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Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jan 12, 2022 · Backend Development

Serverless Architecture Evolution: Baidu Search Content Platform's FaaS and Intelligent Transformation

Baidu’s search content platform transitioned to a serverless, FaaS‑based architecture with intelligent scheduling and automated control, cutting resource waste by 87%, boosting automatic recovery to 96.7%, and delivering roughly tenfold productivity gains across development, deployment, and maintenance while simplifying scalability and high‑availability concerns.

FaaSResource OptimizationServerless
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Serverless Architecture Evolution: Baidu Search Content Platform's FaaS and Intelligent Transformation
Java High-Performance Architecture
Java High-Performance Architecture
Jan 12, 2022 · Cloud Native

Mastering Service Mesh with Istio: A Hands‑On Guide to Traffic, Security, and Observability

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of service mesh, explores Istio’s architecture and core components, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing Istio on Kubernetes, deploying a sample microservice application, and leveraging traffic management, mutual TLS, observability, and advanced use cases such as routing, circuit breaking, and JWT‑based access control.

IstioKubernetesTraffic Management
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Mastering Service Mesh with Istio: A Hands‑On Guide to Traffic, Security, and Observability
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jan 7, 2022 · Cloud Native

Introduction to Service Mesh and Istio: Concepts, Architecture, and Practical Deployment

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of service mesh, outlines Istio’s architecture and core components, demonstrates how to install and configure Istio on Kubernetes, and showcases common use cases such as traffic management, security, observability, and alternatives, providing a comprehensive guide for modern micro‑service deployments.

IstioMicroservicesTraffic Management
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Introduction to Service Mesh and Istio: Concepts, Architecture, and Practical Deployment
Architect
Architect
Jan 5, 2022 · Cloud Native

Introduction to Service Mesh and Istio: Concepts, Architecture, and Hands‑On Guide

This tutorial explains the fundamentals of service mesh, outlines Istio’s architecture and core components, demonstrates how to install Istio on Kubernetes, and walks through practical examples such as traffic routing, security policies, observability, and common use‑cases, while also comparing alternative solutions.

IstioKubernetesMicroservices
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Introduction to Service Mesh and Istio: Concepts, Architecture, and Hands‑On Guide
Hacker Afternoon Tea
Hacker Afternoon Tea
Dec 31, 2021 · Operations

How Sentry’s SDK Performance Monitoring API Evolved

This guide traces the evolution of Sentry’s performance‑monitoring SDK, explains how transactions and spans were added, and details the identified issues—such as scope propagation, span‑ingestion modeling, nested transactions, and serialization challenges—along with the lessons learned for future improvements.

Performance MonitoringSDKScope Propagation
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How Sentry’s SDK Performance Monitoring API Evolved
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 23, 2021 · Cloud Native

An Overview of OpenTelemetry: Origins, Architecture, and Instrumentation

OpenTelemetry unifies tracing, metrics, and logs by merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus into a cross‑language specification, collector, language SDKs, and instrumentation libraries, offering vendor‑agnostic, low‑maintenance telemetry collection that separates data gathering from business logic while requiring external back‑ends for storage and analysis.

Cloud NativeCollectorOpenTelemetry
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An Overview of OpenTelemetry: Origins, Architecture, and Instrumentation
Qingyun Technology Community
Qingyun Technology Community
Dec 22, 2021 · Cloud Native

What’s New in KubeSphere 3.2.1? Key Features, Fixes, and Upgrade Guide

Version 3.2.1 of the open‑source KubeSphere platform introduces a series of enhancements—including container group status filtering, improved image builder dialogs, expanded quota visibility, numerous UI bug fixes, and updated DevOps pipelines—alongside detailed installation and upgrade instructions for Linux and Kubernetes environments.

Cloud NativeKubeSphereKubernetes
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What’s New in KubeSphere 3.2.1? Key Features, Fixes, and Upgrade Guide
21CTO
21CTO
Dec 20, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Cloud‑Native Architecture Is the Future of SaaS and How to Implement It

This article explains what cloud‑native architecture is, why it is essential for modern SaaS businesses, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including serverless migration, elasticity, observability, resilience, and automation—on how to adopt it using Alibaba Cloud SAE and related services.

MicroservicesSaaScloud-native
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Why Cloud‑Native Architecture Is the Future of SaaS and How to Implement It
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Dec 13, 2021 · Backend Development

Essential Java & Cloud Native Resources: From JDK 17 to GraalVM, Spring & More

This curated collection gathers essential articles and tutorials covering Java 8‑17 updates, GraalVM performance tricks, Spring Native adoption, Spring Cloud and RSocket alternatives, GraphQL frameworks, observability stacks like Grafana, Prometheus and Loki, IDE enhancements, database fundamentals, and low‑code platform building, providing a comprehensive knowledge base for modern backend developers.

GraalVMJavadatabases
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Essential Java & Cloud Native Resources: From JDK 17 to GraalVM, Spring & More
Tencent Cloud Middleware
Tencent Cloud Middleware
Dec 9, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Observability Is the Missing Piece for Day‑2 Success in Cloud‑Native and Serverless Systems

The article explains how observability—through logs, metrics, and traces—transforms the opaque, complex day‑2 operations of micro‑service, Kubernetes, and serverless environments into a deterministic, diagnosable system, highlighting OpenTelemetry, practical collection methods, and real‑world implementation challenges and benefits.

