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Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Sep 12, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s XSigma AI Engine Revolutionizes Customer Service Scheduling

The XSigma system combines AI‑driven demand forecasting, real‑time optimization, visual decision‑making and intelligent training to automatically schedule, scale, balance load and match customers with the best agents, dramatically improving resource utilization and user experience for Alibaba’s massive CCO operation.

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningOperations
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How Alibaba’s XSigma AI Engine Revolutionizes Customer Service Scheduling
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Sep 11, 2018 · Operations

How Qunar’s Fault Injection Platform Ensures High‑Availability in Complex Backend Systems

Qunar built a fault‑injection platform that dynamically injects runtime errors into its densely coupled backend services, enabling verification of degradation and circuit‑breaker strategies, with a four‑part architecture comprising a web UI, deployment system, command server, and Java agents using Instrumentation‑API for bytecode weaving.

AOPFault InjectionJava Instrumentation
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How Qunar’s Fault Injection Platform Ensures High‑Availability in Complex Backend Systems
DevOps
DevOps
Sep 10, 2018 · Operations

Challenges and DevOps Transformation in Traditional Financial Enterprises

This talk examines how traditional financial institutions, facing intense internet disruption, struggle with DevOps adoption, highlighting real-world case studies, the importance of granularity and decoupling, internal innovation mechanisms, and practical steps such as physical Kanban, CI/CD pipelines, and Git workflows to improve efficiency.

Operationsdevopsfinancial services
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Challenges and DevOps Transformation in Traditional Financial Enterprises
Youzan Coder
Youzan Coder
Sep 7, 2018 · Operations

How We Built a Configurable Online Test Monitoring System for Real‑Time CI/CD Alerts

This article details the design, evolution, and implementation of an online test‑monitoring platform that transforms CI/CD pipelines into proactive alerting systems, covering the initial Spring‑based prototype, its shortcomings, the 2.0 configurable and visual redesign, plugin architecture, and future distributed deployment plans.

CI/CDOperationsSpring
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How We Built a Configurable Online Test Monitoring System for Real‑Time CI/CD Alerts
DevOps
DevOps
Sep 5, 2018 · Operations

Five Essential Flow Metrics for Effective DevOps Transformations

This article explains five essential flow metrics—Flow Time, Flow Efficiency, WIP Report, Aging Report, and Flow Distribution—showing how they help technology companies measure outcomes, improve predictability, and optimize DevOps transformations through data‑driven insights.

OperationsPerformancedevops
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Five Essential Flow Metrics for Effective DevOps Transformations
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Sep 5, 2018 · Operations

Tencent SNG Operations: Business Profiling for Capacity Planning, Activity Modeling, and Multi‑Region Deployment

The article explains how Tencent's SNG operations team uses business profiling—including capacity, activity, core‑link, and SET models—to address performance testing across device types, forecast activity‑driven resource needs, identify core versus peripheral services, and plan reliable multi‑region deployments.

Operationsbusiness profilingcapacity planning
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Tencent SNG Operations: Business Profiling for Capacity Planning, Activity Modeling, and Multi‑Region Deployment
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Sep 2, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Ops Interview Guide: 30+ Questions & Solutions

A comprehensive collection of Linux operations interview questions and answers covering topics such as system maintenance, networking, load balancing, RAID, MySQL, scripting, security, and troubleshooting, providing practical guidance for candidates seeking high‑pay Linux sysadmin roles.

LinuxOperationsinterview
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Essential Linux Ops Interview Guide: 30+ Questions & Solutions
360 Tech Engineering
360 Tech Engineering
Aug 29, 2018 · Operations

Monitoring Elasticsearch Performance: Host‑Level System and Network Metrics, Cluster Health, and Resource Saturation

This article continues the Elasticsearch performance monitoring series by detailing host‑level system and network metrics, cluster health and node availability, resource saturation, and related errors, providing practical guidance on disk space, I/O, CPU, network throughput, file descriptors, HTTP connections, thread pools, caches, pending tasks, and failed GET requests.

Cluster healthElasticsearchOperations
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Monitoring Elasticsearch Performance: Host‑Level System and Network Metrics, Cluster Health, and Resource Saturation
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 28, 2018 · Operations

How to Detect and Resolve Time‑Series Anomalies in Modern AIOps

This article explains practical approaches for time‑series anomaly detection, multi‑dimensional drill‑down analysis, alarm‑convergence root‑cause analysis, and future AIOps planning, combining statistical methods, unsupervised learning, and supervised models to improve monitoring accuracy and operational efficiency.

AIOpsOperationsRoot Cause Analysis
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How to Detect and Resolve Time‑Series Anomalies in Modern AIOps
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Aug 28, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Achieves Full‑Link Business Monitoring: A Practical Guide

Alibaba’s infrastructure team introduces a full‑link business monitoring approach that visualizes end‑to‑end health from a business perspective, unifies metrics, automates data collection, and leverages intelligent baseline alerts, enabling rapid issue detection, precise root‑cause analysis, and fine‑grained dimension monitoring across services.

