This tutorial explains how to create, configure, and troubleshoot a Jenkins multibranch pipeline that automatically builds, tests, and deploys code based on Git branches and pull‑request events, including a complete Jenkinsfile example and webhook setup for seamless CI/CD integration.
This tutorial demonstrates how to install the python-jenkins library, explore its extensive API methods, and use Python scripts to create, copy, configure, and control Jenkins jobs, nodes, views, plugins, and builds, providing practical examples and code snippets for each operation.
This guide explains how to use Python3, the Requests library, and Beautiful Report to perform automated API testing for WeChat Mini Programs, covering prerequisite knowledge, obtaining an access token, writing test cases, and generating detailed HTML test reports.
This article presents a step‑by‑step guide to building a VS Code extension that streamlines image handling by automatically resolving paths, compressing files with Tinify, uploading them to OSS, and inserting the resulting URLs, dramatically reducing repetitive work and improving development efficiency.
This guide shows how to leverage ChatGPT together with tools like VS Code, Markmap, and PlantUML to automatically create complete, non‑redundant test case mind maps that cover boundary conditions, scenario coverage, and eliminate duplicate tests, boosting testing efficiency.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of OpenStack and OpenNebula, detailing their purposes, architectures, core components, and key concepts, followed by a complete one‑click shell script that automates the installation and configuration of an OpenStack Pike environment on CentOS 7.
This article introduces the concept and necessity of automated API testing, outlines typical usage scenarios, and provides a detailed comparison of four popular frameworks—Postman + Newman, JMeter + Ant, HttpRunner + Request, and pytest + Request—covering their features, advantages, drawbacks, requirements, and integration steps.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Python script that automatically backs up a chosen source folder to a target location every minute, using shutil and os modules to copy files into timestamped directories for reliable data protection.
The team built a Node‑based front‑end inspection platform that boosted page‑stability testing speed from 0.4 to 4 pages per second, achieved high usage, execution and alarm accuracy, solved process‑exit issues by switching to fork, integrated six inspection components, cut regression testing of 100 pages from 60 to 10 minutes, and lowered CPU use to 20 % per pod, with plans to broaden coverage.
This article walks through automating the aggregation of multiple Excel sheets using Python, presenting two practical solutions—one with openpyxl and another with pandas—complete with code snippets, explanations, and a final tip for sorting results by score.
This tutorial provides a complete step‑by‑step guide to set up a Jenkins server inside Docker on CentOS, configure Maven and plugins, create a pipeline that builds a Spring Boot project, builds a Docker image with a Dockerfile, and runs the container automatically, covering all common pitfalls.
The article traces the evolution from manual, error‑prone deployments to fully automated DevOps practices, explaining how code‑centric approaches such as Infrastructure as Code, Environment as Code, Orchestration as Code, Document as Code and Pipeline as Code improve productivity, reliability, consistency and platform scalability across cloud‑native environments.
NetSet is an automated tool that routes all network traffic through Tor, installs DNSCrypt‑proxy for DNS protection, offers a terminal multiplexer, and provides utilities such as proxy scraping, MAC spoofing, and OPSEC resource access, with simple installation via Git and command‑line options.
This tutorial walks through setting up a CentOS 7 environment, installing Docker CE, deploying Jenkins in a Docker container, configuring Maven and required plugins, creating a Jenkins pipeline that builds a SpringBoot project, packages it into a Docker image via a Dockerfile, and runs the container automatically, providing full end‑to‑end CI/CD automation.
This article showcases Python's concise syntax and powerful libraries by comparing a simple web request with JavaScript and providing five practical automation scripts—including a URL shortener, fake data generator, YouTube downloader, NATO alphabet encoder, and Selenium-based social‑media login—demonstrating why Python is ideal for repetitive tasks.
This article summarizes a speaker’s insights from GOPS 2023 on the challenges of large‑scale container cloud operations and presents a comprehensive intelligent‑ops framework—including health scoring, automated pod anomaly detection, smart scaling, and multi‑center disaster recovery—to improve visibility, efficiency, and reliability in Kubernetes environments.