OpenTelemetryServerlesscloud-native
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Why Observability Is the Missing Piece for Day‑2 Success in Cloud‑Native and Serverless Systems
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 7, 2021 · Cloud Native

Unlocking the Third Way of Distributed Tracing: Post‑Aggregation Link Analysis Explained

This article introduces the third, post‑aggregation approach to link tracing—link analysis—showing how real‑time aggregation of stored trace data can quickly pinpoint uneven traffic, single‑machine failures, slow interfaces, business‑level traffic shifts, and gray‑release anomalies while outlining its practical constraints.

APMCloud NativePost-Aggregation
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Unlocking the Third Way of Distributed Tracing: Post‑Aggregation Link Analysis Explained
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Dec 2, 2021 · Cloud Native

New Features in Apache APISIX 2.11.0: LDAP Authentication, Observability Plugins, Azure Functions, and WASM Support

Apache APISIX 2.11.0 adds an LDAP‑based authentication plugin, expands observability with Datadog and SkyWalking plugins, introduces Azure Functions integration, provides early WASM support, and enhances existing plugins, all illustrated with detailed configuration examples and code snippets.

API GatewayAzure FunctionsLDAP
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New Features in Apache APISIX 2.11.0: LDAP Authentication, Observability Plugins, Azure Functions, and WASM Support
GrowingIO Tech Team
GrowingIO Tech Team
Dec 2, 2021 · Cloud Native

Mastering Chaos Mesh: A Hands‑On Guide to Cloud‑Native Chaos Engineering

Chaos Mesh is an open‑source cloud‑native chaos engineering platform that lets you experiment with fault injection across Kubernetes environments, offering visual dashboards, extensive fault types, and step‑by‑step installation and experiment creation guides to help teams uncover system weaknesses and improve resilience.

Chaos MeshKuberneteschaos engineering
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Mastering Chaos Mesh: A Hands‑On Guide to Cloud‑Native Chaos Engineering
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Nov 24, 2021 · Operations

How Baidu’s Fengjing Uses Holographic Logs to Debug Massive Microservices

Baidu’s Fengjing monitoring platform tackles the daunting challenge of pinpointing failures in its massive Java‑based microservice ecosystem by employing a non‑intrusive probe that captures log metadata, stores it in a database, and reconstructs full request‑level logs with minimal storage overhead.

JavaMicroservicesdistributed tracing
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How Baidu’s Fengjing Uses Holographic Logs to Debug Massive Microservices
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 16, 2021 · Operations

How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring System with Thanos on Kubernetes

This article explains why monitoring is essential for production stability, compares white‑box and black‑box approaches, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to deploying Prometheus, configuring scrape targets, using Pushgateway and Alertmanager, and scaling the solution with Thanos in a Kubernetes environment.

AlertmanagerPrometheusPushgateway
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How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring System with Thanos on Kubernetes
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Nov 15, 2021 · Operations

A Comprehensive Guide to Using Apache SkyWalking for Distributed Tracing, Logging, and Performance Analysis

This article introduces Apache SkyWalking as a powerful open‑source APM solution, compares it with Spring Cloud Sleuth+ZipKin, explains its architecture, walks through server and client setup, data persistence, log collection, performance profiling, alert configuration, and provides practical code snippets and configuration examples.

JavaSkyWalkingSpring Cloud
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A Comprehensive Guide to Using Apache SkyWalking for Distributed Tracing, Logging, and Performance Analysis
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Oct 31, 2021 · Operations

Designing Effective Metrics: From Requirements to Labels and Buckets

This guide explains how to define, name, and organize monitoring metrics—covering Google’s four golden indicators, system‑specific measurement objects, vector selection, label conventions, bucket design, and practical Grafana tips—for reliable observability of diverse services.

labelingmetricsmonitoring
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Designing Effective Metrics: From Requirements to Labels and Buckets
Hacker Afternoon Tea
Hacker Afternoon Tea
Oct 31, 2021 · Cloud Native

Linkerd 2: Understand Service Mesh Terminology in 5 Minutes

This article explains core service‑mesh concepts—including API gateway, cluster, container, control and data planes, distributed tracing, egress, ESB, golden metrics, ingress, init containers, latency, Linkerd's architecture, load balancing, mTLS, multi‑cluster support, observability, reliability, sidecar proxies, and success rate—providing a concise reference for developers working with Kubernetes‑based meshes.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLinkerd
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Linkerd 2: Understand Service Mesh Terminology in 5 Minutes
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 17, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Redis Simplifies Microservice Design Patterns, Distributed Transactions, and Observability

This article explains how Redis can be used to implement and simplify a wide range of microservice design patterns—including bounded contexts, asynchronous messaging, orchestrated sagas, transaction inboxes, telemetry, event sourcing, CQRS, and shared data—while improving performance, scalability, and observability in cloud‑native architectures.

CQRSCloud NativeMicroservices
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How Redis Simplifies Microservice Design Patterns, Distributed Transactions, and Observability
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Oct 10, 2021 · Cloud Native

How to Detect Service and Workload Anomalies in Kubernetes with Advanced Monitoring

This article explains the common pain points of locating anomalies in Kubernetes environments and presents a multi‑layer monitoring framework—trace, metrics, events, and alerts—along with best‑practice scenarios such as network performance, DNS issues, full‑link stress testing, external MySQL access, and multi‑tenant architectures.

