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DevOps
DevOps
Mar 20, 2018 · Operations

How Large-Scale Development Teams Implement DevOps Transformation: Engineering Systems, Automated Deployment, Telemetry, and Continuous Improvement

This article describes how Microsoft’s global development platform team built a highly available, automated DevOps pipeline on Azure, detailing the engineering system, deployment process, telemetry collection, alert handling, security practices, open‑source integration, and metrics‑driven continuous improvement.

AutomationCloudOperations
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How Large-Scale Development Teams Implement DevOps Transformation: Engineering Systems, Automated Deployment, Telemetry, and Continuous Improvement
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Mar 19, 2018 · Operations

DevOps Cultural Philosophy and Practical Practices

The article explains DevOps culture, the shift toward eliminating barriers between development and operations, and outlines key practices such as frequent small releases, microservices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code to accelerate innovation while maintaining reliability.

Continuous IntegrationOperationscontinuous delivery
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DevOps Cultural Philosophy and Practical Practices
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Mar 19, 2018 · Operations

Understanding DevOps: Culture, Practices, and Tools for Faster Application Delivery

The article explains how DevOps combines culture, practices, and tooling to enable organizations to deliver applications and services more rapidly by breaking down silos between development and operations, fostering cross‑functional collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement throughout the software lifecycle.

AutomationCollaborationOperations
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Understanding DevOps: Culture, Practices, and Tools for Faster Application Delivery
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 19, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Scaled Its Network from 2004‑2013: Key Lessons in Data‑Center Evolution

This article chronicles Tencent's network journey from its modest 2004 infrastructure through rapid expansion, critical incidents, and architectural breakthroughs like SET zones, SDN, and MPLS VPN, illustrating how the company transformed its data‑center operations to support massive user growth.

Data CenterNetwork ArchitectureOperations
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How Tencent Scaled Its Network from 2004‑2013: Key Lessons in Data‑Center Evolution
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 15, 2018 · Operations

How Baidu’s CCS System Scales Command Execution Across Millions of Servers

This article examines Baidu’s Cluster Control System (CCS), detailing its two‑level data model, four‑tier scheduling architecture, and three‑layer execution agents, and explains how control and execution information, redundancy, and fault‑tolerant designs enable reliable large‑scale command execution across thousands of servers.

Command ExecutionOperationsReliability
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How Baidu’s CCS System Scales Command Execution Across Millions of Servers
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 11, 2018 · Cloud Computing

How a Chinese Telecom Payment Platform Mastered Cloud Migration in 8 Hours

This article details the end‑to‑end cloud migration of China Telecom's payment platform, covering pre‑migration challenges, architectural redesign, data‑sync strategies, the eight‑hour cut‑over process, post‑migration performance gains, and future DBaaS plans, all based on a 2017 DBAplus conference talk.

Cloud MigrationDBaaSOperations
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How a Chinese Telecom Payment Platform Mastered Cloud Migration in 8 Hours
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 7, 2018 · Operations

Mastering Log Collection: From Daily Ops to the ELK Stack

This article explores the everyday challenges of operations teams handling system, access, runtime, error, and business logs, outlines the pain points of log collection and standardization, and provides a comprehensive guide to implementing the ELK (Elastic) stack—including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—for effective monitoring and analysis.

ELKKibanaLogstash
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Mastering Log Collection: From Daily Ops to the ELK Stack
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 6, 2018 · Operations

Curated DevOps Book List Based on the DevOps Handbook

This article presents a curated list of 25 DevOps books, compiled from the DevOps Handbook and other sources, displayed with images, and invites readers to share, recommend, and comment as the list continues to be updated.

Book ListOperationsdevops
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Curated DevOps Book List Based on the DevOps Handbook
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 6, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent’s SNG Ops Team Overcame Five Massive Service Challenges

The SNG Operations team shares the five critical challenges of managing tens of thousands of domains, certificates, server failures, automation, and rapid scaling during peak events, and outlines the practical strategies they used to ensure reliable, near‑real‑time service delivery.

AutomationOperationscertificate-management
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How Tencent’s SNG Ops Team Overcame Five Massive Service Challenges
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 5, 2018 · Operations

Boosting Test Environment Stability: Automated Container Replacement & Buffer Pools

This article analyzes the instability of Alibaba's test environment container provisioning, identifies root causes, and presents a comprehensive solution—including automatic container replacement, a buffer pool, and resource‑pool rationalization—that raised the container success rate to 99.9% and stabilized performance.