This article chronicles Jackson Greathouse Fall's six‑day experiment where he gave GPT‑4 $100, used it as an AI co‑founder to buy a domain, build a niche affiliate site, create a logo with DALL·E, hire writers, run ads, and ultimately claim a $25,000 valuation, while analysing the practical limits and potentials of AI‑driven entrepreneurship.
This article chronicles how Jackson Greathouse Fall turned a $100 investment into a $25,000‑valued online venture by delegating all decisions to GPT‑4, detailing daily actions such as domain acquisition, website creation, logo design with DALL·E, content production, marketing, revenue generation, and community building over the first six days.
This article compiles a curated collection of 34 practical Bash scripts for Linux engineers, covering tasks such as number guessing games, network monitoring, user management, service control, log backup, and system health checks, providing ready‑to‑run code snippets to boost productivity and automate routine operations.
This article explains how a unified change control platform consolidates change data, enables configurable inspection and regression triggers across services, identifies risky changes, and presents statistical results to improve operational reliability and risk mitigation.
This article introduces FirmAE, an automated framework for firmware emulation and vulnerability analysis, details its installation and usage steps on Ubuntu, and presents a comprehensive reverse‑engineering case study of a Zyxel router firmware to illustrate troubleshooting and manual analysis techniques.
This guide outlines twenty essential steps for creating an efficient software testing team, covering goal definition, strategy planning, hiring, process and tool setup, training, communication, continuous improvement, environment management, automation, agile practices, documentation, and fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
This article explains how GitLab CI/CD can be configured to run cross‑project pipelines, enabling automated testing and deployment of microservices by adding bridge jobs, specifying downstream branches, and passing variables, while illustrating the process with code examples and pipeline visualizations.
This comprehensive guide walks you through 40 practical Bash shell scripting examples—from a simple Hello World program to advanced file handling, conditionals, loops, functions, and system maintenance—showing how to write, execute, and debug scripts that automate everyday Linux tasks.
The article examines how ChatGPT can generate test cases, automate scripts, and assist in various AI‑driven tasks while arguing that human testers remain indispensable for nuanced judgment, risk management, and continuous learning in the evolving software testing landscape.
This article explains why intelligent customer service improves efficiency, compares it with traditional support, outlines its core functions such as knowledge management and language response, and provides a practical step‑by‑step process for quickly building a simple AI‑powered help desk.
This article explains how Ant Group's YunFengDie low‑code platform implements an Excel‑style formula system—including syntax design, variable handling, compiler, validator, and executor—to enable non‑technical users to create dynamic business rules within forms.
This comprehensive guide walks you through the fundamentals of Bash scripting on Linux, covering everything from a simple Hello World program and echo usage to loops, conditionals, functions, file manipulation, directory handling, and system maintenance, complete with clear code examples for each concept.
This article explores software quality through three layers—usability, desirability, and loveability—introduces a quantitative quality model, breaks down the testing lifecycle, examines testing classifications, analyzes the cost of defect recall, and proposes risk‑based testing and AI‑driven TestGPT as future solutions.
The paper presents a 3D Scene Intelligent Creation Engine that uses AIGC to automate and lower‑cost production of e‑commerce 3D environments—covering model, texture, foreground‑background, camera, and scene value estimation—allowing merchants and consumers to easily generate virtual stores, product displays, and immersive metaverse‑ready content.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to install Docker and Jenkins on CentOS, configure Jenkins plugins and Maven, create a freestyle job that pulls a Spring Boot project from Git, builds it with Maven, packages it into a Docker image, and runs the container automatically.
This article introduces the Jenkins File Operations plugin, explains how to install it, generate the required DSL, and run a pipeline that creates, lists, and cleans up files, providing a complete code example and build log screenshots for reference.
This article provides a collection of ready‑to‑run Bash scripts that cover disk partition creation, server initialization, real‑time network traffic monitoring, Nginx log rotation and analysis, disk usage alerts, MySQL backups, process counting with zombie termination, and automated blocking of malicious IPs, offering a practical toolkit for Linux system administrators.
