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Alibaba Cloud Developer

Jan 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Mastering AI Coding: Token Mechanics, Tool Calls, and Best‑Practice Prompt Design

This comprehensive guide explains how AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code compute tokens, interact with tools, index codebases with Merkle trees, craft effective prompts, and apply progressive development practices to boost productivity, code quality, and security across real‑world projects.

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Mastering AI Coding: Token Mechanics, Tool Calls, and Best‑Practice Prompt Design

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Jan 4, 2026 · Databases

Accelerating AliSQL Vector Search with Nodes Cache and SIMD

AliSQL 8.0 introduces a shared Nodes Cache and per‑transaction cache to speed up vector queries, implements RC‑level transaction isolation for read‑only and read‑write operations, and leverages SIMD‑based pre‑computation to dramatically improve high‑dimensional vector distance calculations and concurrency performance.

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Accelerating AliSQL Vector Search with Nodes Cache and SIMD

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Jan 4, 2026 · Backend Development

How to Achieve Zero Over‑sell and Under‑sell with Redis Bucketed Inventory Deduction

This article details a Redis bucket‑based inventory deduction architecture that guarantees strong consistency while eliminating over‑sell and under‑sell, boosting hot‑spot deduction TPS and stability through a merge‑commit process and comprehensive module design.

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How to Achieve Zero Over‑sell and Under‑sell with Redis Bucketed Inventory Deduction

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 30, 2025 · Operations

Uncovering the Split‑Lock Chaos that Crashed AMD Servers During Double‑11

A detailed post‑mortem of a high‑priority fault on AMD servers shows how a split‑lock triggered by Python UDFs caused CPI spikes, CPU overload, and bus‑lock events, and explains the investigation steps, code analysis, reproduction tests, and mitigation measures taken to restore stability.

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Uncovering the Split‑Lock Chaos that Crashed AMD Servers During Double‑11

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 29, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s Tair KVCache Manager Revolutionizes Enterprise‑Level LLM Cache Management

This article details the architecture and implementation of Tair KVCache Manager, an enterprise‑grade service that centralises KVCache metadata, decouples inference engines from storage, provides elastic scaling, multi‑tenant isolation, high availability, and performance‑optimised cache management for large‑scale LLM inference workloads.

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How Alibaba’s Tair KVCache Manager Revolutionizes Enterprise‑Level LLM Cache Management

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 26, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How AutoContextMemory Cuts LLM Costs by 70% in Long Conversations

This article explains the challenges of token explosion in long‑running AI agent dialogues and introduces AutoContextMemory, a Java component that automatically compresses, offloads, and summarizes conversation history to dramatically reduce token usage, speed up responses, and preserve critical information.

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How AutoContextMemory Cuts LLM Costs by 70% in Long Conversations

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 26, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build a Fully Automated Knowledge‑Extraction Pipeline for AI Agents with Python

This article presents a complete end‑to‑end pipeline that automatically extracts, generalizes, incrementally updates, and vector‑syncs knowledge from diverse sources such as tickets, documents, and SQL code, turning the traditionally labor‑intensive knowledge‑base construction for agents into a low‑effort, continuously maintainable Python‑driven solution.

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How to Build a Fully Automated Knowledge‑Extraction Pipeline for AI Agents with Python

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 25, 2025 · Databases

Why Your MySQL Order‑By Is Slowing Down Queries and How Indexes Can Fix It

This article dissects a non‑typical slow SQL on a massive e‑commerce order table, explains how index structures, B+Tree height, index‑pushdown, and filesort affect performance, and presents a step‑by‑step SOP for analyzing, optimizing, and safely deploying new indexes to eliminate the slowdown.

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Why Your MySQL Order‑By Is Slowing Down Queries and How Indexes Can Fix It

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 24, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Boosting LLM Inference: RoleBasedGroup & Mooncake for Stable, High‑Performance Service

Large language model inference faces memory pressure, but by externalizing KVCache with Mooncake and orchestrating roles via the Kubernetes‑native RoleBasedGroup (RBG), developers can achieve stable, high‑throughput, cost‑effective serving with seamless in‑place upgrades and topology‑aware performance.

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Boosting LLM Inference: RoleBasedGroup & Mooncake for Stable, High‑Performance Service

Alibaba Cloud Developer

Dec 24, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Why CLI AI Tools Matter: Aesthetics, Single vs Multi-Agent Design, Tips

This article explores the resurgence of command‑line AI coding tools, examining their product aesthetics rooted in Unix philosophy, the technical contrast between single‑agent and multi‑agent architectures, practical usage scenarios, context‑engineering techniques, and why a lightweight single‑agent core often outperforms more complex multi‑agent systems.

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Why CLI AI Tools Matter: Aesthetics, Single vs Multi-Agent Design, Tips