Buffer PoolContainer OrchestrationOperations
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Boosting Test Environment Stability: Automated Container Replacement & Buffer Pools
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 2, 2018 · Operations

Mastering System Performance Tuning: A Practical 5W+1H Guide

This article provides a comprehensive, easy‑to‑understand overview of performance tuning, covering what, why, when, where, who, and how to optimize hardware, operating systems, and applications, with practical examples, metrics, tools, and step‑by‑step procedures for both pre‑deployment and post‑deployment optimization.

HardwareOperationsSoftware
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Mastering System Performance Tuning: A Practical 5W+1H Guide
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Mar 1, 2018 · Operations

Top 10 Linux Ops Troubleshooting Tips Every Sysadmin Should Know

An experienced Linux sysadmin shares a curated list of common operational issues—from shell script execution failures and cron output overload to disk space leaks, MySQL storage pitfalls, and network latency—detailing root causes, step‑by‑step diagnostics, and practical solutions to keep servers running smoothly.

LinuxMySQLOperations
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Top 10 Linux Ops Troubleshooting Tips Every Sysadmin Should Know
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 1, 2018 · Operations

Intelligent Scheduling in Customer Service: Architecture, Challenges, and Future Directions

The article examines how intelligent scheduling combines AI-driven bots and human agents to dynamically allocate customer service resources, addressing market slowdown, complex business structures, and operational pain points through perception, decision‑making, and execution capabilities, while outlining current implementations and future plans at Ant Financial.

AIIntelligent SchedulingOperations
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Intelligent Scheduling in Customer Service: Architecture, Challenges, and Future Directions
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 28, 2018 · Operations

How Meituan Scaled Delivery Ops with Automated Monitoring and Full‑Link Testing

This article explains how Meituan's food delivery platform built an automated operations system—covering complex workflows, traffic spikes, rapid growth, pain‑point analysis, core goals, system architecture, and automation techniques such as anomaly detection, service‑protection triggers, and full‑link testing—to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.

AutomationMeituanOperations
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How Meituan Scaled Delivery Ops with Automated Monitoring and Full‑Link Testing
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Feb 24, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent’s Blue Whale Transforms Operations: From Automation to Data‑Driven Service

This article outlines the evolution of Tencent Game's Blue Whale platform, describing its background, design philosophy, six‑platform architecture, and phased approach to automating basic operations, empowering product teams, and leveraging real‑time big‑data analytics to create a data‑driven, service‑oriented operations ecosystem.

OperationsPlatform
0 likes · 23 min read
How Tencent’s Blue Whale Transforms Operations: From Automation to Data‑Driven Service
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 23, 2018 · Operations

What a Decade of Ops Taught Me: Key Strategies for Scalable Infrastructure

This article reflects on ten years of Tencent's operations experience, sharing the author's career journey, the evolution of large‑scale service management, the design of the L5 fault‑tolerant system, unified frameworks, resource packaging, CMDB virtual mirrors, and automated deployment practices that together enable reliable, efficient, and scalable infrastructure.

AutomationCMDBOperations
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What a Decade of Ops Taught Me: Key Strategies for Scalable Infrastructure
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Feb 23, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Ops Interview Guide: From RAID Basics to Load‑Balancing Strategies

This comprehensive guide covers Linux operations interview topics, including the definition of ops, game‑ops roles, server management techniques, RAID levels, load‑balancing tools (LVS, Nginx, HAProxy), middleware, MySQL troubleshooting, backup solutions, health‑check configuration, common networking commands, virus removal, TCP/IP model, Nginx modules, log retention, system optimization, and useful command‑line shortcuts, all presented with clear explanations and practical examples.

LinuxMySQLOperations
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Essential Linux Ops Interview Guide: From RAID Basics to Load‑Balancing Strategies
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Feb 12, 2018 · Operations

Intelligent Network Practices for Alibaba's Double 11: Automation, Fault Detection, and Traffic Optimization

Alibaba senior technical expert Houyi explains how intelligent network automation, rapid fault detection, automatic isolation, and traffic‑optimizing technologies were applied during Double 11 to dramatically improve stability, reduce costs, and enhance overall network performance across millions of devices.

AlibabaOperationsfault detection
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Intelligent Network Practices for Alibaba's Double 11: Automation, Fault Detection, and Traffic Optimization
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Feb 7, 2018 · Operations

Understanding DevOps: Concepts, History, Benefits, and Adoption

This article explains the DevOps concept, its historical evolution, the advantages of faster and more reliable software delivery, the cultural and technical drivers behind its rise, and current adoption trends and tools used by enterprises worldwide.

