This article shares two real‑world operations‑automation case studies—cloud‑based scaling on AWS with Chef and Jenkins, and a comprehensive automated deployment workflow for an advertising company's C++ RTB system, Java platform, and data clusters—highlighting processes, tools, and key lessons.
This article describes how a legacy .NET contract management system was transformed into a set of independent microservices using a strategic decoupling approach, explains microservice fundamentals and advantages, and introduces the Ruby‑based Stencil framework with code generation, CI templates, and one‑click AWS deployment to accelerate development and operations.
This article, distilled from a lively discussion in the InfoQ High‑Efficiency Operations group, outlines a modular “building‑block” approach to operations automation, presents core methodologies, explains why automation tools exist, compares Puppet, SaltStack, and Ansible, and offers practical guidance for selecting and implementing automation solutions.
This article recounts how the Mobile Taobao team transformed a monolithic app into a modular, multi‑bundle system, introduced automated build, test, and release platforms, and refined processes and quality‑assurance practices to achieve fast, reliable continuous delivery at massive scale.
Meituan’s new Docker‑based automated build system isolates each build in lightweight containers, using YAML‑defined images to compile code, preprocess assets, and package artifacts, which speeds builds, eliminates environment conflicts, and delivers pre‑built packages for faster, more reliable releases across the platform.
This article compiles a comprehensive list of DevOps tools—covering package management, logging and monitoring, process control, service discovery, and continuous integration/delivery—to help developers streamline operations and improve software delivery efficiency.
