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Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Sep 16, 2022 · Big Data

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

Bilibili’s Log Service 2.0 replaces its Elastic‑Stack pipeline with an OpenTelemetry‑driven architecture that writes logs via high‑performance Go/Java SDKs to ClickHouse, delivering ten‑fold write throughput, two‑fold query speed, one‑third storage cost, a custom query gateway, visualization UI, and advanced alerting.

ClickHouseLog StorageOpenTelemetry
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Design and Optimization of Bilibili Log Service 2.0 Using ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Sep 14, 2022 · Backend Development

Architect’s Blueprint: Backend Architecture, Microservices, Message Queues, and Observability

This article presents a comprehensive backend architecture guide covering microservice fundamentals, domain‑driven design, gateway patterns, service registration, configuration centers, observability pillars, service mesh options, and a detailed comparison of major message‑queue technologies.

backend architectureobservabilityservice mesh
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Architect’s Blueprint: Backend Architecture, Microservices, Message Queues, and Observability
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
Sep 13, 2022 · Operations

How Yanxuan Built a Scalable Full‑Link Monitoring, Alerting, and Event‑Bus System for Microservices

This article details Yanxuan's four‑year evolution of a unified monitoring, alerting, and event‑bus platform for micro‑service architectures, covering design principles, technology selection, multi‑stage implementation, dynamic sampling, custom plugins, data modeling, visualization upgrades, and the final fault‑driven, system‑wide integration.

AlertingEvent BusFull‑Link Tracing
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How Yanxuan Built a Scalable Full‑Link Monitoring, Alerting, and Event‑Bus System for Microservices
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 9, 2022 · Information Security

How to Build a Comprehensive Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Security Monitoring System

This article examines the evolving security risks of cloud‑native architectures, explains why traditional perimeter defenses are insufficient, introduces zero‑trust principles for Kubernetes, outlines common K8s threat vectors, and presents a complete data‑collection and monitoring solution based on the open‑source iLogtail agent.

KubernetesSecurity Monitoringcloud-native security
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How to Build a Comprehensive Cloud‑Native Kubernetes Security Monitoring System
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 7, 2022 · Operations

How DeepFlow Automates Full‑Stack Observability for Cloud‑Native Environments

This article presents DeepFlow, an open‑source, highly automated observability platform that uses eBPF to provide zero‑code AutoMetrics and AutoTracing, integrates with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and SkyWalking, and enables SRE, DevOps and NewOps teams to build full‑stack metrics and blind‑spot‑free tracing for cloud‑native applications.

DevOpscloud-nativeeBPF
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How DeepFlow Automates Full‑Stack Observability for Cloud‑Native Environments
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Sep 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Why Build Probe Capabilities Based on OpenTelemetry for Cloud‑Native Observability

Building probe capabilities on OpenTelemetry gives cloud‑native teams a vendor‑neutral, standardized way to extend monitoring into full observability—supporting large‑scale, language‑specific instrumentation, plug‑and‑play plugins, and seamless integration with APM backends—so developers and operators can detect, debug, and predict faults across distributed containers.

APMCloud NativeNode.js
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Why Build Probe Capabilities Based on OpenTelemetry for Cloud‑Native Observability
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 6, 2022 · Cloud Native

What’s New in KubeVela 1.5? Deep Dive into Plugins, Observability, and Cloud Shell

Version 1.5 of the open‑source Cloud Native application delivery platform KubeVela introduces enhanced plugin specifications, built‑in observability with Prometheus‑Grafana, a browser‑based Cloud Shell, advanced Canary rollouts via OpenKruise, multi‑environment UI improvements, and performance optimizations, while moving toward CNCF incubation.

CI/CDCloud NativeKubeVela
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What’s New in KubeVela 1.5? Deep Dive into Plugins, Observability, and Cloud Shell
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 5, 2022 · Operations

How EyesTSDB Evolved into a Cloud‑Native, Second‑Level Monitoring Platform

This article details the evolution of NetEase's self‑built time‑series database EyesTSDB into a cloud‑native, second‑level monitoring solution, covering its architecture, core features, integration with VictoriaMetrics, custom plugin workflow, CMDB linkage, real‑world use cases, and future challenges.

CMDB integrationTime Series DatabaseVictoriaMetrics
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How EyesTSDB Evolved into a Cloud‑Native, Second‑Level Monitoring Platform
DeWu Technology
DeWu Technology
Sep 2, 2022 · Operations

Design and Implementation of Trace2.0 Distributed Tracing Platform

Trace2.0 is an OpenTelemetry‑based distributed tracing platform that collects billions of spans daily, routes data through a control plane, OTel Server, and Kafka to ClickHouse hot‑cold storage with tail sampling, achieving 66% cost reduction, 12× compression, sub‑second query latency, and plans to offload raw spans to object storage.