AutomationContinuous IntegrationCulture
0 likes · 7 min read
Understanding DevOps: Concepts, History, Benefits, and Adoption
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 6, 2018 · Operations

From DevOps to Lean: A Two‑Year Reflection on Value‑Stream Delivery and Continuous Improvement

The article reflects on how DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes and lean/TOC thinking have transformed over the past two years, explains the three‑step workflow for building a value‑stream delivery pipeline, and offers practical guidance on culture, feedback loops, and handling unplanned work to achieve reliable, business‑focused IT operations.

IT ManagementOperationsTheory of Constraints
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From DevOps to Lean: A Two‑Year Reflection on Value‑Stream Delivery and Continuous Improvement
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 6, 2018 · Operations

Hybrid Learning Beats Thresholds: Anomaly Detection for Millions of KPI Curves

The article recounts the author’s 2017‑onward journey building an intelligent operations platform at Tencent, detailing challenges such as legacy thresholds, AIOps talent shortage, and lack of frameworks, and explains how a two‑stage hybrid unsupervised‑supervised model was devised to automatically detect anomalies across millions of KPI time‑series, enabling scalable root‑cause analysis and cost optimization.

AIOpsAnomaly DetectionMachine Learning
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Hybrid Learning Beats Thresholds: Anomaly Detection for Millions of KPI Curves
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 5, 2018 · Operations

How WeChat Scales Massive Real-Time Monitoring: Design & Practices

This article details the architecture and practical techniques behind WeChat's large‑scale monitoring system, covering lightweight data collection, classification of real‑time, non‑real‑time and user‑specific metrics, anomaly detection algorithms, automated configuration, and high‑performance storage solutions for billions of events per minute.

Large ScaleOperationsReal-time
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How WeChat Scales Massive Real-Time Monitoring: Design & Practices
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Feb 5, 2018 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of Footprint Platform, Mock Server Platform, and Pre‑release Gray Release Solution for Virtual Products

This article presents the challenges of virtual product development and describes three engineering solutions—a Footprint tracking system, a Mock Server platform, and a pre‑release gray‑release strategy—detailing their backgrounds, architectures, implementations, and operational benefits for improving debugging, testing, and deployment efficiency.

Message QueueOperationsSystem Design
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Design and Implementation of Footprint Platform, Mock Server Platform, and Pre‑release Gray Release Solution for Virtual Products
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Feb 5, 2018 · Operations

6 Common Linux Ops Issues and How to Fix Them Quickly

This article presents a systematic troubleshooting workflow for Linux operations engineers, covering six typical problems—including filesystem corruption, disk‑space exhaustion, inode depletion, deleted files that still occupy space, too many open files, and read‑only filesystems—along with concrete commands and solutions to resolve each issue.

FilesystemLinuxOperations
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6 Common Linux Ops Issues and How to Fix Them Quickly
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Feb 4, 2018 · Operations

Essential Operations Tools Every DevOps Engineer Should Master

This article outlines the key categories of operations tools—including process management, release automation, configuration handling, resource isolation, and comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions—providing a practical guide for building reliable, automated infrastructure workflows.

AutomationOperationsinfrastructure
0 likes · 8 min read
Essential Operations Tools Every DevOps Engineer Should Master
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 31, 2018 · Operations

85 Essential Ops Rules Every Engineer Should Follow

This article presents a comprehensive list of 85 practical operations rules covering capacity planning, monitoring, automation, security, documentation, budgeting, team management, and incident handling, offering actionable guidance for building reliable, scalable, and efficient IT infrastructure.

Best PracticesIT ManagementOperations
0 likes · 20 min read
85 Essential Ops Rules Every Engineer Should Follow
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jan 31, 2018 · Operations

Essential Linux Ops Interview Q&A: TCP, HTTP, Proxy, and More

A comprehensive guide to common Linux operations interview questions, covering environment variables, TCP characteristics and handshake, proxy principles, TCP vs UDP trade‑offs, OOP vs procedural programming, HTTP request flow and status codes, deadlock concepts, TCP states, and inter‑process communication mechanisms.

HTTPLinuxOperations
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Essential Linux Ops Interview Q&A: TCP, HTTP, Proxy, and More
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jan 29, 2018 · Operations

How Data‑Driven Monitoring Unlocks Real Value for Ops Teams

This article explains why quantifiable data is essential for evaluating the impact of operational changes, outlines common data‑collection stacks, defines core business and user‑centric metrics, and demonstrates practical monitoring techniques such as PCU analysis, simulated user flows, and intelligent scaling to turn ops work into measurable business value.

