This guide walks beginners through Laravel fundamentals, setting up development environments, hands‑on project ideas, documentation habits, team standards, job‑search strategies, and a long‑term learning path to become a well‑rounded backend engineer.
The Serverless Technology Salon in Shanghai on December 28, 2023 will showcase how serverless architecture combined with 5G, the Serverless Framework, SSR and frontend tools can accelerate development, reduce costs, and include hands‑on tutorials, expert talks, and exclusive giveaways for participants.
This article introduces Docker as a leading container platform, explains its core concepts, architecture components, and common commands, and provides step‑by‑step tutorials for deploying a Node.js application and MongoDB using Dockerfile, Docker Compose, and related tools.
This article explains the evolution from traditional DevOps to DevTestOps, detailing continuous testing, the benefits of integrating automated testing into DevOps pipelines, practical implementation steps, and why organizations should adopt DevTestOps to enhance software quality and delivery speed.
This article presents a comprehensive Jenkins‑based CI/CD solution that supports multiple branches, environments, projects, and programming languages, offering one‑click deployment and rollback, standardized naming conventions, configurable project mapping files, and a flexible multi‑environment workflow for automated and manual triggers.
Since 2017, Tencent Online Education has migrated its siloed, self‑developed services to a unified cloud‑native architecture—standardizing micro‑services, selecting open‑source middleware, and enhancing DevOps with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and data migration—thereby boosting development efficiency, scalability, cost savings, and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
When international network instability made Composer mirrors intermittently inaccessible, Alibaba Cloud’s engineer Gu Yong quickly diagnosed and fixed the issue, then launched a high‑performance, real‑time PHP Composer mirror that offers fast, stable, and self‑healing package delivery for developers across China.
In 2019, IDCF organized three in‑depth DevOps case study events where participants analyzed the practices of leading companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, Etsy and others, highlighting hacker culture, automated Windows builds, and a five‑step tech transformation roadmap.
This guide demonstrates how to use several Jenkins Pipeline plugins—including readJSON, withCredentials, checkout, publishHTML, input, BuildUser, and httpRequest—to handle JSON data, manage credentials, retrieve source code, publish HTML reports, interactively collect input, obtain build user information, and perform HTTP requests within a CI/CD workflow.
This article explores how cloud‑native principles and Kubernetes enable seamless integration of cloud and edge computing, detailing the challenges of edge infrastructure, the layered architecture of Kubernetes, the evolution of Alibaba Cloud's ACK@Edge service, real‑world use cases, and practical Q&A for developers.
Meituan’s MRN framework extends React Native with a layered hybrid architecture, custom component library, multi‑bundle build strategy, and automated release pipeline, enabling rapid deployment of over 60 RN pages, cutting package size, improving productivity by over 50 %, and delivering high‑stability performance across Android and iOS.
This article chronicles Ctrip's cloud‑infrastructure journey—from the early OpenStack‑based IAAS platform through containerization with Mesos, the migration to large‑scale Kubernetes clusters, and the adoption of cloud‑native practices that improve resource utilization, deployment speed, and application governance.
This article examines how Ctrip Hotel implements DevOps testing—from business and technical drivers, through continuous delivery challenges, to the design of the Moss platform, its toolchain, data center, and future automation goals—highlighting practical solutions for rapid, high‑quality software delivery.
This lesson introduces container technology, explains Docker’s core concepts, image layering, Dockerfile syntax, and common commands, while also showing how Kubernetes scales container management for cloud‑native applications. It highlights the advantages over traditional VMs, resource utilization improvements, and practical examples for building and running container images.
This guide outlines the essential components of a startup’s backend architecture, covering language choices, middleware, databases, messaging, monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud services, and provides practical selection criteria and best‑practice recommendations to help teams design a robust, scalable, and maintainable system.
This article explains how to write Jenkinsfiles using Groovy syntax, demonstrating that beyond the built‑in DSL methods provided by Jenkins plugins, native Groovy can be employed for data manipulation and flow control, illustrated with multiple screenshot examples.
This article details how a single engineer created Listen Notes, a podcast search engine and API, by leveraging standard web technologies, AWS infrastructure, Django backend, React frontend, Ansible-driven DevOps, and a suite of monitoring and productivity tools, proving that a solo effort can launch a robust internet product.