This article outlines five practical DevOps best practices—test automation, deployment automation, trunk‑based development, security left‑shift, and loose‑coupled architecture—explaining their importance, implementation tips, and the benefits they bring to continuous delivery and high‑quality software production.
This tutorial shows how to install the JsonPath library, retrieve JSON data from an API, and use both traditional indexing and powerful JsonPath expressions—including filters, wildcards, and slicing—to efficiently extract nested values for automated testing.
The article explains how operations engineers can leverage Python scripts and popular libraries such as paramiko, regex, psutil, fabric, and shutil to automate common tasks like remote command execution, log analysis, system monitoring with alerts, batch software deployment, and file backup and recovery, providing code examples for each scenario.
The article outlines ten frequent pitfalls that organizations encounter when adopting DevOps—such as out‑of‑order delivery, misinterpreting DevOps roles, neglecting database automation, and ignoring security—and provides practical guidance on planning, collaboration, and balanced speed‑quality trade‑offs to achieve successful DevOps outcomes.
This article details Huolala's evolution from a simple wireless ADB setup to the sophisticated TianGong system, covering architecture, video streaming, input handling, large‑scale device pool management, and future plans for intelligent scheduling and iOS optimization.
The article proposes enhancing front‑end project delivery quality by replacing manual standards with automated tooling—static code linting, performance, error, and disaster‑recovery tests—and integrating these checks into DevOps checkpoints that enforce pass, alarm, or block actions, enabling metric‑driven, objective evaluation across teams and outsourced projects.
This article explains how Python can automate common operations tasks—remote command execution, log parsing, system monitoring with alerts, batch software deployment, and backup/recovery—providing code examples and practical tips to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors.
A coalition of AI researchers, entrepreneurs and technologists has signed an open letter urging a six‑month halt to training AI models surpassing GPT‑4, citing profound societal risks, while industry leaders debate the impact of rapid AIGC adoption on jobs and safety.
This article presents ten practical Python automation scripts covering image and video processing, PDF conversion, API interaction, system notifications, grammar and spell correction, downloading, news fetching, and GUI creation, each accompanied by concise code examples for quick implementation.
The article outlines the key competencies DevOps engineers must master—including cloud computing, automation, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and infrastructure-as-code—to accelerate, stabilize, and scale software delivery in modern development environments.
The article introduces Easy-Jenkins, a lightweight one‑click deployment tool for Vue front‑ends and Java jar back‑ends, explains its architecture, provides step‑by‑step installation, configuration, and usage instructions—including project structure, adding connections, deploying jars, managing branches, and launching the application—along with sample commands and screenshots.
This article explains the author's understanding of CI/CD, outlines several practical scenarios for its implementation—including compilation and deployment, unit testing, code scanning, and full‑link testing—details key steps, benefits, and real‑world applications using tools such as Bamboo, SonarQube, JUnit, and Python‑based automation.
This article explains how Ansible’s async and poll parameters enable background execution of long‑running tasks, allowing playbooks to continue without blocking, and provides practical examples, configuration tips, and status‑checking techniques for reliable DevOps automation.
Robusta is a Python‑based open‑source platform that layers on top of monitoring stacks like Prometheus to automatically detect, diagnose, and remediate Kubernetes alerts through built‑in automations, optional web UI, and Helm‑based installation for cloud‑native environments.
This article explains the Jenkins master‑slave distributed architecture, the requirement for identical slave environments, the role of master and slave nodes, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with screenshots for adding and configuring a new slave node for CI/CD builds.
The article shows a straightforward Python + Selenium script, generated by ChatGPT, that logs into a website and verifies pagination, illustrated with code screenshots and brief commentary on the author’s experience finding the problem on Zhihu.
This article provides a comprehensive guide on handling insufficient testing time, improving test submission quality, and enhancing QA capabilities through systematic checklists, clear standards, risk management, and automation tools to ensure reliable software delivery.