Operationsbusiness metricsdata analysis
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How Data‑Driven Monitoring Unlocks Real Value for Ops Teams
Meitu Technology
Meitu Technology
Jan 24, 2018 · Operations

Meituan Monitoring Practice: Building a Holistic Monitoring System

Meituan’s Meipai service, serving over 150 million monthly users with a hybrid private‑public cloud architecture, spent three years building a comprehensive, three‑dimensional monitoring platform that unifies client‑to‑server metrics, alerts and reporting to ensure resilient, scalable operations and rapid business growth.

Cloud ServicesMeituanOperations
0 likes · 2 min read
Meituan Monitoring Practice: Building a Holistic Monitoring System
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Jan 19, 2018 · Operations

How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Supply Chain Handles Double‑11’s Massive Surge

This article explains how Alibaba’s supply‑chain algorithms and data‑driven operations enable rapid order processing, accurate demand forecasting, dynamic inventory allocation, and efficient warehouse fulfillment during the massive traffic of Double 11, highlighting the challenges faced and the solutions implemented.

AlibabaOperationsdemand forecasting
0 likes · 11 min read
How Alibaba’s AI‑Powered Supply Chain Handles Double‑11’s Massive Surge
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 16, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Secures Game Operations: Real Cases, Challenges, and Data‑Driven Solutions

This article shares a comprehensive overview of game operation security at Tencent, covering personal background, real‑world incident cases, the inherent challenges of large‑scale game services, past monitoring efforts, and a new data‑driven alerting framework that dramatically reduces false alarms while protecting game economies.

AlertingBig DataCase Study
0 likes · 25 min read
How Tencent Secures Game Operations: Real Cases, Challenges, and Data‑Driven Solutions
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jan 15, 2018 · Operations

How JD Finance Achieves Real-Time Capacity Assessment and Smart Alerting

This article explains JD Finance's operational challenges in a rapidly expanding micro‑service environment and presents a comprehensive approach that combines offline and online load testing, precise capacity calculations, and intelligent root‑cause alert analysis using both rule‑based and machine‑learning techniques.

Machine LearningOperationsRoot Cause Analysis
0 likes · 15 min read
How JD Finance Achieves Real-Time Capacity Assessment and Smart Alerting
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 15, 2018 · Operations

How to Build a Full‑Chain Load‑Testing Platform for E‑Commerce in 2 Days

This article details how Xiaohongshu tackled rapid growth challenges by designing, implementing, and operating a full‑link performance testing platform in just two days, covering system architecture, testing models, collaborative deployment, capacity planning, and practical advice for teams seeking reliable e‑commerce load testing.

Operationse-commercefull-chain testing
0 likes · 9 min read
How to Build a Full‑Chain Load‑Testing Platform for E‑Commerce in 2 Days
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 14, 2018 · Operations

How We Built a Unified Network Automation Framework for Heterogeneous Devices

This article shares how a telecom operations team tackled the complexity of managing dozens of device vendors and hundreds of models by designing a Python‑based automation module called Forward, which standardizes low‑level actions, provides reusable libraries, and enables rapid script composition for diverse network scenarios.

Heterogeneous DevicesOperationsinfrastructure as code
0 likes · 10 min read
How We Built a Unified Network Automation Framework for Heterogeneous Devices
Snowball Engineer Team
Snowball Engineer Team
Jan 12, 2018 · Operations

RDR: An Open-Source Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Redis Memory Usage

This article introduces RDR, an open-source visualization platform developed by Xueqiu's SRE team to safely and efficiently analyze Redis memory consumption by parsing RDB files, estimating key-level memory usage based on internal data structures, and generating intuitive statistical reports for operational optimization.

OperationsRDB ParsingRedis
0 likes · 9 min read
RDR: An Open-Source Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Redis Memory Usage
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 11, 2018 · Operations

Mastering Incident Troubleshooting: Proven SRE Strategies for Operations

This article shares practical SRE‑based principles for diagnosing and resolving online incidents, emphasizing systematic investigation, gathering clues, and prioritizing service restoration over immediate root‑cause identification to make troubleshooting less mystical and more effective.

Incident ManagementOperationsSRE
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Mastering Incident Troubleshooting: Proven SRE Strategies for Operations
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Jan 11, 2018 · Operations

Envoy Outlier Detection and Ejection Mechanism Overview

The article explains Envoy's outlier detection and ejection process, detailing how unhealthy upstream hosts are identified and temporarily removed based on consecutive 5xx errors, gateway failures, or success‑rate thresholds, and describes the logging format and configuration options for these health‑check mechanisms.

