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SQB Blog
SQB Blog
Jun 16, 2023 · Operations

Boost Java Performance: Optimize JFR Analysis with Flame Graphs and Async‑Profiler

This article explores the evolution of continuous performance profiling, explains why traditional tracing falls short, and details a series of optimizations—including batch processing, object‑reference serialization, aggregation insertion, and multi‑chunk handling—to dramatically reduce memory usage and speed up Java Flight Recorder analysis using async‑profiler and flame graphs.

JFRJavaasync-profiler
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Boost Java Performance: Optimize JFR Analysis with Flame Graphs and Async‑Profiler
Bitu Technology
Bitu Technology
Jun 14, 2023 · Operations

Getting Started with eBPF: Concepts, Examples, and Security Considerations

This article reviews the fundamentals of eBPF, explains its architecture and tracing mechanisms such as USDT, uprobes, and TC hooks, provides practical code examples, discusses security aspects, and lists notable open‑source projects that leverage eBPF for performance and observability.

KernelLinuxPerformance
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Getting Started with eBPF: Concepts, Examples, and Security Considerations
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
May 23, 2023 · Operations

Comparison of Common Log Management Tools: Features, Pricing, Advantages and Disadvantages

This article provides a detailed comparative overview of nine popular log management solutions—including Filebeat, Graylog, LogDNA, ELK, Grafana Loki, Datadog, Logstash, Fluentd, and Splunk—covering their core features, pricing models, strengths, and weaknesses to help readers choose the most suitable tool for their environment.

DatadogELKFilebeat
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Comparison of Common Log Management Tools: Features, Pricing, Advantages and Disadvantages
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 22, 2023 · Operations

What’s Driving China’s AIOps Evolution? Insights from the 2023 Survey

The 2023 China AIOps Status Survey, launched by CAICT and the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, gathers input from over 60 enterprises to reveal current intelligent‑operations practices, observability adoption, generative AI prospects, and best‑practice case studies, while inviting participants to shape the upcoming report.

AIOpsIndustry Surveygenerative AI
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What’s Driving China’s AIOps Evolution? Insights from the 2023 Survey
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
May 18, 2023 · Operations

Why Gray Releases Fail: A Real-World Bug and an MVP Gray Release Blueprint

This article examines a subtle gray‑release bug that caused message loss due to mismatched environment configurations, analyzes its root causes, and proposes a minimum‑viable‑product gray‑release design with practical strategies, observability tips, and configuration examples to ensure safe, incremental rollouts.

ConfigurationGray Releasedeployment
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Why Gray Releases Fail: A Real-World Bug and an MVP Gray Release Blueprint
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 8, 2023 · Cloud Native

Modernizing Tencent Cloud Log Service (CLS): Cloud‑Native Architecture, Challenges, and Benefits

Tencent Cloud Log Service was modernized by migrating over 95 % of its components to a cloud‑native stack of containers, Kubernetes, and declarative APIs, addressing chaotic infrastructure, stateful‑to‑stateless conversion, configuration drift, upgrade risk, elastic scaling, traffic protection and observability, which cut costs by more than 20 million CNY, reduced scaling latency by 90 %, and achieved over 99.99 % availability with petabyte‑scale burst handling.

ArchitectureElastic Scalingcloud-native
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Modernizing Tencent Cloud Log Service (CLS): Cloud‑Native Architecture, Challenges, and Benefits
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
May 7, 2023 · Operations

How Meta’s SLICK Transforms SLO Management for Reliable Services

This article explains how Meta built SLICK, a centralized SLO/SLI platform that improves service reliability through discoverability, long‑term insights, integrated workflows, and scalable architecture, and shares real‑world examples and lessons learned from its deployment across thousands of services.

MetaSLISLO
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How Meta’s SLICK Transforms SLO Management for Reliable Services
政采云技术
政采云技术
Apr 29, 2023 · Cloud Native

Understanding Observability: Challenges, Principles, and OpenTelemetry Architecture

The article explains how growing system complexity drives the need for observability, outlines the three pillars of logs, traces, and metrics, compares traditional stability stacks with modern observability, and details OpenTelemetry's design, advantages, and implementation considerations for cloud‑native environments.

MicroservicesOpenTelemetrymonitoring
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Understanding Observability: Challenges, Principles, and OpenTelemetry Architecture
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Apr 29, 2023 · Operations

Application Monitoring Principles and Non‑Intrusive Data Collection at Huya

This article explains the fundamentals of distributed application monitoring, describes Huya's non‑intrusive data‑collection techniques using SDKs and plugins, outlines the design and correlation of observable metrics, and demonstrates practical results and troubleshooting scenarios for backend services.

Metrics DesignSREapplication monitoring
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Application Monitoring Principles and Non‑Intrusive Data Collection at Huya
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Apr 24, 2023 · Operations

Design and Evolution of Qunar's Watcher Enterprise Monitoring Platform

The article details the background, architecture, core features, alert governance, trace integration, and cloud‑native evolution of Watcher, Qunar's internally built, highly scalable monitoring platform that unifies application‑level metrics, alerting, and observability across thousands of services and containers.