This article explains how the Taobao Search team tackled the inconsistency and high maintenance cost of manually written API docs by introducing a standardized annotation format, a custom annotation processor, automated JSON generation, and script‑based data reporting to keep cross‑platform API information accurate and readily usable for both backend and frontend developers.
nginxWebUI provides a graphical interface for configuring and managing Nginx, supporting HTTP/TCP forwarding, reverse proxy, load balancing, SSL automation, multi‑server clustering, Docker deployment, systemd startup, and detailed usage instructions, enabling administrators to generate and control nginx.conf without manual coding.
This tutorial walks through setting up a CentOS 7 environment, installing Docker and Jenkins, configuring Jenkins plugins and Maven, creating a freestyle job that pulls a Spring Boot project from Gitee, builds it with Maven, packages it into a Docker image via a Dockerfile, runs the container, and verifies the deployment, providing all commands and screenshots for a complete CI/CD pipeline.
Spug is a lightweight, agentless automation platform for small and medium enterprises that integrates host management, batch execution, online terminal, deployment, scheduling, configuration, monitoring and alerting, and the article provides step‑by‑step Docker and docker‑compose installation instructions to set up the system.
This guide explains how to efficiently execute several Linux shell commands on a single line by using the semicolon, logical OR (||), and logical AND (&&) operators, including examples, combined operator usage, and how to automate tasks with shell scripts.
This article describes how the Inspiration Spaces (IS) platform implements an automated regression testing pipeline that uses SSIM image similarity, asynchronous rendering, and pre‑defined sample rooms to dramatically reduce manual effort, improve detection of rendering bugs, and streamline cross‑team collaboration.
Pipeline as Code (PaC) is a method of defining CI/CD pipelines in code, offering scalability, portability, reproducibility, and collaboration benefits while also presenting challenges such as learning curve, complexity, debugging difficulty, maintenance effort, and initial costs, illustrated with a simple Jenkins‑Java example.
This article outlines a general, process‑focused approach to offline delivery in private or dedicated cloud environments, covering the need for internal mirrors, plug‑in architecture, dependency awareness, full automation, and best‑practice process design to reduce SRE effort and ensure consistent production.
This article explains performance testing fundamentals, why it matters, the specific challenges Yidun faced such as complex execution, human‑dependent monitoring, data isolation, and cost loss, and describes their automated, gradient‑based testing platform with quantified monitoring and future visualisation plans.
This article debunks the claim that DevOps is dead by explaining its true purpose, core principles such as automation and collaboration, the distinction between platform engineering and DevOps, and presenting industry data that shows DevOps adoption and maturity are still rapidly growing.
Learn step‑by‑step Windows batch commands to ping entire subnets, capture reachable and unreachable IPs into separate files, and handle multiple IP lists, enabling fast network health checks for dozens to thousands of devices.
Learn how the VS Code extension vscode‑gptcommit leverages ChatGPT to automatically craft clear commit messages from file changes, with step‑by‑step installation, shortcut usage, and API key setup, helping you avoid hesitation and reviewer criticism.
Discover a curated collection of 249 practical shell script examples, complete with clear documentation and usage guidelines, designed to help Linux operations engineers improve efficiency, master scripting conventions, and quickly solve common admin tasks, all available for free download via the provided QR code.
This guide explains how to efficiently batch‑ping large numbers of IP addresses using simple Windows CMD loops, shows progressive script upgrades that log reachable and unreachable hosts to separate files, and provides a final method for scanning multiple subnets from an external list.
This article introduces the JD Mini Program CI tool, explains its architecture, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing dependencies, configuring secrets, using script and command‑line interfaces for upload and preview, and demonstrates how to integrate the tool into CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
This article introduces Chrome DevTools' experimental Recorder feature, explains what Puppeteer is, provides a step‑by‑step guide to record, edit, import, and export automation scripts, and demonstrates how the generated Puppeteer code can streamline front‑end testing and reduce manual effort.
DataOps, rooted in agile and DevOps philosophies, uses automation and collaborative practices to streamline data processing, improve quality, and align analytics with business goals, offering continuous analytics, faster insights, and breaking data silos for better decision‑making across organizations.