AlibabaOperationsbusiness metrics
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How Alibaba Achieves Full‑Link Business Monitoring: A Practical Guide
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Aug 23, 2018 · Operations

Alibaba Search Middle Platform DevOps Practices: Sophon, Bahamut, and AIOps

This article details Alibaba's three‑year journey building a search middle platform, describing how DevOps, goal‑driven operations, and AI‑assisted automation (Sophon, Bahamut, and AIOps) were introduced to improve scalability, stability, and efficiency for large‑scale search services.

AIOpsBahamutOperations
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Alibaba Search Middle Platform DevOps Practices: Sophon, Bahamut, and AIOps
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 21, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent SNG Uses Business Profiling to Optimize Capacity, Activity, and Multi‑Region Deployment

This article explains how Tencent's SNG operations team builds and applies business profiling models—including capacity, activity, core‑link, and SET planning—to predict performance, automate scaling, identify critical services, and efficiently distribute workloads across multiple regions.

Operationsactivity modelingcapacity planning
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How Tencent SNG Uses Business Profiling to Optimize Capacity, Activity, and Multi‑Region Deployment
HomeTech
HomeTech
Aug 21, 2018 · Operations

Automated Asset Collection for CMDB Using Puppet Facter and Assets_Report

This article explains how to build an automated CMDB asset collection system by extending Puppet's Facter with custom plugins, using a custom Report Processor to post data to an AutoBank service, and deploying a Python/Django API server for storage and retrieval.

Asset CollectionAutomationCMDB
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Automated Asset Collection for CMDB Using Puppet Facter and Assets_Report
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Aug 20, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Performance Tools: Quick Guide to Diagnose System Bottlenecks

This article compiles and explains a set of Linux command‑line utilities—including uptime, dmesg, vmstat, mpstat, pidstat, iostat, free, sar and top—showing how to interpret their output to quickly identify CPU, memory, I/O, and network performance issues, with practical examples and key columns to monitor.

Command-line ToolsLinuxOperations
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Essential Linux Performance Tools: Quick Guide to Diagnose System Bottlenecks
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 15, 2018 · Operations

Why Multi‑Threaded Downloads Spike Bandwidth and How to Diagnose Them

This article examines a real‑world case where a client’s multi‑threaded download caused sudden internet‑outbound bandwidth congestion, details the packet‑level investigation that revealed partial HTTP requests, explains the underlying network traffic analysis architecture, and outlines how automated monitoring and alerts improve operations efficiency.

Operationsbandwidth monitoringmulti-threaded download
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Why Multi‑Threaded Downloads Spike Bandwidth and How to Diagnose Them
Big Data and Microservices
Big Data and Microservices
Aug 15, 2018 · Operations

What Is APM? A Deep Dive into Application Performance Management and Top Open‑Source Tools

This article explains Application Performance Management (APM), its role in monitoring distributed and micro‑service systems, outlines the five‑dimensional APM model, details core monitoring functions, and reviews leading open‑source APM solutions such as PinPoint, Zipkin, SkyWalking, Prometheus, CAT and Hawkular.

APMDistributed TracingOperations
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What Is APM? A Deep Dive into Application Performance Management and Top Open‑Source Tools
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 10, 2018 · Operations

Effective Strategies for Promoting DevOps with Minimal Risk and Cost

This article examines how enterprises can adopt DevOps with minimal risk and cost by leveraging agile management, continuous delivery frameworks like the 100‑to‑100 model, Conway’s Law, automation, scripting, and containerization with Docker, while also presenting a recruitment call for DevOps engineers.

AutomationConway's LawDocker
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Effective Strategies for Promoting DevOps with Minimal Risk and Cost
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 9, 2018 · Operations

How a Bank Built an Automated Operations Platform with Ansible and Open‑Source Tools

This article outlines the motivations, design principles, system architecture, and key tools—including Cobbler, Ignite‑UX, WSUS, and Ansible—behind a bank’s automated operations platform, and details Ansible’s features, capabilities across Linux, HPUX, Windows and OpenStack, and its practical application scenarios such as batch changes, software installation, and environment delivery.

AnsibleAutomationCloud
0 likes · 22 min read
How a Bank Built an Automated Operations Platform with Ansible and Open‑Source Tools
58 Tech
58 Tech
Aug 8, 2018 · Databases

58 Cloud DB Platform: Architecture, Automation, and Intelligent Operations

The article presents a detailed case study of the 58 Cloud DB Platform, describing its architecture, automated workflow using Celery and Ansible, and intelligent features such as server selection and alarm merging powered by machine‑learning, highlighting how it streamlines MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB operations for developers and DBAs.

AutomationMachine LearningMongoDB
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58 Cloud DB Platform: Architecture, Automation, and Intelligent Operations
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Aug 7, 2018 · Operations

Comprehensive DevOps Glossary, Tool Periodic Table, and Skill Roadmap

This article presents an extensive DevOps glossary covering key terms and practices, a detailed periodic table of DevOps tools, and a skill roadmap outlining the essential knowledge and technologies needed to successfully implement DevOps in modern software delivery.