AlertingDevOpscloud-native
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Design and Evolution of Qunar's Watcher Enterprise Monitoring Platform
ITPUB
ITPUB
Apr 23, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Kindling Leverages eBPF to Reach 1‑5‑10 Observability Targets

This article examines the difficulty of achieving the 1‑5‑10 observability goal, reviews current tracing, logging, and metrics tools, introduces the open‑source Kindling project’s eBPF‑based trace‑profiling approach, and walks through several real‑world use cases that demonstrate faster root‑cause analysis in cloud‑native environments.

KindlingPerformanceRoot Cause Analysis
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How Kindling Leverages eBPF to Reach 1‑5‑10 Observability Targets
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Apr 19, 2023 · Operations

Heimdall Exception Statistics System: Architecture, Implementation, and Practice

This article describes the design, implementation, and evolution of Heimdall, an exception‑statistics platform built on Kafka, Flink, and HBase that provides minute‑level anomaly aggregation, stack trace querying, and integration with release and alerting workflows to improve service reliability across thousands of micro‑services.

Exception MonitoringKafkalog-aggregation
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Heimdall Exception Statistics System: Architecture, Implementation, and Practice
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 12, 2023 · Operations

Building Highly Available Prometheus Monitoring with Thanos: A Practical Guide

This article explains why native Prometheus HA solutions fall short for large, multi‑region clusters and shows how to use Thanos components—including sidecar, query, store gateway, and compactor—to achieve long‑term storage, unlimited scaling, a global view, and non‑intrusive integration with existing Prometheus deployments.

KubernetesPrometheusThanos
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Building Highly Available Prometheus Monitoring with Thanos: A Practical Guide
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 5, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Baidu’s Search Platform Achieves Billion‑Scale Observability in a Cloud‑Native Era

This article explains why observability is critical in cloud‑native architectures and describes how Baidu’s search middle‑platform handles hundred‑billion‑level traffic by implementing low‑cost real‑time metrics, distributed tracing, log querying and topology analysis, while tackling challenges of massive microservice scale, scenario‑level monitoring, and efficient resource usage.

cloud-nativelog-analysismetrics
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How Baidu’s Search Platform Achieves Billion‑Scale Observability in a Cloud‑Native Era
System Architect Go
System Architect Go
Apr 3, 2023 · Cloud Native

Why Cilium Beats Flannel: Real‑World Kubernetes Networking Insights

The article analyzes how Cilium’s eBPF‑based architecture, advanced network policies, cluster‑wide traffic control, and observability tools like Hubble solved performance, security, and scalability challenges that Flannel and kube‑proxy could not meet in production Kubernetes environments.

CNICiliumCloud Native
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Why Cilium Beats Flannel: Real‑World Kubernetes Networking Insights
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Mar 30, 2023 · Operations

Demystifying PromQL: How Nested Functional Queries Work in Prometheus

This article explores the structure and evaluation of PromQL queries, covering its nested functional language nature, expression types, time handling with instant and range queries, and practical examples using the PromLens visualizer, helping readers grasp how Prometheus processes and types queries.

PromQLQuery LanguageTime Series
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Demystifying PromQL: How Nested Functional Queries Work in Prometheus
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 29, 2023 · Databases

Beyond ACID: A Maslow‑Inspired Hierarchy of Database Needs

Drawing parallels with Maslow’s hierarchy, the article outlines an eight‑level model of database requirements—from core kernel correctness and ACID to advanced observability, automation, and the vision of a truly autonomous database—explaining how each tier maps to functional, security, reliability, ROI, insight, control, and transcendence.

ArchitecturePerformanceautonomy
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Beyond ACID: A Maslow‑Inspired Hierarchy of Database Needs
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 28, 2023 · Operations

Why SRE Matters: Bridging Product Development and Reliability Engineering

This article explains the role of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), its responsibilities, how it complements product development, the software lifecycle perspective, and practical approaches to ensure system stability through controllability, observability, and best‑practice implementation.

OperationsSRESoftware Lifecycle
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Why SRE Matters: Bridging Product Development and Reliability Engineering
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Mar 28, 2023 · Cloud Native

How RocketMQ 5.0 Enables Distributed End‑to‑End Tracing with OpenTelemetry

This article explains how Apache RocketMQ 5.0 integrates standardized distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry, detailing the underlying span model, semantic conventions for messaging, automatic and manual instrumentation options, configuration steps, a complete example workflow, and how to export traces to Alibaba Cloud SLS and ARMS for observability.

Cloud NativeOpenTelemetryRocketMQ
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How RocketMQ 5.0 Enables Distributed End‑to‑End Tracing with OpenTelemetry
ITPUB
ITPUB
Mar 24, 2023 · Cloud Native

Why Open‑Falcon Stalled and How Cloud‑Native Monitoring Is Evolving

This article reviews the evolution of monitoring in the cloud‑native era, analyzes Open‑Falcon’s architecture, strengths, and shortcomings, explains why its development hit a bottleneck, and outlines the design principles and features of the Nightingale monitoring system as a modern, open‑source alternative.