This article explains how to use Makefiles to create custom build commands, define variables, handle recursive targets, incorporate shell output, add conditional checks, and generate help messages, providing practical examples for Go projects and general build automation.
This article examines common mistakes in measuring R&D efficiency, outlines seven guiding principles, presents case studies from leading tech companies, and shares practical steps and lessons for implementing a comprehensive R&D metrics system.
The article explains how Alpine Linux’s lack of historic package retention complicates Docker image reproducibility, discusses the importance of version pinning, compares repository versus package pinning, and highlights the challenges developers face when older package versions become unavailable.
The author explores Kubernetes by reading "Kubernetes in Action", uncovering why pods are the smallest deployable unit, how ReplicationControllers maintain desired replica counts, and how Services provide stable access, while emphasizing a problem‑first, think‑first approach to mastering the platform.
This article explains Alibaba's large‑scale Kubernetes experience, outlines the two main challenges of application management for developers and operators, and shows how the Open Application Model (OAM) uses Components, Traits and Application Config to provide a layered, extensible, and cloud‑native solution.
StackStorm is an open‑source automation platform that integrates existing infrastructure and applications, enabling event‑driven workflows, troubleshooting, auto‑remediation, and continuous deployment through modular components such as sensors, triggers, actions, rules, workflows, and packs, all managed via a web UI, CLI, and REST API.
This article examines how adversaries target Jenkins automation servers, detailing common discovery methods, exploitation techniques such as Java deserialization and mis‑configured authentication, and practical red‑team demonstrations of credential extraction, script‑console abuse, and malicious job creation to illustrate mitigation recommendations.
This tutorial explains ELK concepts, the logs needed from Kubernetes, three ELK stack collection strategies, step‑by‑step deployment of a single‑node ELK cluster, Filebeat agents, ingress configuration, and Kibana visualization to achieve a production‑grade log management solution.
This article details how Ctrip builds, deploys, tests, releases, and operates Node.js applications—including engineering processes, core middleware, Docker-based deployment, multi‑process communication, monitoring, and full‑link tracing—while sharing practical lessons learned from real‑world production use.
Tencent’s WeTest platform, now rebranded and expanded internationally, offers developers a comprehensive suite of cloud‑based testing, performance monitoring, AI‑driven analysis, and industry‑standard tools that bridge technical and design quality, helping game and app creators deliver higher‑quality products worldwide.
This two‑hour video tutorial walks you through building a production‑grade Linux environment, mastering Docker and Docker‑Compose, setting up Harbor, preparing and deploying Rancher 2.3 with a Kubernetes 1.16 cluster, and deploying Spring Cloud and Vue applications, plus optional HA setups.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservices, covering its origin, definition, core principles such as small independent services, process isolation, lightweight communication, deployment and management, while discussing advantages, challenges, suitable organizational structures, and key technical components like service discovery, gateways, configuration centers, monitoring, circuit breaking, containers, and orchestration frameworks.
This article explains how to configure Jenkins Matrix projects to run parallel builds across multiple platforms and browsers using both scripted and declarative pipeline syntax, including label setup, axis generation, task parallelization, and user‑driven selection of combinations.
The 3rd Hangzhou Testing Salon, part of Youzan’s eighth technical series, featured Youzan leaders discussing continuous‑delivery product evolution, platform design, and cost‑effective testing environments, with videos and PPT available, while future Alibaba and KuJia sessions will be announced soon.
In just 30 days the used‑car division transformed its entire application portfolio from 3.33% to full containerization, cutting costs, speeding deployments, and handling 120 million daily requests, while sharing the practical lessons, challenges, and future goals learned from the journey.
This article details Alibaba's four‑stage journey to migrate its core systems to Kubernetes, the operational challenges of legacy workflows, and the concrete cloud‑native transformations—final‑state deployment, self‑healing, and immutable infrastructure—that enabled a flawless Double‑11 sales event.
The document outlines an automation platform development plan covering functional requirements for API, AppUI and WebUI testing, integrated management modules, a phased development timeline, ROI visualization, and future optimization including AI and DevOps integration.