AutomationOperationscontinuous delivery
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Comprehensive DevOps Glossary, Tool Periodic Table, and Skill Roadmap
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 6, 2018 · Cloud Native

How We Built a Hybrid Container‑VM Private Cloud: Lessons from a Large‑Scale Deployment

This article details the challenges and solutions encountered while transitioning a rapidly growing financial services platform from a VM‑centric private cloud to a hybrid environment that combines containers and virtual machines, covering network integration, IP management, container image standards, resource isolation, scheduling compatibility, and future lightweight container strategies.

MacvlanOperationsPrivate Cloud
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How We Built a Hybrid Container‑VM Private Cloud: Lessons from a Large‑Scale Deployment
ITPUB
ITPUB
Aug 3, 2018 · Operations

How to Monitor Log Files in Real-Time with Python: 3 Simple Methods

When high service reliability demands immediate detection of slow requests, this guide shows three Python techniques—using tail via subprocess, file.tell/seek loops, and a generator with yield—to continuously watch log files and trigger alerts as soon as specified patterns appear.

Log MonitoringOperationsPython
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How to Monitor Log Files in Real-Time with Python: 3 Simple Methods
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Aug 2, 2018 · Operations

How to Build Systems That Run Stably for 10 Years

This article shares practical methodologies for building software systems that remain stable for a decade, covering goal setting, holistic design, operator and data‑center choices, cross‑region active‑active challenges, server and platform selection, comprehensive monitoring, and the importance of continuous personal improvement.

OperationsSoftware Architecturecontinuous improvement
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How to Build Systems That Run Stably for 10 Years
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Aug 1, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Revolutionized Monitoring: From IDC Crises to AI‑Driven AIOps

This talk by Tencent’s monitoring R&D lead outlines a decade of evolution in large‑scale monitoring, covering real‑world incident cases, the three drivers behind architectural upgrades, the implementation of a three‑dimensional monitoring framework, and the application of AI‑powered AIOps for precise, rapid anomaly detection.

AIOpsBig DataCloud Computing
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How Tencent Revolutionized Monitoring: From IDC Crises to AI‑Driven AIOps
DevOps
DevOps
Aug 1, 2018 · Operations

A Simple DevOps Value System: Business, Architecture, Technology, People, Process, Tools, Principles, Methods, Practices

The article presents a straightforward DevOps value framework that links business, architecture, technology, people, process, tools, principles, methods, and practices, illustrating how each element supports the others and offering practical guidance for startups, micro‑service adoption, and economic decision‑making in software delivery.

Operationsbusinessdevops
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A Simple DevOps Value System: Business, Architecture, Technology, People, Process, Tools, Principles, Methods, Practices
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jul 28, 2018 · Operations

Master the Most Common Ansible Modules: From ping to get_url

This guide introduces the most frequently used Ansible modules—including ping, setup, file, copy, service, cron, yum, user, group, synchronize, mount, and get_url—explaining their purpose, key options, and providing concrete command‑line examples to help you automate system tasks efficiently.

AnsibleAutomationModules
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Master the Most Common Ansible Modules: From ping to get_url
Open Source Tech Hub
Open Source Tech Hub
Jul 19, 2018 · Operations

How to Retrieve Jenkins Initial Admin Password on Windows

This guide explains what Jenkins is—a free, powerful CI/CD platform for any build or deployment—and shows the exact command to display the initial administrator password stored in the Jenkins home directory on a Windows host.

CI/CDInitialAdminPasswordJenkins
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How to Retrieve Jenkins Initial Admin Password on Windows
UCloud Tech
UCloud Tech
Jul 18, 2018 · Operations

How to Build a Unified Monitoring System for Microservices: Key Dimensions & Scenarios

This article explains how microservice architectures require a comprehensive monitoring system, covering data, resource, and code dimensions, and describes eight atomic monitoring scenarios such as URL, host, product, component, custom, resource, APM, and event monitoring to help engineers design effective observability solutions.

APMObservabilityOperations
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How to Build a Unified Monitoring System for Microservices: Key Dimensions & Scenarios
转转QA
转转QA
Jul 18, 2018 · Operations

Improving Test Efficiency and Continuous Integration with the Beetle Platform: An Interface Testing Case Study

The article discusses how embracing speed and flexible configuration in QA, exemplified by the Beetle platform’s interface testing workflow, can improve project efficiency, enable unified automated testing, and integrate continuous integration, while emphasizing that tools alone cannot guarantee test quality.

Continuous IntegrationOperationsTestNG
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Improving Test Efficiency and Continuous Integration with the Beetle Platform: An Interface Testing Case Study
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 12, 2018 · Big Data

How Sogou Built a Scalable Big Data Platform: Lessons from a User Perspective

This article shares Sogou's journey in constructing a large‑scale big data platform, covering business overview, the evolution of its operations infrastructure, productization practices, security measures, and practical tips for medium‑size teams seeking to add value from data.

