outlines four underlying reasons, presents a comprehensive set of measurable indicators across planning, feedback, team transformation, decision support and engineering capability, and offers practical guidance on selecting and evolving metrics for different project types.
This article introduces Kubernetes—Google's open‑source container orchestration platform—detailing its core concepts such as Pods, Namespaces, Nodes, Services, Volumes, PersistentVolumes, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Ingress, Jobs, HPA, ServiceAccounts, Secrets, ConfigMaps, and ResourceQuotas, providing practical commands and usage notes for each component.
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 compiles the 2021 Qunar Technical Salon infrastructure series, presenting original technical writings on databases, operational practices, and core components, each linked to detailed posts that share real‑world experiences, design guidelines, and performance insights for engineers and practitioners.
This guide walks through deploying a Redis cluster on Kubernetes, covering the challenges of stateful workloads, the use of StatefulSets and Headless Services, configuration of persistence, and step‑by‑step commands to create, initialize, and expose the cluster.
This article provides complete Kubernetes YAML manifests for deploying Grafana as a core Deployment and exposing it via a Service in the kube-system namespace, detailing container images, resource limits, environment variables, health probes, and persistent storage configuration.
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 examines the core functionalities of Terraform and Helm, highlighting how each tool manages Kubernetes clusters, automates infrastructure provisioning, and supports DevOps workflows, helping teams decide which solution best fits their cloud‑native development needs.
This article examines the evolving role of technology management in digital transformation, highlighting the need for new governance models, proactive value creation, and effective resource allocation to empower organizations through DevOps, digital risk management, and agile decision‑making.
This guide shows how to quickly create a low‑cost, serverless mock server using Tencent Cloud's Serverless Cloud Function (SCF) by packaging the Moco JAR, a JSON response file, and a bootstrap script into a ZIP, deploying it as a Java 8 web function, and optionally using a one‑click template for instant setup and automatic scaling.
This guide introduces GitLab CI/CD by explaining pipelines, jobs, stages, runner registration, and SSH‑based deployment, providing a complete example .gitlab-ci.yml and Docker‑based runner setup for beginners who want to automate build, test, and release processes.
This article reviews the historical evolution of software testing, explains the concepts of continuous testing within DevOps, outlines testing lifecycles, tools, and models, and looks ahead to emerging trends such as DevSecOps and AI‑driven autonomous testing.
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 guide introduces Multipass, a lightweight cross‑platform VM tool, and walks through downloading, installing, checking versions, finding Ubuntu images, launching instances, managing their lifecycle, and automating setup with cloud‑init, highlighting its strengths and Ubuntu‑only limitation.
This article explains the essential components of a Kubernetes Pod manifest, how to write the YAML definition, and the kubectl commands needed to create and manage Pods, including a complete example with metadata, containers, ports, and startup commands.
This guide walks startup leaders through designing and assembling a full backend technology stack—from language and component choices to processes, systems, and deployment tools—providing practical recommendations, diagrams, and best‑practice tips for building scalable, maintainable services.
This guide provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step walkthrough of Git’s core commands—including add, commit, reset, checkout, diff, merge, cherry‑pick, and rebase—illustrated with diagrams and practical examples to help developers understand version‑control workflows and avoid common pitfalls.
This comprehensive guide explains what bug tracking is, outlines effective workflows, lists essential features, compares top bug‑tracking tools—including BugHerd, Bugzilla, MantisBT, Jira, and more—while highlighting each tool's advantages, disadvantages, integrations, and pricing to help teams choose the right solution.
The 2021 Hybrid Cloud Whitepaper explains the definition, major vendor solutions, and five key use‑case scenarios—load scheduling, disaster recovery, hybrid deployment, DevOps, and data analytics—illustrating how enterprises can leverage mixed public, private, and edge clouds to meet diverse business requirements.
This article explains how containerization integrates with DevOps, detailing the advantages of container‑based delivery pipelines, the differences between traditional and containerized workflows, and the role of orchestration platforms like Kubernetes in creating efficient, portable, and scalable software deployments.
This tutorial explains how to deploy a Spring Boot‑based monitoring solution that tracks multiple remote JVMs, covering repository cloning, configuration of server and client properties, Maven installation of the starter jar, and running the monitor‑server with example code snippets and screenshots.
