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Cloud Native Technology Community
Apr 14, 2021 · Cloud Native

2020‑2021 Survey on Cloud‑Native Technology Adoption in Traditional Industries

The 2020‑2021 Cloud‑Native Technology Landing Survey, conducted by CNBPA, Lingqu Cloud and the Cloud‑Native Community, collected 783 responses from finance, manufacturing, energy, pharma, telecom and government sectors, revealing that cloud‑native adoption—including containers, DevOps, micro‑services, Kubernetes, Service Mesh and cloud‑native databases—has roughly doubled in production environments and is now the primary driver of digital transformation in traditional enterprises.

DevOpsIndustry Surveydatabase migration
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2020‑2021 Survey on Cloud‑Native Technology Adoption in Traditional Industries
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 13, 2021 · Operations

Jenkins vs GitLab CI/CD: Which DevOps Tool Is Right for Your Projects?

This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, covering their histories, core features, strengths, weaknesses, and practical guidance to help DevOps professionals choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their specific project requirements.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsGitLab CI/CD
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Jenkins vs GitLab CI/CD: Which DevOps Tool Is Right for Your Projects?
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Apr 13, 2021 · R&D Management

Low-Code Platforms: Accelerating R&D with Visual Coding and DevOps

The article explains how low‑code platforms improve R&D efficiency by offering visual coding, drag‑and‑drop model design, streamlined UI creation, integrated workflow tools, and DevOps capabilities, while comparing lightweight and heavyweight solutions and discussing their suitable scenarios and limitations.

DevOpsLow‑codeR&D efficiency
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Low-Code Platforms: Accelerating R&D with Visual Coding and DevOps
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Apr 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

What’s New in Kubernetes 1.21? Explore 51 Enhancements and Core Features

Kubernetes 1.21, the first 2021 release, introduces 51 enhancements—including stable CronJobs, immutable Secrets/ConfigMaps, dual‑stack IPv4/IPv6 support, graceful node shutdown, and new health monitoring for PersistentVolumes—while deprecating PodSecurityPolicy and TopologyKeys and offering a suite of new beta and stable features for cloud‑native workloads.

DevOpscontainer orchestrationinfrastructure
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What’s New in Kubernetes 1.21? Explore 51 Enhancements and Core Features
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 7, 2021 · Operations

Top 20 Agile and DevOps Books Recommended by the Author

The author, despite not being an avid reader, curates a personal list of twenty essential Agile and DevOps books—ranging from novel‑style introductions to practical guides—offering brief insights on each title to help readers deepen their understanding of agile practices and DevOps culture.

Book RecommendationsDevOpsscrum
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Top 20 Agile and DevOps Books Recommended by the Author
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Apr 6, 2021 · Databases

10 Proven Strategies to Prevent Dangerous SQL Mistakes in Production

This article outlines ten practical techniques—from avoiding chat tools for SQL transmission to using soft deletes, backup tables, and proper field management—to help developers, testers, and DBAs safeguard production databases against accidental data loss and costly errors.

DatabaseDevOpsMySQL
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10 Proven Strategies to Prevent Dangerous SQL Mistakes in Production
DevOps
DevOps
Apr 5, 2021 · Cloud Native

Microservice Architecture and DevOps Practices at RongShu Data

This article provides a comprehensive overview of microservice concepts, their differences from traditional SOA, the benefits of agility, scalability and independent deployment, and details RongShu Data's architectural choices, technology stack, design principles, DevOps platform, team organization, and practical implementation guidelines.

DevOpsMicroservicesarchitecture
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Microservice Architecture and DevOps Practices at RongShu Data
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 31, 2021 · Operations

Uncovering Digital Risks in DevOps: Safeguarding Your Digital Transformation

This article examines how result‑oriented DevOps drives digital transformation while exposing digital risks—from missing high‑level test scenarios and broken security data links to insufficient user‑experience foresight—and outlines strategies for data governance, risk mitigation, and effective decision‑support across the enterprise.

DevOpsDigital Transformationdata governance
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Uncovering Digital Risks in DevOps: Safeguarding Your Digital Transformation
Sohu Tech Products
Sohu Tech Products
Mar 31, 2021 · Operations

Improving Cluster Stability: CI/CD, Monitoring, Logging, Documentation, and Traffic Management Solutions

The article analyzes the instability of a company's Kubernetes clusters, identifies root causes such as unstable release processes, lack of monitoring, logging, and documentation, and proposes comprehensive solutions including a Kubernetes‑centric CI/CD pipeline, federated Prometheus monitoring, Elasticsearch logging, centralized documentation, and integrated traffic management with Kong and Istio.