Big DataData PlatformData Security
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How Sogou Built a Scalable Big Data Platform: Lessons from a User Perspective
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 11, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Scales Automated Operations with Package Management and CMDB

This article outlines Tencent's automated operations framework, covering the evolution of its package management system, multi‑center organizational structures, CMDB resource imaging, process automation, version control, and release management, while sharing practical lessons and pitfalls from real‑world deployments.

AutomationCMDBOperations
0 likes · 21 min read
How Tencent Scales Automated Operations with Package Management and CMDB
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jul 11, 2018 · Operations

Parallelizing Bash Loops Without Extra Tools: Practical Shell Techniques

This article explains how Linux administrators can replace slow serial shell loops with concurrent executions using background processes, simulated queues, and FIFO pipes, providing step‑by‑step scripts, performance comparisons, and practical guidelines to control process counts safely.

OperationsParallelScripting
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Parallelizing Bash Loops Without Extra Tools: Practical Shell Techniques
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 8, 2018 · Operations

How to Seamlessly Take Over New Ops Responsibilities: A Practical Checklist

This guide outlines a step‑by‑step approach for taking over new operational responsibilities, covering communication with development leaders, business overview, asset inventory, basic and business‑specific monitoring, standardization, SOP creation, failure drills, cost and capacity planning, and effective cross‑team communication.

Asset ManagementOperationsStandardization
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How to Seamlessly Take Over New Ops Responsibilities: A Practical Checklist
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jul 3, 2018 · Operations

From Fire‑Fighting to Proactive Delivery: How Meizu Built a Cloud‑Native CI/CD Ops Platform

Meizu’s operations team transformed reactive firefighting into proactive delivery by building a cloud‑native continuous integration platform, detailing their automation journey, challenges, platform components, release evolution, and intelligent ops that together boost quality, efficiency, cost control, and security.

AutomationContinuous IntegrationOperations
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From Fire‑Fighting to Proactive Delivery: How Meizu Built a Cloud‑Native CI/CD Ops Platform
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jul 1, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Commands and Options: A Comprehensive Guide

This article provides a detailed reference of common Linux commands—including ls, mv, cp, scp, rm, touch, cd, mkdir, find, grep, tar, chmod, and many others—explaining each option, flag, and typical usage examples to help system administrators and developers work efficiently in the shell.

LinuxOperationsShell
0 likes · 34 min read
Essential Linux Commands and Options: A Comprehensive Guide
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jun 27, 2018 · Operations

How ZhiYun Job Platform Revolutionizes Automated Operations

The article introduces the ZhiYun Job Platform, detailing its evolution from basic tool construction to advanced orchestration and API integration, highlighting how it standardizes, automates, and secures repetitive operational tasks for enterprises across cloud environments.

AutomationCloud ComputingOperations
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How ZhiYun Job Platform Revolutionizes Automated Operations
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Jun 24, 2018 · Big Data

OPPO Big Data Platform Operations and R&D Practices: Architecture, Scaling, and Monitoring

This article summarizes OPPO's rapid growth of its big‑data platform, detailing the three‑layer architecture, the evolution from Flume‑Kafka to NiFi for data ingestion, the upgrade of the OFlow task scheduler, comprehensive monitoring of data, resources and task SLA, and the development of a self‑service analytics tool called InnerEye to ensure stability, efficiency, and security.

AirflowBig DataNiFi
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OPPO Big Data Platform Operations and R&D Practices: Architecture, Scaling, and Monitoring
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Jun 24, 2018 · Databases

Designing a High‑Availability Redis Service with Sentinel

This article explains how to build a highly available Redis service using Sentinel, discusses failure scenarios, compares single‑instance, master‑slave, and multi‑Sentinel architectures, and provides practical guidance on deployment, VIP handling, and operational considerations.

OperationsRedisSentinel
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Designing a High‑Availability Redis Service with Sentinel
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 23, 2018 · Operations

How to Diagnose Server Failures Within the First 5 Minutes

This guide walks you through a systematic, step‑by‑step process for quickly identifying the root cause of a server outage, covering everything from gathering context and checking who is logged in to inspecting processes, network services, hardware, I/O performance, filesystem mounts, and relevant logs.

Operationsmonitoringserver troubleshooting
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How to Diagnose Server Failures Within the First 5 Minutes
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 20, 2018 · Databases

How JD Logistics Scales Warehouse Databases with Automation and High‑Availability Strategies

This article details JD Logistics' warehouse management system database architecture, the shift between local and centralized deployments, and how the UDBA automation platform, performance tuning, fault‑self‑healing, data archiving, and MySQL upgrades together ensure high performance and high availability across thousands of warehouses.

AutomationDatabasesOperations
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How JD Logistics Scales Warehouse Databases with Automation and High‑Availability Strategies
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 19, 2018 · Operations

How Netflix’s Full‑Cycle Developers Eliminate the DevOps Bottleneck

Netflix’s Edge Engineering team shares how adopting a full‑cycle developer model—where engineers own design, development, testing, deployment, operations, and support—reduces hand‑off delays, improves feedback loops, and scales productivity across the entire software lifecycle.