This article outlines the major DevOps trends—including micro‑service architecture, serverless computing, low‑code platforms, Kubernetes evolution, DevSecOps, and AI integration—that are expected to drive faster delivery, higher quality, and greater agility in software development and operations.
This guide explains how to upload build artifacts to external repositories such as Nexus and GitLab's built‑in package registry, covering authentication methods, required API parameters, curl commands for uploading and downloading packages, and CI/CD pipeline examples for Java projects.
This guide explains how to simulate and maintain two separate Kubernetes clusters on a single node by configuring kubeconfig files, adding clusters, users, and contexts, and switching between them to improve DevOps workflow efficiency.
The article explains how a collaborative effort by CAICT and more than 30 leading tech and financial companies created the most comprehensive DevOps efficiency measurement model, detailing its components, evaluation results, and upcoming assessment enrollment for enterprises seeking to boost software development performance.
This article examines why many enterprises struggle to adopt containers and Kubernetes, outlines the four main sources of complexity, and presents a range of open‑source tools, managed services, serverless options, and practical guidance to help teams choose the most suitable solution.
A group of e‑commerce engineers share their real‑world experiences on selecting technologies, designing architectures, handling rapid growth, and avoiding common mistakes when building a new online store from scratch, offering practical guidance on infrastructure, DevOps, and team organization.
This article introduces Podman, an open‑source container runtime that runs without a daemon or root privileges, compares its architecture and features with Docker, and provides detailed instructions for installation, configuration, common commands, image management, volume handling, and user‑namespace setups on Linux.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Podman, explaining its architecture, key differences from Docker, common commands, installation steps, configuration details, and practical usage examples for managing containers, images, volumes, and rootless operation on Linux systems.
This guide walks you through installing JumpServer—a bastion host solution that adds permission control, session monitoring, and audit logging to remote server access—by setting up MariaDB and Redis, configuring Docker, generating secret keys, running the JumpServer container, and configuring users, groups, assets, and permissions.
Learn how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes by using a StatefulSet with a headless Service, configuring persistent storage, creating ConfigMaps, initializing the cluster with redis-cli, and exposing it via a regular Service, complete with step‑by‑step commands and YAML examples.
China Post Savings Bank’s three core systems passed the Level 3 DevOps Continuous Delivery assessment, showcasing leading domestic capabilities, while senior leaders discuss the bank’s DevOps evolution, measurable improvements, future DevSecOps plans, and the broader industry standards driving these results.
This article examines the challenges faced by Baidu's search middleware in high‑frequency iteration and complex backend development, and presents the design, implementation, and benefits of the Nimbus low‑code platform—including a graph engine, unified development environment, visual operator composition, automated testing, and intelligent capacity management—to accelerate product innovation while reducing development effort.
This article demonstrates how to use Ansible playbooks and simple shell scripts to identify the CentOS major version and system architecture, while also providing promotional links to related DevOps and Kubernetes tutorials.
Bank of Communications shares its award‑winning DevOps journey, detailing how a Level 3 maturity assessment, agile practices, AI integration, and cross‑department collaboration have driven its digital transformation, improved delivery speed, and positioned it as a leader among state‑owned banks in China.
This article explains why mastering English is essential for developers and then curates a list of high‑quality cloud native podcasts, each with a brief description and link, to help listeners improve their knowledge and keep up with the latest industry trends.
Zhengzhou Bank’s electronic banking system passed the Level 2 security‑operation assessment of the DevSecOps standard, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and a culture of shared security responsibility can elevate a financial institution’s DevOps practices to an advanced domestic level.
The 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum highlighted Zhongtai Securities’ successful DevSecOps assessment, revealing how the company’s online business system met the second‑level security and risk management standards, and sharing detailed insights on cultural, procedural, and technical practices that drove their advanced security maturity.
Anxin Securities' Financial Store System passed the Level 2 DevOps technology‑operations assessment at the 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, revealing how standardization, tool empowerment, and cross‑team collaboration drive digital transformation in the financial sector.
Zhejiang Mobile’s fault‑center AIOps system passed the first official assessment by China’s CAICT, showcasing advanced AI‑driven IT operations, detailing the evaluation process, interview insights, and the broader AIOps maturity model shaping future intelligent operations.
