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Suning Technology
Suning Technology
Jan 17, 2018 · Information Security

How Suning Built a Robust Security Architecture for E‑Commerce

This article examines Suning's evolution from a basic network‑operations unit to a comprehensive security ecosystem, detailing its organizational structure, protection platforms, integrated risk‑control mechanisms, big‑data threat perception system, and management processes that together safeguard its e‑commerce operations.

e-commerceinformation securityrisk management
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How Suning Built a Robust Security Architecture for E‑Commerce
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Jan 12, 2018 · R&D Management

Mastering Cross‑Company Multi‑Team Project Management: A Practical Guide

This article shares a detailed, experience‑based framework for project managers to successfully lead cross‑company, multi‑team software collaborations by dividing work into planning, implementation, and delivery phases, emphasizing risk identification, schedule coordination, change handling, and continuous external communication.

Project Managementagilecross-company collaboration
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Mastering Cross‑Company Multi‑Team Project Management: A Practical Guide
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Oct 31, 2017 · Fundamentals

16 Essential Traits of an Excellent Software Tester

The article outlines sixteen key characteristics—including a skeptical attitude, uncompromising quality, user‑centric thinking, early testing, risk management, strong analysis, negative testing, effective negotiation, and teamwork—that together define what makes a software tester truly outstanding.

Quality AssuranceSoftware testingrisk management
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16 Essential Traits of an Excellent Software Tester
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 29, 2017 · R&D Management

Why Not Taking Risks Is the Biggest Risk: Facebook’s Early Lessons

This article reflects on Mark Zuckerberg’s early Facebook experience, emphasizing the importance of creating value, building learning‑focused organizations, rapid experimentation, hiring talent without experience, and embracing risk as essential for successful entrepreneurship.

Talent acquisitionlearning organizationproduct experimentation
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Why Not Taking Risks Is the Biggest Risk: Facebook’s Early Lessons
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Sep 25, 2017 · Fundamentals

Virtual Business Quality Assurance: Best Practices and Team Building

This article discusses quality assurance strategies for virtual businesses, covering layered testing approaches, external decoupling techniques, process simulation, risk prevention, and team building methods to ensure efficient and reliable platform operations.

Software testingautomation toolse-commerce platform
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Virtual Business Quality Assurance: Best Practices and Team Building
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Jun 5, 2017 · Information Security

Evolution of Ctrip's Graphical Captcha Service: From 1.0 to 2.0

This article recounts the development of Ctrip's graphical captcha system, describing its early .NET‑based implementation, the challenges encountered such as uniform difficulty, limited data collection, and poor user experience, and how successive redesigns—including multilingual support, adaptive difficulty, and slider‑plus‑character selection—balanced security and usability.

authenticationcaptchainformation security
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Evolution of Ctrip's Graphical Captcha Service: From 1.0 to 2.0
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Jun 1, 2017 · R&D Management

Creating an Initial Project Plan: Estimation, Assumptions, and Scheduling

The article walks through building an initial software project plan by translating effort estimates into a timeline, discussing ideal versus realistic weekly capacity, handling urgent issues, allocating testing time, identifying risks and assumptions, and adding buffer to produce a roughly nine‑week schedule.

Project Planningagile developmentrisk management
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Creating an Initial Project Plan: Estimation, Assumptions, and Scheduling
21CTO
21CTO
Apr 24, 2017 · Backend Development

Designing Scalable Payment Systems: Architecture, Modules, and Business Flow

This article explains how to design a payment system by covering product classification, module functions, business processes, and reference architectures, illustrating the role of microservice proxies, risk assessment, and integration with popular platforms like Alipay, WeChat Pay, and PayPal.

Microservicesarchitecturebackend development
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Designing Scalable Payment Systems: Architecture, Modules, and Business Flow
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 19, 2017 · Information Security

From Zero to Secure: How Zhaogang Built Its Information Security Operations

This article details Zhaogang's journey from a chaotic startup environment to a mature, multi‑stage security operation, covering its background, the four‑phase security framework, traditional security domains, and practical strategies for driving security initiatives across the organization.

B2BSecurity Operationsinformation security
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From Zero to Secure: How Zhaogang Built Its Information Security Operations
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 30, 2017 · Operations

Why Ops Engineers Are Always the Scapegoat—and How to Turn That Into Value

The article reflects on the challenges faced by operations engineers in small companies, illustrating why they often become scapegoats, and offers practical advice on learning, risk control, communication, and disaster‑recovery drills to increase their value and effectiveness.

LearningOperationsrisk management
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Why Ops Engineers Are Always the Scapegoat—and How to Turn That Into Value
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Feb 20, 2017 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of Payment Routing Mechanisms

This article explains the concept, structure, and practical strategies of payment routing—including guide routing and transaction routing—using a retail store analogy to illustrate how routing decisions optimize user experience, success rates, and profitability while managing costs and risk.