ArchitectureMicroservicesNightingale
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Why Open‑Falcon Stalled and How Cloud‑Native Monitoring Is Evolving
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 22, 2023 · Operations

Log Management, Observability, and APM: Concepts, Practices, and Tools

This article explains what logs are, when to record them, their value in large-scale systems, and how to build effective log‑management and observability platforms using APM concepts, including metrics, tracing, ELK, Prometheus, and custom tooling for distributed architectures.

APMELKPrometheus
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Log Management, Observability, and APM: Concepts, Practices, and Tools
Architect
Architect
Mar 21, 2023 · Operations

Log Management, Observability, and APM Practices in Distributed Systems

This article explains what logs are, when to record them, their value in large‑scale architectures, and how to build effective logging, metrics, and tracing platforms using tools such as ELK, Prometheus, and SkyWalking, while also presenting good and bad logging practices and sample batch‑log retrieval code.

APMELKPrometheus
0 likes · 20 min read
Log Management, Observability, and APM Practices in Distributed Systems
New Oriental Technology
New Oriental Technology
Mar 10, 2023 · Cloud Native

Middleware PaaS on Kubernetes: Architecture, Benefits, and IP Reservation Challenges

This article explains how the New Oriental architecture team migrated middleware services like Redis, Kafka, and RocketMQ to Kubernetes, detailing the benefits over traditional PaaS, the Capo IP reservation solution for network stability, and the resulting operational, observability, and resource utilization improvements.

Cloud NativeKubernetesPaaS
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Middleware PaaS on Kubernetes: Architecture, Benefits, and IP Reservation Challenges
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 7, 2023 · Cloud Native

Introduction to HoloInsight: A Cloud‑Native Lightweight Observability Platform

HoloInsight is an open‑source, cloud‑native observability platform derived from Ant Group's AntMonitor, offering integrated log‑based monitoring, business metric analysis, and AI‑driven AIOps capabilities while providing a lightweight, modular architecture and extensive extensibility for modern software stacks.

AIOpscloud-nativelog-analysis
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Introduction to HoloInsight: A Cloud‑Native Lightweight Observability Platform
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Mar 4, 2023 · Operations

Full‑Chain Monitoring and Trace System at Huolala: Evolution, Architecture, and Visualization

This article details how Huolala built a comprehensive full‑chain monitoring and tracing platform, covering the historical evolution of observability tools, the company’s multi‑stage monitoring architecture, bytecode‑enhanced instrumentation, trace sampling strategies, and a "what‑you‑see‑is‑what‑you‑get" visualization approach.

Bytecode InstrumentationMicroservicesPrometheus
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Full‑Chain Monitoring and Trace System at Huolala: Evolution, Architecture, and Visualization
ByteDance SYS Tech
ByteDance SYS Tech
Feb 28, 2023 · Cloud Native

How ByteDance’s ARES Boosts Cloud‑Native Resilience with Chaos Engineering

This article explains ByteDance’s end‑to‑end chaos engineering practice for cloud‑native environments, covering its background, principles, comparison with traditional testing, the evolution of its internal platforms, and a detailed look at the Application Resilience Enhancement Service (ARES) and its core features.

KubernetesMicroservicesResilience
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How ByteDance’s ARES Boosts Cloud‑Native Resilience with Chaos Engineering
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 27, 2023 · Cloud Native

What’s Next for Microservices? Highlights from the Beijing Cloud Native Meetup

The Beijing "Microservices x Container Open Source Developer Meetup" gathered over 100 developers and core maintainers of leading cloud‑native projects to discuss next‑generation microservice architectures, static compilation, service governance, multi‑cluster management, observability, and more, providing deep technical insights and real‑world examples.

Cloud NativeKubernetesobservability
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What’s Next for Microservices? Highlights from the Beijing Cloud Native Meetup
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Feb 20, 2023 · Operations

Deep Dive into Logging Operations and Observability in Distributed Systems

The article examines logging’s critical role in distributed systems, detailing its purpose, severity levels, and value for debugging, performance, security, and auditing, while highlighting challenges of inconsistent formats and traceability, and reviewing observability pillars, ELK and tracing tools, and practical implementation best practices.

APMELKPrometheus
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Deep Dive into Logging Operations and Observability in Distributed Systems
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 8, 2023 · Cloud Native

Alibaba Cloud Prometheus vs Open‑Source Prometheus: Deep Performance Benchmark

This article benchmarks Alibaba Cloud Prometheus against the open‑source Prometheus across multiple cluster sizes, churn rates, and query patterns, revealing that while the open‑source version remains stable under light load, its CPU and memory usage grow non‑linearly with high cardinality, whereas Alibaba's managed service delivers higher compatibility, better query performance, and more predictable scaling.

Cloud NativePrometheusmetrics
0 likes · 30 min read
Alibaba Cloud Prometheus vs Open‑Source Prometheus: Deep Performance Benchmark
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Feb 8, 2023 · Operations

FinOps Core Principles and the Rationale for Left‑Shift in Cloud Cost Management

The article explains how DevOps teams can adopt FinOps principles and a left‑shift approach—combining static and dynamic logging, fostering cross‑team collaboration, and integrating cost awareness into the software development lifecycle—to reduce cloud expenses, improve MTTR, and drive sustainable engineering productivity.