ClickHouseOpenTelemetrybackend architecture
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Design and Implementation of Trace2.0 Distributed Tracing Platform
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 31, 2022 · Operations

How Intelligent Operations and Observability Transform Cloud‑Native Environments

In this talk, Wu Yakun from Guance Cloud explains the shortcomings of traditional operations, introduces intelligent, data‑driven approaches for the cloud‑native era, and outlines how unified data collection, observability, and SLO‑based monitoring can dramatically improve fault detection and system reliability.

SLOdata collectionintelligent operations
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How Intelligent Operations and Observability Transform Cloud‑Native Environments
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Aug 25, 2022 · Operations

Core Reliability Principles in the Google Cloud Architecture Framework

This article outlines the core reliability principles of the Google Cloud Architecture Framework, explaining key terms such as SLI, SLO, error budget, and SLA, and describing design and operational guidelines for defining reliability goals, building observability, ensuring high availability, creating robust processes, effective alerting, and collaborative incident management.

Cloud ComputingError BudgetOperations
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Core Reliability Principles in the Google Cloud Architecture Framework
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Aug 22, 2022 · Mobile Development

How Baidu Optimized Low‑End Device Startup Performance: A Deep Dive

This article explains how Baidu's performance team tackled the slowdown of mobile internet growth by defining low‑end devices, building observability, creating high‑efficiency tooling, redesigning key components such as KV storage and locks, and introducing a smart scheduling framework that together reduced Android cold‑start TTI by over 50% and iOS cold‑start TTI by more than 40%, while establishing a continuous anti‑degradation pipeline.

Mobile DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationStartup time
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How Baidu Optimized Low‑End Device Startup Performance: A Deep Dive
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Aug 18, 2022 · Databases

42 Lessons Learned from Building a Production Database

This article translates and summarizes Mahesh Balakrishnan’s 42 practical insights on building a production database, covering customer focus, project management, design principles, code review, observability, research, and cultural practices for engineering teams.

DesignInfrastructuredatabases
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42 Lessons Learned from Building a Production Database
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 17, 2022 · Operations

Master System Monitoring with the USE Method and Prometheus

This article explains how to build a comprehensive monitoring system using the concise USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors) method, outlines key system and application metrics, and demonstrates practical implementation with Prometheus, Grafana, full‑link tracing, and ELK for observability and performance troubleshooting.

Full‑Link TracingPrometheusSystem Performance
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Master System Monitoring with the USE Method and Prometheus
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Aug 15, 2022 · R&D Management

Essential Practices for Effective Engineering Projects and R&D Management

This article outlines comprehensive guidelines for keeping customers happy, managing projects, designing robust APIs, conducting thorough code reviews, shaping strategic direction, ensuring observability, and fostering research, all aimed at building resilient and high‑performing engineering teams.

API DesignR&D managementcode review
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Essential Practices for Effective Engineering Projects and R&D Management
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 12, 2022 · Operations

9 DevOps Best Practices and Common Anti‑Patterns

This article explains what DevOps is, why it matters, and presents nine practical best‑practice recommendations—including culture, CI/CD, testing, observability, automation, security, and IaC—while also highlighting common anti‑patterns to avoid for successful DevOps adoption.

Anti-PatternsDevOpsInfrastructure as Code
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9 DevOps Best Practices and Common Anti‑Patterns
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Aug 11, 2022 · Operations

How Huolala Built an AI‑Powered Intelligent Monitoring Platform at Scale

This article details Huolala's journey from basic monitoring to an AI‑driven intelligent observability platform, covering AIOps concepts, a comprehensive monitoring framework, practical implementations, automated alert analysis, lessons learned, and future directions for large‑scale operations.

AIOpsDevOpsHuolala
0 likes · 18 min read
How Huolala Built an AI‑Powered Intelligent Monitoring Platform at Scale
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Aug 8, 2022 · Operations

How to Integrate Jaeger Tracing with Rainbond Using OpenTelemetry

This guide explains why distributed tracing is essential for micro‑service architectures, introduces Jaeger as an open‑source APM solution, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for deploying and configuring Jaeger on Rainbond with OpenTelemetry, including environment variables, service naming, and topology generation.

APMJaegerOpenTelemetry
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How to Integrate Jaeger Tracing with Rainbond Using OpenTelemetry
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 2, 2022 · Cloud Native

Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns: Goals, Principles, and Decomposition Strategies

This article explains the four primary goals of microservice architecture, outlines essential design principles, and details a comprehensive set of decomposition and integration patterns—including business‑function, sub‑domain, transaction, Strangler, Bulkhead, Sidecar, API‑gateway, Aggregator, CQRS, Saga, observability, and deployment patterns—providing practical guidance for building resilient cloud‑native systems.

ArchitectureCloud NativeMicroservices
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Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns: Goals, Principles, and Decomposition Strategies
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jul 26, 2022 · Operations

9 DevOps Best Practices: What You Should Do and Not Do

This article outlines nine essential DevOps best practices—from fostering a collaborative, blameless culture and adopting CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and IaC, while also highlighting common anti‑patterns such as isolated DevOps teams, hero reliance, and unchecked tool sprawl.