DevOpsLoggingOperations
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Improving Cluster Stability: CI/CD, Monitoring, Logging, Documentation, and Traffic Management Solutions
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 30, 2021 · Operations

How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring Stack on Kubernetes with Thanos

This article explains why monitoring is essential for production stability, introduces Prometheus fundamentals, metric naming conventions, query types, and high‑availability solutions such as Thanos federation, then walks through a complete Kubernetes deployment including StatefulSets, RBAC, Pushgateway, Alertmanager, and Ingress configuration.

AlertmanagerDevOpsPushgateway
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How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Monitoring Stack on Kubernetes with Thanos
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 30, 2021 · Operations

2021 DevOps Trends and Future Predictions

The article reviews eight major DevOps trends expected in 2021—including infrastructure automation, application release orchestration, evolving toolchains, DevSecOps, APM, cloud‑management platforms, AgileOps, and chaos engineering—while also offering the author’s own forecasts for how DevOps, CI/CD, cloud‑native, AI, and people‑centric practices will shape the industry in the coming years.

2021 TrendsDevOpsDevSecOps
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2021 DevOps Trends and Future Predictions
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 29, 2021 · Operations

Enterprise DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation: Key Takeaways from China’s 2021 Forum

On March 25 2021, China’s Information and Communication Research Institute, together with the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance and Open Operations Alliance, hosted the fifth “DevOps System Safeguarding Enterprise Digital Transformation” online event, presenting evaluation results, expert talks, a Q&A session, and an overview of the enterprise‑level DevOps empowerment program.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsDigital Transformation
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Enterprise DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation: Key Takeaways from China’s 2021 Forum
Selected Java Interview Questions
Selected Java Interview Questions
Mar 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

Docker Command Cheat Sheet: Container, Image, and Container Operations

This guide provides a comprehensive collection of Docker commands for inspecting container information, managing images (listing, searching, pulling, removing, building), and operating containers (starting, stopping, attaching, executing commands, viewing logs, inspecting, committing, and copying files) with practical examples.

ContainersDevOpsDocker
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Docker Command Cheat Sheet: Container, Image, and Container Operations
Fangduoduo Tech
Fangduoduo Tech
Mar 26, 2021 · Cloud Native

Streamlining Deployments with a Cloud‑Native CI/CD Platform at Fangduoduo

This article details how Fangduoduo built an integrated, cloud‑native CI/CD release system—combining Vue front‑end, Python back‑end, Jenkins, Gerrit, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes—to automate builds, deployments, version control, testing, and service maintenance, dramatically boosting development efficiency.

DevOpsDocker Swarmautomation
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Streamlining Deployments with a Cloud‑Native CI/CD Platform at Fangduoduo
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 26, 2021 · Operations

Top Open‑Source Projects for SREs and DevOps

This article presents a curated list of popular open‑source tools for monitoring, deployment, chaos testing, and reliability engineering, explaining their main features and how they help SREs and DevOps engineers build scalable, highly available cloud‑native systems.

DevOpsSREchaos engineering
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Top Open‑Source Projects for SREs and DevOps
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Mar 25, 2021 · Operations

What Are the Top DevOps Trends Shaping 2021 and Beyond?

This article analyzes the most influential DevOps trends for 2021, including the rise of DevSecOps, AI‑driven AIOps, infrastructure automation, chaos engineering, serverless adoption, hybrid cloud, GitOps, and edge computing, backed by market forecasts and expert predictions.

CloudNativeDevOpsDevSecOps
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What Are the Top DevOps Trends Shaping 2021 and Beyond?
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 25, 2021 · Operations

How SPD Bank Achieved Leading‑Edge DevOps Maturity: 4 Projects Pass Level‑3 Continuous Delivery

SPD Bank’s four major systems—an enterprise micro‑service platform, cash‑flow analysis, fund‑supervision, and financial IC‑card services—successfully passed the Level‑3 Continuous Delivery assessment of the national DevOps standard, showcasing a leading‑edge, organization‑wide DevOps capability that boosts delivery speed, quality, and agility.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsMaturity Model
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How SPD Bank Achieved Leading‑Edge DevOps Maturity: 4 Projects Pass Level‑3 Continuous Delivery
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 25, 2021 · Operations

