Explaining distributed systems and architecture through stories. Author of the "JVM Performance Tuning in Practice" column, open-source author of "Spring Cloud in Practice PassJava", and independently developed a PMP practice quiz mini-program.
This article walks through a real‑world investigation of a pod whose CPU spiked to over 90%, detailing how abnormal JVM garbage‑collection patterns were identified, traced to a specific Java thread, and resolved by fixing an inefficient Excel export routine.
This article demonstrates how to dramatically improve MySQL query performance by analyzing execution plans, adding appropriate single‑column and multi‑column indexes, rewriting subqueries as joins, and applying covering indexes, showing step‑by‑step measurements and visual explanations.
This article explains seven typical message‑queue use cases—including ordinary, ordered, delayed, transactional, trace, dead‑letter, and priority messages—detailing their business motivations, implementation challenges, and concrete code examples for Kafka, RocketMQ, Pulsar, and RabbitMQ.
This article explains how applying the SMART framework—Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time‑bound—helps teams define clear, actionable goals, differentiate measurable KPIs from broader KRAs, and avoid common pitfalls such as vague objectives or resource‑driven targets.
This article explains how to achieve session affinity using Nginx's ip_hash directive, covering the concept, configuration syntax, practical examples, common pitfalls, and test results for handling client IP‑based load balancing across backend servers.
This article explains how to detect, diagnose, and prevent message loss in Kafka-based message queue systems by covering system decoupling, traffic control, data consistency challenges, producer, broker, and consumer issues, and offering configuration, monitoring, and operational best‑practice solutions.
This article explains the principles of Feign, demonstrates how to set connection and read timeout values using Feign.Builder, method parameters, Options beans, configuration files, Ribbon, and Hystrix, and clarifies the precedence rules among these approaches in both standalone and Spring Cloud contexts.
This article explains the concept and practical applications of forward proxy, outlines its benefits for enterprise network security and access control, compares it with reverse proxy, and provides detailed Nginx configuration examples—including how to expose the client’s real IP—along with common tools and real‑world scenarios.
This article describes the design and implementation of a Mid‑Autumn Festival themed HTML5 canvas game, detailing the gameplay requirements, JavaScript code for the ship, food objects, image management, and the Nginx configuration needed to deploy the game online.
This article explains the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS), covering domain and name‑server concepts, the hierarchical resolution process, recursive and iterative queries, performance‑enhancing techniques such as UDP usage, caching, and switching to public DNS servers, and details DNS record types and packet structure.