DNSKubernetesmetrics
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How to Detect Service and Workload Anomalies in Kubernetes with Advanced Monitoring
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 27, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Loki Beats ELK for Kubernetes Logging: Architecture, Deployment, and Query Guide

This article explains the motivation behind choosing Loki over heavyweight ELK/EFK stacks for container‑cloud logging, outlines Loki's lightweight architecture and components, provides step‑by‑step deployment instructions on OpenShift/Kubernetes, and demonstrates how to query logs using the LogQL language and HTTP API.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLogQL
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Why Loki Beats ELK for Kubernetes Logging: Architecture, Deployment, and Query Guide
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 26, 2021 · Backend Development

How Baidu’s Hulk Framework Accelerates Go Service Development

The Hulk framework, built on GDP2, provides a business‑oriented Go web development platform with out‑of‑the‑box components, standardized architecture, rich observability, and tooling that together improve code quality, development speed, and SRE efficiency for large‑scale short‑video services.

BackendGoframework
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How Baidu’s Hulk Framework Accelerates Go Service Development
Top Architect
Top Architect
Sep 24, 2021 · Cloud Native

Loki Log System Overview, Architecture, and Deployment Guide

This article introduces Loki, a lightweight log aggregation system for Kubernetes, explains its background and motivations, details its simple architecture and core components (Distributor, Ingester, Querier), discusses scalability and storage options, and provides step‑by‑step deployment instructions with example YAML and shell commands.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLoki
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Loki Log System Overview, Architecture, and Deployment Guide
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 20, 2021 · Operations

Why Loki Beats ELK for Kubernetes Logging: Architecture and Deployment Guide

This article explains the motivations behind choosing Loki over ELK for container‑cloud logging, details Loki's lightweight architecture—including Distributor, Ingester, and Querier components—covers deployment steps on OpenShift/Kubernetes with YAML manifests, and demonstrates LogQL query syntax for efficient log retrieval.

KubernetesLogQLLoki
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Why Loki Beats ELK for Kubernetes Logging: Architecture and Deployment Guide
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Sep 16, 2021 · Cloud Native

How to Use Kubernetes Monitoring for End-to-End Application Architecture Exploration

This session explains why Kubernetes monitoring is essential for end-to-end observability, describes the five data sources and layers it covers, and walks through discovering and locating architecture, performance, resource, scheduling, and network issues using topology, anomaly detection, and correlation techniques.

ArchitectureCloud NativeKubernetes
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How to Use Kubernetes Monitoring for End-to-End Application Architecture Exploration
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Sep 15, 2021 · Backend Development

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

This article provides a detailed overview of modern backend architecture, covering microservice fundamentals, design principles such as Conway's Law and DDD, gateway patterns, communication protocols, service registration, configuration management, observability pillars, service mesh options, and a comparative analysis of popular message‑queue technologies.

Microservicesbackend-architecturecloud-native
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Comprehensive Guide to Backend Architecture: Microservices, Service Mesh, Messaging, and Observability
HomeTech
HomeTech
Sep 15, 2021 · Backend Development

How ASF Simplifies gRPC‑to‑Go Migration and Boosts Service Governance

This article explains the AutoHome Service Framework (ASF), its architecture, how it enables seamless migration from gRPC to Go services, the added Dubbo‑go support, configuration optimizations, advanced load‑balancing strategies, observability enhancements, and future plans for adaptive balancing and zero‑downtime deployments.

ConfigurationGoMicroservices
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How ASF Simplifies gRPC‑to‑Go Migration and Boosts Service Governance
Dada Group Technology
Dada Group Technology
Sep 10, 2021 · Operations

Design and Implementation of JD Daojia Log System Based on Loki

This document details the motivation, architecture, components, query language, and deployment of a Loki‑based log collection and analysis platform for JD Daojia, comparing it with ELK, describing ingestion, real‑time and historical log handling, technical challenges, configuration examples, and future scaling plans.

CassandraGrafanaLog Management
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Design and Implementation of JD Daojia Log System Based on Loki
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Baidu Intelligent Testing
Sep 9, 2021 · Cloud Native

Observability Practices in Baidu Search Platform: Real‑time Metrics, Tracing, Logging, and Topology at Hundred‑Billion Scale

This article explains how Baidu's search middle‑platform adopts cloud‑native observability—covering metrics, distributed tracing, log querying, and topology analysis—to ensure high availability, performance, and controllability for a system handling hundreds of billions of requests across millions of micro‑service instances.

loggingobservabilitytopology
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Observability Practices in Baidu Search Platform: Real‑time Metrics, Tracing, Logging, and Topology at Hundred‑Billion Scale
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 5, 2021 · Operations

Why Prometheus’s TSDB Makes Monitoring Scalable: A Deep Dive

This article explains how Prometheus’s time‑series database handles massive monitoring data, illustrates practical query examples, and shows why its storage engine and pre‑computation features enable efficient, high‑performance observability for large‑scale services.

PrometheusTSDBTime Series Database
0 likes · 8 min read
Why Prometheus’s TSDB Makes Monitoring Scalable: A Deep Dive
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 31, 2021 · Backend Development

Designing an Uber‑Like Microservice System with DDD, OpenTelemetry Observability, and Reinforced Chaos Engineering

This article describes how to model a complex Uber‑style ride‑hailing system using Domain‑Driven Design, implement it with Java Spring Boot microservices, instrument it with OpenTelemetry for full observability, and validate the observability pipeline through a gamified chaos‑engineering approach that reduces MTTR.