How a Chinese Telecom Firm Reached Top‑Tier DevOps Maturity – Key Lessons

An interview with China Mobile Suzhou's chief scientist reveals how their "China Mobile Sentiment" project achieved a Level‑3 DevOps continuous delivery assessment, boosting delivery speed, release success, and operational confidence while outlining future scaling plans.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsMaturity Assessment
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How a Chinese Telecom Firm Reached Top‑Tier DevOps Maturity – Key Lessons
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 25, 2021 · Operations

Inside Jiangsu Mobile’s Journey to Industry-Leading DevOps Maturity

Jiangsu Mobile’s Alading marketing empowerment project recently passed the third‑level DevOps continuous‑delivery assessment, showcasing significant improvements in delivery speed, automation, and quality, while the interview reveals the team’s strategies, tooling, metrics, challenges, and future plans for scaling DevOps across the organization.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpscase study
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Inside Jiangsu Mobile’s Journey to Industry-Leading DevOps Maturity
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Mar 24, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding GitOps: Principles, Workflow, and Benefits

GitOps automates infrastructure management by applying DevOps best practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD pipelines, using declarative IaC stored in Git to enable reliable, observable, and secure deployments across cloud‑native environments.

DevOpsGitOpsci/cd
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Understanding GitOps: Principles, Workflow, and Benefits
FunTester
FunTester
Mar 24, 2021 · R&D Management

How Agile Teams Can Master Test Automation for Faster, Higher‑Quality Delivery

This article examines why traditional testing must evolve for agile development, outlines the challenges of frequent builds, limited sprint time, performance and API testing, and provides practical guidance on planning, scope selection, parallel execution, DevOps integration, and choosing the right automation tools to boost collaboration and quality.

DevOpsagileci/cd
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How Agile Teams Can Master Test Automation for Faster, Higher‑Quality Delivery
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Mar 21, 2021 · Backend Development

Top 15 Open‑Source API Management Tools

This article introduces the importance of APIs in modern software development and presents a curated list of fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms, detailing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals to help developers choose the right solution.

API ManagementBackendDevOps
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Top 15 Open‑Source API Management Tools
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 16, 2021 · Operations

How DevOps Drives Digital Operations for Lean IT Organizations

The article explains how DevOps extends digital value across the entire software delivery lifecycle, enabling lean IT organizations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and align technical and business operations through scenario‑based digital operations and accurate data and language integration.

DevOpsDigital TransformationIT Operations
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How DevOps Drives Digital Operations for Lean IT Organizations
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 16, 2021 · Operations

How Cloud Computing Is Redefining Operations: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies

The article examines how the rapid adoption of cloud computing, DevOps, AIOps, and FinOps is reshaping the role of IT operations, highlighting new trends, evolving work boundaries, and the essential characteristics of a modern, automated, secure, and cost‑optimized operations system.

DevOpsFinOpsOperations
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How Cloud Computing Is Redefining Operations: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 15, 2021 · R&D Management

Scaling Scrum: From an 8‑Person Team to a Hundred‑Person R&D Workflow

This article describes how Worktile introduced Scrum, built an 8‑person self‑organizing Scrum team for the Lesschat product, iterated through two‑week Sprints, identified and solved scaling challenges, and eventually evolved into a multi‑team, hundred‑person agile R&D organization with continuous delivery practices.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsscrum
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Scaling Scrum: From an 8‑Person Team to a Hundred‑Person R&D Workflow
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Mar 13, 2021 · Operations

2021 DevOps Trends and Predictions: Microservices, DevSecOps, IA, AIOps, AgileOps, AI/ML, Kubernetes, and Cloud Management

The article outlines eight major 2021 DevOps trends—including the rise of microservices, increased DevSecOps adoption, infrastructure automation, predictive analytics in AIOps, AgileOps, AI/ML‑driven pipelines, Kubernetes integration, and cloud management platforms—highlighting their benefits and future impact on software delivery.

