This guide explains how to use Unix shell for‑loops and the find command to batch‑process files, covering basic syntax, practical ImageMagick examples, loop restrictions, variations across shells, and advanced find‑exec techniques for efficient automation.
This article explains how to install the Alibaba Cloud Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code and use its one‑click packaging and deployment features to send code to Alibaba Cloud ECS or any remote server, dramatically speeding up development workflows.
This article details Tencent Online Education's three business lines, the challenges of mini‑program engineering such as inconsistent environments and release issues, and how a custom DevOps workflow, automated testing, a bespoke CLI tool, and Serverless cloud functions were introduced to create a unified, scalable cloud‑native development pipeline.
This article outlines practical strategies—including parallel execution, cloud‑based testing, staged testing, robust test scripts, compatibility matrices, browser‑difference awareness, crowdsourced resources, market‑share analysis, automated screenshot capture, and early localization checks—to overcome the challenges of cross‑browser testing for web applications.
The article explores how natural evolution drives automation and intelligence, argues that effective process management combined with solid technical implementation is essential for internet companies, and outlines a DevOps methodology—including execution and observation systems, toolchains, and performance metrics—to achieve high efficiency and competitive advantage.
This article explains how DevSecOps integrates security into CI/CD pipelines, discusses the shortcomings of traditional waterfall security, outlines benefits of DevOps, and provides practical tool recommendations and a step‑by‑step example using open‑source solutions like Jenkins and git‑secrets.
This article presents a comprehensive guide to API testing, covering how to understand API requirements, verify response status codes, focus on critical small APIs, categorize endpoints, leverage automation, select appropriate tools and validation methods, design positive and negative test cases, and integrate daily testing into the development workflow.
This guide explains how to automate Jenkins project creation at scale by using the Job DSL plugin to generate DSL scripts, converting them to XML via a Playground tool, and creating or updating jobs through the Jenkins Core API or Script Console, with full code examples.
The article outlines ZheZhe's live streaming system for e‑commerce, describing its recording‑encoding‑transmission‑decoding‑playback architecture, key testing areas such as stream quality, messaging and business functions, and the automated solutions—including a message‑simulation service and Python‑Puppeteer checks—implemented to improve reliability and efficiency.
This article details how Ping An Bank tackled rapid growth and complex regulatory demands by creating an automated operations middle‑platform, designing a CMDB with data‑closure and subscription mechanisms, and implementing orchestration, gray‑scale deployment, and high‑risk detection to achieve resilient, scalable infrastructure management.
This guide walks you through preparing scripts, uploading them, making them executable, and creating Jenkins jobs for each module of the multi‑module Mall project to achieve fully automated deployment using free‑style projects and SSH execution.
This guide walks you through using an automated script to download dependencies, build QEMU 4.1.1, compile the Linux 4.19.1 kernel and BusyBox for ARM64, and install openEuler 1.0 in a virtual machine, including optional GDB debugging and snapshot tips.
This article demonstrates how to design a reusable Java test case that can serve functional verification, automated validation, and performance benchmarking of backend APIs, providing a complete demo with source code, test scripts, and execution guidelines.
As software testing scales and automation becomes essential, QA roles are evolving beyond traditional checks to encompass AI‑driven testing, product‑focused engineering, and customer‑experience advocacy, reshaping the profession for the next decade.
This article explains how Alibaba's Frontend Intelligent Project automatically generated 79.34% of the Double‑11 page code by recognizing business modules from visual drafts using data‑augmented samples, traditional multi‑class machine‑learning models, and a pipeline of preprocessing, model training, deployment, and OOD handling.
The article describes how JD's mobile testing team created a component‑based "use‑case meta" framework that abstracts common test scenarios into six reusable categories, integrates them into the testing platform, and dramatically improves coverage, efficiency, and knowledge reuse across large‑scale app releases.
This tutorial walks you through installing Postman, creating and sending API requests to a Spring Boot login endpoint, using variables and environments for flexible testing, and generating code snippets in various languages, providing a practical foundation for everyday backend development tasks.