Guotai Junan Securities became the first securities firm to pass the CAICT DevOps Technical Operations 2+ level assessment, showcasing a comprehensive digital transformation driven by standardization, tool empowerment, and an intelligent operation management platform that enhances cost control, emergency response, and full‑link monitoring across its third‑party transaction gateway system.
GuoXin Securities' GoldSun platform passed the CAICT DevSecOps Level‑2 security and risk management assessment, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and a collaborative DevOps culture can elevate a financial app's security posture to an advanced domestic level.
Zhongyuan Bank’s personal mobile banking project passed the national DevSecOps security and risk management assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, a dedicated security platform, and cultural, procedural, and technical integration can elevate a financial institution’s development lifecycle to an advanced, industry‑leading level.
Ping An Bank’s Starlink DevOps platform was awarded the "industry promotion level" in the first batch evaluation of the China Academy of Information and Communications’ DevOps General Efficiency Measurement Model, highlighting its leading domestic performance and the bank’s commitment to digital governance and fine‑grained R&D efficiency management.
Xinwang Bank’s distributed consumer loan core system passed the CAICT DevOps Level‑3 continuous delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, toolchain integration, and agile development boosted code commits, build frequency, test coverage, and delivery speed, while providing insights into challenges, metrics, and future plans.
This guide explains how beginners and experienced developers can discover, download, install, and run open‑source projects from GitHub, covering release pages, official sites, online demos, Chinese documentation, package managers, services deployment, and troubleshooting tips.
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.
Guotai Junan's data center team passed the China Information Communication Research Institute's DevOps technical operations assessment at level 2+, showcasing their digital transformation journey, standardized practices, and concrete improvements in cost, incident, and monitoring capabilities, while sharing insights from senior leaders on future plans and industry impact.
The article reports on Anxin Securities' successful Level‑2 DevOps technology‑operation assessment announced at the 2021 GOLF+ IT Governance Forum, featuring interview highlights from the CIO and operations head, details of the evaluated Financial Store System, and broader industry statistics on DevOps maturity in the securities sector.
Ningbo Bank’s scenario payment system passed the Level 3 DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardization, tool empowerment, and agile practices transformed a traditionally waterfall project into a high‑speed, reliable platform, while the bank shares lessons, challenges, and future DevOps plans.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced that China International Capital Corp's (CICC) Tianji DevOps platform achieved an excellent rating in the third‑batch DevOps system and tool assessment, highlighting the platform’s end‑to‑end automation, maturity model phases, and its impact on digital transformation across the financial sector.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology unveiled its DevOps efficiency measurement model, with Baidu’s iReport platform becoming the first to achieve industry‑promotion level certification, and detailed the model’s modules, maturity levels, and practical insights for improving software development performance.
This article details a structured GitLab CI/CD setup using job templates for build, test, code analysis, artifact handling, and Kubernetes deployment, combined with a default-pipeline.yml that defines includes, global variables, workflow rules, stages, and environment‑specific deployment configurations for Java applications.
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 how small and medium‑size banks can adopt cloud‑native architectures—covering industry pressures, Kubernetes adoption statistics, a 15‑point transformation checklist, maturity models, team‑structure options, and practical selection guidance to achieve efficient, resilient digital transformation.
This article examines the challenges of improving research and development efficiency in digital-era enterprises, presents real-world success and failure cases, outlines the roles of business, tool, coaching, and organizational teams, and offers practical do's and don'ts to achieve sustainable, business‑driven efficiency gains.
This article details Vivo's AI container platform, explaining the design, deployment options, performance tuning, stability measures, and future enhancements of the ingress‑nginx gateway that powers AI services within their Kubernetes clusters.
This article explains how organizations can quickly evaluate CI/CD maturity across projects by using the open‑source CII Best Practices Badge program, customizing scoring rules, and assigning badge levels to guide teams toward high‑quality, secure software delivery.
This article provides step‑by‑step commands for creating Kubernetes pods, pulling images, running simple applications, exposing deployments, checking logs, and managing resources such as scaling, updating images, and viewing pod details, offering a practical guide for verifying network access and basic cluster operations.