Cloud ManagementDevOpsDevSecOps
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2021 DevOps Trends and Predictions: Microservices, DevSecOps, IA, AIOps, AgileOps, AI/ML, Kubernetes, and Cloud Management
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Mar 12, 2021 · Operations

Implementation and Practice of LEDAO‑CAT Monitoring System for iQIYI Content Platform

To meet the LEDAO platform’s need for rapid anomaly detection, full‑stack observability, and reliable alerting across more than 100 microservices, iQIYI evaluated OpenFalcon, Prometheus and CAT, selected CAT, deployed separate mainland and overseas clusters, added configurable access, health‑check and integrated alert channels, enabling five‑minute service onboarding, near‑zero‑intrusion instrumentation, and real‑time business‑level monitoring.

CATDevOpsObservability
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Implementation and Practice of LEDAO‑CAT Monitoring System for iQIYI Content Platform
Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 11, 2021 · Operations

Popular DevOps Tools Overview

This article provides a comprehensive overview of modern DevOps practices and popular tools—including version control, containerization, orchestration, automation, collaboration, and monitoring—explaining their purposes, key features, and how they fit into the software delivery lifecycle.

ContainersDevOpsautomation
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Popular DevOps Tools Overview
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Mar 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

Mastering Argo Workflows: From Installation to Advanced CI/CD Pipelines

This article provides a comprehensive guide to Argo Workflows, covering its core concepts, installation of both controller and client, detailed examples of workflows, templates, variables, reusable WorkflowTemplate and ClusterWorkflowTemplate resources, and a practical CI/CD pipeline implementation on Kubernetes.

Argo WorkflowsCI/CDDevOps
0 likes · 20 min read
Mastering Argo Workflows: From Installation to Advanced CI/CD Pipelines
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Mar 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

Minsheng Bank Data Middle Platform: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Tools, and Practices

This article details Minsheng Bank's data middle platform built since 2018, explaining its cloud‑native architecture, the underlying microservice and container design, the operational pain points it addresses, and the suite of DevOps tools, management solutions, and component strategies that enable scalable, secure, and efficient financial data services.

DevOpsbankingbig-data
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Minsheng Bank Data Middle Platform: Cloud‑Native Architecture, Tools, and Practices
macrozheng
macrozheng
Mar 10, 2021 · Cloud Native

Deploy Mall‑Swarm on Kubernetes with Rancher: Full Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article walks through deploying the open‑source mall‑swarm project using Docker for supporting services on a base server and Kubernetes on an application server, covering image packaging, Docker Compose setup, Rancher installation, Nacos configuration, YAML deployments, and Nginx reverse‑proxy access, with full command examples.

DevOpsDockerMicroservices
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Deploy Mall‑Swarm on Kubernetes with Rancher: Full Step‑by‑Step Guide
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 9, 2021 · R&D Management

Designing R&D Teams as Special Forces: Organizational Architecture for Agile Development

The article explains how adopting a "special forces" style organizational structure—small, cross‑functional squads with clear goals and boundaries—can improve R&D efficiency, adaptability to changing business needs, performance assessment, and career development within modern software companies.

DevOpsSpecial ForcesTeam Organization
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Designing R&D Teams as Special Forces: Organizational Architecture for Agile Development
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Continuous Delivery 2.0
Mar 9, 2021 · Operations

Scaling DevOps in Organizations Over 100 People: Normalization, Standardization, and Platformization

When a software organization exceeds one hundred members, merely copying existing DevOps practices is insufficient; instead, a three‑step approach—normalization, standardization, and platformization—must be applied to restructure teams, enable measurable outcomes, and sustain scalable efficiency across the enterprise.

DevOpsmeasurement
0 likes · 5 min read
Scaling DevOps in Organizations Over 100 People: Normalization, Standardization, and Platformization
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Mar 2, 2021 · Operations

Scaling a Mobile Trading App: Ops, CMDB, and Full‑Chain Stress Testing

In this talk, Guoxin Securities’ operations expert Cai Hua outlines the architecture and massive user base of the Gold Sun mobile trading app, examines the unique operational challenges of securities platforms, and details the company’s comprehensive technical‑operations framework—including CMDB accuracy, automation, standardized release pipelines, multi‑layer monitoring, and full‑chain capacity testing—to ensure stability, scalability, and future innovation.

CMDBDevOps
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Scaling a Mobile Trading App: Ops, CMDB, and Full‑Chain Stress Testing
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Mar 2, 2021 · Operations

Deployment vs Release: Unraveling Modern DevOps Strategies

This article clarifies the distinction between deployment and release, explores historical shifts, and details contemporary strategies such as continuous deployment, on‑demand release, blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray releases, A/B testing, and feature toggles, illustrated with real‑world Facebook case studies.