Full-cycle DevelopmentNetflixOperations
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How Netflix’s Full‑Cycle Developers Eliminate the DevOps Bottleneck
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Jun 19, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

AIOps at Ctrip: Concepts, Typical Application Scenarios, and Algorithmic Practices

This article introduces Ctrip's AIOps journey, explaining the AI‑driven operations concept, showcasing typical use cases such as anomaly detection, intelligent fault diagnosis, and resource utilization improvement, and detailing the underlying statistical and machine‑learning algorithms that enable these capabilities.

AIOpsCtripMachine Learning
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AIOps at Ctrip: Concepts, Typical Application Scenarios, and Algorithmic Practices
AntTech
AntTech
Jun 19, 2018 · Cloud Native

Financial‑Grade Cloud Native Architecture: Challenges, Practices, and Transformation Path

This article outlines the evolution of financial‑grade cloud native architecture, describing its origins, key principles, incremental delivery, sustainable innovation, and evolutionary planning, while addressing scalability, disaster‑recovery, distributed‑transaction, and elastic resource challenges with practical Ant Financial case studies.

DatabasesOperationsfinancial technology
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Financial‑Grade Cloud Native Architecture: Challenges, Practices, and Transformation Path
DevOps
DevOps
Jun 14, 2018 · Operations

Understanding DevOps: Role Merging, Automation, and Organizational Impact

This article examines how DevOps emerged from the merging of development and operations roles, explores automation practices in small and large teams, outlines the three-step DevOps workflow, and discusses the cultural and organizational challenges of adopting DevOps at scale.

AutomationContinuous IntegrationOperations
0 likes · 9 min read
Understanding DevOps: Role Merging, Automation, and Organizational Impact
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Jun 14, 2018 · Operations

Tencent Cloud Database Massive Operations: Team Building, Automated Operations Platform, and Intelligent Practices

Tencent Cloud Database’s massive‑operation strategy combines a dedicated architect team, a three‑layer automated platform for resource, task and health management, and AI‑driven intelligent services that customize workloads, automate tuning, and enable proactive scaling and self‑healing across hundreds of thousands of instances.

AIAutomationOperations
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Tencent Cloud Database Massive Operations: Team Building, Automated Operations Platform, and Intelligent Practices
JD Tech
JD Tech
Jun 14, 2018 · Operations

Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Service Monitoring and Traffic Management System

This article shares the design and implementation of a lightweight, robust, and low‑intrusion monitoring management system for microservice traffic, detailing data collection via client filters, Redis‑based structured storage, alerting, rate‑limiting, degradation, and authorization mechanisms, and discusses performance optimizations and future improvements.

OperationsRedisTraffic Management
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Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Service Monitoring and Traffic Management System
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jun 11, 2018 · Operations

Creating and Configuring Jenkins Project Views

This guide explains how to create a new view in Jenkins, configure its settings, and modify the view later through the edit interface, providing step‑by‑step instructions with illustrative screenshots for effective job organization.

CI/CDJenkinsOperations
0 likes · 1 min read
Creating and Configuring Jenkins Project Views
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jun 7, 2018 · Operations

How to Build a High‑Availability RabbitMQ Cluster with Load Balancing

This guide explains the principles behind RabbitMQ clustering, shows how metadata synchronization works, compares design choices, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including component installation, node configuration, HAProxy load‑balancing setup, and a sample architecture diagram—to create a reliable, scalable RabbitMQ cluster for production use.

ClusteringHAProxyOperations
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How to Build a High‑Availability RabbitMQ Cluster with Load Balancing
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jun 7, 2018 · Operations

Why Ceph’s Unlimited Scalability Isn’t As Simple As It Looks

The article examines Ceph’s claimed infinite scalability, cost advantages, and operational stability from an SRE perspective, comparing it with centralized systems like HDFS, and reveals practical challenges such as expansion granularity, crushmap rebalancing, utilization limits, and maintenance overhead.

CephDistributed storageHDFS
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Why Ceph’s Unlimited Scalability Isn’t As Simple As It Looks
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jun 5, 2018 · Operations

How to Diagnose CPU Spikes on Linux: A Real‑World Top and Thread Dump Walkthrough

This article walks through a practical Linux performance investigation, showing how to use the top command to pinpoint high‑CPU processes, examine thread details, convert thread IDs, analyze thread dumps for lock contention, and interpret key top output fields for effective troubleshooting.

CPULinuxOperations
0 likes · 6 min read
How to Diagnose CPU Spikes on Linux: A Real‑World Top and Thread Dump Walkthrough
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 30, 2018 · Databases

How SF Express Transformed Its Database Operations: From Legacy to Open‑Source, Distributed, and Intelligent Ops

This talk details SF Express’s journey from heterogeneous legacy databases to standardized open‑source, distributed architectures and intelligent operations, covering standardization, migration to open‑source, scaling with Mycat, automated resource pooling, and the ThinkDB platform that drives proactive, automated DBA workflows.