This article provides a comprehensive walkthrough of how ZuanZuan uses Jenkins together with the custom Beetle platform to automatically generate jobs, configure config.xml, optimize front‑end builds, manage compile packages, and address Sonar scan performance issues, complete with diagrams and script examples.
This article describes the end‑to‑end process of selecting, designing, building, and deploying a container‑based PaaS platform for an insurance group, covering technology choices, architecture, deployment workflow, observability, monitoring, and the business impact of moving applications to a cloud‑native environment.
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.
In this expert round‑table, senior SRE and DB leaders discuss how operations teams must revamp their management philosophy, processes, knowledge systems, and collaboration models—adopting OKRs, DevOps, AI‑ops, and proactive "left‑shift" practices—to thrive in the cloud‑native landscape.
This article explains Helm’s role in Kubernetes application management, its key benefits such as templating, version control, dependency handling, and how to host Helm charts in a Sonatype Nexus repository and integrate them into a Docker‑based CI/CD pipeline.
Learn how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes using a StatefulSet and Headless Service, covering problem analysis, key concepts, configuration steps, initialization with redis-cli, and creating services for access, all without persistent volumes for simplicity.
This guide explains Redis AOF persistence settings, including default options, the three synchronization strategies (no, always, everysec), and practical recommendations such as enabling AOF on slaves for critical data while keeping masters free of persistence work.
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 article shares practical standards for Kubernetes operations—from infrastructure choices and application packaging to CI/CD tooling—helping teams reduce complexity, improve reliability, and foster continuous learning and sharing in fast‑moving cloud environments.
This article outlines four practical strategies to accelerate CI/CD pipelines—using a self‑hosted GitLab Runner, caching build dependencies, employing lightweight Alpine images for CI jobs, and conditionally running jobs only when relevant files change—to improve developer efficiency.
This guide outlines six Python advancement directions—full‑stack development, web scraping, data analysis & mining, AI & machine learning, DevOps automation, and testing—detailing essential skills, typical salary ranges, and how each role fits the modern job market.
This article compiles a series of visual skill maps covering DevOps, cloud computing, big data, security, architecture, and development practices, offering engineers a comprehensive roadmap to build and expand their technical knowledge across multiple domains.
GitOps is an automated infrastructure management approach that leverages DevOps best practices such as version control, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines to treat infrastructure as code, enabling declarative, pull‑request‑driven deployments especially in Kubernetes‑centric cloud‑native environments.
This article details FreeWheel’s migration from a decade‑old Ruby monolith to a cloud‑native architecture, explaining cloud‑native fundamentals, the Strangler Pattern, containerization, Kubernetes/EKS orchestration, Istio service‑mesh integration, serverless extensions, and the internal platforms that support the new hybrid system.
Modern software’s soaring complexity—from monolithic apps to micro‑service, container‑based, cloud‑native ecosystems—is overwhelming developers, forcing them to juggle endless tools, security, and performance demands, while organizations adopt internal platforms and curated “golden paths” to regain control and deliver value efficiently.
The Baidu Tech Salon #95 brought together senior engineers and experts to discuss the importance of engineering capability, China Mobile's DevOps transformation under its "cloud shift" strategy, and innovative approaches to undergraduate software engineering education, offering actionable insights for developers and organizations.
This talk presents ByteDance’s mobile release engineering practices for billion‑DAU apps, detailing challenges, the evolution of their release platform from Jenkins‑based pipelines to a custom distributed system, and solutions for pipeline efficiency, safety, release velocity, and data reliability via artifact libraries.
This tutorial explains Kubernetes deployment strategies—including Rolling Update, Recreate, Blue‑Green, and Canary—detailing their concepts, configuration files, kubectl commands, and best‑practice considerations for reliable, zero‑downtime application releases. It also covers prerequisites, readiness probes, and how to verify rollout status using kubectl.
The article outlines the background, mission, technical choices, and comprehensive features of the Tianyan Quality Platform—an internal testing solution built with Vue and Spring Boot that streamlines API automation, environment management, and DevOps integration across multiple business lines.
The article outlines twenty‑four essential capabilities—including version control, automated deployment, continuous integration, trunk‑based development, test automation, lean management, and cultural practices—that together drive high‑performance software delivery and organizational effectiveness.