Blue-GreenCanary ReleaseContinuous Deployment
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Deployment vs Release: Unraveling Modern DevOps Strategies
dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Mar 1, 2021 · Operations

How We Built a Scalable DevOps Toolchain for Faster Product Delivery

This article explains how a rapidly growing tech team re‑engineered its DevOps toolchain—covering planning, building, testing, releasing, monitoring, CMDB design, and CI/CD improvements—to boost development efficiency, reduce coordination costs, and support a container‑based micro‑service architecture.

CMDBDevOpsci/cd
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How We Built a Scalable DevOps Toolchain for Faster Product Delivery
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Mar 1, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Top Tech Highlights: GKE Autopilot, Power Fx, Quantum Assembly, and More

This weekly roundup covers Google’s GKE Autopilot managed Kubernetes service, Microsoft’s upcoming low‑code Power Fx language, a new quantum assembly language from Sandia, JD Cloud’s Jinggang virtualization platform, Google‑Intel cloud‑native 5G collaboration, Nvidia’s Jarvis AI framework, a knowledge‑infused BERT model, and a region‑based facial action unit detection method.

Cloud ComputingDevOpsLow‑code
0 likes · 9 min read
Top Tech Highlights: GKE Autopilot, Power Fx, Quantum Assembly, and More
DevOps
DevOps
Mar 1, 2021 · R&D Management

R&D Management 101: The Power of Two‑Week Iterations

This article introduces the first rule of the "101 R&D Management Rules" series, explaining how a disciplined two‑week iteration cycle builds rhythm, culture, and productivity in a large development team while aligning with OKR goals and leveraging the PingCode tool.

DevOpsPingCodeTwo-Week Iteration
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R&D Management 101: The Power of Two‑Week Iterations
Youzan Coder
Youzan Coder
Feb 26, 2021 · Big Data

Migrating Spark Offline Computing to Kubernetes: Architecture, Optimizations, and Lessons Learned

Youzan migrated its large‑scale offline Spark workloads from YARN to a cloud‑native Kubernetes architecture, separating storage and compute with Ceph FS, adding dynamic executor allocation and remote shuffle services, and applying numerous Spark and deployment tweaks that yielded elastic scaling, higher resource utilization, reduced costs, and valuable operational lessons.

DevOpsPerformance OptimizationSpark
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Migrating Spark Offline Computing to Kubernetes: Architecture, Optimizations, and Lessons Learned
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Feb 25, 2021 · Operations

What Is DevOps? Unpacking CI, CD, and Agile Development

This article explains DevOps as the integration of development and operations, defines Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD), clarifies their relationship, and briefly touches on Agile development, providing a clear overview of modern software delivery practices.

Agile DevelopmentContinuous DeliveryContinuous Deployment
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What Is DevOps? Unpacking CI, CD, and Agile Development
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 24, 2021 · Operations

How DevOps Drives Enterprise Digital Transformation: Key Insights

This article explains how DevOps evolution intertwines with the surge of internet services, outlines its three conceptual phases, and demonstrates how digital visualization—both terminal‑focused and scenario‑focused—enhances organizational efficiency, quality, and decision‑making during enterprise digital transformation.

DevOpsDigital Transformationenterprise
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How DevOps Drives Enterprise Digital Transformation: Key Insights
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Feb 24, 2021 · Operations

Integrating SonarQube Code Scanning with GitLab Commit Status

This guide explains how to install SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner, configure scanning parameters, add the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, and use additional properties to link scan results to GitLab commit statuses, enabling pipeline‑based merge request control.

Code ScanningDevOpsGitLab
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Integrating SonarQube Code Scanning with GitLab Commit Status
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 24, 2021 · Product Management

Applying MVP and DevOps Thinking to Coaching: A Personal Journey

The author chronicles his experience learning coaching, treats coaching as a product, and demonstrates how applying MVP principles and a DevOps mindset—through iterative releases, feedback loops, and metrics like lead time and NPS—can transform personal development into a systematic, customer‑focused process.

DevOpsFeedbackMVP
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Applying MVP and DevOps Thinking to Coaching: A Personal Journey
21CTO
21CTO
Feb 23, 2021 · Backend Development

How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Components, and Best Practices

This comprehensive guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack—languages, components, processes, and systems—offering practical recommendations on project management, DNS, load balancing, databases, monitoring, and deployment to help startups design a robust, cloud‑native backend architecture.