Operationsejectionhealth-check
0 likes · 6 min read
Envoy Outlier Detection and Ejection Mechanism Overview
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 7, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Leverages AI to Simplify Massive-Scale Service Monitoring and Root‑Cause Analysis

Tencent's SNG social platform team tackles billion‑scale traffic by integrating AI‑driven anomaly detection, multi‑dimensional monitoring, and decision‑tree based root‑cause analysis, turning complex backend architectures and massive alert volumes into streamlined, actionable insights for faster issue resolution.

AIAnomaly DetectionDecision Tree
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How Tencent Leverages AI to Simplify Massive-Scale Service Monitoring and Root‑Cause Analysis
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 3, 2018 · Operations

How QQ Space Photo Album Handled a 4‑Fold Traffic Surge on New Year’s Day

On December 30, 2017, a sudden wave of users uploading and downloading their 18‑year‑old photos caused QQ Space's album service to experience a four‑times spike in download traffic and a twelve‑times surge in post activity, prompting the operations and development teams to employ capacity monitoring, elastic scaling, flexible architecture, and targeted optimizations to maintain service stability and user experience.

Elastic ScalingOperationsQQ Space
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How QQ Space Photo Album Handled a 4‑Fold Traffic Surge on New Year’s Day
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 2, 2018 · Operations

What Triggered These Real‑World System Crashes? 13 Post‑Mortem Lessons

The article compiles thirteen post‑mortem case studies of severe system outages—from AIX NTP misconfiguration and backup appliance driver issues to PowerHA node ID conflicts and hardware failures—detailing symptoms, root‑cause analysis, and practical remediation steps for each incident.

AIXCase StudyOperations
0 likes · 20 min read
What Triggered These Real‑World System Crashes? 13 Post‑Mortem Lessons
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Jan 2, 2018 · Operations

What Does Meituan Ask? 20 Must‑Know Linux Ops Interview Q&A

This article compiles Meituan's Linux operations engineer interview questions covering job requirements, core responsibilities, essential qualifications, and detailed answers on software installation, networking tools, IP configuration, scripting, iptables, MySQL security, replication, and common sysadmin commands, providing a comprehensive study guide for aspiring Linux ops candidates.

LinuxMySQLOperations
0 likes · 13 min read
What Does Meituan Ask? 20 Must‑Know Linux Ops Interview Q&A
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Jan 1, 2018 · Big Data

How Vipshop Leverages Data Processing, Analytics, and Mining for Smarter Ops

This article summarizes Wu Xiaoguang's talk at Gdevops 2017, detailing how Vipshop integrates data processing, analysis, and mining technologies—such as Flume, Kafka, Spark, and custom scheduling—to improve operational decision‑making, performance monitoring, root‑cause analysis, and predictive modeling across its e‑commerce platform.

Big DataOperationsPredictive Modeling
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How Vipshop Leverages Data Processing, Analytics, and Mining for Smarter Ops
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Dec 28, 2017 · Operations

Designing Scalable System Architecture: From Access Chains to Cloud‑Native Infrastructure

This comprehensive guide walks through the full lifecycle of enterprise system architecture, covering access‑chain analysis, network and hardware foundations, virtualization and container strategies, layered design, load‑balancing, database high‑availability, service segmentation, and operational safeguards such as CMDB, monitoring, and disaster‑recovery.

CMDBOperationsdatabase
0 likes · 34 min read
Designing Scalable System Architecture: From Access Chains to Cloud‑Native Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 27, 2017 · Operations

Efficient Ticket System Operations During Double 11 Promotion

The article describes how a ticketing system with strict SLA enforcement, automated routing, and team‑based service management enabled rapid, orderly issue handling during the high‑volume Double 11 shopping event, achieving near‑90% resolution within 30 minutes and improving overall business stability.

Double 11Incident ManagementOperations
0 likes · 7 min read
Efficient Ticket System Operations During Double 11 Promotion
DevOps Coach
DevOps Coach
Dec 27, 2017 · Operations

Essential DevOps Glossary: Key Terms Every Practitioner Should Know

This article presents a comprehensive bilingual DevOps glossary compiled from the DevOps Handbook, offering standardized English‑Chinese terminology, a change log, and open‑source contribution instructions via GitHub for continuous improvement.

CollaborationOperationsTerminology
0 likes · 8 min read
Essential DevOps Glossary: Key Terms Every Practitioner Should Know
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 26, 2017 · Operations

From Oracle DBA to DevOps Leader: A 20‑Year Ops Journey and Lessons

This memoir chronicles a Chinese IT professional’s two‑decade evolution from a university student and Oracle DBA to a DevOps and cloud operations leader, sharing career milestones, technical choices, and practical insights for anyone pursuing a long‑term operations career.