DevOpsFinOpsLeft Shift
0 likes · 10 min read
FinOps Core Principles and the Rationale for Left‑Shift in Cloud Cost Management
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Feb 3, 2023 · Cloud Computing

Cloud Load Testing: Strategies, Scenarios, and Practice Cases for High‑Traffic Events

Tencent’s cloud load‑testing platform simulates massive Chinese‑New‑Year traffic by offering concurrency and RPS modes, multi‑language test authoring, realistic data generation, and unified OpenTelemetry reporting, enabling early bottleneck detection, proactive scaling, and successful high‑load drills such as Mobile QQ and video services.

JavaScriptLoad TestingMicroservices
0 likes · 23 min read
Cloud Load Testing: Strategies, Scenarios, and Practice Cases for High‑Traffic Events
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Feb 3, 2023 · Cloud Native

Why eBPF Is the Secret Weapon Behind Modern Cloud‑Native Platforms

This article explains how eBPF extends kernel functionality to enable secure, high‑performance networking, observability, and programmable workloads in cloud‑native environments, detailing its architecture, use cases, market adoption, commercialization models, and the challenges and advantages that make it comparable to JavaScript for the kernel.

Cloud NativeLinuxNetworking
0 likes · 12 min read
Why eBPF Is the Secret Weapon Behind Modern Cloud‑Native Platforms
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Feb 2, 2023 · Backend Development

Medium’s Journey to Microservices: Principles, Strategies, and Lessons Learned

This article explains why Medium transitioned from a monolithic Node.js application to a microservice architecture, outlines the core design principles, shares practical strategies for building, deploying, and observing services, and warns about common pitfalls such as the microservice syndrome.

Backend Developmentdeploymentobservability
0 likes · 23 min read
Medium’s Journey to Microservices: Principles, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 31, 2023 · Databases

How Pigsty Turns PostgreSQL into a Cost‑Effective Open‑Source RDS Alternative

Pigsty is an open‑source platform that upgrades PostgreSQL across six dimensions—observability, reliability, availability, maintainability, extensibility, and interoperability—delivering enterprise‑grade features, built‑in monitoring, automatic failover, backup, and performance tuning while cutting cloud database costs dramatically.

PerformancePostgreSQLRDS Alternative
0 likes · 22 min read
How Pigsty Turns PostgreSQL into a Cost‑Effective Open‑Source RDS Alternative
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jan 26, 2023 · Operations

Unified Metrics, Tracing, and Logging: A Financial Firm’s Path to Microservice Observability

Facing the challenges of distributed microservice architectures, a financial services company implemented a unified observability platform that combines metrics, tracing, and logging via OpenTelemetry and custom agents, enabling real‑time visualization, anomaly detection, and performance analysis across seven core business middle‑platforms.

MicroservicesOpenTelemetrydistributed tracing
0 likes · 17 min read
Unified Metrics, Tracing, and Logging: A Financial Firm’s Path to Microservice Observability
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jan 23, 2023 · Operations

Prometheus vs Zabbix: Which Monitoring Tool Wins in Modern Environments?

This article compares Prometheus and Zabbix, detailing their histories, architectures, performance, community support, and suitability for different environments, and concludes with guidance on choosing the right monitoring solution for physical servers, cloud-native deployments, and large‑scale container clusters.

Cloud Nativeobservabilityzabbix
0 likes · 9 min read
Prometheus vs Zabbix: Which Monitoring Tool Wins in Modern Environments?
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
Jan 16, 2023 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of a Business‑Facing Message Center Management Platform

The platform centralizes message‑center management for e‑commerce by adding end‑to‑end tracing, real‑time metrics, and unified logging, enabling business users to query message links, view dashboards, automate retries and approvals, dramatically reducing manual monitoring, improving completion rates above 90%, and paving the way for cost‑optimized, data‑driven operations.

DevOpsloggingmessage center
0 likes · 15 min read
Design and Implementation of a Business‑Facing Message Center Management Platform
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Jan 14, 2023 · Operations

Comparison of Common Log Management Tools: Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons

This article provides a detailed comparison of nine popular log management solutions—including Filebeat, Graylog, LogDNA, the ELK stack, Grafana Loki, Datadog, Logstash, Fluentd, and Splunk—covering their main features, pricing models, advantages, and disadvantages to help readers choose the right tool for their needs.

ELKLog Managementmonitoring
0 likes · 16 min read
Comparison of Common Log Management Tools: Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons
Su San Talks Tech
Su San Talks Tech
Jan 13, 2023 · Operations

How Distributed Tracing with SkyWalking Solves Microservice Performance Mysteries

This article explains the principles, architecture, and practical implementation of distributed tracing—especially SkyWalking—in microservice environments, showing how it identifies call chains, isolates performance bottlenecks, and integrates with existing monitoring systems while maintaining low overhead and non‑intrusive instrumentation.