DevOpsTechnology Stackarchitecture
0 likes · 30 min read
How to Build a Scalable Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Components, and Best Practices
ITPUB
ITPUB
Feb 23, 2021 · Backend Development

Building a Complete Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Services, and Tools

This guide walks through the essential layers of a backend technology stack for startups, covering language choices, core components like DNS, load balancing, CDN, RPC frameworks, databases, messaging, logging, monitoring, configuration, deployment, and operational best‑practice processes.

DatabasesDevOpsMessaging
0 likes · 31 min read
Building a Complete Backend Stack for Startups: Languages, Services, and Tools
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Feb 21, 2021 · Operations

Practical Guide to GitLab CI/CD Pipelines and Version Upgrade

This article provides a step‑by‑step guide on upgrading GitLab versions, explains new CI/CD features in GitLab 13.8 such as exit‑code‑controlled job failures, rule‑based variables, Docker pull policies, artifact retention settings, predefined variables, and shows how to visualize pipeline configurations with code examples.

DevOpsGitLabVersion Upgrade
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Practical Guide to GitLab CI/CD Pipelines and Version Upgrade
Node Underground
Node Underground
Feb 19, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path

This article examines the rapid rise of Serverless computing in 2021, analyzes market dynamics, highlights technical and operational challenges such as language support, cold starts, and package size, and offers practical guidance for developers and enterprises to adopt Serverless effectively while optimizing cost and performance.

Cloud ComputingDevOpsServerless
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Serverless in 2021: Trends, Challenges, and Choosing the Right Path
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
ITFLY8 Architecture Home
Feb 18, 2021 · Cloud Native

What Is Cloud Native? Key Concepts, Principles, and Practices Explained

This article explains the cloud native paradigm—originating from Matt Stine in 2013—and its core components such as DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, agile infrastructure, and the Twelve‑Factor App, showing how they enable resilient, scalable applications built directly on cloud services.

Continuous DeliveryDevOpsMicroservices
0 likes · 18 min read
What Is Cloud Native? Key Concepts, Principles, and Practices Explained
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Feb 17, 2021 · Operations

Understanding Jenkins Declarative Pipeline Syntax

This article explains Jenkins declarative pipelines, showing how to define pipelines in a Jenkinsfile, use agents, stages, steps, and optional features like Docker agents, environment variables, timeouts, and post‑actions, with practical code examples for building and archiving Java applications.

Declarative PipelineDevOpsJenkins
0 likes · 5 min read
Understanding Jenkins Declarative Pipeline Syntax
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 9, 2021 · Operations

Choosing Between DataOps, MLOps, and AIOps: A Guide for Data Teams

The article examines how data teams can select the appropriate Ops framework—DataOps, MLOps, or AIOps—by comparing their origins, principles, responsibilities, and tooling, and stresses that cultural principles outweigh technology choices for efficient delivery of data and machine‑learning products.

Data engineeringDataOpsDevOps
0 likes · 12 min read
Choosing Between DataOps, MLOps, and AIOps: A Guide for Data Teams
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 7, 2021 · Cloud Native

A Comprehensive Guide to Docker Tools and the Container Ecosystem

This article provides an extensive overview of the most popular Docker‑related tools—including orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, security, storage, networking, service discovery, image building, and management solutions—detailing their core features, official websites, pricing models, and typical use cases for developers and operations engineers.

ContainerDevOpsDocker
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A Comprehensive Guide to Docker Tools and the Container Ecosystem
Practical DevOps Architecture
Practical DevOps Architecture
Feb 7, 2021 · Operations

Deploying Zookeeper and ActiveMQ Cluster on Three Servers

This guide walks through setting up a three‑node Zookeeper ensemble, configuring ActiveMQ with replicated LevelDB storage, and starting the services on each host, providing full command‑line steps, configuration snippets, and verification screenshots for a production‑grade deployment.

ActiveMQCluster DeploymentDevOps
0 likes · 5 min read
Deploying Zookeeper and ActiveMQ Cluster on Three Servers
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 7, 2021 · Operations

Understanding Deployment, Release, and Continuous Deployment Strategies

This comprehensive guide explains the differences between deployment and release, defines continuous deployment and on‑demand release, and details practical strategies such as blue‑green, rolling, dark launch, canary, gray, and A/B testing, supported by feature toggles, feature branches, and real‑world Facebook case studies.

