This article provides a concise overview of four major distributed storage solutions—HDFS, Ceph, FastDFS, and TFS—highlighting their architectures, strengths, weaknesses, and typical use cases for large‑scale data and e‑commerce applications.
This article provides a concise overview of four key distributed file systems—HDFS, CephFS, GFS, and TFS—explaining their architectures, strengths, weaknesses, and typical application scenarios for large‑scale data storage and processing.
This article details the Agricultural Bank of China's multi‑phase journey to build a broad, end‑to‑end continuous delivery pipeline—covering requirement gathering, architecture design, planning, coding, testing, deployment, and operations—using Microsoft TFS, agile practices, and DevOps metrics to achieve mature, bank‑wide toolchain integration.
This article describes how to build a CI/CD pipeline using TFS for source control and Jenkins for automation on a Red Hat OpenShift‑based PaaS, covering code management, automated builds, testing, container image creation, deployment, and the necessary Jenkins and TFS configurations.
This article explains how agile teams can plan and track work using iterations or sprints, outlines the benefits of iteration planning, provides step-by-step guidance for creating iteration plans, and demonstrates how to configure iterations in TFS to manage tasks effectively.
This guide explains how to configure the TFS electronic board, create and maintain tasks, and leverage the board in daily stand‑ups and other meetings to improve agile task tracking and project visibility within a development team.
This article explains how the Agricultural Bank's R&D Center uses TFS for end‑to‑end requirement itemization, detailing the workflow of project, module, and function work items, the importance of standardized information entry, and guidelines for demand batch and change number documentation.
This guide explains how to restore the missing "Team" function in WPS after installing TFS by manually adding the TFSOfficeAdd-in.dll and, if necessary, editing the Windows registry to ensure the feature appears correctly.
This guide explains how to use the TFS Test Plan Management tool to import and export test cases, detailing step‑by‑step procedures, example screenshots, default file locations, and answers to common questions for testers seeking to manage their test case data efficiently.
This guide explains how to query, interpret, and manage defect statuses in TFS—including the four typical workflow states and the method for bulk‑updating statuses—providing practical tips for developers and testers in a DevOps environment.
This article presents a comprehensive case study of how a major Chinese bank transformed its legacy C‑based IT system development by designing and deploying a fully automated, end‑to‑end CI/CD pipeline with Azure DevOps Server (formerly TFS), covering static code analysis, mandatory code review, continuous integration, automated testing, and release management to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
This article explains how to use Docker to containerize both the TFS continuous‑integration workflow and the TFS build agent, providing step‑by‑step commands for customizing Docker images, configuring agents, and handling authentication, followed by a brief recruitment notice for DevOps engineers.
This article explains how to reduce TFS database growth by managing document, source code, build package, and test artifact storage, offering best‑practice recommendations, configuration tips, and SQL scripts for analyzing and cleaning up large data tables and optimizing repository structures.
This article explains how to build a complete application‑plus‑database DevOps pipeline using TFS, detailing script‑based database upgrades, CI/CD integration, backup and restore commands, and the open‑source SQLToolkit tool to automate versioned database deployments.
This article explains how to construct a complete DevOps pipeline using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Docker to achieve continuous integration and continuous deployment for .NET Core applications, covering pipeline topology, configuration files, build steps, testing, image creation, and release automation.
This article explains how to quickly set up a complete CI/CD pipeline on Azure‑hosted TFS 2018 using the open‑source yoTeam generator, covering environment provisioning, pipeline creation, required tools, command‑line usage, and practical examples for DevOps teams.
This article explains how to select an appropriate Team Foundation Server (TFS) deployment topology and design a data storage strategy, covering single, dual, and cluster deployments, hardware recommendations by team size, high‑availability options, performance testing results, and best practices for managing TFS databases.
This report details a joint initiative by the Application Development Department and the PMO to improve software delivery efficiency through a full‑process continuous delivery methodology, a Git‑based configuration‑management model, and end‑to‑end pipelines applied to the multi‑scenario C3 project group, including results, advantages, training, and future plans.
The article explains how to use TFS release pipelines, environment variables, and feature‑branch pull requests to automatically provision isolated test environments for each PR, enabling end‑to‑end continuous delivery linked to user stories.
The Spring Project team adopted Scrum and a physical Kanban board, combined with TFS work items, to streamline requirement tracking, code‑story linkage, version control, and automated deployment, resulting in clearer process management, higher delivery quality, and improved team efficiency across fifteen iterations.
The Development Department's fifth division organized an Agile R&D workshop showcasing Scrum practices using TFS electronic Kanban boards, covering work item, personnel, and time management, daily stand‑up demonstrations, discussion outcomes, and future agile development requirements.