This article explains the origins of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), outlines the responsibilities of SRE teams, and details Alibaba Cloud’s ECS SRE practices—including capacity planning, performance optimization, full‑stack stability governance, automated release pipelines, on‑call processes, and the core principles and mindset that guide modern SRE work.
The article examines why manual testing remains essential despite automation and AI trends, highlighting common weaknesses such as insufficient test scenarios, over‑focus on functionality, reliance on test cases, preset thinking, and the need for innovative, user‑centric testing approaches.
This article explains the shift from GUI‑centric automation to API testing, outlines its importance in agile development, describes the test pyramid, covers HTTP and REST fundamentals, and provides practical guidance for functional, load, and tool selection in API testing.
This article introduces the Kudiffy platform, which integrates Twitter's Diffy and the open‑source Goreplay tool to provide a zero‑cost, unified solution for high‑efficiency regression testing, detailing its architecture, features, usage steps, and future enhancements.
When the Chinese railway ticketing system 12306 crashes under heavy load, developers turn to open‑source Python bots that simulate user behavior, query seat availability, and automate order submission, with detailed feature lists, repository links, and real‑world log examples.
This project addresses challenges in brand advertising testing by implementing automated testing, monitoring, and data construction solutions, significantly improving efficiency, reducing manual effort, and enhancing product quality through real-time issue detection and resolution.
This article explains the evolution from traditional DevOps to DevTestOps, detailing continuous testing, the benefits of integrating automated testing into DevOps pipelines, practical implementation steps, and why organizations should adopt DevTestOps to enhance software quality and delivery speed.
This article presents a comprehensive Jenkins‑based CI/CD solution that supports multiple branches, environments, projects, and programming languages, offering one‑click deployment and rollback, standardized naming conventions, configurable project mapping files, and a flexible multi‑environment workflow for automated and manual triggers.
The article describes an intelligent duty robot that uses a sense‑think‑act framework and job dependency graphs to automatically monitor, diagnose, and remediate data pipeline jobs in a real‑estate platform, reducing operational pressure and achieving over 98% notification accuracy.
This guide explains how to extract an item ID from Zabbix alerts, capture the corresponding chart image, upload it to a public server, format the alert as markdown, and deliver it through a DingTalk robot webhook using a Python script.
In this interview, veteran Bank of China software center analyst Yuan Chunliang shares two decades of experience, detailing how the bank’s shift to distributed core banking systems sparked the development of AIOps practices such as no‑threshold intelligent monitoring, multi‑indicator analytics, and AI‑driven ticket automation to boost operational efficiency and reduce risk.
This article introduces HttpRunner for API automation, covering environment setup, project structure, core commands, execution methods, workflow, and a collection of practical problems and solutions encountered during real‑world usage.
This article outlines the comprehensive responsibilities and evolution of IT operations, covering system, application, database, security, and platform management, detailing tasks such as infrastructure building, monitoring, optimization, automation, and the shift from manual processes to self‑scheduling systems.
This tutorial shows how to fetch a joke via a free API using Python's urllib2, split the short joke to fit a 140‑character SMS limit, send it through a QQ email to a 139 mailbox, and schedule the script with a Linux crontab entry for daily delivery.
This guide shows how to use Jenkins to automate the packaging and deployment of a multi‑module microservice project, covering script preparation, job creation for each service, startup order recommendations, and one‑click deployment for rapid releases.
This article details Alibaba's massive Flink deployment, covering its historical background, the operational challenges of managing tens of thousands of nodes, the design of a comprehensive Flink management platform, and the automated solutions for fault handling, resource allocation, and performance testing in a large‑scale big‑data environment.
This article explains how to use Makefiles to create custom build commands, define variables, handle recursive targets, incorporate shell output, add conditional checks, and generate help messages, providing practical examples for Go projects and general build automation.