JavaAgentPerformance MonitoringSkyWalking
0 likes · 20 min read
How Distributed Tracing with SkyWalking Solves Microservice Performance Mysteries
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 6, 2023 · Operations

Understanding Distributed Tracing and SkyWalking: Principles, Architecture, and Performance

This article explains the concept of distributed tracing, its importance in micro‑service architectures, the OpenTracing standard, and how SkyWalking implements automatic span collection, context propagation, unique trace IDs, sampling strategies, and performance optimizations to provide low‑overhead observability for backend systems.

OpenTracingPerformance MonitoringSkyWalking
0 likes · 12 min read
Understanding Distributed Tracing and SkyWalking: Principles, Architecture, and Performance
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jan 5, 2023 · Cloud Native

QQ Music High-Availability Architecture Overview

QQ Music achieves high availability by layering redundant multi‑datacenter architecture, proactive chaos‑engineering toolchains, and comprehensive observability—including metrics, logging, tracing and profiling—while employing service grading, adaptive retry windows and EMA‑based dynamic timeouts to gracefully handle faults across its massive micro‑service ecosystem.

Microserviceschaos engineeringdistributed systems
0 likes · 24 min read
QQ Music High-Availability Architecture Overview
Architecture & Thinking
Architecture & Thinking
Jan 5, 2023 · Operations

How Critical Path Tracing Cuts Latency in Large Distributed Systems

This article explains why latency analysis is crucial for user experience in large distributed services, reviews common methods such as RPC monitoring, CPU profiling, and distributed tracing, and then dives deep into the principles, implementation, aggregation, storage, and visualization of critical path analysis, showcasing its practical impact in Baidu's App recommendation platform.

Latency analysisPerformance Monitoringcritical path tracing
0 likes · 15 min read
How Critical Path Tracing Cuts Latency in Large Distributed Systems
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Jan 5, 2023 · Mobile Development

Why Mobile Trace Is Hard and How OpenTelemetry Solves It

This article explores the challenges of end‑to‑end tracing on mobile apps, explains why issues are hard to reproduce, and presents a four‑step solution using a unified OpenTelemetry standard, automated data linking, performance optimizations, and machine‑learning‑driven root‑cause analysis.

AndroidOpenTelemetryPerformance Optimization
0 likes · 20 min read
Why Mobile Trace Is Hard and How OpenTelemetry Solves It
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 30, 2022 · Operations

Vivo Monitoring Platform: Architecture, Evolution, and Future Directions

The article details the evolution, architecture, capabilities, challenges, and future plans of Vivo's comprehensive monitoring platform, covering its transition from simple Zabbix setups to a cloud‑native, AI‑ops enabled system that ensures service availability across massive infrastructure.

AIOpsPlatformcloud-native
0 likes · 16 min read
Vivo Monitoring Platform: Architecture, Evolution, and Future Directions
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 29, 2022 · Operations

How eBay Scales Its Event Platform with ClickHouse and Kubernetes

This article details eBay's event platform architecture, explaining why a dedicated event system is needed, how ClickHouse provides high‑performance storage, the use of Kubernetes CRDs for cross‑region high availability, data routing, read/write separation, and query optimizations with LogQL.

ClickHouseEvent PlatformKubernetes
0 likes · 18 min read
How eBay Scales Its Event Platform with ClickHouse and Kubernetes
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Dec 29, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Top 20 Most Popular Meituan Tech Blog Articles of 2022

Meituan’s technology team highlights its twenty most‑read 2022 blog posts, spanning observability, system design, data governance, AI, cloud‑native engineering, and practical innovations such as visual log tracing, Kafka scaling, functional programming, Elasticsearch optimization, CI/CD pipelines, and advanced object‑detection frameworks.

2022 HighlightsArtificial IntelligenceMeituan
0 likes · 13 min read
Top 20 Most Popular Meituan Tech Blog Articles of 2022
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 28, 2022 · Operations

Technical Architecture, Observability, and Operational Practices of Tencent Health Code System

The article details how Tencent’s health‑code platform leveraged a cloud‑native, serverless architecture, extensive observability (Prometheus, Grafana, RUM), rigorous capacity testing, chaos engineering, and ITIL‑based change management to sustain billions of page views, support massive concurrency, and ensure reliable, scalable epidemic‑control services.

Health CodeOperationsTencent Cloud
0 likes · 16 min read
Technical Architecture, Observability, and Operational Practices of Tencent Health Code System
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Dec 24, 2022 · Operations

Unlocking Linux Observability: A Hands‑On Guide to eBPF with Real‑World Examples

This article introduces eBPF, explains its origins and how it extends BPF for kernel‑level observability, compares it with SystemTap and DTrace, outlines common use cases, details its loading‑compile‑execute workflow, and provides step‑by‑step Python/BCC examples with installation instructions and advanced latency measurement code.

