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Top Architect focuses on sharing practical architecture knowledge, covering enterprise, system, website, large‑scale distributed, and high‑availability architectures, plus architecture adjustments using internet technologies. We welcome idea‑driven, sharing‑oriented architects to exchange and learn together.

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Apr 28, 2026 · Backend Development

Elegant API Rate Limiting with Spring Interceptor and Redis

This article demonstrates a step‑by‑step implementation of API anti‑brush (rate limiting) using a Spring Interceptor combined with Redis, explains how to configure time windows and request limits, introduces a custom @AccessLimit annotation for fine‑grained control, discusses path‑parameter pitfalls, real‑IP handling, and shares practical testing results.

API SecurityInterceptorJava
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Elegant API Rate Limiting with Spring Interceptor and Redis
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Apr 26, 2026 · Backend Development

Why the Service Layer Should Not Return a Result Object in Java

The article explains why returning a Result wrapper from the Service layer couples business and presentation logic, reduces reusability, complicates testing and transaction handling, and suggests keeping services pure by returning domain objects and handling errors via exceptions.

Exception HandlingJavaService Layer
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Why the Service Layer Should Not Return a Result Object in Java
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Apr 25, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Pingora Is Overtaking Nginx as the New Web Server Champion

Cloudflare replaced Nginx with its home‑grown Rust‑based proxy Pingora, citing architectural limits of Nginx's worker model, superior performance, lower CPU/memory usage, better connection reuse, richer feature support, and stronger memory safety, all backed by extensive production metrics.

CloudflareHTTP proxyMemory Safety
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Why Pingora Is Overtaking Nginx as the New Web Server Champion
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Apr 24, 2026 · Backend Development

How MyBatis‑Plus Handles Slow Queries on Massive Datasets

The article explains why ordinary MyBatisPlus pagination becomes slow and memory‑hungry when processing millions of rows, and demonstrates three alternatives—regular query, stream query, and cursor query—detailing their implementations, trade‑offs, and practical code snippets for MySQL and Oracle environments.

CursorJavaLarge Data
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How MyBatis‑Plus Handles Slow Queries on Massive Datasets
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Apr 23, 2026 · Industry Insights

Inside the OpenAI Codex Leak: GPT‑5.5, Glacier, Heisenberg and What They Reveal

A recent OpenAI Codex leak exposed internal models—including GPT‑5.5, Glacier, Heisenberg and Arcanine—triggering analysis of the accidental staging‑to‑production push, the shift toward agentic AI, speculative new architectures, and the community debate over whether the incident was a genuine engineering mishap or a calculated marketing move.

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Inside the OpenAI Codex Leak: GPT‑5.5, Glacier, Heisenberg and What They Reveal
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Apr 23, 2026 · Fundamentals

12 Surefire Ways to Write Unmaintainable Code

The article lists twelve concrete anti‑patterns—such as over‑splitting microservices, writing megamethods, deep nesting, misleading comments, copy‑pasting code, ignoring logging, and over‑engineering with heavyweight frameworks—that dramatically reduce code readability and make maintenance a nightmare, illustrated through the fictional programmer Er Gou and his bewildered teammates.

MicroservicesRefactoringSoftware Architecture
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12 Surefire Ways to Write Unmaintainable Code
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Apr 22, 2026 · Backend Development

From Hottest to Obsolete: A Critical Review of 13 Java Web Frameworks

The article evaluates 13 Java web frameworks—Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, Vert.x, Helidon, Javalin, Dropwizard, Play Framework, Grails, Apache Wicket, Struts 2, JSF, and native Servlet+JSP—using six objective dimensions (performance, ecosystem maturity, learning curve, development efficiency, enterprise adoption, and innovation) and presents concrete usage statistics, benchmark numbers, and tiered rankings to guide technology selection.

Backend DevelopmentJavaMicronaut
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From Hottest to Obsolete: A Critical Review of 13 Java Web Frameworks