This article explains Alibaba's front‑end intelligent system that automatically generates UI code by extracting design metadata, recognizing basic components with a YOLO‑based model, and refining predictions, detailing the pipeline from sample creation to model evaluation and future enhancements.
StackStorm is an open‑source automation platform that integrates existing infrastructure and applications, enabling event‑driven workflows, troubleshooting, auto‑remediation, and continuous deployment through modular components such as sensors, triggers, actions, rules, workflows, and packs, all managed via a web UI, CLI, and REST API.
This guide demonstrates how to use Zabbix's API with Python to retrieve host information, item IDs, historical and trend data, process the metrics, and automatically write them into an Excel/CSV file, enabling scheduled monitoring reports.
This guide walks you through setting up the open‑source MySQL Monitor tool, covering environment preparation, installation, database schema import, host configuration, alert channel setup (email and WeChat), cron scheduling, and accessing the monitoring pages, all with a clean Chinese interface.
This article explains how Alibaba's Front‑End Intelligent project automatically converts UI design images into production‑ready code, covering layout analysis, background and foreground processing, a fusion of traditional image algorithms with deep‑learning detection, GAN‑based complex‑background extraction, experimental results and real‑world deployment.
This article provides a detailed tutorial on Cucumber‑JVM, covering its BDD concepts, Gherkin syntax, feature file structure, step definition implementation, tagging strategies, command‑line execution, and Maven/IDEA project setup for Android mobile testing.
In this detailed recap of the 2019 GOPS Shanghai conference, three seasoned DevOps experts dissect what makes a successful DevOps practice, covering business goals, product design, delivery pipelines, reducing wait times, automation, cultural change, tooling, and practical implementation steps.
This article details Alibaba’s front‑end intelligent project that automatically transforms Sketch design files into production‑ready HTML/CSS/JS code, covering the design‑to‑code workflow, layer processing, mask handling, text calibration, layer merging, unused‑layer detection, testing, visual‑restoration metrics, and future enhancements.
This article details the design principles, components, client implementation, data sharding, security mechanisms, high‑risk command blocking, configuration optimizations, and automated operational workflows of Qunar's Redis high‑availability cluster, including code modifications, deployment scripts, and platform‑based management for large‑scale production environments.
This guide introduces the dbdeployer tool, walks through its installation on macOS/Linux, shows how to configure sandbox paths, download MySQL binaries, and deploy various MySQL topologies such as single nodes, master‑slave replication, and group replication with one‑click commands.
The article outlines Alibaba Youku’s end‑to‑end resource‑assurance platform for Double‑11 promotions, detailing automated demand collection, business‑to‑technical metric conversion, single‑machine capacity testing, rapid scaling and emergency borrowing, which together cut manual reviews by 80 % and boosted delivery efficiency tenfold.
The article recaps Tencent Cloud’s Serverless operational suite—covering built‑in DevOps tools, logging, monitoring, auto‑scaling, and security—demonstrating how it replaces manual IaaS provisioning, accelerates development, and enables cloud‑native management, illustrated by a WeChat Mini‑Program album that cut build time from months to two weeks.
This article explores how front‑end teams are leveraging AI to automate the conversion of design drafts into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, analyzing background trends, competitive solutions, technical challenges, and the layered D2C architecture that powers Alibaba's imgcook platform.
The author shares a two‑year‑old Java/Groovy testing framework, outlines common challenges in API functional and performance testing, and provides a curated list of practical implementations—including Spring Boot + MyBatis services, HttpClient examples, AlertOver notifications, Swagger code generation, performance tools like Netdata and Timewatch, and detailed test plans for various scenarios.
This article explores the rise of front‑end intelligence, analyzing background trends, competitive solutions, problem decomposition, and technical approaches for automatically converting design drafts into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while discussing challenges, model accuracy, data quality, and future roadmap for the D2C (Design‑to‑Code) system.
This guide outlines how test development engineers can successfully navigate promotion exams by defining the assessment scope, strengthening professional and general competencies, applying practical project experience, boosting testing efficiency through automation and tools, and preparing compelling presentation materials using the STAR framework.