BCCKernelLinux
0 likes · 21 min read
Unlocking Linux Observability: A Hands‑On Guide to eBPF with Real‑World Examples
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 20, 2022 · Operations

How We Scaled SkyWalking to Billions of Segments: A Full‑Stack Monitoring Journey

This article recounts a year‑long, hands‑on experience of deploying and continuously optimizing Apache SkyWalking for full‑link monitoring in a large micro‑service environment, covering the motivations, architecture choices, pre‑research, POC integration, and a series of performance‑tuning steps that reduced segment storage from billions to millisecond‑level query latency.

APMPerformance OptimizationSkyWalking
0 likes · 21 min read
How We Scaled SkyWalking to Billions of Segments: A Full‑Stack Monitoring Journey
Inke Technology
Inke Technology
Dec 19, 2022 · Backend Development

How to Build a Highly Available, Stable, and Observable SMS Service

This article explains how to design a high‑availability SMS system by identifying stability bottlenecks, defining reliability goals, implementing failover strategies for Redis, MySQL and external services, establishing a comprehensive observability framework, and measuring key quality metrics to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Backendfailoverhigh availability
0 likes · 11 min read
How to Build a Highly Available, Stable, and Observable SMS Service
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Dec 5, 2022 · Operations

Evolution of Application Monitoring at 得物: From CAT to OpenTelemetry

After rebuilding its transaction system in 2020, 得物 progressed from the basic CAT monitoring tool to OpenTracing with Prometheus, and finally adopted OpenTelemetry to unify metrics, traces, and logs via a custom vmagent‑Kafka‑Flink pipeline, dynamic sampling, and extensible javaagents, positioning the platform for a performance‑analysis‑driven future.

CATMicroservicesOpenTelemetry
0 likes · 18 min read
Evolution of Application Monitoring at 得物: From CAT to OpenTelemetry
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 4, 2022 · Databases

Can National Standards Accelerate the Growth of China's Domestic Databases?

The article examines whether establishing national standards for Chinese domestic databases can foster industry development, weighing the risks of over‑regulation against the benefits of standardized observability, data‑dictionary, cloud‑integration, and programming interfaces, while sharing real‑world migration experiences.

Chinese databasesDatabase StandardsSQL Compatibility
0 likes · 11 min read
Can National Standards Accelerate the Growth of China's Domestic Databases?
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 1, 2022 · Operations

Why Choose Loki Over ELK? A Hands‑On Guide to Deploying and Using Grafana Loki

This article explains the motivations for selecting Grafana Loki instead of ELK/EFK, introduces its core concepts and features, provides step‑by‑step deployment instructions for Promtail and Loki, and demonstrates how to configure Grafana, query logs, and handle label indexing, dynamic tags, and high‑cardinality challenges.

GrafanaKubernetesLoki
0 likes · 15 min read
Why Choose Loki Over ELK? A Hands‑On Guide to Deploying and Using Grafana Loki
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Nov 27, 2022 · Operations

Best Practices for Full‑Stack Operations Monitoring and Cost Reduction Using Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch

This article presents a comprehensive, three‑part guide on the current state of full‑stack operations monitoring, common challenges and solutions, and a real‑world use case, illustrating how Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch can improve observability, boost performance, and cut costs for complex distributed systems.

AIOpsElasticsearchOperations
0 likes · 13 min read
Best Practices for Full‑Stack Operations Monitoring and Cost Reduction Using Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Nov 23, 2022 · Backend Development

Spring Boot 3.0.0: Key Updates and How to Get Ready

The article outlines the recent Spring 6.0 release, the cascade of updates across major Spring projects, and previews the upcoming Spring Boot 3.0.0, highlighting the first RC, the new aot.factories feature, and enhanced observability for Java developers.

Spring 6observabilityspring-boot
0 likes · 3 min read
Spring Boot 3.0.0: Key Updates and How to Get Ready
ByteDance Terminal Technology
ByteDance Terminal Technology
Nov 18, 2022 · Big Data

Practices and Techniques for Large‑Scale Distributed Trace Data Analysis at ByteDance

This article presents ByteDance’s experience building a massive trace‑data analysis platform, covering observability fundamentals, the evolution of its distributed tracing system, various aggregation computation models, technical architecture choices, and concrete use‑cases such as precise topology, traffic estimation, dependency analysis, performance anti‑patterns, bottleneck detection, and error propagation.

Microservicesbig datadistributed tracing
0 likes · 21 min read
Practices and Techniques for Large‑Scale Distributed Trace Data Analysis at ByteDance
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

How RocketMQ Harnesses Prometheus for Full‑Stack Observability

This article explains how RocketMQ integrates with Prometheus and Grafana to provide comprehensive metrics, tracing, and logging, detailing the exporter architecture, deployment choices, span topology, dashboard examples, and ARMS‑based alerting for cloud‑native message‑queue observability.

ARMSCloud NativePrometheus
0 likes · 14 min read
How RocketMQ Harnesses Prometheus for Full‑Stack Observability
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 15, 2022 · Operations

Mastering SRE: How to Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and Build Reliable Systems

This article explains how SRE teams should define Service Level Indicators, Objectives and Agreements, manage reliability, performance, saturation and observability, use proper metrics and tracing, handle error budgets, assess risks, and implement effective incident and project management to create robust, cloud‑native services.