CI/CDDevOpsIaC
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9 DevOps Best Practices: What You Should Do and Not Do
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 24, 2022 · Fundamentals

Meta’s Secret to Near‑Zero Cache Inconsistency

Meta’s engineering team describes how they raised cache consistency from six‑nines to ten‑nines by defining precise invalidation semantics, building the Polaris observability service, and implementing systematic tracking of cache mutations, offering practical strategies that apply to any distributed cache such as Redis or TAO.

MetaPolarisconsistency
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Meta’s Secret to Near‑Zero Cache Inconsistency
FunTester
FunTester
Jul 24, 2022 · Operations

Boost Service Reliability with Chaos Engineering: Practical Steps & Evaluation

Chaos engineering, a discipline for experimenting on distributed systems, helps teams identify hidden weaknesses, improve high‑availability, and build confidence in production by defining stable states, injecting realistic failures, and measuring impact through observability metrics, with practical steps, tool choices, maturity stages, and evaluation methods.

Operationschaos engineeringdistributed systems
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Boost Service Reliability with Chaos Engineering: Practical Steps & Evaluation
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 21, 2022 · Operations

How Huolala Built an AI‑Powered End‑to‑End Monitoring Platform

This article details Huolala's journey from a fragmented monitoring stack to a unified, AI‑enhanced observability platform, covering AIOps concepts, the design of a comprehensive monitoring framework, concrete implementation of metrics, tracing, logging, alerting, and lessons learned for large‑scale operations.

AIOpsDevOpscloud
0 likes · 19 min read
How Huolala Built an AI‑Powered End‑to‑End Monitoring Platform
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jul 21, 2022 · Backend Development

Visualized Full‑Chain Log Tracing for Complex Business Systems

The article analyzes the shortcomings of traditional ELK and distributed tracing for complex business systems, proposes a visualized full‑chain log tracing solution that organizes and dynamically links logs by business chain, and demonstrates its implementation and performance gains at Meituan’s content platform.

BackendDSLMeituan
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Visualized Full‑Chain Log Tracing for Complex Business Systems
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jul 19, 2022 · Cloud Native

How OpenTelemetry and Jaeger Power Cloud‑Native Tracing

This article explains cloud‑native observability, defines its three pillars—metrics, tracing, and logging—details the OpenTelemetry tracing data model and Span structure, reviews industry implementations such as Jaeger and Alibaba Eagle Eye, and shares practical challenges and solutions from real‑world production use.

Alibaba Eagle EyeCloud NativeJaeger
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How OpenTelemetry and Jaeger Power Cloud‑Native Tracing
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jul 18, 2022 · Operations

Comparison of Prometheus and Zabbix Monitoring Solutions

This article compares Prometheus and Zabbix, outlining their histories, architectures, storage models, configuration complexity, community activity, and suitability for different environments, and concludes with recommendations on when to choose each monitoring system.

OperationsPrometheuscomparison
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Comparison of Prometheus and Zabbix Monitoring Solutions
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jul 8, 2022 · Cloud Native

Understanding Service Mesh and Istio: Architecture, Features, and Hands‑On Deployment

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of service mesh, outlines Istio's architecture and core components, walks through installing Istio on Kubernetes, demonstrates a sample microservice deployment with traffic‑management, security, and observability features, and discusses when to adopt a service mesh and its alternatives.

Cloud NativeIstioMicroservices
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Understanding Service Mesh and Istio: Architecture, Features, and Hands‑On Deployment
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
Jul 6, 2022 · Operations

Grafana 9.0 New Features and Improvements Overview

Grafana 9.0 introduces a suite of usability enhancements—including a visual Prometheus query builder, a visual Loki LogQL generator, improved Explore‑to‑dashboard workflow, revamped heatmap panel, command palette, panel search, trace panel, navigation upgrades, and alerting refinements—aimed at simplifying observability, data visualization, and operational efficiency.

AlertingGrafanaLoki
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Grafana 9.0 New Features and Improvements Overview
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 5, 2022 · Cloud Native

Unlocking eBPF: How Kernel‑Level Observability Powers Modern Cloud‑Native Apps

This article explains what eBPF is, why it was created, its core characteristics, common use cases such as network optimization, fault diagnosis, security control and performance monitoring, and provides practical step‑by‑step guidance, tooling commands, program types, and ecosystem resources for leveraging eBPF in cloud‑native environments.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLinux
0 likes · 20 min read
Unlocking eBPF: How Kernel‑Level Observability Powers Modern Cloud‑Native Apps
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Jul 5, 2022 · Backend Development

Architect’s Guide: Backend Architecture, Microservices, Service Mesh, and Message Queues

This comprehensive article reviews backend architectural concepts such as microservices design, service mesh, observability pillars, gateway patterns, service registration, configuration centers, and a detailed comparison of message‑queue technologies, providing practical guidance for architects and engineers.

backend architectureobservabilityservice mesh
0 likes · 27 min read
Architect’s Guide: Backend Architecture, Microservices, Service Mesh, and Message Queues
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jul 4, 2022 · Operations

Why Most Monitoring Systems Fail: Lessons from a Veteran Ops Engineer

A seasoned operations professional shares personal experiences and hard‑earned insights on why traditional monitoring often becomes ineffective, how over‑automation and noisy dashboards hurt teams, and what a capability‑focused, user‑centric approach to observability should look like.