This guide explains the PXE boot process, its required DHCP and TFTP services, and how to combine PXE with Kickstart to perform unattended, large‑scale CentOS installations, including detailed configuration steps for DHCP, HTTP, TFTP, boot files, and a complete Kickstart script.
QTC, iQIYI’s extended ATC tool combining a dual‑NIC workstation, wireless hotspot and Python‑based software, dynamically simulates static and changing network conditions while providing low‑interference automated packet capture, enabling rapid mobile video app testing across diverse scenarios and uncovering numerous bugs.
In this interview, GanZhou Bank's DBA leader Ye Guangfang shares how his team created a unified PaaS platform, integrated CMDB and SaaS tools, and leveraged DevOps practices to automate resource delivery, self‑service, and disaster recovery, dramatically improving efficiency and reliability for a mid‑size bank.
This article explains the design, core features, implementation details, and real‑world deployment of the Auto_ApiTest tool for automating API testing in a large‑scale search platform, covering data management, configuration, code examples, CI integration, monitoring, and measurable outcomes.
The "马哥Linux运维" public account, built on a technology‑first philosophy, shares high‑quality, non‑clickbait content and has compiled the 100 most‑read Linux operations articles from the past three years, offering a comprehensive resource for sysadmins and DevOps engineers.
This article presents seven practical Python scripts—from scraping Zhihu images and chatting bots to poetry author detection, lottery generation, auto‑drafting apologies, screen recording, and GIF creation—showcasing how to quickly automate diverse tasks without reinventing the wheel.
The BIM construction‑drawing team built an automated monitoring and validation tool using Spring Boot, REST‑Assured and JIRA APIs, turning a tedious manual bug‑fix workflow into a streamlined process that reduced online drawing‑failure rates from 0.01% to virtually zero.
This guide shows how to create a reusable shell function that retrieves a process ID for a given user and program, demonstrates its usage, and explains each command involved so you can reliably detect when a service stops running.
This guide introduces a set of scripts for installing MySQL 8.0, configuring master‑slave replication and group replication, detailing required files, command usage, repository location, and essential configuration notes for a three‑node deployment.
This guide shows how to use Python 2.7 to extend Zabbix 4.2 alerts by attaching the current graph image to email and WeChat notifications, covering environment setup, script details, Zabbix media type configuration, and testing the final result.
This article explains how Ant Financial designs and operates a large‑scale, highly available Kubernetes management platform—detailing its architecture, core operators, desired‑state controllers, fault‑self‑healing mechanisms, risk mitigation, and practical Q&A for production environments.
This article shares JD's front‑end team's experience engineering large‑scale mini programs, covering standards, single‑page extraction, code duplication removal, automated testing with a sandbox, package‑size optimization, smart splitting, conditional compilation, and a continuous‑integration pipeline that together address the challenges of rapid growth and release complexity.
This article provides a curated collection of Jenkins continuous integration tutorials, covering introductory topics such as Jenkins overview and installation, integration guides for tools like GitLab, Nexus, LDAP, and advanced practice articles on pipelines, containerized slaves, and monitoring, serving as a comprehensive resource for DevOps practitioners.
This article demonstrates how to leverage uiautomator1.0 for Android automation by creating a shell‑based Context, accessing PackageManager, managing SQLite databases, monitoring app activities and processes, and implementing Chinese text input through AccessibilityNodeInfo.
This guide explains how to configure Jenkins to pull Java code from Git, compile and package it with Maven, transfer the artifact to a test server via SCP, and restart Tomcat, providing a complete CI/CD pipeline for Java applications.
This guide introduces the Pure Bash Bible—a popular GitHub repository that compiles essential built‑in Bash commands for string manipulation, arrays, loops, and file handling—providing concise examples and practical code snippets to boost your shell scripting efficiency.