This guide explains two methods to overcome Git authentication errors on Windows—configuring Git Credential Manager for Basic authentication and generating SSH keys—to securely connect to TFS/VSTS Git repositories, including required commands, setup steps, and credential storage details.
This guide explains how TFS stores its data in SQL Server, outlines the four core databases and the Analysis Services multidimensional warehouse, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for creating Excel‑based reports using the Tfs_Analysis cube and code churn metrics.
This article reviews the most important Windows‑focused DevOps tools—including TFS, Jenkins, TeamCity, DSC, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Pester, and nUnit—covering build and release pipelines, configuration management, and testing frameworks to help administrators automate software delivery on Windows platforms.
This article describes how a development team introduced Azure Application Insights for runtime monitoring, built and maintained their own TFS build agents, integrated SonarQube for automated code quality, and established unit and integration testing pipelines to create a data‑driven, scalable DevOps process.
Over nearly two years, the author chronicles the transition of their development team from using TFS 2010 and manual processes to adopting Git, automated build and release pipelines, QA branch workflows, and Release Management in TFS 2015 Update 2, highlighting the resulting improvements in collaboration, deployment speed, and overall DevOps maturity.
The article details Tencent File System (TFS), describing its platform components, 3D indexing techniques, high‑performance key‑value storage (TSSD) with MHT, dual‑read and smooth scaling mechanisms, hybrid index storage, host‑level FTL, Append‑Only and erasure‑coding storage engines, and how these innovations deliver scalable, low‑cost, high‑performance data storage for massive workloads.
The TFS 2017 update introduces a completely redesigned branch page with a "mine" view, a revamped pull‑request UI featuring enhanced diff, comment, and file tracking capabilities, new squash‑merge support, improved build and commit traceability, Git LFS file preview, code‑link sharing, and additional UI enhancements for a smoother DevOps workflow.
The article outlines several enhancements to Release Management in Team Foundation Server 2015, including cloning, exporting and importing release definitions, test result display in release summaries, OAuth token passing to scripts, partial success handling, GitHub project usage, Azure Web App deployment, task groups, soft delete, retention policies, linked project improvements, manual intervention, SQL deployment scripts, dashboard widgets, scheduled and conditional deployments, REST API, service hook integration, and support for Azure China cloud.
The article explains how to use the User Story Mapping technique on the TFS platform, describing both a direct one‑to‑one mapping approach and a conversion method that transforms business‑level story maps into technical TFS work items for efficient DevOps team collaboration.
This guide explains how to configure a cross‑platform CI pipeline for iOS apps using VSTS/TFS, covering project setup, Git repository linking, agent installation on macOS, build definition creation, variable configuration, and triggering builds to produce signed IPA packages.
This article explains how to configure and use a TFS Kanban board to plan, execute, and review a Scrum sprint, covering team roles, sprint cadence, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, and sprint review and retrospective activities.
This article explains how to create and customize Kanban boards in TFS, covering board creation, column naming, WIP limits, status mapping, swimlane usage, card field configuration, and visual styling to improve team visibility and workflow management.
A misconfigured mount_maxsize limited each Data Server to 20 GB, causing 96% storage usage, and after correction led to block corruption that required a custom script to clean up, illustrating the importance of proper storage settings and automated remediation in TFS operations.
This article explains how to transform user stories into a product backlog, demonstrates using electronic tools such as TFS and Excel for tracking, and provides a sample e‑commerce application to illustrate agile planning, backlog management, and DevOps integration.
This article chronicles the ten‑year evolution of Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server, detailing its origins, major releases from TFS 2005 through TFS 2015, feature improvements, installation challenges, and its impact on DevOps and software development practices.
This guide explains how to install Node.js, download the TFS Build vNext agent, configure it on Windows using PowerShell, set execution policies, and register the agent with TFS, covering required tools, configuration options, and optional service setup.
The article introduces TFS 2015 Update 2 RC2, highlighting web‑based creation and deletion of team projects, browser‑driven release pipeline setup, and a set of useful marketplace plugins such as Package Management, Work Item Visualization, TimeTracker, and Estimate.
This article explains how to choose, customize, and extend TFS/VSTS process templates—including adding custom fields, configuring layouts, and using template inheritance—to align the tool with team-specific workflows and organizational change requirements.
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 introduces a range of enhancements—including dual Git/TFVC support, improved web version‑control UI, new Kanban board fields, integrated SonarQube analysis, multi‑selection in backlogs, customizable dashboards, advanced pull‑request features, and Azure resource‑group deployment—providing a richer ALM experience.
This article explains the design, storage mechanisms, high‑availability architecture, scaling strategies, multi‑data‑center disaster recovery, operational management, and future plans of Taobao’s distributed file system (TFS), a highly available and scalable storage solution for massive unstructured data.