OperationsSREmonitoring
0 likes · 12 min read
Why Most Monitoring Systems Fail: Lessons from a Veteran Ops Engineer
AntTech
AntTech
Jun 28, 2022 · Operations

AntMonitor: Evolution, Features, and Core Technologies of Ant Group’s Observability Platform

The article details Ant Group’s AntMonitor observability platform, covering its development timeline, holographic monitoring capabilities, integrated performance analysis, efficient data integration, built‑in AI‑driven analytics, Monitoring‑as‑a‑Service, and the underlying high‑performance time‑series database and cloud‑native architecture that support massive real‑time data processing.

AIOpsCloudNativeTimeSeriesDatabase
0 likes · 17 min read
AntMonitor: Evolution, Features, and Core Technologies of Ant Group’s Observability Platform
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jun 24, 2022 · Backend Development

Improving Cache Invalidation and Consistency at Scale

Meta engineers describe the challenges of cache invalidation and consistency in large‑scale distributed systems, explain why stale caches are problematic, present their Polaris observability service and consistency‑tracking techniques, and detail how they raised TAO’s cache consistency from six‑nines to ten‑nines.

Cache invalidationcachingconsistency
0 likes · 17 min read
Improving Cache Invalidation and Consistency at Scale
HaoDF Tech Team
HaoDF Tech Team
Jun 21, 2022 · Operations

Evolution and High‑Availability Construction of the Haodafu Offline Message Push System

This article describes how the Haodafu offline push service grew from a simple PHP notification tool into a robust, highly‑available micro‑service platform by redesigning architecture, adopting vendor push channels, adding message‑queue reliability, implementing comprehensive monitoring, observability, and a fault‑diagnosis platform to ensure delivery rates and operational stability.

Mobile BackendSREhigh availability
0 likes · 21 min read
Evolution and High‑Availability Construction of the Haodafu Offline Message Push System
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jun 21, 2022 · Operations

Discover Grafana 9.0: Visual Query Builders, Heatmap Panel & More

Grafana 9.0 introduces a suite of usability enhancements—including visual Prometheus and Loki query builders, an Explore‑to‑dashboard workflow, a high‑performance heatmap panel, command‑palette navigation, and improved alerting—making data exploration, visualization, and monitoring more intuitive for developers and operators.

GrafanaLokiPrometheus
0 likes · 8 min read
Discover Grafana 9.0: Visual Query Builders, Heatmap Panel & More
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jun 20, 2022 · Backend Development

Architectural Guide: Microservices, Service Mesh, Messaging, and Observability

This article presents a comprehensive architectural roadmap covering microservice fundamentals, design principles, service discovery, API protocols, gateway patterns, observability pillars, service mesh options, and a detailed comparison of modern message‑queue technologies, offering practical guidance for backend system design and selection.

Cloud NativeMicroservicesbackend architecture
0 likes · 28 min read
Architectural Guide: Microservices, Service Mesh, Messaging, and Observability
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 18, 2022 · Operations

How MDD and SRE Cut Mini‑Program Image‑Upload Failures from Days to Minutes

This article recounts a three‑day image‑upload outage in a mini‑program, analyzes the multi‑layer causes, and shows how combining Metrics‑Driven Development with SRE and a custom observability platform dramatically reduces diagnosis time and improves reliability.

Metrics-Driven DevelopmentOperationsSRE
0 likes · 20 min read
How MDD and SRE Cut Mini‑Program Image‑Upload Failures from Days to Minutes
Xingsheng Youxuan Technology Community
Xingsheng Youxuan Technology Community
Jun 17, 2022 · Frontend Development

How Prism Transformed Front‑End Monitoring at Scale: Architecture, Challenges & Insights

This article details the design, challenges, and solutions behind Prism, a self‑built front‑end monitoring platform that collects multi‑device SDK data, processes it through Kafka, Flink and ClickHouse, visualizes metrics, integrates with A/B testing, and outlines future enhancements for broader enterprise adoption.

AB TestingPerformancefrontend
0 likes · 14 min read
How Prism Transformed Front‑End Monitoring at Scale: Architecture, Challenges & Insights
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jun 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

Vivo Container Cluster Monitoring Architecture and Cloud‑Native Practices

This article describes Vivo's practical experience building a cloud‑native monitoring system for large‑scale container clusters, covering the shortcomings of traditional monitoring, the Prometheus‑centric ecosystem, high‑availability architecture, challenges faced, and future directions such as automation and AI‑driven operations.

PrometheusVictoriaMetricscloud-native
0 likes · 13 min read
Vivo Container Cluster Monitoring Architecture and Cloud‑Native Practices
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jun 16, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Building a Quality Model for Meituan's Recommendation System

This article presents a request‑granularity quality model for Meituan's integrated recommendation system, linking data tables, algorithm models, services, and user requests, and details its metrics, defect taxonomy, calculation formulas, data‑lineage expansion, implementation, alert routing, and operational outcomes.