DDDJavaMicroservices
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Designing an Uber‑Like Microservice System with DDD, OpenTelemetry Observability, and Reinforced Chaos Engineering
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Aug 26, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Switch from Prometheus to Thanos? Boost Metric Retention & Cut Costs

This article explains the limitations of a traditional Prometheus‑based monitoring stack for Kubernetes, demonstrates how integrating Thanos improves metric retention, scalability, and storage cost, and provides a complete multi‑cluster deployment example with Terraform and Helm configurations.

Cloud NativeKubernetesPrometheus
0 likes · 15 min read
Why Switch from Prometheus to Thanos? Boost Metric Retention & Cut Costs
21CTO
21CTO
Aug 20, 2021 · Backend Development

How the Hulk Framework Boosts Go Service Development and Operations

This article explains the background, design, components, ecosystem, and real‑world benefits of the Hulk Go web framework developed by the short‑video R&D team, showing how it improves development efficiency, code quality, performance, observability, and incident response for large‑scale microservices.

GoWeb Frameworkobservability
0 likes · 19 min read
How the Hulk Framework Boosts Go Service Development and Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Aug 14, 2021 · Operations

Boost System Reliability: 4 Proven Practices to Master Observability

This article explains why observability is essential for DevOps, outlines four key practices—including production‑environment monitoring, structured logging, a DevOps‑focused culture, and pre‑deployment observability with remote debugging—to help teams detect, diagnose, and prevent issues throughout the software lifecycle.

CI/CDCultureDevOps
0 likes · 9 min read
Boost System Reliability: 4 Proven Practices to Master Observability
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Aug 11, 2021 · Operations

Unlock Loki v2.3.0: Custom Retention, Deletion & Recording Rules Explained

Version 2.3.0 of Loki introduces enhanced features such as per‑tenant custom retention policies, time‑range log deletion via the Compactor API, Prometheus‑style recording rules, a new pattern parser for LogQL, ingestion sharding for faster queries, and advanced IP‑matching syntax, all aimed at improving storage efficiency, compliance, and observability.

Log ManagementLogQLLoki
0 likes · 9 min read
Unlock Loki v2.3.0: Custom Retention, Deletion & Recording Rules Explained
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 11, 2021 · Operations

Introduction to Chaos Engineering – Part 2: Four Steps for Disrupting Complex Systems

This article explains that chaos engineering is not a magic cure but a disciplined practice for testing distributed systems by designing and running controlled experiments, outlining four essential steps—observability, defining steady state, hypothesizing events, and executing experiments—to gain confidence in system resilience.

Operationschaos engineeringexperimentation
0 likes · 11 min read
Introduction to Chaos Engineering – Part 2: Four Steps for Disrupting Complex Systems
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Jul 27, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Loki: Advantages, Architecture, Installation, and Query Practices

This article explains Loki's low‑index overhead, concurrent query handling, tag‑based indexing, component roles, read/write paths, step‑by‑step installation of Promtail and Loki, label matching techniques, dynamic‑tag handling, high‑cardinality concerns, and query optimization strategies for cloud‑native log aggregation.

Cloud NativeLokilog-aggregation
0 likes · 13 min read
Understanding Loki: Advantages, Architecture, Installation, and Query Practices
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jul 22, 2021 · Operations

Observability in Serverless Environments: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing, and Best Practices

In this talk, Gal Bashan explains how serverless architectures complicate observability and why metrics, logs, and especially distributed tracing with tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or commercial platforms are essential for gaining end-to-end visibility, automating instrumentation, and maintaining reliable, business-focused services across cloud providers.

Cloud NativeServerlessdistributed tracing
0 likes · 12 min read
Observability in Serverless Environments: Monitoring, Logging, Distributed Tracing, and Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jul 19, 2021 · Operations

Scaling Distributed Observability: A Case Study of ARMS Front‑End Monitoring at a Kids Coding Platform

This article details how a rapidly growing Chinese children's programming platform tackled the complexity of distributed system observability by adopting SkyWalking, Prometheus, and Alibaba Cloud ARMS front‑end monitoring, achieving faster fault detection, reduced operational workload, and improved user experience.

ARMSMicroservicesdistributed systems
0 likes · 12 min read
Scaling Distributed Observability: A Case Study of ARMS Front‑End Monitoring at a Kids Coding Platform
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jul 15, 2021 · Operations

Baidu Game Microservice Monitoring Practice and System Design

This article describes Baidu's comprehensive approach to monitoring game microservices, covering the background, initial monitoring tools, evolution of the monitoring system, systematic design for risk control, intelligent detection, alarm optimization, efficient fault localization, and future outlook for high‑availability architecture.

BaiduMicroservicesOperations
0 likes · 13 min read
Baidu Game Microservice Monitoring Practice and System Design
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jul 7, 2021 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of a High‑Concurrency API Gateway

This article details the architecture and implementation of a high‑concurrency API gateway built on RxNetty, covering request routing, conditional routing, API management, rate limiting, circuit breaking, security policies, monitoring, tracing, and future enhancements within a microservices environment.