Error BudgetSLASLI
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Mastering SRE: How to Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and Build Reliable Systems
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Nov 13, 2022 · Cloud Native

Grafana Phlare: Open‑Source Continuous Profiling Database – Architecture, Features, and Kubernetes Deployment Guide

Grafana Phlare is an open‑source, horizontally scalable continuous profiling database that integrates with Grafana, offering easy installation, multi‑tenant support, and object‑storage‑backed long‑term storage, with detailed deployment instructions for both monolithic and micro‑service modes on Kubernetes using Helm.

GrafanaHelmKubernetes
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Grafana Phlare: Open‑Source Continuous Profiling Database – Architecture, Features, and Kubernetes Deployment Guide
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Nov 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Unlock Scalable Cloud‑Native Alerting with Grafana Mimir: Architecture & Setup

This article explains the current state of cloud‑native alerting, introduces Grafana Mimir as a horizontally scalable, multi‑tenant storage for Prometheus, details its architecture and components, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for installing, configuring, and operating Mimir in Kubernetes environments.

AlertingCloud NativeKubernetes
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Unlock Scalable Cloud‑Native Alerting with Grafana Mimir: Architecture & Setup
政采云技术
政采云技术
Nov 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Deployment Architecture of a Government Procurement Cloud Platform Based on Dragonfly OS

The article details Zhengcaiyun's government procurement cloud platform, its large‑scale architecture, migration to the domestically‑adapted Dragonfly operating system, integrated cloud‑native operations, observability built on OpenTelemetry, and ongoing efforts to enhance security, performance, and ecosystem collaboration.

Dragonfly OSPlatform Architecturecloud-native
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Deployment Architecture of a Government Procurement Cloud Platform Based on Dragonfly OS
政采云技术
政采云技术
Nov 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Deployment Architecture of a Government Procurement Cloud Platform Based on the Longxi Operating System

The article details Zhengcaiyun's government procurement cloud platform, its large‑scale deployment architecture built on the Longxi OS, covering cloud‑native design, domestic adaptation, observability, and operational practices that enable high‑performance, secure, and scalable public procurement services.

cloud-nativeeBPFobservability
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Deployment Architecture of a Government Procurement Cloud Platform Based on the Longxi Operating System
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 3, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Leverage Alibaba Cloud Prometheus for Fine‑Grained Cloud Product Monitoring

This guide explains why native cloud monitoring falls short, how building custom Prometheus exporters adds overhead, and how Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Prometheus service—through enterprise cloud‑monitoring and self‑monitoring integration modes—provides ready‑to‑use exporters, agents, Grafana dashboards, and alert templates for dozens of cloud products.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeGrafana
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How to Leverage Alibaba Cloud Prometheus for Fine‑Grained Cloud Product Monitoring
Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Mike Chen's Internet Architecture
Oct 24, 2022 · Backend Development

Understanding Zipkin: Principles, Architecture, Core Components, and Deployment for Distributed Tracing

This article explains why Zipkin is needed for microservice observability, describes its architecture, core components, trace and span model, workflow, and provides step‑by‑step Docker and JAR deployment instructions, helping developers quickly locate service bottlenecks and failures.

Backend DevelopmentMicroservicesZipkin
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Understanding Zipkin: Principles, Architecture, Core Components, and Deployment for Distributed Tracing
Software Development Quality
Software Development Quality
Oct 23, 2022 · Operations

Top Observability Tools: Datadog, Grafana, Instana, New Relic, Prometheus

This article provides an overview of five leading observability solutions—Datadog, Grafana, Instana, New Relic, and Prometheus—detailing their core features, supported data sources, deployment models, and how they help teams monitor cloud‑native applications, infrastructure, and services to ensure reliability and performance.

DevOpscloud-nativemonitoring
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Top Observability Tools: Datadog, Grafana, Instana, New Relic, Prometheus
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 21, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Grafana Mimir Transforms Cloud‑Native Monitoring and Alerting

This article explains how Grafana Mimir provides a scalable, highly‑available, multi‑tenant long‑term storage for Prometheus, details its architecture and core components such as compactor, distributor, ingester, querier, query‑frontend and store‑gateway, and shows step‑by‑step installation, status checking, and Alertmanager configuration for cloud‑native environments.

AlertmanagerCloud Native MonitoringGrafana Mimir
0 likes · 22 min read
How Grafana Mimir Transforms Cloud‑Native Monitoring and Alerting
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 19, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Monitor Non‑Kubernetes ECS Apps with Alibaba Cloud Managed Prometheus

This guide explains how to use Alibaba Cloud's fully managed Prometheus service to collect and visualize metrics from ECS‑based applications across pure VPC, hybrid VPC‑IDC, and multi‑cloud scenarios, detailing the pain points of self‑built solutions and providing step‑by‑step configuration instructions.

Alibaba CloudECSPrometheus
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How to Monitor Non‑Kubernetes ECS Apps with Alibaba Cloud Managed Prometheus
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 18, 2022 · Operations

Apache SkyWalking APM: Concepts, Docker Installation, and UI Guide

This article introduces Application Performance Management (APM), explains the features of Apache SkyWalking for micro‑service and cloud‑native monitoring, and provides step‑by‑step Docker‑compose installation, agent configuration, and a detailed walkthrough of the SkyWalking UI components.