Meituandata lineageobservability
0 likes · 22 min read
Building a Quality Model for Meituan's Recommendation System
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
Jun 15, 2022 · Cloud Native

Vivo Container Cluster Monitoring Architecture and Cloud‑Native Observability Practices

Vivo’s cloud‑native monitoring solution combines high‑availability Prometheus clusters, VictoriaMetrics storage, Grafana visualization, and a custom leader‑election adapter to deduplicate data while forwarding metrics to Kafka and OLAP systems, addressing large‑scale performance, scalability, and integration challenges and paving the way for AI‑driven AIOps.

Cloud Native MonitoringKubernetesPrometheus
0 likes · 18 min read
Vivo Container Cluster Monitoring Architecture and Cloud‑Native Observability Practices
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jun 12, 2022 · Backend Development

Comprehensive Guide to Backend Architecture: Microservices, Observability, Service Mesh, and Messaging

This article provides an in‑depth overview of modern backend architecture, covering microservice fundamentals, design principles, gateway patterns, service registration, configuration management, observability pillars, service mesh options, and a detailed comparison of popular message‑queue technologies.

ArchitectureBackendMicroservices
0 likes · 29 min read
Comprehensive Guide to Backend Architecture: Microservices, Observability, Service Mesh, and Messaging
Shopee Tech Team
Shopee Tech Team
Jun 10, 2022 · Mobile Development

MDAP Stack Symbolization Service: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization

The MDAP Stack Symbolization Service unifies high‑throughput address‑and symbol‑based stack resolution for iOS, Android native, Android Java, Web and React Native by parsing dSYM/ELF files and source‑map or ProGuard mappings, caching results in Redis (with RocksDB fallback), and exposing a gRPC API for fast, scalable de‑obfuscation.

DWARFSourceMapdebugging
0 likes · 49 min read
MDAP Stack Symbolization Service: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimization
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jun 9, 2022 · Backend Development

Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns Overview

This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, covering its core goals, design principles, various decomposition and integration patterns, database strategies, observability, resilience, deployment, and operational concerns, offering practical guidance for building scalable, maintainable services.

ArchitectureBackendMicroservices
0 likes · 18 min read
Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns Overview
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jun 8, 2022 · Backend Development

Mastering Microservice Patterns: From Decomposition to Resilience

This article provides a comprehensive overview of common microservice patterns and design principles, covering goals such as cost reduction, faster releases, resilience, visibility, and detailing decomposition, integration, database, CQRS, observability, health‑check, and deployment strategies for building robust backend systems.

API GatewayArchitectureBlue-Green Deployment
0 likes · 20 min read
Mastering Microservice Patterns: From Decomposition to Resilience
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jun 8, 2022 · Fundamentals

eBPF Explained: Core Concepts, Use Cases, and Best Practices

eBPF is a kernel‑level sandbox technology that enables safe, high‑performance, programmable instrumentation for networking, security, and observability, and this article answers seven key questions covering its definition, applications, origins, usage steps, implementation details, best practices, and current ecosystem.

Kernel InstrumentationLinuxPerformance Monitoring
0 likes · 21 min read
eBPF Explained: Core Concepts, Use Cases, and Best Practices
Architect
Architect
Jun 6, 2022 · Backend Development

Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns

This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice architecture, detailing its core objectives, design principles, various decomposition and integration patterns, database strategies, consistency mechanisms, observability techniques, and deployment practices for building resilient, scalable backend systems.

ArchitectureMicroservicesobservability
0 likes · 18 min read
Microservice Architecture and Design Patterns
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 24, 2022 · Cloud Native

How AutoTagging and MultistageCodec Transform Cloud‑Native Observability

This article explores the challenges of building a unified observability data platform for hybrid‑cloud microservices, examines six common data‑island scenarios, and presents DeepFlow's AutoTagging and MultistageCodec techniques that dramatically reduce tagging overhead and storage costs while enabling seamless cross‑data correlation.

ClickHouseMicroservicesauto-tagging
0 likes · 11 min read
How AutoTagging and MultistageCodec Transform Cloud‑Native Observability
Snowball Engineer Team
Snowball Engineer Team
May 24, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Snowball Used Apache APISIX to Build a Dual‑Active Architecture and Streamline Authentication

This article details Snowball's transition from a single‑datacenter setup to a dual‑active, cloud‑native architecture using Apache APISIX, covering background challenges, problem analysis, gateway selection, architectural adjustments, authentication unification, observability enhancements, ZooKeeper integration, and future plans.

API GatewayApache APISIXCloud Native
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How Snowball Used Apache APISIX to Build a Dual‑Active Architecture and Streamline Authentication
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
May 16, 2022 · Cloud Native

Master Loki: Scalable Log Aggregation for Kubernetes and Prometheus

This guide introduces Loki, the open‑source, horizontally scalable log aggregation system optimized for Prometheus and Kubernetes, covering its core concepts, architecture, components, deployment steps, Grafana integration, label‑based indexing, and best practices for handling dynamic and high‑cardinality tags.