In this reflective Thanksgiving post, the author thanks DevOps practices—consistent code delivery, automated CI/CD pipelines, and application containerization—highlighting how they eliminate manual errors, improve accountability across environments, enable scalable infrastructure as code, and foster collaboration, ultimately transforming the software development lifecycle.
This case study examines Facebook's origins, mission, core leadership, explosive growth, business model, and especially its distinctive engineering culture—known as The Hacker Way—highlighting practices such as bootcamps, hackathons, hackamonths, information transparency, and empowerment that drive innovation and align employee performance with company goals.
This article introduces Prometheus, an open‑source monitoring system, explains its core components such as server, exporters, and Alertmanager, provides step‑by‑step installation and configuration instructions, demonstrates alert rule setup, and shows integration with tools like Grafana, Telegraf, Spring Boot and Canal.
This guide explains why automated testing is overtaking manual testing, outlines the main categories of automation tools, and provides practical criteria—such as platform support, adoption ease, scripting flexibility, integration, reporting, and licensing—to help teams select the most suitable solution for their CI/CD and DevOps workflows.
This article outlines how the Weibo advertising team evolved its operations from hand‑crafted scripts to a fully automated, AI‑enhanced platform, covering service governance, multi‑datacenter deployment, a custom automation system (Kunkka), effective alerting, full‑link tracing, and a massive metric monitoring solution built on big‑data technologies.
This article shares Tencent’s extensive experience migrating massive self‑developed services to the cloud, covering motivations, business value, practical insights, the QQ migration case, and key lessons for improving efficiency, reducing risk, and embracing cloud‑native operations.
The talk presented a comprehensive strategy for boosting Kubernetes cluster efficiency by addressing fragmentation, over‑provisioned pod requests, and misaligned autoscaling through five techniques—pod compression, node over‑commit, HPAPlus, VPAPlus, and dynamic scheduling—implemented via mutating admission controllers, Prometheus analytics, and extended autoscaler components.
This guide explains the Gradle --continue option, shows a sample build script with a deliberately failing task, demonstrates command‑line runs with and without the flag, and reveals how Gradle executes remaining tasks while reporting all failures.
This guide explains how to configure Artifactory in Jenkins, set up server credentials, and use both a Jenkins Shared Library and a Jenkinsfile to automatically publish build artifacts to Artifactory as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
This article explains what Artifactory is, its role as a binary repository manager comparable to Git for binaries, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing, starting, stopping, accessing, and upgrading Artifactory on a Linux system.
This article explains what DevOps is, outlines Zhenkunxing's DevOps planning and design principles, describes the 3+1 architecture comprising a container cloud platform, microservice platform and development toolchain, and discusses implementation phases, current achievements, and future AI‑enabled DevOps directions.
In a QCon 2019 interview, Huawei Cloud’s DevCloud chief product evangelist Liu Heng explains the platform’s end‑to‑end, one‑stop DevOps services, its emphasis on security and trust, the role of AI and AIOps, and how cloud‑native practices are empowering enterprises across industries.
Alibaba’s journey from early LXC containers to massive Kubernetes clusters reveals scaling, performance, and operational challenges that led to the creation of the Open Application Model (OAM) and OpenKruise, offering a layered, role‑separated approach to cloud‑native application definition and delivery.
The article recaps Tencent Cloud’s Serverless operational suite—covering built‑in DevOps tools, logging, monitoring, auto‑scaling, and security—demonstrating how it replaces manual IaaS provisioning, accelerates development, and enables cloud‑native management, illustrated by a WeChat Mini‑Program album that cut build time from months to two weeks.
This guide introduces Nginx fundamentals, shows how to spin up a basic Nginx service with Docker‑Compose, explains HTTP, server and location contexts, and demonstrates practical front‑end‑friendly techniques such as forward proxy, load balancing, SSI, GZIP compression, anti‑hotlinking, HTTPS and caching.
The article explains the three-tier testing hierarchy (unit, interface, UI), the recommended test size distribution, mandatory versus optional test types, and how to implement automated unit testing within a DevOps workflow using version control, build tools, test frameworks, and feedback platforms.
The November 13 Helm 3 release eliminates Tiller, addresses major Helm 2 shortcomings such as template engine bugs, hook handling, and resource conflicts, and introduces a cleaner architecture that aligns Helm with modern Kubernetes practices while offering new features like multi‑cluster support and dependency checks.