API GatewayBackend DevelopmentMicroservices
0 likes · 11 min read
Design and Implementation of a High‑Concurrency API Gateway
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jul 5, 2021 · Operations

Automated and Intelligent Analysis of Baidu Search Stability Issues

The team automated Baidu Search fault diagnosis by building a side‑index for instant log lookup, streaming incremental analysis, exhaustive rule templates, feature‑engineering pipelines, query‑scene reconstruction, entropy‑based ranking, per‑second timeline views, and chaos‑engineered fault injection, achieving near‑99% accuracy and second‑level, module‑granular stability tracing.

Fault AnalysisSearch Stabilitychaos engineering
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Automated and Intelligent Analysis of Baidu Search Stability Issues
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jul 1, 2021 · Operations

Why Loki Beats Elasticsearch: Low Index Overhead, Fast Queries, and Easy Setup

This article explains Loki's advantages over Elasticsearch, including low indexing overhead, concurrent query processing with caching, seamless integration with Prometheus and Grafana, detailed architecture components, installation steps, label handling, high‑cardinality challenges, and best practices for efficient log management.

ElasticsearchGrafanaLoki
0 likes · 15 min read
Why Loki Beats Elasticsearch: Low Index Overhead, Fast Queries, and Easy Setup
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jun 30, 2021 · Operations

How Baidu Achieves 5‑9+ Availability: Inside Its Stability Engineering and Observability

This article dissects Baidu Search's ultra‑large micro‑service architecture, detailing the challenges of maintaining five‑nine‑plus availability, the diverse failure modes, and the step‑by‑step evolution of its observability stack—from early log‑only analysis to the kepler1.0/kepler2.0 tracing, full‑log indexing, custom span‑id generation, and compression techniques that together enable rapid root‑cause diagnosis at massive scale.

Baidu Searchavailability engineeringdistributed tracing
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How Baidu Achieves 5‑9+ Availability: Inside Its Stability Engineering and Observability
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Jun 28, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Chanjet Scaled SaaS for 1.3M SMEs with Cloud‑Native Architecture

Chanjet transformed its monolithic SaaS platform for millions of small‑business customers by adopting a cloud‑native, container‑based micro‑service architecture, enabling elastic scaling, reduced operational costs, unified data services, automated DevOps pipelines, and comprehensive observability across front‑end, back‑end, and infrastructure layers.

DevOpsMicroservicesSaaS
0 likes · 27 min read
How Chanjet Scaled SaaS for 1.3M SMEs with Cloud‑Native Architecture
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 28, 2021 · Cloud Native

Effective Service Governance for Serverless: Challenges and Solutions

Effective serverless governance requires comprehensive observability, traffic management, and service registration built on Kubernetes, using either a mesh sidecar with Istio or an embedded SDK, to simplify complex operational tasks such as discovery, fault tolerance, gray releases, and metric correlation for large‑scale function deployments.

Cloud NativeOperationsServerless
0 likes · 17 min read
Effective Service Governance for Serverless: Challenges and Solutions
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Full-Stack Internet Architecture
Jun 19, 2021 · Operations

Solving Monitoring Pain Points: Unified Framework, Alert Prioritization, and Classification

The article discusses common monitoring challenges such as fragmented tooling and noisy alerts, and proposes solutions including consolidating to a single monitoring framework, prioritizing runtime exceptions, and classifying business alerts with codes and trace information to improve incident response.

Alertingbest-practicesincident management
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Solving Monitoring Pain Points: Unified Framework, Alert Prioritization, and Classification
IT Architects Alliance
IT Architects Alliance
Jun 19, 2021 · Operations

Reference Architecture for Digital Transformation Platforms

The article outlines a comprehensive reference architecture for digital transformation platforms, detailing typical organizational contexts, desired outcomes, and key components such as integration layers, API gateways, IAM, BPM, observability, multi‑region deployment, and development practices to enable seamless, secure, and scalable business services.

API GatewayDigital TransformationIAM
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Reference Architecture for Digital Transformation Platforms
58 Tech
58 Tech
Jun 11, 2021 · Frontend Development

Beidou Frontend Monitoring System: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions

The article details the design, architecture, and operational challenges of the Beidou frontend monitoring platform at 58 Group, covering SDK management, behavior trace logging, front‑back link integration, performance optimizations, minute‑level alerting, and permission management.

AlertingArchitecturefrontend
0 likes · 22 min read
Beidou Frontend Monitoring System: Architecture, Challenges, and Solutions
Liulishuo Tech Team
Liulishuo Tech Team
Jun 2, 2021 · Backend Development

Understanding Distributed Tracing and Its Use at Liulishuo

This article explains what distributed tracing is, why it is needed alongside logging and metrics for observability, how it works with trace and span IDs, and describes Liulishuo's implementation using OpenTelemetry, W3C Trace Context, and tail‑based sampling to improve backend debugging.

MicroservicesOpenTelemetrydistributed tracing
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Understanding Distributed Tracing and Its Use at Liulishuo
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
May 31, 2021 · Cloud Native

Adoption of Service Mesh (Istio) at Baidu iFanFan: Challenges, Migration Strategy, and Benefits

Baidu iFanFan migrated all its Java‑based services to a native Kubernetes + Istio service mesh within three months, replacing fragmented, manual governance with automated rate‑limiting, canary releases, chaos testing and observability, which cut governance cycles from months to minutes, reduced CI time by ~20 % and dramatically improved system stability and multi‑cloud readiness.