AutomationMycatOperations
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How SF Express Transformed Its Database Operations: From Legacy to Open‑Source, Distributed, and Intelligent Ops
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
May 30, 2018 · Operations

Tencent Hub: DevOps Best Practices and Workflow Architecture

Zou Hui explained Tencent Hub’s end‑to‑end DevOps platform, detailing how clarified, automated workflows—spanning code development, building, release, containerized plugins, and a multi‑level artifact registry—enable balanced quality and speed while supporting flexible, parallel execution and comprehensive permission‑controlled management across diverse deployment scenarios.

AutomationCloudOperations
0 likes · 10 min read
Tencent Hub: DevOps Best Practices and Workflow Architecture
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
May 30, 2018 · Operations

Recap of the QInfrarch Session at the 2018 Qunar Technology Carnival

The QInfrarch special session of the 2018 Qunar Technology Carnival gathered a packed audience on May 27, featuring multiple technical talks on real‑time push architecture, IDC networking, ticket search, decentralization, multi‑datacenter redundancy, and fault‑injection platforms, followed by lively Q&A, networking, and enthusiastic follow‑up requests.

OperationsQInfrarchTech Conference
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Recap of the QInfrarch Session at the 2018 Qunar Technology Carnival
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 27, 2018 · Operations

Mastering High Availability and High Concurrency: Principles and Practical Techniques

This article outlines guiding principles, high‑availability strategies, and high‑concurrency techniques—covering stateless design, resource isolation, quota management, monitoring, degradation, rollback, and scaling—to help engineers build resilient, scalable systems while balancing cost and performance.

OperationsSystem Designfault tolerance
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Mastering High Availability and High Concurrency: Principles and Practical Techniques
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
May 27, 2018 · Information Security

How Google Secures Its Global Data Centers: Inside the Infrastructure

Google’s technical infrastructure—supporting services like Search, Gmail, G Suite, and GCP—employs layered physical, hardware, software, and operational security measures, including biometric access, custom secure chips, encrypted boot, service isolation, identity management, and robust DoS defenses to protect data and operations worldwide.

Data Center SecurityGoogleOperations
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How Google Secures Its Global Data Centers: Inside the Infrastructure
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 23, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Guarantees High‑Availability Ops for New Retail

This article explains Alibaba's GOC‑driven operation‑assurance solution for new retail, covering the sector's evolution, unique reliability challenges, a four‑pillar support framework—including high‑availability, mobile ops, emergency response, and change control—and real‑world best practices from Hema Fresh.

AlibabaOperationsemergency response
0 likes · 19 min read
How Alibaba Guarantees High‑Availability Ops for New Retail
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 21, 2018 · Operations

Mastering Service Performance: CPU, Memory, JVM & Linux Monitoring Guide

This comprehensive guide explains how to monitor and tune service performance by examining CPU load, system and JVM memory usage, buffer/cache concepts, key performance metrics such as response time, throughput, QPS, and provides essential Linux tools and commands for effective operations management.

JVMOperationsperformance monitoring
0 likes · 21 min read
Mastering Service Performance: CPU, Memory, JVM & Linux Monitoring Guide
DevOpsClub
DevOpsClub
May 11, 2018 · Operations

How Anti‑Fragility and GameDays Turn System Failures into Growth

This article explores anti‑fragility theory and real‑world DevOps practices such as Phoenix Server, Chaos Monkey, GameDays, and blameless post‑mortems, showing how organizations can transform inevitable failures into opportunities for resilience and continuous improvement.

Anti-FragilityBlameless CultureOperations
0 likes · 11 min read
How Anti‑Fragility and GameDays Turn System Failures into Growth
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 10, 2018 · Operations

How Ele.me Scaled to 10M+ Daily Orders with Multi‑Active Architecture

The talk details Ele.me’s rapid growth from 300k to over 10 million daily orders, describing the challenges of high‑concurrency, multi‑active micro‑service architecture, IDC planning, database refactoring, disaster‑recovery, NOC operations, and the systematic processes that enabled stable, scalable delivery across two data centers.

Cloud ComputingIDC planningOperations
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How Ele.me Scaled to 10M+ Daily Orders with Multi‑Active Architecture
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 9, 2018 · Operations

How eBay Automates Cross‑Platform Patch Deployment at Scale

This article details eBay's 11‑year journey in automating system‑wide patch deployment across Windows and Linux servers, covering challenges, process evolution, security considerations, testing strategies, and future plans for kernel hot‑patching and container‑based updates.

AutomationCross‑PlatformOperations
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How eBay Automates Cross‑Platform Patch Deployment at Scale
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
May 8, 2018 · Operations

How to Build Reliable Operations: From BCM to Google SRE Practices

This article examines the growing challenges of system availability in modern operations, explains the concept of availability and the N‑nine metric, introduces Business Continuity Management and Google SRE approaches, and provides concrete technical and managerial methods—including architecture standardization, scaling strategies, tooling, emergency drills, and incident‑centralized management—to improve operational reliability.

BCMIncident ManagementOperations
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How to Build Reliable Operations: From BCM to Google SRE Practices
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 8, 2018 · Operations

20 Proven Ops Automation Rules Every Team Should Follow

This article presents twenty practical principles for building and maintaining an effective, business‑oriented operations automation system, covering mindset, architecture, design, tooling, team composition, data handling, security, and implementation best practices for modern enterprises.