Blue-GreenCanary ReleaseContinuous Deployment
0 likes · 36 min read
Understanding Deployment, Release, and Continuous Deployment Strategies
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Feb 4, 2021 · Backend Development

Inside DiDi’s NodeX: Building a Scalable Node.js Ecosystem for Enterprise

DiDi’s NodeX initiative unites multiple front‑end teams to create a group‑level, professional, efficient, and stable Node.js development ecosystem that provides reusable components, a unified framework, common services, performance‑analysis tools, and documentation platforms, dramatically lowering service‑building barriers and boosting business productivity.

Backend DevelopmentComponent ArchitectureDevOps
0 likes · 12 min read
Inside DiDi’s NodeX: Building a Scalable Node.js Ecosystem for Enterprise
GrowingIO Tech Team
GrowingIO Tech Team
Feb 4, 2021 · Operations

How GrowingIO Built Its CI/CD Pipeline: Lessons for SaaS DevOps

GrowingIO’s QA leader shares the company’s CI/CD journey, detailing the concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, the tools and branch strategies used, and the challenges and improvements in their SaaS product’s DevOps pipeline, offering practical insights for teams building efficient release processes.

DevOpsSaaSci/cd
0 likes · 24 min read
How GrowingIO Built Its CI/CD Pipeline: Lessons for SaaS DevOps
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Feb 1, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Knative: Serving, Configuration, Traffic Splitting, and Service Integration

This article introduces Knative as a Kubernetes‑based serverless platform, explains its three core components, walks through deploying a Hello World service with YAML and kubectl commands, shows how configuration changes create revisions, demonstrates traffic splitting, and illustrates integration with external services such as Twilio.

DevOpsKnativeMicroservices
0 likes · 8 min read
Understanding Knative: Serving, Configuration, Traffic Splitting, and Service Integration
DevOps
DevOps
Feb 1, 2021 · Operations

IDCF 6th DevOps Case Study Deep Dive – Continuous Operations, Collaborative Development, CI/CD, and Testing

The IDCF 6th DevOps case study event featured four expert groups presenting in‑depth analyses of continuous operations, collaborative development, CI/CD pipelines, and testing practices, highlighting practical insights, tool comparisons, and real‑world case studies that earned the testing team the best‑case award.

Collaborative DevelopmentContinuous OperationsDevOps
0 likes · 6 min read
IDCF 6th DevOps Case Study Deep Dive – Continuous Operations, Collaborative Development, CI/CD, and Testing
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Jan 30, 2021 · Operations

Essential Skills and Tools for Learning DevOps

DevOps combines development and operations practices, requiring knowledge of software development concepts, Linux, networking, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure as code, scripting, and version control, with tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Git.

ContainersDevOpsci/cd
0 likes · 9 min read
Essential Skills and Tools for Learning DevOps
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Jan 29, 2021 · Cloud Native

Essential Kubernetes Best Practices for Production Clusters

This guide presents a comprehensive checklist of production‑grade Kubernetes best practices, covering container image selection, registry management, namespace isolation, labeling, security controls, CI/CD, monitoring, service mesh adoption, and advanced features to keep clusters stable, secure, and efficient.

DevOpscontainer securitykubernetes
0 likes · 17 min read
Essential Kubernetes Best Practices for Production Clusters
Product Technology Team
Product Technology Team
Jan 28, 2021 · Frontend Development

Zhenkunxing’s Frontend Overhaul 2020‑2021: Visual Editors, UI Libraries & Low‑Code

From 2020 to 2021, Zhenkunxing built a visual‑editing service, a unified UI component library, standardized development, compilation and deployment pipelines, a front‑end portal, an online‑form system, an OKR tool, and a micro‑frontend BOSS platform, while planning a low‑code platform to boost efficiency and scalability.

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Zhenkunxing’s Frontend Overhaul 2020‑2021: Visual Editors, UI Libraries & Low‑Code
Ops Development Stories
Ops Development Stories
Jan 27, 2021 · Information Security

Secure Secrets: Install & Integrate HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes

This guide walks through installing HashiCorp Vault on Linux and Kubernetes, configuring it for secret management, enabling Kubernetes authentication, creating policies and roles, and accessing secrets via initContainers or the Vault SDK, providing a complete end‑to‑end secure integration.

