This article shares Peng Lihang's practical insights on operations automation, covering the essential trio of configuration, state, and change management, the evolution of ops practices, platform design principles, and concrete steps for building scalable, business‑driven ops platforms.
This talk explores the challenges of building and maintaining a CMDB, proposes a goal‑driven, industry‑referenced modeling approach, and outlines practical steps such as tagging, relationship mapping, dynamic attributes, automation, and visualization to create a service‑oriented, scalable configuration management database.
This article outlines a comprehensive design for a high‑performance, unified operations monitoring platform, detailing a six‑layer architecture, the roles of data collection (using Ganglia), data extraction, and alerting modules (with Centreon), and provides practical integration tips, deployment diagrams, and Q&A for large‑scale environments.
This article explores the fundamentals of operations automation, outlines its three evolutionary stages, provides practical guidance for implementation, and highlights hidden risks and pitfalls that organizations must address to build reliable, secure, and scalable automation systems.
This article explores why efficient operations are hard to achieve, identifies common pitfalls such as unclear responsibilities, communication gaps, and resource mismatches, and presents a practical framework—including clear roles, professional processes, and a good service interface—to help operations teams become more effective and satisfied.
This article explores the benefits and trade‑offs of performance optimization, outlines single‑application and structural optimization approaches, details bottleneck identification methods, common tuning techniques, and illustrates architectural evolution with diagrams to guide effective ops improvements.
Veteran operations engineer Wang Jinyin recounts his journey from telecom system development to leading ops teams at Tencent, YY, and UC, then founding Youwei, offering practical insights on standardization, automation, DevOps integration, and team building for modern IT operations.
This article explains why modern IT operations rely on monitoring-driven automation, template-based deployments, and containerized tools to dramatically improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and pave the way toward intelligent, DevOps-enabled operational platforms.
This article explores how logs serve as vital diagnostic tools in operations, detailing their definition, practical uses for performance and security monitoring, step‑by‑step analysis techniques, and recommendations for free and commercial log analysis solutions.
This article shares practical insights from a seasoned KVM specialist on how to monitor hardware, set up alerts, design disaster‑recovery strategies, choose optimal software and hardware, and evaluate public‑cloud providers when migrating workloads to a virtualized environment.
An in‑depth guide walks readers through building a comprehensive monitoring system for small‑to‑medium enterprises, covering hardware, system, application, network, security, traffic analysis, business metrics, log aggregation, automation, visualization, and practical integration with tools like Zabbix, IPMI, ELK, and Smokeping.
This article introduces OWL, a distributed, enterprise‑grade monitoring solution that combines infrastructure and business metrics, offers floating alert rules, customizable dashboards, visual asset management, a resilient Golang‑based agent, and a parallel‑scalable HBase storage backend.
This article explains how Docker uses Linux namespaces and cgroups to provide isolation, CPU/memory/I/O control, and monitoring, and includes practical scripts and tips for managing container resources effectively.
This article presents two practical automation operations case studies—Xiaomi's three‑year journey to platform‑managed, self‑scheduling services and a trading exchange's step‑by‑step build from zero automation—highlighting standards, tooling, and cultural challenges for modern ops teams.
This article summarizes the key insights from Dazhong Dianping's operations talk, covering team organization, multi‑datacenter architecture, comprehensive monitoring, automation workflows, configuration management tools, incident analysis systems, common pitfalls, and future directions such as PaaS and Docker adoption.
This article explores how the ELK stack can transform large‑scale log processing into fast, flexible, and interactive analysis for troubleshooting, security auditing, and monitoring, sharing practical examples, common pitfalls, and best‑practice recommendations from real‑world deployments at Sina.
Learn how to deploy postgres_exporter, configure PostgreSQL extensions, set up Prometheus scraping, and create Grafana dashboards for comprehensive PostgreSQL performance monitoring, complete with command-line instructions and tips for verifying data collection and visualizing metrics.
This guide walks you through the fundamentals of Prometheus, its architecture, and detailed Helm‑based deployment and validation steps on a Kubernetes cluster, enabling reliable monitoring for cloud‑native environments.
This guide walks through practical SpringBoot performance improvements, covering metric exposure with Prometheus, flame‑graph profiling via async‑profiler, distributed tracing with SkyWalking, HTTP and Tomcat tuning, and layer‑specific optimizations for controllers, services, and data access.
This article introduces SkyWalking, a Chinese open‑source APM framework, compares it with Spring Cloud Sleuth+Zipkin, explains server and client setup, storage configuration, log collection, performance profiling, and alerting, providing step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and screenshots to help developers implement comprehensive distributed tracing.