This article explains the principles of DevOps, outlines an eight‑point requirement checklist for a Docker‑based DevOps environment, details the step‑by‑step workflow using GitLab, Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, Harbor and Kubernetes, and then compares it with Serverless architectures, highlighting future trends.
This article details LeXin Medical's journey from a manually built Kubernetes cluster to the UCloud UK8S platform, covering the challenges of self‑hosting, the tools and processes used for migration, and the resulting improvements in logging, monitoring, CI/CD, and overall operational efficiency.
This article traces Alibaba’s evolution from monolithic apps to micro‑services and cloud‑native architectures, explains the open‑source Open Application Model (OAM) with its Component, Trait and ApplicationConfiguration concepts, showcases its design principles, and demonstrates how the EDAS platform implements OAM to simplify application deployment and operations.
The Cloud+ Community’s 29th technical salon on November 9 2019 in Shenzhen gathered Tencent and Jiwei experts to showcase efficient intelligent operations through AIOps practices, massive cloud migration strategies, the Blue Whale PaaS framework, Serverless DevOps best practices, and Kubernetes resource‑utilization techniques.
To overcome the painfully slow Jenkins plugin downloads experienced by Chinese users due to overseas servers and signed update‑center.json verification, the community configured the TUNA mirror together with a custom update‑center URL and key adjustments via the open‑source mirror‑adapter repository, enabling rapid, cost‑free plugin installation (especially with Simplified Chinese plugin 1.0.10).
The article explains the distinction between automated testing and test automation, why test automation is crucial for continuous testing in DevOps pipelines, and outlines practical steps and tools needed to implement effective test automation for maintaining quality and speed in modern software delivery.
The article analyses frequent Jenkins build failures caused by missing or outdated Maven dependencies, explains why they succeed locally but fail on CI, and proposes an AI‑driven dependency management feature for DevOps platforms to automatically detect and guide users toward proper artifact deployment.
This case study details Capital One’s evolution from a regional credit‑card unit to a data‑centric financial giant, highlighting its vision, data‑driven product strategy, big‑data analytics, AI‑powered customer service, cloud migration to AWS, and the DevOpsSec practices that enabled rapid, secure, and scalable innovation across banking, automotive finance, and digital services.
The "马哥Linux运维" public account, built on a technology‑first philosophy, shares high‑quality, non‑clickbait content and has compiled the 100 most‑read Linux operations articles from the past three years, offering a comprehensive resource for sysadmins and DevOps engineers.
The article explains how large organizations, especially U.S. government agencies, can adopt DevOps as a service by addressing cultural resistance, talent shortages, functional silos, authority‑to‑operate hurdles, and securing the toolchain and software supply chain through automation, training, and integrated security practices.
This guide explains how to achieve Jenkins high availability by deploying two Jenkins master nodes behind HAProxy, sharing Jenkins home via NFS, and configuring HAProxy load balancing and health checks, including detailed host setup, NFS and Jenkins installation steps, and test results.
This article provides a comprehensive tutorial on using Jenkins Pipeline environment variables, covering how to list, read, set, override, store boolean values, and capture shell command output, complete with practical Groovy code examples for CI/CD workflows.
The article recounts Lingque Cloud’s five‑year evolution toward a fully cloud‑native architecture, detailing its transition from container images to Helm charts, the adoption of Kubernetes, micro‑service governance, and the open‑source projects Kube‑OVN and Captain that address networking and Helm limitations.
Based on interviews with 31 executives from 27 companies, this article reveals over a dozen concrete advantages of automated testing—ranging from time and cost savings to enhanced coverage, security, and faster releases—across multiple sectors such as finance, healthcare, automotive, and telecom.
Gaode’s continuous delivery journey transformed its multi‑stage release process into a standardized, automated pipeline that delivers backend services within an hour, cuts manual effort, boosts release efficiency by up to 90%, and embeds early quality checks and data‑driven insights for faster, higher‑quality business value.
This article explains how UCloud's Rome product leverages HashiCorp Packer, combined with GitLab, Jenkins, and Terraform, to automate multi‑cloud image creation, dramatically reducing build time from hours to minutes while improving reliability and consistency across dozens of data centers.