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Secure Secrets: Install & Integrate HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jan 27, 2021 · Operations

Installing and Configuring the Mattermost‑Jira Integration

This guide walks you through installing the Mattermost Jira plugin, setting up webhook secrets, linking Jira application URLs, configuring Mattermost commands, and creating Jira issues directly from Mattermost to streamline DevOps collaboration without leaving the chat platform.

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Installing and Configuring the Mattermost‑Jira Integration
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 26, 2021 · Operations

How TaiKang Insurance Leveraged DevOps to Boost IT Efficiency in 2020

In a 2020 interview at the GOLF+ IT Governance Leadership Forum, TaiKang Insurance Group detailed its DevOps transformation, highlighting a 60% deployment efficiency gain, automated testing improvements, cross‑departmental challenges, and future 2021 plans to expand automation, Kubernetes integration, and DevSecOps initiatives.

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How TaiKang Insurance Leveraged DevOps to Boost IT Efficiency in 2020
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 26, 2021 · Fundamentals

Mastering the 21 Essential Software Architecture Characteristics

This article explains the twenty‑one key non‑functional characteristics of software architecture—such as performance, reliability, scalability, security and maintainability—detailing their definitions, typical metrics, and practical techniques for improvement, while linking each trait to ISO‑25010 and real‑world engineering practices.

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Mastering the 21 Essential Software Architecture Characteristics
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 25, 2021 · Cloud Computing

Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy

The article chronicles how the fast‑growing startup Meddy transformed its monolithic AWS setup by adopting managed services such as RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticsearch, Application Load Balancer, serverless Lambdas, ElastiCache, and Grafana Loki to achieve scalable, reliable, and observable cloud infrastructure.

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Scaling Our AWS Infrastructure: Lessons from Meddy
DevOps
DevOps
Jan 25, 2021 · R&D Management

Building Scalable Agile R&D Organizations: From Startup Teams to Global Tribes

The article explains how to design and evolve agile R&D organization structures—from a small startup team to medium, large, and multinational groups—by applying high‑cohesion, low‑coupling, and full‑functionality principles, using Spotify’s squad‑tribe‑chapter‑guild model and rotation mechanisms to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure.

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Building Scalable Agile R&D Organizations: From Startup Teams to Global Tribes
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Jan 24, 2021 · Operations

Mastering GitLab CI/CD: From Basics to Advanced Pipelines

This guide explains GitLab CI/CD concepts, configuration files, runner setup, pipeline stages, and advanced features like Auto DevOps, providing step‑by‑step examples and code snippets for practical implementation.

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Mastering GitLab CI/CD: From Basics to Advanced Pipelines
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jan 21, 2021 · Operations

DevOps: Unifying Development, Operations, and QA

This article defines DevOps, outlines its benefits and drawbacks, and explains key concepts such as automation, CI/CD, multi‑environment deployments, early failure detection, rollback, policy enforcement, and observability, showing how they collectively improve software delivery and organizational collaboration.

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DevOps: Unifying Development, Operations, and QA
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jan 20, 2021 · Operations

Customizing Jenkins UI with Custom CSS and Themes

This guide explains how to improve the Jenkins UI by installing the Simple Theme plugin, applying an online Material CSS theme, and creating a local CSS file for further customization, complete with step‑by‑step instructions and code snippets.

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Customizing Jenkins UI with Custom CSS and Themes
DevOps Cloud Academy
DevOps Cloud Academy
Jan 20, 2021 · Operations

Migrating Jenkins Freestyle Jobs to Pipeline: A Step‑by‑Step Guide

This article explains why and how to replace Jenkins Freestyle projects with Pipeline jobs, detailing the limitations of Freestyle, the benefits of Pipeline, and providing a complete scripted pipeline example that automates code checkout, building, testing, reporting, and email notifications.

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Migrating Jenkins Freestyle Jobs to Pipeline: A Step‑by‑Step Guide
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Jan 19, 2021 · Operations

How a Leading Securities CIO Drives Digital Transformation and DevOps Excellence

In an exclusive interview at the 2020 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum, Anxin Securities CIO Xu Yabin shares her 20‑year journey, the company’s pandemic response, digital transformation achievements, DevOps maturity, and ambitious plans for 2021, highlighting the role of IT leadership in finance.

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How a Leading Securities CIO Drives Digital Transformation and DevOps Excellence