Cloud NativeIstioKubernetes
0 likes · 21 min read
Adoption of Service Mesh (Istio) at Baidu iFanFan: Challenges, Migration Strategy, and Benefits
Amap Tech
Amap Tech
May 28, 2021 · Operations

System Observability Practices in Gaode Ride-Hailing: From Unified Logging to Fault Defense

Gaode Ride‑Hailing created a comprehensive 360° observability platform—standardized logging, distributed tracing, multi‑domain metrics, visual dashboards, and an incident workflow—that transforms raw data into actionable insights, accelerates root‑cause analysis, and enables automated fault defense for its large‑scale cloud‑native microservice system.

distributed systemsfault tolerancelogging
0 likes · 22 min read
System Observability Practices in Gaode Ride-Hailing: From Unified Logging to Fault Defense
21CTO
21CTO
May 27, 2021 · Cloud Native

Mastering Cloud‑Native Architecture: Practical Steps to Transform SaaS on Alibaba Cloud

This article explains what cloud‑native architecture is, why it is essential for modern SaaS businesses, and provides a step‑by‑step guide—including maturity models, serverless migration, namespace and application setup, load‑balancer binding, service/configuration centers, elasticity, observability, resilience, and automation—using Alibaba Cloud SAE and MSE services.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeMicroservices
0 likes · 23 min read
Mastering Cloud‑Native Architecture: Practical Steps to Transform SaaS on Alibaba Cloud
New Oriental Technology
New Oriental Technology
May 24, 2021 · Operations

Overview of SkyWalking UI: Dashboard, Topology, Tracing, Profiling, and Alerts

The article provides a comprehensive English overview of SkyWalking UI, detailing its dashboard metrics, topology visualization, trace analysis, performance profiling workflow, and alarm management, illustrating how the tool monitors microservice and cloud‑native environments with metrics such as throughput, latency, Apdex, and JVM statistics.

APMSkyWalkingdistributed tracing
0 likes · 11 min read
Overview of SkyWalking UI: Dashboard, Topology, Tracing, Profiling, and Alerts
DevOps
DevOps
May 17, 2021 · Cloud Native

Challenges of Testing Cloud‑Native Applications and the Need for New Approaches

Amid accelerating Agile and DevOps adoption, the rapid delivery of cloud‑native microservices introduces cascading risks and makes traditional monolithic testing inadequate, prompting a shift toward observability‑driven “right‑shift” testing, exploratory methods, and chaos engineering to embrace failure as the new normal.

DevOpsMicroserviceschaos engineering
0 likes · 8 min read
Challenges of Testing Cloud‑Native Applications and the Need for New Approaches
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
May 6, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Loki Beats ELK for Cloud‑Native Log Management

This article explains how Loki, a lightweight, Prometheus‑compatible logging system, addresses the high resource cost, complexity, and operational overhead of traditional ELK/EFK stacks by using label‑based indexing, efficient compression, and scalable architecture for container‑cloud environments.

Cloud NativeELK alternativeLog Management
0 likes · 7 min read
Why Loki Beats ELK for Cloud‑Native Log Management
DevOps
DevOps
May 6, 2021 · Cloud Native

Testing Strategies for Cloud‑Native Applications

The article explains how traditional testing falls short for cloud‑native, microservice‑based applications and outlines modern strategies—including unit, integration, contract, non‑functional, chaos engineering, and observability techniques—to ensure quality, resilience, and rapid delivery in dynamic cloud environments.

Contract TestingMicroserviceschaos engineering
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Testing Strategies for Cloud‑Native Applications
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Apr 30, 2021 · Operations

Health Management and Diagnostics in Microservices

The article explains how microservices can achieve resilience through health reporting, diagnostics, standardized logging, health‑check implementations, and orchestrator coordination to detect failures, restart services, handle upgrades, and recover from partial cloud‑based failures.

Resiliencediagnosticshealth checks
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Health Management and Diagnostics in Microservices
Java Architecture Diary
Java Architecture Diary
Apr 19, 2021 · Operations

Why Loki Is the Lightweight, Scalable Log Solution You Need Over EFK

This article introduces Loki, Grafana’s lightweight, horizontally scalable log aggregation system, compares it with the EFK stack, explains Promtail, LogQL query language, alerting, and how Loki integrates with Grafana and Prometheus for unified metrics and logs, highlighting its low‑resource, cloud‑native advantages.

Cloud NativeLokilog-aggregation
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Why Loki Is the Lightweight, Scalable Log Solution You Need Over EFK
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 18, 2021 · Operations

How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring System with Thanos on Kubernetes

This article explains why monitoring is essential for production stability, compares white‑box and black‑box approaches, details the advantages of Prometheus, walks through its architecture, metric types, query language, high‑availability strategies with Thanos, and provides practical Kubernetes deployment manifests and configuration tips.

DevOpsKubernetesPrometheus
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How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring System with Thanos on Kubernetes
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 3, 2021 · Operations

Designing a Scalable, High‑Availability Monitoring System with Prometheus & Thanos

This article explores the challenges of building a reliable monitoring platform, compares open‑source solutions such as Elasticsearch, Nagios, Zabbix and Prometheus, and details how to achieve high availability and horizontal scaling using Prometheus, Thanos, sharding, remote‑write, and Kubernetes orchestration.