Operationsdatabase
0 likes · 14 min read
From Oracle DBA to DevOps Leader: A 20‑Year Ops Journey and Lessons
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 23, 2017 · Operations

2017 Ops Tech Landscape: From Microservices to Intelligent Automation

This article surveys the evolution of operations technology, covering microservices, SRE, DevOps, containerization, orchestration, automation, intelligent monitoring, infrastructure, database and big‑data ops, as well as security, game and fintech operational challenges, highlighting current trends and future directions for 2017.

Operationscontainerizationdevops
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2017 Ops Tech Landscape: From Microservices to Intelligent Automation
Dada Group Technology
Dada Group Technology
Dec 22, 2017 · Operations

Performance Testing Process, Plans, and Best Practices for High‑Traffic Events

This article explains the purpose of performance (stress) testing, compares four testing approaches, details the chosen proportional‑deployment strategy, and provides comprehensive preparation steps, script guidelines, metric analysis, and practical tips for ensuring system stability during large‑scale traffic spikes.

Operationscapacity planningload testing
0 likes · 10 min read
Performance Testing Process, Plans, and Best Practices for High‑Traffic Events
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 21, 2017 · Operations

Master Linux Troubleshooting: 6 Common Issues and How to Fix Them

Learn a systematic approach for Linux system administrators to diagnose and resolve six typical problems—including filesystem errors, 'argument list too long', inode exhaustion, undeleted file space, too many open files, and read‑only filesystem—using command‑line tools, log analysis, and practical fixes.

FilesystemLinuxOperations
0 likes · 15 min read
Master Linux Troubleshooting: 6 Common Issues and How to Fix Them
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 21, 2017 · Operations

Stability Monitoring Practices for Double 11 2017

The 2017 Double 11 stability monitoring project introduced a four‑layer monitoring architecture—including customer & sentiment, business, system water‑level, and infrastructure monitoring—along with data archiving and system‑level reliability measures to detect, respond to, and mitigate issues far faster than traditional manual processes.

OperationsStabilitybig-data
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Stability Monitoring Practices for Double 11 2017
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 21, 2017 · Operations

Design and Implementation of an Open‑Source Load Balancing Solution Using Nginx and LVS

The article describes how a company replaced costly commercial load balancers with an open‑source architecture based on Nginx for layer‑4 traffic and a layer‑7 cluster, detailing project background, technology selection, redundant design, network and Nginx configurations, operational scripts, performance testing, and data analysis.

AutomationHigh AvailabilityNetwork
0 likes · 11 min read
Design and Implementation of an Open‑Source Load Balancing Solution Using Nginx and LVS
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 21, 2017 · Operations

Mastering High Availability Clusters: Key Concepts, Resource Management, and Failure Handling

This article explains how high‑availability (HA) clusters provide redundancy for directors, RS‑servers, databases and storage, covering active‑passive node roles, resource stickiness, constraints, quorum voting, split‑brain avoidance, failure detection methods, and essential configuration tips.

High AvailabilityOperationsResource Management
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Mastering High Availability Clusters: Key Concepts, Resource Management, and Failure Handling
Meitu Technology
Meitu Technology
Dec 19, 2017 · Industry Insights

Inside Meitu’s In‑House Log Collection System Arachnia: Design, Challenges, and Core Mechanisms

This article introduces Meitu’s self‑developed log collection system Arachnia, explaining why a custom solution was needed for massive server‑side user‑behavior logs, the key requirements such as reliability and real‑time throughput, and the core architectural mechanisms that address those challenges.

ArachniaBig DataMeitu
0 likes · 2 min read
Inside Meitu’s In‑House Log Collection System Arachnia: Design, Challenges, and Core Mechanisms
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 18, 2017 · Operations

How WiFi Key Built a Million‑User Monitoring Platform: Architecture and Best Practices

This article describes how WiFi 万能钥匙 designed and implemented the Roma monitoring platform to handle billions of daily requests, covering background challenges, architectural principles, component design, data collection, transmission, storage, alerting, and future directions for large‑scale observability.

ObservabilityOperationsarchitecture
0 likes · 16 min read
How WiFi Key Built a Million‑User Monitoring Platform: Architecture and Best Practices
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 15, 2017 · Operations

Automated Fault Recovery Architecture for Alibaba's Network during Double Eleven

The article describes Alibaba's end‑to‑end automated fault recovery system for its massive network, covering extensive data collection, Spark‑based event processing, flexible alerting with Siddhi, alert convergence using PageRank, and scripted recovery actions to achieve high availability during the Double Eleven traffic surge.