This article explains how to add interactive user input to Jenkins pipelines by installing the Pipeline: InputStep plugin, configuring a Jenkinsfile with various parameter types, and reviewing the resulting console output, enabling more flexible DevOps workflows.
This article presents a curated A‑to‑Z collection of 26 practical Python tricks—from basic syntax shortcuts and standard‑library modules like collections and itertools to handy third‑party tools such as bashplotlib, geopy, and howdoi—designed to boost productivity and deepen your understanding of the language.
This article introduces Python's ConfigParser module, explains its configuration file format, and demonstrates common operations such as creating parser objects, listing sections, adding sections, setting key‑value pairs, retrieving items, and applying these techniques in continuous integration parameterized builds.
This article outlines practical DevOps techniques for building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines triggered by GitLab webhooks, detailing both push‑triggered pipelines and merge‑request pipelines, including configuration steps, token handling, code quality checks, and notification mechanisms to streamline automated builds and reviews.
This article explains how to address three common SonarQube challenges—data instability across branches, difficulty assigning quality profiles, and project permission management—by creating per‑branch projects, using Jenkins pipeline scripts with Sonar REST APIs, and applying permission templates to streamline large‑scale code‑quality scanning.
LADV, an AI‑powered visual design tool embedded in DataV, automatically recognizes hand‑drawn sketches, infographics, and screenshots, generating fully configurable visualizations in seconds, drastically reducing design costs and streamlining the workflow from concept to interactive dashboards.
This interview explores the rise of AIOps, its business drivers, and practical implementation at Sina Weibo, while sharing Peng Dong’s career journey, technical challenges, and management philosophies that illustrate how AI‑driven automation is reshaping large‑scale IT operations.
This article details the end‑to‑end design and implementation of a custom tool—named “Crystal Palace”—that automates financial reporting across App Store, Google Play, Facebook and Amazon, turning a tedious manual reconciliation process into a scalable, data‑driven solution for game publishers.
At the 2019 Hangzhou Cloud Expo, Alibaba and Intel experts presented a series of intelligent operation solutions for large‑scale cloud infrastructure—including automated server repair, network change verification, application operation brain, monitoring advancements, power‑optimization, and data‑center management—demonstrating how AI‑driven techniques improve stability, cost, and efficiency.
The article describes JD's traffic replication and replay platform, explaining its background, the concepts of traffic copying and replay, detailed platform architecture and features, normalised load testing workflow, dynamic regression testing, operational results, current limitations, and future improvement directions.
iQIYI tackled the complexity of its large, multi‑team, multi‑technology mobile app by implementing an automated, standardized logging and diagnostic platform—including UI testing, code‑coverage, a unified SDK, real‑time log debugger and web viewer—enabling proactive design‑for‑debug, faster releases and higher quality.
This comprehensive tutorial walks you through Ansible fundamentals, architecture, installation, core modules, playbook structure, variables, templates, handlers, tags, loops, and role‑based organization, providing practical examples and command‑line snippets to automate tasks across multiple Linux hosts efficiently.
This article explains how to write a Groovy script for a CI pipeline that lists webapp directories on a Linux server, keeps the newest four, sorts them by modification time, and deletes the older ones using sudo to overcome permission issues, complete with full source code.
This article explores the nuanced differences between IT maintenance (IT运维) and IT operations (IT运营), explaining how organizations transition from merely keeping systems alive to delivering high‑quality, business‑centric services that satisfy users, executives, and IT staff alike.
The article examines Alipay's mobile DevOps implementation, contrasting it with web DevOps, outlining development stages, highlighting technical and operational challenges such as fragmented device ecosystems, quality assurance, continuous integration, and the impact of emerging technologies on the mobile development workflow.
Learn how to install and set up NotiFyre on Ubuntu so that long‑running Linux commands trigger desktop notifications, letting you focus on other tasks while the system alerts you when each command finishes.
The article explains cloud native concepts, detailing its key characteristics, four foundational pillars, organizational practices, architectural patterns, essential tooling, and operational responsibilities that enable agile, scalable, and highly available applications built on cloud infrastructure.