This article introduces Alibaba's open‑source ChaosBlade tool, explains its experiment model and supported scenarios, shows how to install the ChaosBlade Operator on Kubernetes, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for creating, modifying, and cleaning up cloud‑native chaos experiments using both YAML resources and the blade CLI.
Understanding that automated testing is a complex activity, this article outlines four practical tips—comprehensive knowledge of the application’s user environment, blending technical and managerial expertise, forming a dedicated automation team, and fostering a cultural shift—to successfully integrate testing automation within a DevOps workflow.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of Etsy’s evolution in quality assurance, engineering culture, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and cloud migration, detailing the team structure, testing strategies, four core engineering principles, tool development, and the benefits of rapid, automated deployment pipelines.
This article provides a curated collection of Jenkins continuous integration tutorials, covering introductory topics such as Jenkins overview and installation, integration guides for tools like GitLab, Nexus, LDAP, and advanced practice articles on pipelines, containerized slaves, and monitoring, serving as a comprehensive resource for DevOps practitioners.
This article outlines the six-stage automated testing lifecycle methodology—from defining automation scope and selecting tools, through test planning, environment setup, script development, execution, and result analysis—providing practical guidance for improving software quality with efficient, resource‑conscious testing practices.
This article examines Etsy's engineering culture and operational practices, covering diversity and inclusion, the "Code as Craft" philosophy, blameless postmortems, the engineering rotation program, and the measurement of code coverage as a quality‑driving metric, illustrating how these initiatives foster continuous improvement and resilience.
This article explains how to add interactive user input to Jenkins pipelines by installing the Pipeline: InputStep plugin, configuring a Jenkinsfile with various parameter types, and reviewing the resulting console output, enabling more flexible DevOps workflows.
NGW (Node Gateway) is a Node.js‑based frontend access layer that sits between a unified gateway and business services, providing dynamic request routing, Redis‑driven configuration, a Tapable plugin system, and containerized CI/CD to enable serverless BFF/SFF architectures with rapid builds, high reliability, and dramatically reduced deployment effort across multiple Tencent Cloud projects.
This article explains how to integrate Jenkins with GitLab by using the HTTP Request plugin to send API calls, configure pipeline steps, and provides sample Groovy code and a summary of common GitLab API endpoints for operations such as project, branch, tag, and pipeline management.
This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud Toolkit to automate one‑click deployment of applications to Alibaba Cloud Container Service Kubernetes and to generic hosts, covering plugin installation, credential setup, Docker image packaging, and step‑by‑step deployment configuration to dramatically accelerate development workflows.
This article outlines Alibaba’s approach to scaling R&D efficiency across its 50,000‑engineer workforce, detailing the challenges of large‑scale development, agile and DevOps practices, value‑focused delivery, and systematic tools that enable sustained high‑quality software production.
The Ctrip Technology Salon gathered over 250 experts and practitioners from Ctrip, Huawei, NetEase and others to discuss how AI, automated testing platforms, DevOps, and natural‑language testing frameworks can dramatically improve test engineering efficiency and software quality.
The article explains how Serverless brings cloud‑native back‑end capabilities to front‑end developers, outlining its advantages, architectural concepts, code examples, and the practical challenges they must consider.
JD.com's Retail Technology and Data Platform orchestrated a full‑chain, four‑entry‑point stress test for the 11.11 shopping festival, introduced an upgraded Forcebot traffic‑recording tool, and implemented a "Quality Month" with ten safeguards to ensure system stability and prevent incidents during the massive sales event.
This article outlines practical DevOps techniques for building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines triggered by GitLab webhooks, detailing both push‑triggered pipelines and merge‑request pipelines, including configuration steps, token handling, code quality checks, and notification mechanisms to streamline automated builds and reviews.
This article shares a DevOps engineer's practical experience of deploying a container‑based build resource pool on OpenShift, managing an artifact repository, and optimizing Jenkins shared libraries with parameterized pipelines to improve CI/CD efficiency and reliability.
This article explains how to address three common SonarQube challenges—data instability across branches, difficulty assigning quality profiles, and project permission management—by creating per‑branch projects, using Jenkins pipeline scripts with Sonar REST APIs, and applying permission templates to streamline large‑scale code‑quality scanning.