This tutorial walks you through building a complete automated deployment pipeline from scratch, covering project setup on GitHub, Dockerized Tomcat and Jenkins containers, GitLab CI vs Jenkins comparison, Jenkins job configuration, webhook triggers, and shell scripting for continuous integration and delivery.
This article details the background, migration options, and step‑by‑step automated procedures used by a large‑scale e‑commerce platform to safely move over 400 MySQL clusters, comparing expansion‑plus‑master‑slave switching with cascading replication and explaining the chosen fast, reliable solution.
This article introduces Ansible as a model‑driven configuration manager, explains its core architecture and execution workflow, and provides detailed usage of its seven primary commands with practical code examples for automating infrastructure tasks.
This article walks through a Python web‑scraping challenge involving encrypted parameters, demonstrates a Selenium‑based solution with full code, shares community tips that fix the request payload, and shows how the issue was resolved step by step.
This article explains DevOps as a cultural movement and collaborative software delivery approach, offering six concise definitions and vivid metaphors to help anyone—regardless of technical background—grasp its value and role in digital transformation.
The Agricultural Bank of China's Wealth Management Customer Share Management System passed the CAICT DevOps Level‑3 Continuous Delivery assessment, showcasing a comprehensive DevOps transformation that improved code quality, automated testing, and deployment efficiency while delivering measurable performance gains across the organization.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a DevOps practice that defines, creates, and manages infrastructure through machine‑readable code, offering reproducibility, efficiency, collaboration, cost savings, and flexibility, while also presenting challenges such as a steep learning curve, dependency management, potential code errors, drift, and initial costs.
This article explains what a Jenkins Pipeline is, outlines its role in CI/CD and DevOps, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for creating pipeline jobs using both inline Pipeline Script and SCM‑based Jenkinsfile approaches, including sample code and GitLab trigger configuration.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Python's requests library to fetch video data from the YY Live API, parse the JSON response, extract video URLs, and programmatically download and save the videos, including code snippets for single and batch downloads.
This article details the background, migration plan selection, and step‑by‑step procedures—including pre‑building cascades, service pause, automated batch operations, cluster tiering, pre‑ and post‑checks, and gray‑scale validation—to achieve a fast, stable MySQL data‑center migration for a large‑scale production environment.
This guide explains how to create an Nginx block list, use AWK to detect IPs with excessive requests, automate the process with a shell script, and schedule it via crontab to dynamically block offending IPs and return 403 responses.
This article presents thirteen practical advanced Python scripts covering tasks such as internet speed testing, Google searching, web automation, lyric retrieval, EXIF extraction, OCR, image cartoonization, recycle bin cleaning, Windows version detection, PDF conversion, color conversion, and website status checking, each with ready-to-use code examples.
This article demonstrates how to harness ChatGPT to generate Excel formulas, automate calculations, extract data, and create VBA macros, offering step‑by‑step examples that dramatically increase spreadsheet efficiency for both beginners and advanced users.
The article details Bilibili’s Comet workflow engine—a low‑code, plugin‑extensible platform built since 2019 that uses visual DAG templates, graph‑based legality checks, and asynchronous execution to automate diverse business processes such as SRE automation, permission requests, and push‑task approvals, improving operational efficiency across mobile and web services.
This article compiles a comprehensive set of software testing interview questions covering test planning, test case design, bug identification, communication with developers, PO pattern usage, automation frameworks, API testing, performance testing, and related best‑practice answers to help candidates prepare effectively.
Since launching a systematic stability‑governance program in August 2022, Xianyu’s messaging system has employed gray releases, dedicated monitoring, daily automated regression, dependency reviews and drills, resulting in near‑zero online incidents within six months and demonstrating that continuous, context‑specific measures and vigilant change management are essential for reliable C2C transactions.
This article details ZuanZuan's journey of automating TiDB operations, covering the initial operational pain points, the implementation of metadata and resource management, comprehensive upgrades, alarm redesign, and the development of a work‑order‑driven platform that streamlines node, scaling, decommission, and monitoring tasks while significantly reducing manual effort and costs.
