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 presents a detailed checklist of mandatory and recommended standards for database security, design, naming, indexing, SQL usage, and operational procedures, aiming to prevent low‑level failures in high‑concurrency, large‑scale internet applications.
This tutorial explains what Swagger is, why it is useful for RESTful API documentation, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for integrating Swagger 3.0 into a Spring Boot 2.7.6 project, including Maven dependencies, configuration classes, handling startup errors, customizing the UI, security settings, and annotation usage.
This article details ZEEK Automotive's transition to a cloud‑native architecture, describing how the company adopted Kubernetes, containerization, micro‑service unification, and full‑link gray release to improve system stability, scalability, and development efficiency across its APP ecosystem.
This article explains Java's functional programming features—including Lambda expressions, method references, and the Stream API—by detailing their syntax, underlying mechanisms, and practical usage examples such as thread creation, data processing, and parallel streams.
This guide explains how to set up a self‑hosted GitLab server on an Ubuntu virtual machine using Docker and Docker‑Compose, covering environment preparation, Docker image retrieval, compose file creation, container launch, password reset, and basic GitLab usage such as user registration, project creation, SSH key configuration, and code cloning.
This article chronicles JD Baitiao’s journey from early MySQL and NoSQL solutions through DBRep to the adoption of Apache ShardingSphere, highlighting the technical motivations, decoupling strategies, performance comparisons, and the broader Database Plus vision for scalable, stable financial‑grade data architectures.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide on installing Jenkins, configuring global tools, creating a freestyle project, pulling code from GitLab, building a Java JAR, backing up existing JARs, copying the new package to a remote server, and performing a rolling Docker Swarm update, while also addressing common SSL and SSH issues.
This guide outlines the most common production failures—including network, server, database, software, security, storage, configuration, and third‑party service issues—and provides detailed steps for detecting, diagnosing, and resolving each type to maintain system stability and reliability.
This article introduces the fundamental concepts of database sharding, including data fragmentation, nodes, logical and physical tables, broadcast and single tables, sharding keys, strategies, algorithms, binding tables, SQL parsing, routing, rewriting, execution, result merging, distributed primary keys, data masking, distributed transactions, migration, and shadow databases, providing a comprehensive guide for designing and operating a sharded architecture.
The article details Bosideng’s multi‑year digital transformation, describing how the apparel company migrated its legacy systems to cloud‑native architectures using Kubernetes, containerization, unified microservices, and Alibaba Cloud MSE to achieve zero‑loss deployment, traffic governance, and accelerated business innovation.
