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Jan 30, 2026 · Backend Development

DynamicTp: Real‑time Tuning of Java ThreadPoolExecutor with Config Center Integration

This article introduces DynamicTp, an open‑source framework that extends Java's ThreadPoolExecutor to enable real‑time, configuration‑center‑driven parameter adjustments, live monitoring, alerting, and seamless integration with popular middleware thread pools, all while requiring zero code intrusion.

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DynamicTp: Real‑time Tuning of Java ThreadPoolExecutor with Config Center Integration
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Jan 27, 2026 · Databases

How MySQL Router 8.2 Enables Seamless Read/Write Splitting with InnoDB ReplicaSet

This article demonstrates how MySQL Router 8.2 can automatically route read traffic to replica instances and write traffic to the primary instance in an InnoDB ReplicaSet, providing configuration steps, command examples, and observed behavior without requiring any changes to the application.

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How MySQL Router 8.2 Enables Seamless Read/Write Splitting with InnoDB ReplicaSet
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Jan 25, 2026 · Backend Development

Inside a Modern Payment System: Core Architecture, Governance, and Production Practices

This article explains how a typical payment platform is structured into transaction and payment cores, details the interactions between services, describes governance mechanisms such as unified context and data consistency, and shares practical production techniques like performance testing, async processing, and service degradation.

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Inside a Modern Payment System: Core Architecture, Governance, and Production Practices
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Jan 20, 2026 · Operations

Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a Mini Web Server with SSH and Ngrok

This guide explains what a Raspberry Pi Zero W is, lists its hardware specs, walks through downloading and flashing Raspbian Lite, enabling head‑less SSH and Wi‑Fi, configuring apt sources, installing and testing nginx, and exposing the server to the internet via an ngrok tunnel.

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Turn a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a Mini Web Server with SSH and Ngrok
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Jan 18, 2026 · Databases

Boost Your SQL Query Speed: Proven Optimization Techniques

This guide walks through the SQL query processing workflow, explains how parsing, optimization, and execution plans affect performance, and provides concrete techniques—such as selecting specific columns, avoiding DISTINCT, using proper indexes, preferring EXISTS over COUNT, limiting result sets, and replacing HAVING with WHERE—to dramatically speed up queries while keeping statements concise.

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Boost Your SQL Query Speed: Proven Optimization Techniques
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Jan 17, 2026 · Backend Development

Why We Rebuilt a Java Scheduler and How the New Lightweight Framework Works

Faced with limitations of existing tools like Quartz, XXL-Job, and PowerJob, the author explains the motivation for creating a custom scheduling framework, describes its architecture—including gRPC communication, protobuf serialization, a self-implemented name server for load balancing, a simple message queue, and time-wheel scheduling—provides code examples, and shares diagrams of discovery and dispatch processes.

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Why We Rebuilt a Java Scheduler and How the New Lightweight Framework Works