Thanoshigh availabilityobservability
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Designing a Scalable, High‑Availability Monitoring System with Prometheus & Thanos
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 22, 2021 · Cloud Native

How to Implement Cloud‑Native Architecture with SAE: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article explains why modern enterprises need cloud‑native architecture, introduces the SESORA maturity model, and provides a detailed, practical walkthrough of deploying a cloud‑native application on Alibaba Cloud SAE, covering namespace creation, app configuration, SLB binding, service discovery, elasticity, observability, resilience, and automation.

MicroservicesSaaSautomation
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How to Implement Cloud‑Native Architecture with SAE: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Big Data Technology & Architecture
Mar 13, 2021 · Operations

Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring: Objectives, Methods, Tools, and Best Practices

This article provides an in‑depth overview of monitoring, covering its purpose, key objectives, practical methods, core processes, a detailed comparison of popular monitoring tools such as Zabbix and Prometheus, and best‑practice recommendations for building scalable, reliable, and intelligent monitoring platforms.

InfrastructureOperationsPrometheus
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Comprehensive Guide to Monitoring: Objectives, Methods, Tools, and Best Practices
Node Underground
Node Underground
Mar 12, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability and Scheduling in the Cloud‑Native Era

Alinode expands its Node.js performance diagnostics into a full‑stack observability and scheduling platform for serverless workloads, offering traffic monitoring, white‑screen logs, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardized metrics, and a cloud‑native runtime that balances cost and performance.

Cloud NativeNode.jsPerformance Monitoring
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How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability and Scheduling in the Cloud‑Native Era
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Mar 12, 2021 · Cloud Native

How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability & Scheduling in Serverless Cloud Native Era

This article outlines how Alinode has evolved from a Node.js performance diagnostic tool into a comprehensive observability and scheduling platform for serverless environments, detailing its Insight monitoring features, remote debugging, crash analysis, standardization efforts, and runtime optimizations that improve cost and performance.

AlinodeCloud NativeNode.js
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How Alinode Boosts Node.js Observability & Scheduling in Serverless Cloud Native Era
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Mar 12, 2021 · Operations

Implementation and Practice of LEDAO‑CAT Monitoring System for iQIYI Content Platform

To meet the LEDAO platform’s need for rapid anomaly detection, full‑stack observability, and reliable alerting across more than 100 microservices, iQIYI evaluated OpenFalcon, Prometheus and CAT, selected CAT, deployed separate mainland and overseas clusters, added configurable access, health‑check and integrated alert channels, enabling five‑minute service onboarding, near‑zero‑intrusion instrumentation, and real‑time business‑level monitoring.

AlertingCATDevOps
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Implementation and Practice of LEDAO‑CAT Monitoring System for iQIYI Content Platform
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Feb 25, 2021 · Operations

How Distributed Tracing Solves Microservice Performance Bottlenecks with SkyWalking

This article explains the principles of distributed tracing, the OpenTracing standard, SkyWalking's architecture and sampling strategies, and shares a company's practical customizations—including forced sampling, fine‑grained group sampling, log4j traceId injection, and self‑developed plugins—to help pinpoint performance issues in microservice environments.

JavaOpenTracingPerformance Monitoring
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How Distributed Tracing Solves Microservice Performance Bottlenecks with SkyWalking
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Feb 25, 2021 · Industry Insights

Why DiDi’s Obsuite Is Redefining Hybrid‑Cloud Observability

Obsuite, DiDi’s open‑source observability suite, tackles hybrid‑cloud monitoring challenges by combining metrics, logs, and traces, while the article analyzes market trends, private‑cloud demand, and the product’s architecture, open‑source components, and the OCE certification program for enterprise users.

Log Managementhybrid cloudindustry trends
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Why DiDi’s Obsuite Is Redefining Hybrid‑Cloud Observability
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 22, 2021 · Operations

Why Does Prometheus Sometimes Fail to Trigger Alerts? Explained

Prometheus alerts may not fire even when metrics exceed thresholds due to the ‘for’ pending duration, sparse sampling, and Grafana’s range queries, and this article explains the underlying mechanisms, illustrates common pitfalls with diagrams, and offers practical strategies to diagnose and resolve missing or unexpected alerts.

GrafanaPrometheusobservability
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Why Does Prometheus Sometimes Fail to Trigger Alerts? Explained
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Feb 9, 2021 · Operations

Master Elastic Observability: Build a Full‑Stack Monitoring Platform in Half a Day

This workshop guides participants from installing a single‑node Elastic Stack to deploying a cloud‑native observability platform for a multi‑tier pet‑store application, covering health checks, metrics, logs, APM tracing, SLO/SLI setup, and custom dashboards across local, AWS, and Tencent Cloud environments.

Cloud NativeElastic StackSRE
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Master Elastic Observability: Build a Full‑Stack Monitoring Platform in Half a Day
21CTO
21CTO
Feb 3, 2021 · Operations

Bridging Product Development and SRE: How to Ensure Stability Across the Software Lifecycle

This article explains the role of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in bridging product and foundational technology development, outlines the software lifecycle, describes how SRE ensures system stability through controllability, observability, and protection, and provides practical best‑practice checklists and maturity levels for evaluating and improving reliability.

OperationsSREobservability
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Bridging Product Development and SRE: How to Ensure Stability Across the Software Lifecycle
JavaEdge
JavaEdge
Feb 2, 2021 · Cloud Native

Why Istio Is the Go-To Service Mesh for Modern Microservices

Istio is a fully open‑source service‑mesh platform that adds a transparent control plane to existing distributed applications, enabling traffic routing, access policies, telemetry, security, and observability without code changes, and it offers features such as virtual services, destination rules, gateways, sidecar configuration, fault injection, retries, timeouts, metrics, logging and distributed tracing.

IstioKubernetesTraffic Management
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Why Istio Is the Go-To Service Mesh for Modern Microservices
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Feb 1, 2021 · Operations

How to Build a Low‑Cost Distributed Tracing System for Microservices

This article explains the evolution from a monolithic architecture to microservices, outlines the new pain points such as fault isolation, performance bottlenecks and scaling inefficiencies, and presents a practical, low‑cost distributed tracing solution with unified frameworks, components, configuration management, data collection, and visualization.

configuration managementdistributed tracingobservability
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How to Build a Low‑Cost Distributed Tracing System for Microservices
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Native

Blackbox Monitoring with Prometheus Blackbox Exporter in Kubernetes

This guide explains how to complement Prometheus white‑box monitoring with black‑box probes by deploying the Blackbox Exporter in a Kubernetes cluster, configuring ConfigMaps, Deployments, Services, and Prometheus scrape jobs for HTTP, DNS, TCP, and ICMP checks, and using annotations for automatic service discovery.

Blackbox ExporterPrometheusmonitoring
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Blackbox Monitoring with Prometheus Blackbox Exporter in Kubernetes
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 19, 2021 · Operations

How SRE Bridges Development and Operations to Boost System Reliability

This article explores the role of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a bridge between product development and operations, detailing its responsibilities, core principles, lifecycle perspective, stability value, and practical frameworks for controllability, observability, and best‑practice implementation to enhance system reliability.

SRESoftware Lifecycleobservability
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How SRE Bridges Development and Operations to Boost System Reliability
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Jan 19, 2021 · Cloud Native

Key Considerations for Building a Cloud‑Native Architecture

The article outlines the principles and practical considerations of cloud‑native architecture, covering platform‑agnostic design, container and Kubernetes foundations, microservice decomposition, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, tracing, logging, and fault‑tolerant high‑availability strategies for building resilient distributed systems.

CI/CDMicroservicescloud-native
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Key Considerations for Building a Cloud‑Native Architecture
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jan 16, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Cloud‑Native Architecture and Its Key Patterns

The article explains cloud‑native architecture as a set of principles and design patterns that offload non‑functional concerns to cloud services, and it details major patterns such as service‑oriented, mesh, serverless, storage‑compute separation, distributed transactions, observability, and event‑driven architectures.

MicroservicesServerlesscloud-native
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Understanding Cloud‑Native Architecture and Its Key Patterns
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 15, 2021 · Operations

Why Does Prometheus Sometimes Fail to Trigger Alerts?

This article explains why Prometheus alerts may not fire or may fire unexpectedly, covering the role of the for parameter, sampling intervals, Grafana range queries, and practical steps to diagnose and fix alerting issues.

AlertingGrafanaPrometheus
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Why Does Prometheus Sometimes Fail to Trigger Alerts?
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 11, 2021 · Operations

Unlocking Prometheus: How TSDB Powers Scalable Monitoring and Fast Queries

This article demystifies Prometheus by explaining its core concepts, daily monitoring queries, the role of its TSDB storage engine, how series, label, and time indexes enable fast time‑series queries, and how pre‑computed recording rules boost performance for dashboards and alerts.

PrometheusTSDBobservability
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Unlocking Prometheus: How TSDB Powers Scalable Monitoring and Fast Queries
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 3, 2021 · Cloud Native

5 Must-Watch Open-Source Kubernetes Projects Shaping 2021

Discover five emerging open-source Kubernetes projects—including Quarkus, OpenTelemetry, Argo CD, Envoy/Contour, and OKD 4—that are driving cloud-native innovation in 2021 by enhancing Java workloads, observability, GitOps, traffic management, and developer tooling, and simplifying deployment pipelines.

Cloud NativeDevOpsGitOps
0 likes · 7 min read
5 Must-Watch Open-Source Kubernetes Projects Shaping 2021
Architect
Architect
Jan 2, 2021 · Operations

Layered Architecture of Microservice Monitoring and Key Practices

This article explains the layered architecture of microservice monitoring, detailing five monitoring levels—from infrastructure to end-user experience—along with essential monitoring points such as logs, metrics, tracing, alerts, and health checks, and presents a typical monitoring stack using agents, Kafka, ELK, and InfluxDB.

Operationsloggingmetrics
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Layered Architecture of Microservice Monitoring and Key Practices
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Dec 30, 2020 · Operations

Lessons Learned from Two Years of Running Kubernetes in Production

This article recounts a two‑year journey of migrating from Ansible‑managed EC2 deployments to Kubernetes, detailing the motivations, migration strategy, operational challenges, tooling choices, resource management, security, cost considerations, and the development of custom controllers and CRDs to run production workloads reliably.

CI/CDDevOpsInfrastructure
0 likes · 18 min read
Lessons Learned from Two Years of Running Kubernetes in Production