DevOps delivers significant value by boosting efficiency through automated processes, enhancing software quality via continuous delivery and testing, increasing agility for rapid market response, strengthening security with integrated testing and deployment safeguards, and fostering better team collaboration across development and operations.
This article demonstrates how to leverage ChatGPT for creating Excel formulas, extracting data, counting unique values, and writing VBA macros, providing step‑by‑step examples, prompts, and code snippets to boost office productivity through AI assistance.
For Taobao’s 2022 Double 11 interactive games, a comprehensive QA approach combined online stress testing, reinforcement‑learning‑driven case generation, and systematic fault injection—addressing high‑concurrency, data‑consistency, and client‑performance risks through traffic shaping, data and middleware isolation, and automated tools (Wali, DaBai) that delivered over 60 smoke cases, 76 % coverage and 82.6 % fault detection.
DevOps is a software development practice focused on accelerating delivery and improving quality through collaboration and automation, while GitOps manages cloud-native applications by using Git as the single source of truth for configuration and deployment, emphasizing consistency, controllability, and streamlined operations.
This article outlines the key practices and considerations for evaluating modern CI/CD and DevOps capabilities, covering cloud adoption, organizational design, microservice architecture, automated pipelines, testing strategies, security, release frequency, and immutable infrastructure to help teams achieve fast, reliable software delivery.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), covering its definition, integration with AI (IPA), common AI techniques, value propositions, evolution from RPA 1.0 to 4.0, core platform and control‑center modules, element analyzer fundamentals, automation technology classifications, and a brief Q&A session.
The article argues that CI/CD and automation not only boost efficiency but also improve developer satisfaction, emphasizing that eliminating repetitive manual tasks makes work more enjoyable and motivates engineers, ultimately leading to better productivity and happier teams.
The article recounts a hands‑on exploration of ChatGPT’s abilities for database administration, highlighting impressive language understanding, notable mistakes such as confusing pg_resetwal with pg_resetxlog, and the broader implications of large language models for AI‑driven search and workflow automation.
The article explains the shift from unit testing to interface automation, outlines its advantages such as early testing and system robustness, details essential implementation techniques like protocol simulation, data‑driven testing, keyword‑driven execution, and provides practical steps for teams to begin API testing effectively.
Dewu’s Pandora platform extends an open‑source traffic‑recording‑replay solution to capture and replay external service responses across Java applications, using a three‑party collaboration model and phased rollout to achieve near‑full interface coverage, while addressing noisy failures, async challenges, and planning real‑time dual‑playback automation for high‑traffic scenarios.
This article explains how to use the open‑source mammoth.js library to convert Word (.docx) documents into clean HTML, customize the AST to fix layout issues, and automatically generate Vue component files, dramatically streamlining documentation integration in frontend projects.
This guide explains how to install, configure, and run a lightweight Redis Monitor that visualizes connection count, QPS, memory usage and replication delay, supports standalone, sentinel and cluster modes, and provides email and WeChat alerts via simple PHP scripts.
This guide explains how to prevent Microsoft Edge from automatically creating desktop shortcuts after updates by editing the Windows registry, including creating the necessary keys and setting the CreateDesktopShortcutDefault value to disable shortcuts for all Edge channels.
This article describes a cloud‑native CI/CD pipeline built on Kubernetes that leverages Tekton for continuous integration, Argo CD for continuous deployment, and Redmine for project management, detailing system design, task flow, usage steps, and achieved operational benefits.
This article details China Mobile Information's interview about their centralized AIOps platform, the recent excellent‑level assessment by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the system's key modules, future plans, and the broader significance of AI‑driven IT operations.
To ensure Kun’s Flutter‑based container upgrades improve Xianyu’s user experience, we introduced a layered performance testing framework that defines industry‑standard metrics, component‑ and business‑level benchmarks, multi‑dimensional stress and regression checks, automated scripts, expanded device pools, and streamlined task creation, delivering faster insights, higher stability, and actionable optimization feedback.