GrafanaKubernetesLoki
0 likes · 19 min read
Master Loki: Scalable Log Aggregation for Kubernetes and Prometheus
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
May 11, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Zuoyebang Cut 22% Costs with Kubernetes Serverless Virtual Nodes

Zuoyebang’s shift to cloud‑native architecture leveraged Alibaba Cloud’s Kubernetes Serverless virtual nodes, achieving a 22.5% cost reduction during peak traffic by dynamically scaling workloads, while addressing scheduling, observability, and performance challenges through custom schedulers, enhanced monitoring, and careful testing.

Cloud NativeKubernetesServerless
0 likes · 11 min read
How Zuoyebang Cut 22% Costs with Kubernetes Serverless Virtual Nodes
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Fourth Techo TVP Developer Conference: Cloud Native Trends and Best Practices

The Fourth Techo TVP Developer Conference highlighted current cloud‑native adoption, FinOps cost‑optimization, distributed‑cloud strategies, and maturity models on Day 1, then showcased practical best‑practice case studies—from automotive edge computing to service‑mesh migration, hybrid‑cloud PaaS evolution, observability standards, and high‑performance API‑gateway deployments—on Day 2.

APISIXCloud NativeDevOps
0 likes · 33 min read
Fourth Techo TVP Developer Conference: Cloud Native Trends and Best Practices
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 27, 2022 · Operations

Why Choose Loki Over ELK? A Practical Guide to Scalable Log Aggregation

This article explains the motivations for selecting Grafana Loki instead of traditional ELK/EFK stacks, introduces Loki's core concepts and architecture, details component roles, provides step‑by‑step deployment of Promtail and Loki, and demonstrates how to configure and query logs in Grafana while addressing label indexing, dynamic tags, high‑cardinality challenges, and query performance.

GrafanaKubernetesLoki
0 likes · 18 min read
Why Choose Loki Over ELK? A Practical Guide to Scalable Log Aggregation
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Apr 27, 2022 · Industry Insights

How JD Achieves Seamless Stability During Massive Sales Events

The article reviews the Global Information System Stability Summit and JD's technical architect Li Junliang's detailed case study on the engineering practices, observability, chaos engineering, and resource‑scheduling innovations that enable JD’s e‑commerce platform to handle sales‑peak traffic that spikes hundreds of times over normal load.

chaos engineeringe-commerceindustry insights
0 likes · 7 min read
How JD Achieves Seamless Stability During Massive Sales Events
Top Architect
Top Architect
Apr 27, 2022 · Backend Development

Comprehensive Guide to Backend Architecture: Microservices, Service Mesh, Observability, and Messaging

This article provides an in‑depth overview of modern backend architecture, covering microservice fundamentals, service mesh concepts, observability pillars, messaging queue choices, and practical design considerations such as service registration, configuration centers, and security mechanisms.

Microservicesbackend-architecturemessaging
0 likes · 28 min read
Comprehensive Guide to Backend Architecture: Microservices, Service Mesh, Observability, and Messaging
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Volcano Engine Developer Services
Apr 26, 2022 · Operations

How Volcano Engine’s TLS Transforms Log Management for Kubernetes at Scale

This article explains the challenges of traditional open‑source log collection in cloud‑native environments, describes Volcano Engine’s unified TLS architecture, its centralized configuration, CRD‑based deployment, and showcases real‑world case studies that demonstrate improved availability, efficiency, and scalability.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLog Management
0 likes · 15 min read
How Volcano Engine’s TLS Transforms Log Management for Kubernetes at Scale
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 25, 2022 · Operations

From Monitoring to Observability: Expert Insights on Evolving Cloud‑Native Operations

In this interview series, three industry experts explain how monitoring differs from observability, the shifts required for ops, developers, and architects, the core methodologies and technologies behind metrics, traces, and logs, and practical guidance for selecting and integrating observability tools in cloud‑native environments.

LogsOperationscloud-native
0 likes · 16 min read
From Monitoring to Observability: Expert Insights on Evolving Cloud‑Native Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 22, 2022 · Backend Development

Essential Microservice Patterns: Decomposition, Integration & Observability

This article outlines the key microservice design patterns—including decomposition, integration, event‑driven, saga, and observability techniques—while explaining their goals, principles, and practical considerations such as database per service, CQRS, and cross‑cutting concerns like health checks and circuit breakers.

Design PatternsMicroservicesService Integration
0 likes · 19 min read
Essential Microservice Patterns: Decomposition, Integration & Observability
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Apr 21, 2022 · Cloud Native

Essential Kubernetes Production Checklist for Web Services

A comprehensive, step‑by‑step checklist guides teams through documentation, application design, security, CI/CD, Kubernetes configuration, monitoring, testing, and 24/7 support to reliably run web services with HTTP APIs in production on Kubernetes.