Git worktree, a little‑known feature introduced in 2015, lets developers maintain a single repository while simultaneously working on multiple branches—such as feature and hotfix—without costly context switches, large repo clones, or environment reconfiguration, and includes commands for adding, listing, removing, and pruning worktrees.
This article traces the evolution of DevOps from its roots in Toyota Production System and Kanban through Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and modern extensions like ChatOps, GitOps, FinOps and AiOps, highlighting key milestones and their impact on software delivery practices.
The article examines how Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes have transformed deployment, but also highlights the remaining complexities of cloud‑native development, microservices, and the need for next‑generation tools that seamlessly integrate local processes, containers, and cloud services.
This article chronicles the history of DevOps and its related practices—from the Toyota Production System and Kanban to Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, Lean, and modern concepts like ChatOps, GitOps, FinOps and AiOps—highlighting how each milestone shaped today’s software delivery culture.
The 2021‑22 World Quality Report, based on interviews with 1,750 QA leaders across 32 countries, reveals how the pandemic accelerated digital transformation, increased the strategic role of QA in DevOps and Agile, and highlighted AI‑driven testing as a major driver of quality and customer experience.
This guide outlines the key Redis monitoring metrics—including performance, memory, activity, persistence, and error indicators—provides detailed descriptions, command examples, and practical tips for using tools like redis-cli, redis-benchmark, and info commands to effectively track and troubleshoot your Redis instances.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank’s eight systems passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized processes, tool empowerment, and a unified maturity model can dramatically boost development efficiency, quality, and competitive advantage in the banking sector.
This article provides a detailed, step‑by‑step guide for startups to design and select a complete backend technology stack, covering language choices, components, processes, systemization, and the practical evaluation of tools such as project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, messaging, CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment.
Huatai Securities became the first Chinese securities firm to pass the DevOps Technical Operations 2+ level assessment, sharing detailed interview insights on the project’s high‑availability design, operational improvements, challenges overcome, and future plans for broader technical‑operations transformation.
This article details Bank of Communications' successful DevOps standard assessment, showcasing how its Smart HR and Cross‑border Finance projects reached Level 3 maturity, the interview insights from the project manager, and the broader impact of DevOps practices on banking digital transformation.
The 2021 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai announced the latest DevOps capability maturity assessment results, detailing the enterprises that achieved continuous delivery level 3 and technical operation level 2+, explaining the new 2+ grading, and outlining the DevOps maturity model and its industry adoption.
This article introduces the Kafka AdminClient API, explains its core features and internal threading model, and provides step‑by‑step Java code examples for creating, listing, describing, configuring, updating partitions, and deleting topics in a Kafka cluster.
This guide explains how to use GitHub Packages as a unified package registry and demonstrates step‑by‑step how to configure npm, create a workflow file, and automatically publish a Node.js package to GitHub Packages via GitHub Actions whenever a new release is created.
This article explains how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) drives agile product delivery, enterprise‑level solution deployment, and lean portfolio management by focusing on customer‑centric design, fixed‑frequency development, DevOps pipelines, and coordinated release trains, illustrating each capability with diagrams and practical guidance.
This article explains why organizations adopt the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), describing its two operating models, the benefits such as faster crisis response, increased customer value delivery, and higher product quality, and outlines SAFe’s core capabilities for achieving business agility.
This article explains the concept of canary releases, outlines their advantages and drawbacks, and provides a detailed, command‑line tutorial for performing a canary deployment, monitoring, pausing, resuming, and rolling back a Kubernetes application using kubectl.
This guide explains Jira's planning and tracking features, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing the Data Center version, details initial configuration, demonstrates project and module creation, and shows how to integrate Jira with Jenkins and GitLab for automated CI/CD workflows.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservices architecture, covering its definition, comparison with monolithic systems, design principles, communication methods, benefits, drawbacks, governance, and practical considerations such as DevOps, containers, and real‑world case studies.
This article examines Baidu's Tekes platform—its evolution from automated component publishing to a full‑stack mobile DevOps service—detailing its architecture, workflow engine, event‑driven pipeline, and how it boosts development efficiency across hundreds of repositories and product lines.