This article describes a three-stage automated deployment strategy—traditional installation, VM image restoration, and automatic discovery with command issuance—leveraging FRP for internal network tunneling, Ansible for batch control, and Docker for rapid containerized deployment, significantly reducing operational effort and enabling a DevOps workflow.
This article introduces Puppeteer, a Node library for controlling Chrome, and demonstrates its use in automating web performance analysis and scraping tasks.
The article explains continuous deployment within the SAFe framework, detailing its definition, role in the four‑stage continuous delivery pipeline, the four sub‑dimensions (deploy, verify, monitor, respond), essential skills for each stage, and why automation, version control, and proactive monitoring are critical for reliable, on‑demand releases.
Effective MySQL backup and disaster recovery are essential for protecting critical business data; this guide explains backup types, tools like Percona XtraBackup, scheduling, local and remote strategies, incremental processes, preparation and restoration steps, and introduces a platform for automated backup management.
This article outlines the nine critical competencies—ranging from analytical thinking and effective communication to automation, DevOps, and project management—that empower software testers to deliver high‑quality applications and thrive in modern development environments.
This article explains the step‑by‑step process of constructing a configuration management database (CMDB) for operations, covering resource modeling, data integration, organizational structures, maintenance methods, and how a well‑designed CMDB supports higher‑level business operations such as automation, visualization, and capacity planning.
This article presents a comprehensive, categorized list of open-source workflow engines and BPM suites, describing each project's purpose, language, and typical use cases for tasks such as DAG scheduling, Kubernetes orchestration, and microservice coordination.
This article presents a comprehensive, categorized list of open‑source workflow engines and BPM tools—including Airflow, Argo, Cadence, Camunda, and many others—detailing their primary features and typical use cases for orchestration, data pipelines, and micro‑service coordination.
This guide explains the SSH protocol, demonstrates how to generate and use public‑key authentication, and shows practical techniques—including ssh one‑liner commands, scp file aggregation, and nc data transfer—to perform batch operations across multiple Linux servers without password prompts.
The article analyzes how unpredictable business volatility, digital transformation, and the convergence of Agile and DevOps will reshape software testing over the next ten years, emphasizing cross‑industry impact, automation growth, and the critical role of quality engineering.
Tencent Cloud’s Intelligent Ti Machine Learning Platform (TI‑ONE) offers a one‑stop, drag‑and‑drop solution for data preprocessing, model training, and deployment across industrial panel defect detection and financial risk prediction, delivering real‑time monitoring, automated pipelines, and high‑accuracy results that dramatically improve operational efficiency.
This guide shows how to use Ansible to automate the mass installation and configuration of Zabbix‑agent on both Linux and Windows hosts, covering key‑based SSH authentication, playbook creation, service management, and Zabbix auto‑discovery setup.
The article explains how shifting from fragile GUI‑level testing to automated API testing improves reliability, speed, and coverage in agile development, offering concrete strategies, examples, and tool recommendations for integrating API contracts into continuous integration pipelines.
This article introduces the open‑source "Pure Bash Bible"—a comprehensive collection of Bash code snippets that streamline scripting tasks, reduce dependencies, and boost performance, featuring examples for trimming strings, regex matching, color validation, and array deduplication, along with the GitHub repository link.
This article provides an overview of Jenkins, covering its origins, key features, development history, web UI components, project types, parameter options, and trigger mechanisms, illustrating why it is a widely used open‑source automation tool in modern software delivery pipelines.
This article presents a comprehensive Java Selenium utility library that encapsulates numerous reusable methods for browser automation, element interaction, screenshot handling, cookie management, JavaScript execution, scrolling, and navigation, providing a solid foundation for building robust automated test suites.
A busy DBA can reduce weekend firefights by automating SQL code formatting, detecting injection risks, assessing performance impact, and fostering a collaborative review culture with developers through testing frameworks and knowledge‑sharing sessions.