ChecklistDevOpsKubernetes
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Essential Kubernetes Production Checklist for Web Services
政采云技术
政采云技术
Apr 19, 2022 · Cloud Native

A Practical Guide to Dapr Core Features: Pub/Sub, Resource Bindings, Actors, Observability, Secrets, and Configuration

This comprehensive technical tutorial demonstrates how to implement and configure core Dapr features, including publish/subscribe messaging, resource bindings, virtual actors, distributed tracing, secrets management, and dynamic configuration, using Java applications deployed on Kubernetes with practical code examples and command-line instructions.

Cloud NativeJavaKubernetes
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A Practical Guide to Dapr Core Features: Pub/Sub, Resource Bindings, Actors, Observability, Secrets, and Configuration
YunZhu Net Technology Team
YunZhu Net Technology Team
Apr 15, 2022 · Operations

Design and Architecture of a Cloud‑Native Monitoring Platform for Business Systems

The document outlines the background, vision, current status, technical research, value, product and technical architecture, and functional design of a cloud‑native monitoring platform that integrates SkyWalking and Prometheus to provide comprehensive APM, resource utilization, alerting, and rapid fault localization for business and technical middle‑platform services.

APMOperationscloud-native
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Design and Architecture of a Cloud‑Native Monitoring Platform for Business Systems
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 13, 2022 · Cloud Native

From Dapper to OpenTelemetry: A Practical Guide to Distributed Tracing and Observability

This article explains the challenges of long request chains in micro‑service architectures, reviews Google’s Dapper tracing requirements, introduces OpenTracing and OpenCensus standards, compares their strengths, and details how OpenTelemetry unifies tracing, metrics and logs with practical integration steps and best‑practice guidance.

Cloud NativeLogsOpenCensus
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From Dapper to OpenTelemetry: A Practical Guide to Distributed Tracing and Observability
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 12, 2022 · Operations

Understanding Observability: Core Concepts, SRE Methodology, AIOps, and Business Architecture

The article explains the rising importance of observability in modern operations, defines its control‑theory roots, breaks it down into metrics, traces and logs, and argues that successful implementation requires three pillars—SRE practices, AIOps algorithms, and deep business‑architecture knowledge—together with well‑designed SLOs and critical‑path mapping.

AIOpsBusiness ArchitectureSRE
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Understanding Observability: Core Concepts, SRE Methodology, AIOps, and Business Architecture
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Apr 3, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Achieve Full Observability for Performance Testing with Prometheus

This guide explains the essential observability concepts—metrics, logs, and traces—for performance testing, compares Zabbix and Prometheus, shows how to extend JMeter with a Prometheus exporter, and details step‑by‑step integration of Alibaba Cloud PTS and Grafana dashboards for comprehensive monitoring.

Cloud NativePrometheusobservability
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How to Achieve Full Observability for Performance Testing with Prometheus
SQB Blog
SQB Blog
Apr 2, 2022 · Operations

Designing a Next‑Gen Observability Platform: From Zipkin to Hera

This article chronicles the evolution of a company's monitoring system from a Zipkin‑based tracing solution to a cloud‑native observability platform called Hera, detailing design goals, technology choices, challenges with MySQL storage, and the adoption of Prometheus‑compatible metrics, Jaeger tracing, and Kubernetes operators.

JaegerPrometheusdistributed tracing
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Designing a Next‑Gen Observability Platform: From Zipkin to Hera
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Mar 29, 2022 · Databases

Performance Tuning and Observation Techniques for dble Using BenchmarkSQL

This article shares practical configuration recommendations, system‑resource monitoring methods, and thread‑adjustment strategies for optimizing dble performance during BenchmarkSQL TPC‑C style load testing, highlighting how observable metrics guide effective tuning of the middleware and underlying MySQL nodes.

BenchmarkSQLobservabilitythread optimization
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Performance Tuning and Observation Techniques for dble Using BenchmarkSQL
StarRocks
StarRocks
Mar 28, 2022 · Backend Development

Scaling Microservice Tracing with Zipkin and StarRocks: A Practical Guide

This article explains how Sohu Smart Media built a high‑performance tracing system for microservices by integrating Zipkin for data collection with StarRocks for storage and analytics, covering architecture, data models, SQL queries, Flink processing, and real‑world results that boost observability and engineering efficiency.

FlinkMicroservicesSQL
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Scaling Microservice Tracing with Zipkin and StarRocks: A Practical Guide
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Mar 18, 2022 · Operations

Evolution of Open‑Source Monitoring Tools: From Nagios to Prometheus

This article traces the development of open‑source monitoring solutions from early tools like Nagios and Cacti through modern platforms such as Prometheus and Nightingale, comparing their strengths, weaknesses, and typical use cases while also looking ahead to emerging observability trends in cloud‑native environments.

NagiosOperationsPrometheus
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Evolution of Open‑Source Monitoring Tools: From Nagios to Prometheus
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Mar 8, 2022 · Operations

Master Kubernetes Troubleshooting: The Three Pillars Every Engineer Needs

This article breaks down Kubernetes troubleshooting into three essential steps—understanding the failure, managing the response, and preventing recurrence—while mapping key monitoring, observability, and incident‑response tools to each phase for reliable cloud‑native operations.