FinTechcost optimizationpayment routing
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Design and Implementation of Payment Routing Mechanisms
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Jan 13, 2017 · Information Security

Risk Control System Architecture and Practices at Meituan

Meituan’s risk‑control architecture transforms diverse, high‑volume e‑commerce services into a middleware‑based platform that unifies data collection, combines expert rules with machine‑learning models, and employs a three‑stage defense—pre‑risk, real‑time detection, and post‑incident response—to continuously adapt to evolving fraud threats.

fraud detectiononline commercerisk management
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Risk Control System Architecture and Practices at Meituan
Ctrip Technology
Ctrip Technology
Jan 13, 2017 · Information Security

Ctrip Business Security: From Business‑Driven to Technology‑Driven Defense

This article outlines Ctrip's comprehensive business security strategy, detailing four major risk types, three core protection systems—including a unified captcha, a real‑time risk control engine, and a risk data platform—followed by a technology‑driven architecture, new captcha services, and future security directions.

business securityfraud detectioninformation security
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Ctrip Business Security: From Business‑Driven to Technology‑Driven Defense
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 20, 2016 · Big Data

Alibaba’s Big Data Applications in Urban Governance and Social Risk Prevention

The article describes how Alibaba leverages big data, cloud computing and AI through its “City Brain” project and security platforms to improve urban traffic management, public safety, anti‑fraud measures and e‑commerce risk control, illustrating the transformative impact of data‑driven technologies on modern social governance.

AIBig DataCloud Computing
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Alibaba’s Big Data Applications in Urban Governance and Social Risk Prevention
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Nov 14, 2016 · Operations

What Ancient Medicine Teaches About Modern IT Risk Management

Using the classic tale of Bian Que, this article explains how proactive, mid‑stage, and reactive risk controls in IT operations prevent small issues from becoming catastrophic failures, illustrated with real‑world storage, cloud, and equipment‑selection case studies.

IT infrastructureOperationspreventive control
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What Ancient Medicine Teaches About Modern IT Risk Management
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Oct 10, 2016 · Information Security

Evolution of Ctrip's Risk Defense Systems: From .NET Era to the Ares Platform

This article reviews the rapid growth of China’s OTA market, the rise of black‑market threats, and how Ctrip’s security team has iteratively redesigned its risk‑defense architecture—from a .NET‑based real‑time system, through an offline risk‑library, to the integrated Ares platform—highlighting each stage’s strengths, shortcomings, and lessons learned.

Ares platformCtripfraud detection
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Evolution of Ctrip's Risk Defense Systems: From .NET Era to the Ares Platform
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Sep 13, 2016 · Operations

How Google SRE Principles Compare Across Industries

This article, excerpted from the upcoming Chinese edition of “SRE: Google Site Reliability Engineering”, examines how Google’s SRE guiding philosophies—disaster planning, post‑mortem culture, automation, and data‑driven decision‑making—are adopted, adapted, or contrasted in sectors such as manufacturing, aerospace, nuclear, telecommunications, healthcare, and finance, highlighting key similarities, differences, and lessons for Google and the broader tech industry.

AutomationOperationsSRE
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How Google SRE Principles Compare Across Industries
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 26, 2016 · R&D Management

What Sailing Teaches About Building High‑Performing Software Teams

Drawing from a weekend sailing race, the author reflects on team motivation, member selection, structure, agile roles, risk management, and incentive systems, offering practical analogies to improve the effectiveness of software development teams.

leadershipmotivationrisk management
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What Sailing Teaches About Building High‑Performing Software Teams
21CTO
21CTO
Jun 11, 2016 · Fundamentals

Why Technical Debt Accumulates and How to Tackle It Effectively

The article shares a veteran IT professional’s insights on how technical debt forms, the risks it brings, various repayment strategies, and practical ways to prevent debt crises, emphasizing continuous management and disciplined engineering practices.

Software Engineeringrefactoringrisk management
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Why Technical Debt Accumulates and How to Tackle It Effectively
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Dec 4, 2015 · Databases

Why Storage Choices Make or Break Your Database Performance

In this technical presentation, HP's storage director shares market trends, flash storage evolution, performance metrics, planning considerations, and risk mitigation strategies, highlighting how storage architecture directly impacts database efficiency, reliability, and cost in modern enterprise environments.

DatabaseFlashrisk management
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Why Storage Choices Make or Break Your Database Performance
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Oct 7, 2015 · Information Security

Why Information Security Mirrors Protecting Your Money: 4 Core Principles Explained

The article explores the essence of information security by comparing it to safeguarding personal money, detailing the four fundamental attributes—confidentiality, integrity, availability, and controllability—and illustrating how different conditions shape security needs, from personal to enterprise contexts.

availabilityconfidentialitydata protection
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Why Information Security Mirrors Protecting Your Money: 4 Core Principles Explained

Integrating Agile Practices with Architecture: Five Practical Recommendations

The article explains how architects can adopt a risk‑ and cost‑driven, lightweight approach to keep architecture agile, offering five actionable recommendations—decision‑focused delivery, a backlog of architectural concerns, economic impact prioritization, minimal architecture, and delivering just enough expectations—applicable across agile and plan‑driven projects.

BacklogCost-drivenagile
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Integrating Agile Practices with Architecture: Five Practical Recommendations