AutomationBig DataNetwork Monitoring
0 likes · 9 min read
Automated Fault Recovery Architecture for Alibaba's Network during Double Eleven
DevOps
DevOps
Dec 7, 2017 · Operations

Insights on DevOps: Perspectives, Principles, and Business Value

Drawing on 40 years of IT experience, the speaker explores DevOps as a transformative practice, discusses its strategic business value, outlines four key discussion areas—including principles, practices, selling to executives, and identifying weak points—and offers practical guidance for cultural and organizational change.

IT ManagementOperationsbusiness value
0 likes · 11 min read
Insights on DevOps: Perspectives, Principles, and Business Value
AI Cyberspace
AI Cyberspace
Dec 6, 2017 · Operations

Master RabbitMQ: Message Acknowledgment, Prefetch, RPC, vhosts & Plugins

This article explores RabbitMQ’s core features—including message acknowledgment, prefetch count, RPC support, virtual hosts, and its powerful plugin system—explaining how each works, when to enable or disable them, and providing step‑by‑step command‑line examples for configuring users, permissions, and management tools.

Message QueueOperationsPlugins
0 likes · 9 min read
Master RabbitMQ: Message Acknowledgment, Prefetch, RPC, vhosts & Plugins
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Dec 3, 2017 · Operations

Why Operations Teams Get Overlooked and How to Build Real Collaboration

The article explores common conflicts between development, testing, and operations staff, explains why operations are often undervalued, and offers practical steps—such as clear documentation, defined processes, and proactive communication—to improve teamwork and reduce blame‑shifting in software projects.

Operationscommunicationprocess
0 likes · 8 min read
Why Operations Teams Get Overlooked and How to Build Real Collaboration
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Nov 28, 2017 · Operations

Award-Winning DevOps Product “Developer Lab” and Tencent Cloud Distributed Database (DCDB) – Technical Overview

At the 2017 Global Operations Conference, Tencent Cloud’s award‑winning Developer Lab—an immersive, browser‑based IDE integrating SSH, RDP and tutorial‑driven workflows with automated resource scheduling—and its Distributed Cloud Database (DCDB), a sharded, cluster‑managed MySQL‑compatible system featuring advanced scheduling, routing and configuration services, were recognized for innovation and influence.

OperationsTencent Clouddevops
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Award-Winning DevOps Product “Developer Lab” and Tencent Cloud Distributed Database (DCDB) – Technical Overview
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 27, 2017 · Operations

How Facebook Scales to Billions: Disaggregated Networks, Storage, and Warm Spark

Facebook’s journey from early startup ops to supporting over 2 billion monthly users reveals how disaggregated network, storage, and warm‑storage‑enabled Spark architectures overcome scalability bottlenecks, illustrating the operational strategies and design principles that power massive, reliable data‑center services.

Big DataOperationscloud infrastructure
0 likes · 12 min read
How Facebook Scales to Billions: Disaggregated Networks, Storage, and Warm Spark
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 23, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Turn AIOps from Hype into Reality: A Practical Roadmap

In this comprehensive talk, Pei Dan outlines the technical and strategic roadmap for bringing AIOps to production, explains the challenges of anomaly detection, fault localization, root‑cause analysis and prediction, and demonstrates how to decompose complex operations problems into AI‑solvable tasks.

AIAIOpsAnomaly Detection
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How to Turn AIOps from Hype into Reality: A Practical Roadmap
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 23, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba Is Revolutionizing Operations with Intelligent Automation and DevOps

Alibaba's R&D efficiency team explains how intelligent operations—spanning resource planning, change management, monitoring, stability, and one‑click site building—are being transformed from manual tooling to automated, AI‑driven DevOps practices to boost efficiency, cut costs, and ensure high availability at massive scale.

Operationsdevopsintelligent-ops
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How Alibaba Is Revolutionizing Operations with Intelligent Automation and DevOps
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 20, 2017 · Operations

How JD.com Scales Network Monitoring for Massive Traffic Peaks

This article explains how JD.com’s network team continuously optimizes its large‑scale infrastructure, designs effective monitoring strategies, implements practical monitoring solutions, and outlines future directions to improve network availability, fault detection, and operational efficiency across data centers and the internet backbone.

JD.comNetwork MonitoringOperations
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How JD.com Scales Network Monitoring for Massive Traffic Peaks
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Nov 14, 2017 · Operations

Unlocking Scalable Network Automation: Lessons from 360’s Ops Strategy

This article explores how rapid growth in network devices drives the need for comprehensive automation—covering script‑based tasks, zero‑touch provisioning, orchestration with OpenStack, device selection criteria, fault diagnosis, and monitoring—to keep operations ahead of business demands.