APMDockerMicroservices
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Apache SkyWalking APM: Concepts, Docker Installation, and UI Guide
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Oct 17, 2022 · Operations

High Availability: Principles and Practices for System Stability

High availability—measured in nines of uptime—requires partitioning systems, decoupling components, choosing robust technologies, deploying redundant instances with automatic failover, capacity planning, rapid scaling, traffic shaping, resource isolation, global protection, observability, and disciplined change management to achieve stable, resilient services.

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High Availability: Principles and Practices for System Stability
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Oct 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

A Three‑Step Approach to Understanding, Managing, and Preventing Kubernetes Failures

This article presents a practical three‑step methodology—understanding, managing, and preventing—to troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, explains how to leverage monitoring, observability, and incident‑response tools, and offers guidance on fostering team collaboration and building resilient, self‑healing cloud‑native systems.

Cloud NativeKubernetesOperations
0 likes · 7 min read
A Three‑Step Approach to Understanding, Managing, and Preventing Kubernetes Failures
Rare Earth Juejin Tech Community
Rare Earth Juejin Tech Community
Oct 8, 2022 · Operations

Complete Solution for Sentry Error and Performance Monitoring in Qiankun Micro‑Frontend Architecture

This article presents a complete solution for routing Sentry error and performance data to the correct micro‑frontend projects in a Qiankun architecture by intercepting transport, redistributing URLs, and distinguishing transaction types, with detailed code examples for both Sentry 6.x and 7.x versions.

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Complete Solution for Sentry Error and Performance Monitoring in Qiankun Micro‑Frontend Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 4, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Service Mesh Redefines Cloud‑Native Networking, Security, and Observability

This article explains the fundamentals of service mesh as a cloud‑native infrastructure layer, covering its control‑plane and data‑plane architecture, sidecar and waypoint proxies, L4/L7 decoupling, eBPF acceleration, zero‑trust security, traffic management, observability, and real‑world deployment scenarios.

Cloud NativeKubernetesobservability
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How Service Mesh Redefines Cloud‑Native Networking, Security, and Observability
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Sep 28, 2022 · Big Data

Elasticsearch Time Series Engine: Practices, Challenges, and Alibaba Cloud TimeStream

This article presents a comprehensive overview of using Elasticsearch as a time series engine, covering its motivations, challenges, key features, Alibaba Cloud TimeStream optimizations such as columnar storage, LSM structures, downsampling, and integration with Prometheus and Grafana, while also discussing performance and cost considerations.

DownsamplingElasticsearchTime Series
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Elasticsearch Time Series Engine: Practices, Challenges, and Alibaba Cloud TimeStream
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 25, 2022 · Backend Development

12 Proven Strategies to Seamlessly Migrate Your Monolith to Microservices

This guide presents twelve practical steps—from understanding the trade‑offs and planning the transition to adopting monorepos, CI pipelines, API gateways, feature flags, and observability—that help teams safely decompose a large monolithic application into a robust microservices architecture.

API GatewayCI/CDFeature Flags
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12 Proven Strategies to Seamlessly Migrate Your Monolith to Microservices
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Sep 23, 2022 · Cloud Native

What Cloud‑Native Networking Trends Kube‑OVN Reveals and How DeepFlow Enables Full‑Stack Observability

In this technical session, experts from Lingque Cloud and Yunshan Network discuss emerging cloud‑native networking trends through Kube‑OVN, demonstrate DeepFlow's full‑stack observability in Kube‑OVN environments, and answer a wide range of practical Q&A covering IP stability, underlay challenges, CNI support, and performance tuning.

CNICloud Native NetworkingDeepFlow
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What Cloud‑Native Networking Trends Kube‑OVN Reveals and How DeepFlow Enables Full‑Stack Observability
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 23, 2022 · Operations

Which APM Tool Wins? A Deep Comparison of Zipkin, SkyWalking, and Pinpoint

This article analyzes full‑link monitoring in micro‑service architectures, outlines the goals and functional modules of tracing systems, explains core concepts such as Span, Trace, and Annotation, and then compares Zipkin, SkyWalking, and Pinpoint across performance impact, scalability, data analysis depth, developer transparency, and topology visualization.

APMMicroservicesPerformance Monitoring
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Which APM Tool Wins? A Deep Comparison of Zipkin, SkyWalking, and Pinpoint
Big Data Technology Architecture
Big Data Technology Architecture
Sep 17, 2022 · Databases

Design and Optimization of Bilibili Log Service 2.0 Using ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry

This article describes how Bilibili redesigned its log service by replacing Elasticsearch with ClickHouse, introducing OpenTelemetry‑based logging, optimizing storage, query, and alerting components, and enhancing ClickHouse features such as configuration tuning, Map types, and implicit columns to achieve higher performance, lower cost, and better observability.

ClickHouseLog StorageOpenTelemetry
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Design and Optimization of Bilibili Log Service 2.0 Using ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry