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DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Nov 27, 2022 · Operations

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

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

AIOpsCloudCost Optimization
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Best Practices for Full‑Stack Operations Monitoring and Cost Reduction Using Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Nov 25, 2022 · Operations

Overview of Volcano Engine A/B Experiment System Platform

This article presents a comprehensive overview of Volcano Engine's A/B testing platform, detailing its four core stages—reliable experiment system, efficient data construction, scientific statistical analysis, and fine-grained governance—while explaining execution components, data pipelines, statistical methods, and operational best practices for large‑scale experimentation.

A/B testingBig DataExperiment Platform
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Overview of Volcano Engine A/B Experiment System Platform
HelloTech
HelloTech
Nov 22, 2022 · Operations

Guidelines for Incident Postmortem and Fault Review

The incident postmortem guideline advocates a dialectical view of failures, rapid low‑severity recovery, and a structured process—covering background, impact scope, timeline replay, deep root‑cause analysis, SMART improvement actions, responsibility assignment, and PDCA‑validated closure—to enhance system resilience, team anti‑fragility, and knowledge sharing.

High AvailabilityMTBFMTTR
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Guidelines for Incident Postmortem and Fault Review
High Availability Architecture
High Availability Architecture
Nov 18, 2022 · Backend Development

Microservice Architecture: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned from a Data‑Service Company

An in‑depth case study of a data‑service company's transition to microservices details the initial benefits such as visibility and reduced deployment cost, the subsequent problems of queue head blocking, shared‑library versioning, scaling complexity, and the eventual trade‑offs that led to a partial monolith rollback.

Operationsarchitecturebackend
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Microservice Architecture: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned from a Data‑Service Company
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 16, 2022 · Operations

Building a 99.95% Uptime Cloud‑Native Platform: Guoxin Securities’ Ops Journey

Guoxin Securities’ QianKun centralized operation platform showcases a cloud‑native, micro‑service architecture that achieved 99.95% availability through containerization, multi‑region deployment, AI‑driven capacity forecasting, and comprehensive DevOps practices, offering a 24/7 seamless account‑opening experience and setting industry benchmarks.

AIOpsOperationscloud-native
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Building a 99.95% Uptime Cloud‑Native Platform: Guoxin Securities’ Ops Journey
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Nov 16, 2022 · Operations

Understanding Business Process Maturity Models and Their Practical Use

This article explains what maturity models are, why they matter for evaluating and improving organizational processes, reviews common business process maturity models (BPMM) and their limitations, introduces the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and the Agile ISO Maturity Model (AIMM), and offers guidance on selecting and applying a suitable model.

AIMMCMMIOperations
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Understanding Business Process Maturity Models and Their Practical Use
Xiaohe Frontend Team
Xiaohe Frontend Team
Nov 14, 2022 · Operations

How to Classify and Prioritize Online Incidents for Better System Stability

Effective incident management begins with clear classification; this guide explains how technical leaders can categorize online failures by nature, severity, and source—distinguishing usability versus financial loss incidents, ranking P0‑P3 levels, and identifying external, operational, product, and system‑quality fault types—to improve stability and learning.

Operationsfault classificationsystem stability
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How to Classify and Prioritize Online Incidents for Better System Stability
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Nov 14, 2022 · Operations

Inside Google’s Retired File Server Backend: Exploring the Main Directory

This case study examines how Google decommissioned its legacy file‑server backend, focusing on the design, management, and migration of the main directory, and highlights the operational lessons and SRE practices that ensured a smooth transition without service disruption.

Case StudyFile ServerGoogle SRE
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Inside Google’s Retired File Server Backend: Exploring the Main Directory
Zuoyebang Tech Team
Zuoyebang Tech Team
Nov 14, 2022 · Cloud Native

How We Built a Multi‑Cloud, Multi‑Active Architecture at Zuoyebang

This article details Zuoyebang's journey from a single‑cloud setup to a multi‑cloud, multi‑active architecture, covering business drivers, design principles, network planning, compute and storage strategies, traffic scheduling, container migration, operational management, and the measurable cost, stability, and efficiency benefits achieved.

Multi-CloudOperationsarchitecture
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How We Built a Multi‑Cloud, Multi‑Active Architecture at Zuoyebang
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Nov 13, 2022 · Operations

An Introduction to Apache Airflow: Features and Benefits of Digital Workflow Management

This article explains why modern organizations replace manual cron jobs with automated digital workflow management using Apache Airflow, detailing its troubleshooting, flexibility, monitoring, rich web UI, CLI/API, complex dependency handling, scalability, containerization, and extensibility through plugins and integrations.

Apache AirflowOperationsWorkflow Automation
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An Introduction to Apache Airflow: Features and Benefits of Digital Workflow Management
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 10, 2022 · Operations

How Liaoning Mobile Won the DevOps Team Award: Inside Their Agile Transformation

The article details Liaoning Mobile's award-winning DevOps transformation, describing the team's background, agile implementation, toolchain construction, challenges faced, system highlights, and measurable results that earned them the prestigious Communication Industry DevOps Team Award at the 2022 GOITI ceremony.

AgileCase StudyOperations
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How Liaoning Mobile Won the DevOps Team Award: Inside Their Agile Transformation
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Nov 9, 2022 · Cloud Native

13 Common Kubernetes Pod Failures and How to Diagnose Them

This article outlines the Kubernetes pod lifecycle, describes the five pod phases, enumerates 13 typical failure scenarios—including scheduling, image pull, dependency, init container, probe, and OOM issues—provides error states, root causes, and step‑by‑step kubectl commands for diagnosis and remediation.

KubernetesOperationsTroubleshooting
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13 Common Kubernetes Pod Failures and How to Diagnose Them
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 8, 2022 · Operations

Diagnosing High Load with Low CPU on Linux: Tools and Tips

This guide explains how to analyze and troubleshoot situations where Linux systems show high load averages despite low CPU usage, covering common load analysis methods, key commands like top, vmstat, iostat, sar, and ps, and practical solutions for I/O bottlenecks and D‑state processes.

CPULinuxLoad
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Diagnosing High Load with Low CPU on Linux: Tools and Tips
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 8, 2022 · Operations

Building a Billion‑User Membership System: ES, Redis & MySQL High‑Availability

This article details how a large‑scale membership platform achieves high performance and near‑zero downtime by employing dual‑center Elasticsearch clusters, traffic‑isolated ES architectures, deep ES optimizations, Redis caching with distributed locks, and a seamless MySQL migration with partitioned, dual‑center databases.

High AvailabilityOperationsRedis
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Building a Billion‑User Membership System: ES, Redis & MySQL High‑Availability
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Nov 7, 2022 · Operations

Automating Fault Self‑Healing: A Practical Guide for Operations Teams

This article explains why disk‑space alerts demand automated handling, introduces the concept of fault self‑healing, outlines required process standards, describes monitoring platform dimensions, details a multi‑source self‑healing platform architecture, and offers practical steps for integration, notification, and continuous improvement.

CMDBOperationsfault self-healing
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Automating Fault Self‑Healing: A Practical Guide for Operations Teams
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 7, 2022 · Operations

Essential Redis Monitoring Metrics and Commands for Effective Operations

This guide details key Redis monitoring metrics—including performance, memory, activity, persistence, and error indicators—along with practical commands, configuration settings, and code snippets to help operators efficiently track and troubleshoot Redis instances.

LinuxOperationsPerformance
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Essential Redis Monitoring Metrics and Commands for Effective Operations
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 6, 2022 · Operations

Visualizing Business‑Process Monitoring with Grafana, Diagram & FlowCharting

This article examines the evolution of a monitoring platform, identifies key challenges such as alarm overload and fragmented data, and presents a solution that combines Grafana with Diagram and FlowCharting plugins to create business‑process‑oriented, data‑driven visualizations for faster issue resolution.

FlowChartingGrafanaMermaid
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Visualizing Business‑Process Monitoring with Grafana, Diagram & FlowCharting
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Nov 6, 2022 · Cloud Native

How to Safely Shut Down and Restart a Kubernetes Cluster

This guide walks you through the essential steps, commands, and precautions for safely draining nodes, backing up applications, CRDs, and etcd, then shutting down and later restarting a Kubernetes cluster while avoiding common pitfalls.

Cluster MaintenanceEtcdKubernetes
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How to Safely Shut Down and Restart a Kubernetes Cluster
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Nov 4, 2022 · Fundamentals

eBay Scalability Best Practices: Functional Partitioning, Horizontal Sharding, Async Decoupling, and More

This article outlines eBay's key scalability best practices—including functional decomposition, horizontal sharding, avoiding distributed transactions, asynchronous decoupling, virtualization, and intelligent caching—to demonstrate how large‑scale web systems can achieve linear resource growth and high availability.

CachingOperationsSharding
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eBay Scalability Best Practices: Functional Partitioning, Horizontal Sharding, Async Decoupling, and More
Architect's Guide
Architect's Guide
Nov 1, 2022 · Operations

Implementing Load Balancing with Nginx and SpringBoot

This article explains how to achieve load balancing using Nginx, covering the concepts of hardware and software load balancers, various Nginx balancing algorithms with configuration examples, and a step‑by‑step guide to integrate Nginx with a SpringBoot application, test it, and handle common pitfalls.

NginxOperationsSpringBoot
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Implementing Load Balancing with Nginx and SpringBoot
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 31, 2022 · Operations

Key Takeaways from the 2022 GOPS Global Operations Conference Shanghai – DevOps, AIOps & Cloud Insights

The two‑day 2022 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai featured 16 tracks, over 80 speakers, new DevOps standards, extensive assessment results, and a wealth of sessions on DevOps, AIOps, cloud‑native practices, security, and industry case studies, offering a comprehensive snapshot of modern operations engineering.

AIOpsOperationsassessment
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Key Takeaways from the 2022 GOPS Global Operations Conference Shanghai – DevOps, AIOps & Cloud Insights
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Oct 31, 2022 · Operations

Rolling Deployment Strategy: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Considerations

The rolling deployment strategy incrementally replaces old application instances with new ones, allowing users to encounter both versions during rollout, and is praised for ease of implementation, low risk, and default support in platforms like Kubernetes, though it can be slow, costly for large infrastructures, and may affect user experience.

Deployment StrategyKubernetesOperations
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Rolling Deployment Strategy: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Considerations
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 31, 2022 · Operations

How China Minsheng Bank Achieved Advanced DevOps Maturity – A Deep Dive

China Minsheng Bank’s centralized operation business processing system passed the Level 2 technical operation assessment of the national DevOps maturity model, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, continuous delivery pipelines, and cross‑team collaboration can boost efficiency, safety, and competitiveness in the banking sector.

Case StudyChinaMaturity Model
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How China Minsheng Bank Achieved Advanced DevOps Maturity – A Deep Dive
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Oct 31, 2022 · Information Security

Essential Security Checklist for Ops: From Port Hardening to Data Protection

This article shares practical security best practices for operations teams, covering why security is often overlooked, real incident examples, and detailed guidelines on port hardening, system hardening (login management, vulnerability scanning, baseline checks), application, network, and data protection, emphasizing continuous investment and simple safeguards.

Best PracticesInformation SecurityOperations
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Essential Security Checklist for Ops: From Port Hardening to Data Protection
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Oct 30, 2022 · Operations

Unlock Kubernetes Insights: Master Event Types, Monitoring, and Alerting

This guide explains what Kubernetes events are, how to list and filter them, categorizes common event types, and shows practical ways to collect, store, and alert on events using native commands and open‑source tools, helping teams reduce alert fatigue and improve cluster observability.

AlertingEventsKubernetes
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Unlock Kubernetes Insights: Master Event Types, Monitoring, and Alerting
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 28, 2022 · Operations

How Liaoning Mobile Achieved Leading‑Edge DevOps with a Level‑3 Continuous Delivery Assessment

Liaoning Mobile’s Channel Management System project passed the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model Level‑3 continuous delivery assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, toolchains, and agile transformation boosted delivery speed, team capability, and operational efficiency, positioning the carrier at the forefront of China’s digital transformation.

AgileCase StudyIT transformation
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How Liaoning Mobile Achieved Leading‑Edge DevOps with a Level‑3 Continuous Delivery Assessment
Ziru Technology
Ziru Technology
Oct 28, 2022 · Operations

Why Feature Environments Fail and How to Build a Reliable One

This article analyzes the difficulties of initializing stable environments, the poor usability and low reliability of feature environments, proposes concrete solutions such as unified test environments, streamlined creation workflows, middleware adjustments, testing and documentation, and shares practical reflections from real deployments.

DeploymentMiddlewareOperations
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Why Feature Environments Fail and How to Build a Reliable One
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Oct 25, 2022 · Operations

How a Government System’s Week‑Long Outage Exposed Critical Backend and Load‑Balancing Flaws

A government information system suffered a week of instability, including service deadlocks, Tomcat memory overflows, and load‑balancing failures, prompting a deep forensic analysis that uncovered database lock‑ups, faulty front‑end loops, inadequate monitoring, and misconfigured logging, leading to concrete remediation steps and lessons for future reliability.

Operationsincident analysisload balancing
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How a Government System’s Week‑Long Outage Exposed Critical Backend and Load‑Balancing Flaws
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 20, 2022 · Cloud Native

Why Kubernetes Remains Complex and How Serverless Designs Aim to Simplify It

The article examines the inherent and accidental complexities of Kubernetes as a distributed cluster manager, discusses challenges in resource scheduling, infrastructure diversity, and operational overhead, and explores how cloud‑native solutions such as managed services, nodeless and serverless Kubernetes architectures attempt to reduce these complexities while introducing new trade‑offs.

KubernetesOperationsResource Scheduling
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Why Kubernetes Remains Complex and How Serverless Designs Aim to Simplify It
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Oct 19, 2022 · Industry Insights

What Sets Platform Engineering Apart from DevOps and SRE?

The article clarifies the distinctions between platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE, explaining their origins, common misconceptions, challenges such as shadow operations and developer cognitive load, and how platform engineering builds on these practices to deliver self‑service internal developer platforms that improve productivity and reliability.

Internal Developer PlatformOperationsPlatform Engineering
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What Sets Platform Engineering Apart from DevOps and SRE?
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 18, 2022 · Backend Development

Nginx Configuration Guide: HTTP Server, Static Files, Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing and Advanced Directives

This comprehensive guide explains how to configure Nginx as an HTTP server, static file server, reverse proxy, and load balancer, covering directory setup, location matching rules, priority order, upstream strategies, and useful directives such as return, rewrite, error_page, logging and access control.

NginxOperationsReverse Proxy
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Nginx Configuration Guide: HTTP Server, Static Files, Reverse Proxy, Load Balancing and Advanced Directives
DevOps
DevOps
Oct 17, 2022 · Operations

Platform Engineering: Bridging Developers and Infrastructure Beyond DevOps

The article examines platform engineering as a discipline that unifies developers' desire to avoid infrastructure work with enterprises' need for control, critiques the hype around DevOps, and argues that effective internal developer platforms require solid fundamentals, IaC practices, and cultural change.

IaCInternal Developer PlatformOperations
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Platform Engineering: Bridging Developers and Infrastructure Beyond DevOps
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Oct 17, 2022 · Cloud Native

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

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

KubernetesObservabilityOperations
0 likes · 7 min read
A Three‑Step Approach to Understanding, Managing, and Preventing Kubernetes Failures
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 16, 2022 · Operations

How Chinese Banks Accelerate IT Efficiency with DevOps Maturity Models

This article reports how 21 Chinese banking institutions evaluated 82 projects using the CAICT-led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing the breakdown across state‑owned, joint‑stock, and city commercial banks, and explains the model’s standards and industry impact.

IT efficiencyMaturity ModelOperations
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How Chinese Banks Accelerate IT Efficiency with DevOps Maturity Models
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 15, 2022 · Backend Development

Designing Fault‑Tolerant Microservices: Patterns and Practices

The article explains how microservice architectures can achieve high availability by isolating failures, employing graceful degradation, change‑management strategies, health checks, fallback caching, retry logic, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and chaos testing, while acknowledging the added complexity and cost of such reliability engineering.

OperationsReliabilitybackend
0 likes · 13 min read
Designing Fault‑Tolerant Microservices: Patterns and Practices
Big Data Technology Architecture
Big Data Technology Architecture
Oct 15, 2022 · Operations

The Rise of Platform Engineering: From DevOps Frustrations to Internal Developer Platforms

This article explains how platform engineering emerges from DevOps frustrations, defining internal developer platforms, outlining their principles, benefits, and implementation guidelines, and showing why organizations should adopt them to reduce cognitive load and improve developer productivity.

Internal Developer PlatformOperationsPlatform Engineering
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The Rise of Platform Engineering: From DevOps Frustrations to Internal Developer Platforms
Architecture and Beyond
Architecture and Beyond
Oct 15, 2022 · Operations

Technical Cost Optimization and Fine‑Grained Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Best Practices

This article provides a comprehensive guide for technical leaders on reducing and managing technology costs through a two‑stage approach of cost optimization and fine‑grained operations, covering team formation, current‑state analysis, discount and storage tactics, project planning, communication, and long‑term process and system support.

Cloud ComputingCost OptimizationOperations
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Technical Cost Optimization and Fine‑Grained Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Best Practices
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 13, 2022 · Operations

How China’s Telecom Leaders Boost IT Efficiency Using the DevOps Maturity Model

Across China’s telecom sector, leading operators such as China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom have leveraged the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model to assess dozens of projects, achieving faster delivery cycles, higher automation, standardized interfaces, and improved IT efficiency through continuous delivery, technical operation, and system‑tool integration.

Maturity ModelOperationsTelecom
0 likes · 14 min read
How China’s Telecom Leaders Boost IT Efficiency Using the DevOps Maturity Model
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 13, 2022 · Operations

How Leading Chinese Insurers Achieved DevOps Maturity: Real-World Case Studies

This article reviews how three major Chinese insurance companies applied the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model to improve IT efficiency, integrate resources, and support business systems, highlighting project details, architectural innovations, and measurable outcomes across continuous delivery, technology operations, and risk management.

Case StudyInsuranceMaturity Model
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How Leading Chinese Insurers Achieved DevOps Maturity: Real-World Case Studies
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 12, 2022 · Operations

How Chinese Banks Accelerate IT Efficiency with DevOps Maturity Assessments

This article reviews how leading Chinese banks and financial institutions have adopted the CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing their assessment results across continuous delivery, technical operations, security, and tooling standards, and highlighting the operational benefits achieved.

IT efficiencyMaturity ModelOperations
0 likes · 16 min read
How Chinese Banks Accelerate IT Efficiency with DevOps Maturity Assessments
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 12, 2022 · Operations

How China’s State Banks Achieved Top DevOps Maturity: Real‑World Case Studies

This article reviews how major Chinese state‑owned banks applied the China Information Communication Research Institute's DevOps Capability Maturity Model, detailing assessment results, project implementations, and performance improvements across continuous delivery, security, and system tooling, offering valuable insights for enterprises pursuing DevOps transformation.

Case StudyMaturity ModelOperations
0 likes · 18 min read
How China’s State Banks Achieved Top DevOps Maturity: Real‑World Case Studies
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Oct 8, 2022 · Operations

Designing High‑Availability Internet Architecture: Redundancy and Automatic Failover

This article explains how to achieve high availability in internet systems by layering architecture, using redundancy and automatic failover across access, proxy, microservice, middleware, and storage components, and discusses practical techniques, common pitfalls, and operational safeguards for resilient services.

Automatic FailoverOperationsload balancing
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Designing High‑Availability Internet Architecture: Redundancy and Automatic Failover
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Oct 5, 2022 · Operations

Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

The article outlines Deming's fourteen fundamental principles for quality management, emphasizing a permanent purpose of improvement, a new philosophy, eliminating reliance on inspection, fostering continuous improvement, modern training and supervision, breaking departmental barriers, and establishing top‑level leadership to drive ongoing innovation.

DemingLeadershipOperations
0 likes · 7 min read
Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Oct 2, 2022 · Operations

Essential Linux Ops Practices: Prevent Disasters and Boost Stability

Drawing from three and a half years of Linux operations, this guide outlines practical standards for testing, confirming commands, avoiding concurrent edits, mandatory backups, data safety, security hardening, continuous monitoring, performance tuning, and the right mindset to keep production environments stable and secure.

Best PracticesLinuxOperations
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Essential Linux Ops Practices: Prevent Disasters and Boost Stability
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Sep 28, 2022 · Operations

The 13 Most Difficult IT Roles to Fill in 2021: Insights from the CIO Survey

The 2021 CIO Survey reveals that organizations worldwide are struggling to fill cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data analytics positions, with remote work expanding the talent pool but still leaving critical roles hard to staff, highlighting the need for strategic prioritization and new hiring approaches.

AI recruitmentCIO surveyCloud Services
0 likes · 14 min read
The 13 Most Difficult IT Roles to Fill in 2021: Insights from the CIO Survey
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 27, 2022 · Operations

How to Build a Scalable Rate‑Limiting System with Kong in Cloud‑Native Operations

This article outlines a comprehensive, cloud‑native rate‑limiting solution using Kong gateway, covering background challenges, design considerations, multi‑layer architecture, plugin development, CI/CD workflow, deployment strategies, and operational best practices to achieve low cost, high efficiency, and high quality across diverse projects.

CI/CDKongOperations
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How to Build a Scalable Rate‑Limiting System with Kong in Cloud‑Native Operations
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Sep 27, 2022 · Operations

Refactoring Alertmanager: Reducing Noise, Improving Escalation, Suppression, and Silence Management

This article shares practical experiences and solutions for improving an Alertmanager‑based alert system, addressing problems such as noisy alerts, lack of escalation, missing recovery notifications, suppression limitations, and cumbersome silence management by redesigning architecture, adding custom scripts, and extending database support.

AlertingAlertmanagerOperations
0 likes · 19 min read
Refactoring Alertmanager: Reducing Noise, Improving Escalation, Suppression, and Silence Management
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Sep 26, 2022 · Operations

Using Jenkins Deploy Dashboard Plugin for Visual Deployment Management

This article explains how to install and configure the Deploy Dashboard plugin in Jenkins to visualize deployment versions across environments, add deployment information via pipeline code, create custom dashboard views, and add quick‑deploy buttons for streamlined CI/CD operations.

AutomationCI/CDDeploy Dashboard
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Using Jenkins Deploy Dashboard Plugin for Visual Deployment Management
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
NetEase Yanxuan Technology Product Team
Sep 26, 2022 · Operations

How to Tame Alert Storms: Building a Systematic Monitoring and Alerting Framework for Microservices

This article analyzes the challenges of alert overload in large‑scale microservice environments and presents a systematic approach—including timeliness metrics, a maturity model, lifecycle tracking, feedback loops, downgrade mechanisms, and cross‑service aggregation—to improve alert effectiveness and reduce noise.

Alert ManagementMTTROperations
0 likes · 16 min read
How to Tame Alert Storms: Building a Systematic Monitoring and Alerting Framework for Microservices
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 25, 2022 · Operations

How to Achieve Zero‑Downtime Application Deployments with Spring Boot and Eureka

This article explains why zero‑downtime releases are essential for modern services, defines three maturity levels, compares common release patterns, outlines the required technical components, and provides step‑by‑step Spring Boot/Eureka procedures—including configuration and graceful‑shutdown scripts—to keep applications available during deployment.

DeploymentOperationsZero Downtime
0 likes · 20 min read
How to Achieve Zero‑Downtime Application Deployments with Spring Boot and Eureka
FunTester
FunTester
Sep 25, 2022 · Databases

Data Migration Scenarios, Testing, and Acceptance Guidelines

This article outlines common data migration scenarios such as system consolidation and database sharding, details analysis of user data before migration, discusses conflict resolution rules, presents migration planning and acceptance testing steps, and highlights post‑release monitoring and user feedback handling.

Data MigrationOperationsTesting
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Data Migration Scenarios, Testing, and Acceptance Guidelines
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Sep 24, 2022 · Operations

Overview of Redis Monitoring, Data Migration, and Cluster Management Tools

This article introduces essential Redis operational tools, covering real‑time monitoring with the INFO command and Prometheus‑exporter, data migration using Redis‑shake, consistency checking via Redis‑full‑check, and cluster management through CacheCloud, providing practical guidance for administrators.

Data MigrationOperationsPrometheus
0 likes · 10 min read
Overview of Redis Monitoring, Data Migration, and Cluster Management Tools
58UXD
58UXD
Sep 22, 2022 · Product Management

How 58 Recruitment Built a Unified Brand Experience with Design Standardization

This article explains how 58 Recruitment’s design team created a consistent brand feel across multiple online hiring events by using user insights, clear positioning, standardized visual principles, and a modular template system that speeds up design, development, and deployment while enhancing user perception.

OperationsProduct ManagementUX
0 likes · 10 min read
How 58 Recruitment Built a Unified Brand Experience with Design Standardization
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Sep 22, 2022 · Operations

How HuoLala Engineered a Scalable, High‑Availability Monitoring System for Multi‑Cloud

This article details the evolution of monitoring technologies, HuoLala's three‑phase monitoring architecture, the integration of Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics and SkyWalking, zero‑intrusion bytecode instrumentation, full‑link trace sampling, visual dashboards, metric‑trace‑log correlation, and future plans for root‑cause analysis and intelligent alerting.

CloudOperationsTracing
0 likes · 24 min read
How HuoLala Engineered a Scalable, High‑Availability Monitoring System for Multi‑Cloud
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 18, 2022 · Operations

Speed Up Sysadmin Tasks: Fast File Deletion, iSCSI Detection, and Group Management

This article shares practical Linux and vSphere techniques—including using rsync for rapid bulk deletions, scanning SCSI devices without reboot, safeguarding rm with shell parameter expansion, mounting remote filesystems via sshfs, and managing user groups with gpasswd—to boost everyday operations efficiency.

AutomationOperationsShell
0 likes · 11 min read
Speed Up Sysadmin Tasks: Fast File Deletion, iSCSI Detection, and Group Management
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Sep 16, 2022 · Operations

Building a Reliability Culture: Practices, Benefits, and Implementation

This article explains what a reliability culture is, why it matters, how to cultivate it through mission statements, early‑stage reliability testing, chaos‑engineering practices like GameDays and FireDrills, and how organizations can continuously learn from incidents to improve system availability and customer trust.

CultureOperationsReliability
0 likes · 18 min read
Building a Reliability Culture: Practices, Benefits, and Implementation
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Sep 13, 2022 · Operations

DevOps Learning Roadmap 2022 by Vrashabh Sontakke

This article presents a comprehensive 2022 DevOps learning roadmap compiled by engineer Vrashabh Sontakke, providing downloadable images and links to detailed resources that outline the essential tools, practices, and knowledge areas for aspiring DevOps professionals.

2022OperationsRoadmap
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DevOps Learning Roadmap 2022 by Vrashabh Sontakke
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.

AlertingFull‑Link TracingObservability
0 likes · 23 min read
How Yanxuan Built a Scalable Full‑Link Monitoring, Alerting, and Event‑Bus System for Microservices
Huolala Tech
Huolala Tech
Sep 8, 2022 · Databases

Why Build Your Own Database Middleware in the Multi‑Cloud Era?

The article explains why, contrary to common belief, the rise of multi‑cloud environments actually demands self‑built database middleware to ensure seamless adaptation, vendor neutrality, high availability, and cost‑effective scalability for growing enterprise workloads.

Database MiddlewareHigh AvailabilityMulti-Cloud
0 likes · 18 min read
Why Build Your Own Database Middleware in the Multi‑Cloud Era?
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Sep 7, 2022 · Operations

Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

The article outlines Deming's fourteen fundamental principles for quality management, emphasizing long‑term product and service improvement, statistical control, continuous process enhancement, employee empowerment, cross‑department collaboration, and the establishment of a high‑level management structure that drives perpetual innovation.

DemingOperationscontinuous improvement
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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management
Dada Group Technology
Dada Group Technology
Sep 5, 2022 · Operations

Design and Implementation of JD.com Data Construction Platform for Testing Efficiency

This article describes the motivation, design, architecture, key features, and outcomes of JD.com's data construction platform, which automates test data creation using a Springboot‑Mybatis‑Vue stack, significantly reducing manual effort and improving testing efficiency across multiple business lines.

Data ConstructionOperationsTesting automation
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Design and Implementation of JD.com Data Construction Platform for Testing Efficiency
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Sep 1, 2022 · Operations

What’s New in Zabbix 6.0? Enhanced Monitoring, HA, AI & Cloud Features Explained

Zabbix 6.0 introduces a suite of enhancements—including high‑availability clustering, advanced business‑service monitoring with SLA calculations, root‑cause analysis, machine‑learning‑based anomaly detection, Kubernetes templates, a redesigned audit log, TLS certificate checks, UI improvements, customizable branding, and new integrations—aimed at boosting operational visibility and efficiency across cloud and on‑premise environments.

High AvailabilityKubernetesMachine Learning
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What’s New in Zabbix 6.0? Enhanced Monitoring, HA, AI & Cloud Features Explained
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 1, 2022 · Operations

How Vivo’s Server‑Side Monitoring Evolved: Architecture, Data Flow, and Alert Strategies

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Vivo's server‑side monitoring system, detailing its architecture evolution, data collection pipelines, OpenTSDB storage design, alerting mechanisms, and comparisons with other mainstream monitoring solutions, offering practical guidance for technology selection and implementation.

OpenTSDBOperationsmonitoring
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How Vivo’s Server‑Side Monitoring Evolved: Architecture, Data Flow, and Alert Strategies
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Aug 31, 2022 · Operations

Why TIME_WAIT Connections Accumulate and How to Fix Them

In high‑concurrency scenarios, massive TIME_WAIT TCP connections can exhaust local ports, causing new connections to fail, but by understanding the TCP four‑handshake, adjusting socket reuse settings, and using keep‑alive, you can mitigate the issue.

LinuxOperationsSocket
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Why TIME_WAIT Connections Accumulate and How to Fix Them
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 30, 2022 · Operations

How ICBC Standardized Continuous Delivery to Supercharge DevOps Efficiency

This article details Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's journey to standardize continuous delivery, outlining the background challenges, the definition of release units, the construction of a standardized toolchain, implementation results, and future plans to enhance DevOps performance across the enterprise.

OperationsStandardizationcontinuous delivery
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How ICBC Standardized Continuous Delivery to Supercharge DevOps Efficiency
DataFunSummit
DataFunSummit
Aug 30, 2022 · Operations

CloudRCA: A Root Cause Analysis Framework for Cloud Computing Platforms

This article presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of CloudRCA, an intelligent root cause analysis framework for Alibaba Cloud's big‑data computing services, detailing challenges such as heterogeneous data, sample imbalance, and real‑time constraints, and describing the multi‑stage data processing, hierarchical Bayesian modeling, and deployment results that reduce MTTR by 20%.

Big DataOperationsRoot Cause Analysis
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CloudRCA: A Root Cause Analysis Framework for Cloud Computing Platforms
Zuoyebang Tech Team
Zuoyebang Tech Team
Aug 26, 2022 · Operations

How We Built a Three‑Layer Stability System for Massive Scale Operations

This article details the operational mindset, stability framework, and transformation journey of the Zuoyebang infrastructure team, covering service lifecycle management, standardization, cloud‑native architecture, multi‑active deployment, incident pre‑plan platforms, traffic scheduling, monitoring, capacity planning, and future directions for SRE service‑orientation.

AutomationOperationsSRE
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How We Built a Three‑Layer Stability System for Massive Scale Operations
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 BudgetObservability
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Core Reliability Principles in the Google Cloud Architecture Framework
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 20, 2022 · Operations

How Meituan Scaled Its CI/CD Pipeline Engine to 100k Daily Jobs with 99.99% Success

This article details Meituan's three‑year journey building a self‑developed pipeline engine that now handles nearly 100,000 daily executions with over 99.99% reliability, covering background, challenges, architectural decisions, core scheduling and resource‑pool designs, component layering, and future cloud‑native plans.

CI/CDJob SchedulingOperations
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How Meituan Scaled Its CI/CD Pipeline Engine to 100k Daily Jobs with 99.99% Success
Software Development Quality
Software Development Quality
Aug 19, 2022 · Operations

Comprehensive Quality Management SLA Framework for IT Services

This document outlines a detailed Service Level Agreement (SLA) framework covering quality service standards, management processes, testing capabilities, tool support, resource management, measurement systems, risk handling, and continuous improvement to ensure consistent delivery and customer satisfaction across IT operations.

OperationsSLATraining
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Comprehensive Quality Management SLA Framework for IT Services
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Aug 18, 2022 · Operations

Understanding DevOps: Integrating Development and Operations Beyond the ‘Who Develops Who Operates’ Myth

The article clarifies common misconceptions about DevOps, explains that true development‑operations integration relies on dedicated ops teams, automation tools, standardized delivery artifacts, and unified permission management rather than developers performing ops tasks, and highlights Google SRE practices as a practical guide.

AutomationContinuous IntegrationOperations
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Understanding DevOps: Integrating Development and Operations Beyond the ‘Who Develops Who Operates’ Myth
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Aug 17, 2022 · Operations

Design and Optimization of Testing Environment 3.0 at Qunar Travel

This article describes how Qunar Travel has evolved its testing environment governance from a fixed 10‑machine setup to a template‑driven, soft‑routing architecture (Environment 3.0), improving delivery speed, reliability, business connectivity, and reducing operational costs through automated sync, smart recommendations, and continuous business checks.

OperationsReliabilityTesting
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Design and Optimization of Testing Environment 3.0 at Qunar Travel
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 17, 2022 · Operations

Measuring Success in Continuous Delivery: Four Key Metrics and Practical Tips

This article explains why measuring is essential for continuous delivery, introduces four valuable metrics—deployable package count, cycle time, mean time between failures, and mean time to recovery—and offers practical tips to improve delivery speed and reliability.

MTBFMTTROperations
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Measuring Success in Continuous Delivery: Four Key Metrics and Practical Tips
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.

AIOpsHuolalaObservability
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How Huolala Built an AI‑Powered Intelligent Monitoring Platform at Scale
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 9, 2022 · Operations

How ICBC Accelerated Digital Transformation with XOps: From DevOps to MLOps

ICBC’s software development center outlines its multi‑year journey adopting XOps practices—DevOps, DevSecOps, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps, ChatOps and BizDevOps—to boost development efficiency, enhance security, accelerate data‑driven AI, and cut costs, showcasing measurable improvements in release frequency, defect rates, and operational automation.

AIOpsDataOpsDigitalTransformation
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How ICBC Accelerated Digital Transformation with XOps: From DevOps to MLOps
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Aug 8, 2022 · Operations

Log Shrinking Techniques and Case Study for Reducing Log Size

This article explains why oversized logs hurt system performance, presents three practical log‑shrinking strategies—printing only necessary logs, merging duplicate entries, and simplifying content—illustrates them with Java code snippets, and evaluates their impact through a real‑world case that cuts daily log volume from 5 GB to under 1 GB.

LoggingOperationsPerformance
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Log Shrinking Techniques and Case Study for Reducing Log Size
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Aug 7, 2022 · Operations

Key Capabilities for Continuous Delivery and DevOps Success

The article outlines twenty‑four essential capabilities—spanning continuous delivery, architecture, product and process, lean management, and culture—that research shows drive high performance in software delivery and organizational outcomes.

CultureLean ManagementOperations
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Key Capabilities for Continuous Delivery and DevOps Success
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Aug 6, 2022 · Operations

When Core Switches Suddenly Die: The Hidden SSD Time‑Bomb in Network Gear

A network engineer recounts a terrifying outage caused by a firmware‑related SSD bug that locks core switches after 28,224 hours of use, explains the emergency troubleshooting steps taken, and highlights the need for better vendor recall mechanisms to protect critical infrastructure.

Hardware ReliabilityOperationsSSD bug
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When Core Switches Suddenly Die: The Hidden SSD Time‑Bomb in Network Gear