Fault diagnosisNetwork MonitoringOpenStack integration
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Unlocking Scalable Network Automation: Lessons from 360’s Ops Strategy
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Nov 14, 2017 · Operations

Design and Implementation of JD.com's Multi‑Active Distributed Architecture

This article details JD.com's multi-active distributed architecture, covering its evolution from single‑data‑center to multi‑region deployments, network design, leaf‑spine topology, data consistency mechanisms, application scheduling, monitoring, and disaster recovery strategies that enhance high availability and user experience.

Data ConsistencyNetwork ArchitectureOperations
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Design and Implementation of JD.com's Multi‑Active Distributed Architecture
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 14, 2017 · Operations

How Alibaba’s Dragonfly P2P System Powers 20B Transfers and Slashes Docker Image Traffic

Alibaba’s Dragonfly P2P file distribution platform, built to handle massive file and container image delivery during peak events like Double‑11, combines peer‑to‑peer networking, smart compression, flow‑control and security features to achieve billions of transfers, petabyte‑scale traffic, and up to 99.9% reduction in registry outbound bandwidth.

File DistributionOperationsP2P
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How Alibaba’s Dragonfly P2P System Powers 20B Transfers and Slashes Docker Image Traffic
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 12, 2017 · Operations

How 360’s LVS FULLNAT Transforms Load Balancing and Boosts Security

This article explains how 360’s Linux Virtual Server (LVS) platform evolved with the FULLNAT forwarding mode, enhancing cross‑VLAN deployment, simplifying real‑server configuration, adding SYN‑proxy protection, and improving UDP handling, while detailing the new deployment architecture and operational benefits.

DeploymentFullNATLVS
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How 360’s LVS FULLNAT Transforms Load Balancing and Boosts Security
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
StarRing Big Data Open Lab
Nov 10, 2017 · Operations

Top 16 Common TDH Community Edition Installation Issues and How to Fix Them

This guide compiles the most frequent problems encountered when installing the TDH Community Edition—such as hostname configuration, logical volume creation errors, service startup failures, firewall settings, and license issues—and provides clear step‑by‑step solutions to help users avoid and resolve these obstacles.

InstallationLinuxOperations
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Top 16 Common TDH Community Edition Installation Issues and How to Fix Them
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Nov 10, 2017 · Operations

Building a Private Cloud Elasticsearch Platform with Mesos and Docker

This article describes how the OPS team designed and implemented a private‑cloud Elasticsearch service using Mesos for resource management, Docker containers orchestrated by Marathon, and a suite of monitoring, self‑service configuration, and continuous deployment tools to improve resource utilization and operational efficiency.

DockerElasticsearchMarathon
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Building a Private Cloud Elasticsearch Platform with Mesos and Docker
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Nov 9, 2017 · Operations

Mastering Log Levels: Practical Guidelines for Effective Logging

This article explains the purpose of each log level, when to write logs, performance impacts, and concrete best‑practice patterns for INFO, DEBUG, WARN and ERROR in Java applications, providing actionable templates and configuration tips to build a robust logging system.

Best PracticesLoggingOperations
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Mastering Log Levels: Practical Guidelines for Effective Logging
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Nov 8, 2017 · Operations

How to Build an Ops Engineer Skill Map to Bridge the Hiring Gap

An operations director explains why hiring skilled ops engineers is hard, identifies the technology mismatch in typical stacks, and shares a practical skill‑map approach that lets teams cover most essential tools while giving engineers a clear learning roadmap.

OperationsOps EngineeringSkill Map
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How to Build an Ops Engineer Skill Map to Bridge the Hiring Gap
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 8, 2017 · Operations

10 Essential Linux Sysadmin Hacks to Boost Efficiency

This article presents ten practical Linux system‑administration tricks—from ejecting a stuck DVD drive and resetting a frozen console to sharing screen sessions, creating SSH tunnels for VNC, measuring network bandwidth, and gathering system diagnostics—each designed to save time and improve operational productivity.

LinuxOperationsShell
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10 Essential Linux Sysadmin Hacks to Boost Efficiency
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 5, 2017 · Operations

Scaling Ele.me’s Infrastructure: Operations, Automation, and Private Cloud Insights

This article recounts Ele.me's rapid growth from 2014 onward, detailing the challenges of network and server management, the evolution of their operations through standardization, process automation, and platform building, and how private cloud solutions like ZStack enabled fine‑grained, data‑driven infrastructure management.

AutomationCloud ComputingOperations
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Scaling Ele.me’s Infrastructure: Operations, Automation, and Private Cloud Insights