KubernetesOperationsTroubleshooting
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Master Kubernetes Troubleshooting: The Three Pillars Every Engineer Needs
政采云技术
政采云技术
Mar 1, 2022 · Cloud Native

Introduction to Dapr: Features, Architecture, and Installation Guide

This article introduces Dapr, a cloud‑native sidecar runtime for building resilient microservices, explains its core features such as service invocation, state management, pub/sub, bindings, actors, observability, and secrets, and provides step‑by‑step installation instructions for CLI, binaries, Kubernetes, and Helm.

Cloud NativeInstallationMicroservices
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Introduction to Dapr: Features, Architecture, and Installation Guide
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Feb 28, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Observe and Diagnose DNS Failures in Kubernetes Clusters

This article explains how DNS operates inside Kubernetes, enumerates common failure causes, describes CoreDNS's built‑in observability plugins, introduces BPF‑based client‑side diagnostics, and provides a step‑by‑step troubleshooting workflow to identify and resolve DNS issues in cloud‑native environments.

BPFCoreDNSDNS
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How to Observe and Diagnose DNS Failures in Kubernetes Clusters
21CTO
21CTO
Feb 24, 2022 · Backend Development

42 Hard‑Earned Lessons for Building Reliable Production Databases

This article translates Mahesh Balakrishnan’s 42‑point guide on building production databases, covering customer focus, project management, design principles, code review practices, strategy, observability, and research, offering concrete advice for engineers and teams creating robust backend systems.

code reviewobservabilityproduction systems
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42 Hard‑Earned Lessons for Building Reliable Production Databases
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Feb 20, 2022 · Backend Development

Highlights of .NET 7 Preview 1: Nullable Annotations, Observability, Code Generation, and New APIs

The article outlines the major features of .NET 7 Preview 1, including nullable annotations for Microsoft.Extensions libraries, enhancements to tracing APIs, code‑generation improvements, dynamic PGO and Arm64 support, p/invoke source generation, new System.Text.Json APIs, and expanded hot‑reload capabilities.

.NETCode GenerationHot Reload
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Highlights of .NET 7 Preview 1: Nullable Annotations, Observability, Code Generation, and New APIs
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Feb 17, 2022 · Operations

Evolution and Architecture of the Hickwall Enterprise Monitoring Platform

The article details the background, challenges, multi‑year evolution, current architecture, and future roadmap of Hickwall, Ctrip's enterprise‑grade monitoring and observability platform, covering metrics, logs, traces, high‑cardinality handling, cloud‑native integration, alert governance, and storage engine migrations.

AlertingOperationsTSDB
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Evolution and Architecture of the Hickwall Enterprise Monitoring Platform
Baidu Tech Salon
Baidu Tech Salon
Jan 27, 2022 · Cloud Native

How China Unicom’s Service Mesh Evolved: From SDKs to Sidecars and Beyond

This article details China Unicom Software Research Institute's multi‑year journey of adopting Kubernetes‑based service mesh, outlining the evolution from SDK‑driven microservices to sidecar‑based architectures, migration strategies with Baidu, performance optimizations, observability enhancements, and future product roadmaps.

Cloud NativeIstioKubernetes
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How China Unicom’s Service Mesh Evolved: From SDKs to Sidecars and Beyond
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Jan 26, 2022 · Operations

Mastering Microservice Monitoring, Fault Tolerance, and Security: A Complete Guide

This article explains how to monitor microservice architectures, describes log, tracing, and metric monitoring, compares open‑source tracing tools, outlines fault‑tolerance strategies such as timeout, rate‑limiting, degradation, async buffering and circuit breaking, and details access‑security mechanisms including gateway authentication, service‑side auth, and OAuth2.0 token flows, while also introducing container technology and its role in microservice deployment.

Microservicescontainersfault-tolerance
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Mastering Microservice Monitoring, Fault Tolerance, and Security: A Complete Guide
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jan 22, 2022 · Cloud Native

Boost Kubernetes Monitoring: Migrate from Prometheus to Thanos for Scalable Low‑Cost Metrics

This article examines the limitations of a standard Prometheus‑based monitoring stack on Kubernetes, explains how adopting Thanos improves metric retention and reduces infrastructure costs, and provides a detailed multi‑cluster deployment guide with Terraform, TLS configuration, and Grafana visualization.

KubernetesPrometheusTerraform
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Boost Kubernetes Monitoring: Migrate from Prometheus to Thanos for Scalable Low‑Cost Metrics
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 20, 2022 · Operations

Mastering Prometheus Metrics: Best Practices for Effective Monitoring

This article outlines practical guidelines for designing Prometheus metrics, covering how to define monitoring targets, choose appropriate vectors and labels, name metrics and labels correctly, select histogram buckets, and leverage Grafana features to visualize and troubleshoot data effectively.

GrafanaPrometheusmetrics
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Mastering Prometheus Metrics: Best Practices for Effective Monitoring