AutomationBest PracticesOperations
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20 Proven Ops Automation Rules Every Team Should Follow
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
May 6, 2018 · Operations

6 Common Linux Ops Issues and How to Diagnose & Fix Them

Learn a systematic Linux troubleshooting workflow and detailed solutions for six typical operational problems—including filesystem corruption, disk space exhaustion, inode depletion, lingering deleted files, too‑many‑open‑files errors, and read‑only filesystem issues—complete with command‑line examples and step‑by‑step fixes.

FilesystemLinuxOperations
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6 Common Linux Ops Issues and How to Diagnose & Fix Them
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
May 2, 2018 · Big Data

Why Big Data Clusters Need a Robust Automated Monitoring & Alerting System

The article explains the unique challenges of monitoring and alerting in large‑scale big‑data environments, outlines the evolution and architecture of such systems, and provides detailed guidance on data collection, time‑series storage, rule definition, and alert actions for reliable operations.

Operationsarchitecturemonitoring
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Why Big Data Clusters Need a Robust Automated Monitoring & Alerting System
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
May 2, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Scales 20,000+ Servers: Lessons from SNG Operations

This talk outlines the five major challenges faced by Tencent's SNG component operations—geographic distribution, HTTPS certificate management, massive device failures, long‑term maintenance, and large‑scale scaling—and describes the underlying architecture, operational principles, and practical techniques used to automate and reliably support millions of users during peak events.

AutomationOperationsTencent
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How Tencent Scales 20,000+ Servers: Lessons from SNG Operations
System Architect Go
System Architect Go
May 1, 2018 · Operations

How to Set Up Real-Time Logging with Slack

This guide explains step‑by‑step how to configure Slack as a real‑time log channel by creating a workspace, setting up a channel, generating an incoming webhook URL, and posting JSON log messages via HTTP so you can monitor application logs instantly.

OperationsReal-time loggingSlack
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How to Set Up Real-Time Logging with Slack
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 25, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Cut Over $1B in Bandwidth Costs with Smart Image & Video Compression

This article shares Tencent SNG's practical experience in bandwidth cost optimization, detailing how advanced image and video compression techniques, adaptive resolution, AI‑driven super‑resolution, and efficient transcoding pipelines reduced over a billion yuan in cash flow while preserving user experience and product quality.

AIOperationsbandwidth optimization
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How Tencent Cut Over $1B in Bandwidth Costs with Smart Image & Video Compression
Architecture and Beyond
Architecture and Beyond
Apr 22, 2018 · Backend Development

Comprehensive Guide to Building a Backend Technology Stack for Startup Companies

This article provides a detailed, step‑by‑step overview of how startups can design, select, and integrate languages, components, processes, and systems—including databases, RPC frameworks, monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud services—to construct a robust, scalable backend architecture that balances cost, performance, and operational maturity.

Operationsbackendcomponents
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Comprehensive Guide to Building a Backend Technology Stack for Startup Companies
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 19, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Prevents Release Failures in Billion‑Dollar Transactions

Alibaba’s experts share how they boost release speed and stability for trillion‑dollar transactions by combining P2P file distribution, automated monitoring, AI‑driven anomaly detection, and an unattended release system that automatically pauses risky deployments, reducing faults while handling massive e‑commerce workloads.

AI monitoringDeploymentOperations
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How Alibaba Prevents Release Failures in Billion‑Dollar Transactions
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Apr 19, 2018 · Operations

How Meituan‑Dianping Built a 100% High‑Availability Core Transaction System

This article analyzes the rapid growth challenges of Meituan‑Dianping's core payment flow, explains key availability metrics such as MTBF and MTTR, and presents a comprehensive set of architectural, operational, and tooling strategies—including dependency decoupling, timeout tuning, circuit breaking, and full‑link stress testing—to achieve stable, fault‑tolerant transactions.

High AvailabilityOperationscircuit breaker
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How Meituan‑Dianping Built a 100% High‑Availability Core Transaction System
ITPUB
ITPUB
Apr 19, 2018 · Databases

How Didi Scales MySQL: From Manual Ops to Full Automation

This article outlines Didi's MySQL database architecture, the challenges of managing thousands of instances, and the step‑by‑step automation framework—including dbproxy, high‑availability, backup, monitoring, and deployment modules—that reduces manual DBA work by over 70%.

DBADatabase AutomationDidi
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How Didi Scales MySQL: From Manual Ops to Full Automation
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 17, 2018 · Operations

Managing Shared Configuration in VSTS Using Library Variable Groups

This guide explains how to centralize duplicated VSTS deployment parameters and PowerShell scripts by creating Library variable groups, setting their security, and referencing them in Release definitions to simplify configuration management across multiple projects.