This guide compiles ten practical Git and GitHub shortcuts, commands, and tricks—including keyboard shortcuts, URL modifiers, diff formats, and useful CLI commands—to help developers work faster and manage repositories more efficiently.
This article explains DevOps concepts, continuous integration, and how to build a Docker‑based DevOps environment that meets eight key requirements, then discusses Serverless computing, Alibaba Cloud's Serverless Application Engine and Function Compute, and forecasts the future impact of Serverless on cloud resource utilization and software development.
This article explains Baidu’s multi‑stage deployment process, the importance of health‑check monitoring between stages, and how rule‑based and AI‑driven checks automatically detect abnormal metric changes to reduce change‑induced outages and improve operational stability.
The Agile Release Train (ART) is a long‑lived, cross‑functional team of Agile teams that aligns business and technology missions, follows fixed cadence and shared principles, and delivers continuous value through defined roles, DevOps practices, and a continuous delivery pipeline within the SAFe framework.
This guide walks through the architecture of Prometheus, the key Kubernetes monitoring metrics, and step‑by‑step instructions to deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on a K8s cluster, configure RBAC, set up ConfigMaps, expose services, import dashboards, and test alert notifications via email.
The Youzan PaaS team migrated its VM‑based test environment to a Kubernetes cluster—integrating GitLab, Jenkins, and Harbor—to cut hardware costs, simplify deployment via Dockerfiles, adopt cloud‑native standards, and gain faster integration cycles, better isolation, and advanced features such as node affinity, security contexts, persistent volumes, and ingress routing.
This comprehensive tutorial walks you through Ansible fundamentals, architecture, installation, core modules, playbook structure, variables, templates, handlers, tags, loops, and role‑based organization, providing practical examples and command‑line snippets to automate tasks across multiple Linux hosts efficiently.
This article surveys hacker culture, tracing its roots from 1950s MIT clubs to modern tech giants like Facebook, outlines core hacker values, shares insights from seminal works such as 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar,' and offers practical advice for cultivating a hacker mindset in today’s DevOps era.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of Huawei's three‑generation R&D evolution, SoftOpen Cloud's lean DevOps philosophy, detailed practices such as Scrum, Kanban, branch strategies, continuous delivery pipelines, tool support, and a comparative analysis of competing DevOps platforms.
This article explains the differences between CI, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, then details a Jenkins‑based pipeline that uses Gradle, 4399AT, Sonar, GitLab, Tomcat, and Nginx to automate building, testing, and reporting for Android applications.
This article details how MaFengWo built and refined its large‑transportation development workflow over four phases—initial setup, rapid growth, business expansion, and future outlook—leveraging TAPD for agile iteration, issue tracking, test planning, Gantt‑based resource management, and DevOps integration to boost delivery efficiency and product quality.
The article explains continuous deployment within the SAFe framework, detailing its definition, role in the four‑stage continuous delivery pipeline, the four sub‑dimensions (deploy, verify, monitor, respond), essential skills for each stage, and why automation, version control, and proactive monitoring are critical for reliable, on‑demand releases.
This article explains SAFe’s Continuous Exploration practice, detailing how market‑centric hypotheses, collaborative research, solution architecture, and synthesis of vision, roadmap, and backlog drive innovation and alignment within the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and outlines the skills, inputs, and outputs needed for effective PI planning.
This article explains the cloud‑native concept, traces its evolution from early container experiments at Google through Docker and Kubernetes to the rapid growth of CNCF, and outlines the key technologies, immutable‑infrastructure theory, and why 2019 marked a pivotal year for cloud‑native adoption.
Discover 14 leading application performance monitoring and load testing tools—including AgileLoad, Apache JMeter, AppDynamics, BlazeMeter, Dynatrace, and more—detailing their key features, pricing models, and unique advantages to help you build high‑performance, reliable systems.
This article documents a complete, tested procedure for modifying the domain name of an OpenShift 3.9 cluster from ocp6 to ocp7, covering two configuration methods, required file edits, service restarts, route updates, OAuth client adjustments, and common pitfalls with screenshots and command examples.