Azure DevOpsCI/CDLibrary
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Managing Shared Configuration in VSTS Using Library Variable Groups
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 13, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba Built Its DevOps Automation Platform: Key Practices and Lessons

This article outlines Alibaba's DevOps transformation, describing the three operational stages, four foundations of automated operations, CI/CD implementation, essential system characteristics, development‑defined operations, config‑driven changes, and the tools that enable high‑availability, efficiency, and scalability.

AlibabaAutomationOperations
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How Alibaba Built Its DevOps Automation Platform: Key Practices and Lessons
Practical DevOps Architecture
Practical DevOps Architecture
Apr 10, 2018 · Operations

Ansible Installation and Configuration Guide

This guide explains how to install Ansible via yum or pip, outlines its directory layout, describes host inventory setup, details SSH key configuration for password‑less access, and introduces common modules such as ping for basic connectivity testing.

AnsibleAutomationInstallation
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Ansible Installation and Configuration Guide
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 8, 2018 · Operations

Why ELK Is the Ultimate Solution for Log Management and Monitoring

This article introduces the ELK stack—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—explaining its core components, architecture, comparison with databases and grep, typical use cases across security, networking, and application monitoring, deployment considerations, challenges, SaaS prospects, and recommended learning resources.

ELKElasticsearchOperations
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Why ELK Is the Ultimate Solution for Log Management and Monitoring
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Apr 7, 2018 · Operations

Comparison of Service Discovery Tools: Zookeeper, etcd, and Consul

This article compares three popular service discovery solutions—Zookeeper, etcd, and Consul—detailing their architectures, features, integration methods, strengths, and weaknesses, and concludes with a recommendation for using Consul in multi‑data‑center environments while noting its real‑time notification limitations.

ConsulEtcdOperations
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Comparison of Service Discovery Tools: Zookeeper, etcd, and Consul
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 2, 2018 · Operations

How Bilibili Revamped Its Monitoring Architecture: From Zabbix to Dapper

An in‑depth look at Bilibili’s multi‑layer monitoring overhaul, detailing the shift from a monolithic Zabbix setup to micro‑service‑based ELK, Dapper, Misaka, Traceon and Lancer systems, and how layered observability improves fault detection across business, application, and infrastructure levels.

Distributed TracingObservabilityOperations
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How Bilibili Revamped Its Monitoring Architecture: From Zabbix to Dapper
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Mar 31, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Ops Tools: Monitoring, Performance, and Security Utilities

This article introduces a curated set of practical Linux operations tools—including Nethogs, IOZone, IOTop, IPtraf, IFTop, Fail2ban, Tmux, NMON, MultiTail, NMap, and Httperf—detailing their purpose, installation steps, key command‑line options, and usage examples to help system administrators monitor bandwidth, disk I/O, processes, logs, and security on Linux servers.

LinuxOperationsPerformance
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Essential Linux Ops Tools: Monitoring, Performance, and Security Utilities
JD Tech
JD Tech
Mar 30, 2018 · Backend Development

Effective Logging Practices and Standards for Java Backend Systems

This article explains why proper logging is crucial for Java backend maintenance, defines useful log levels, outlines team rules and best‑practice implementations—including traceId usage, log file organization, and real‑time monitoring—to enable fast issue diagnosis and improve overall engineering quality.

JavaLoggingOperations
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Effective Logging Practices and Standards for Java Backend Systems
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Mar 29, 2018 · Operations

7 Must-Have Skills Every DevOps Engineer Needs

The article outlines the seven essential competencies—flexibility, security, collaboration, scripting, decision‑making, infrastructure knowledge, and soft skills—that DevOps engineers must master to bridge development and operations, accelerate delivery, and maintain secure, reliable systems.

CollaborationOperationsScripting
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7 Must-Have Skills Every DevOps Engineer Needs
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Mar 29, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI Powers a Smart Ops Bot for Seamless Dev‑Ops Collaboration

This article explains the motivation behind the growing gap between developers and operations, introduces Tencent Cloud's AI‑driven intelligent operations robot, outlines its core features, typical use cases, and dives into the retrieval‑based dialogue system and matching models that enable natural‑language interactions.

AI OpsChatbotNLP
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How AI Powers a Smart Ops Bot for Seamless Dev‑Ops Collaboration
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 27, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Why X86 Bare‑Metal Services Matter and How to Build Them in the Cloud

This article explains why X86 bare‑metal services are essential for high‑performance, security‑critical workloads, describes their architecture and management processes, and outlines the steps—standardization, automation, service‑orientation, and self‑service—used by Hengfeng Bank to implement and operate them.

AutomationBare MetalCloud Computing
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Why X86 Bare‑Metal Services Matter and How to Build Them in the Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 22, 2018 · Operations

Leading a DevOps Transformation: Five Misconceptions, Five Practices, and Concrete Implementation Advice

This article examines why DevOps transformations often fail, outlines five common misconceptions and five proven practices, and provides concrete, data‑driven recommendations—including cultural evolution, small‑batch work, feedback loops, value‑stream collaboration, and waste elimination—to help organizations achieve faster, safer, and more reliable software delivery.

Operationscontinuous deliverydevops
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Leading a DevOps Transformation: Five Misconceptions, Five Practices, and Concrete Implementation Advice