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IaC: From AWS Scripts to a Language Your Infrastructure Actually Speaks

Interesting, manage such massive infrastructure.

Stateful Services in K8s: From Local NVMe to RDMA-Powered Block Storage

Have a conversation with one of former colleague,currently work at Shopee. This post explores the evolution of storage strategies for K8s stateful services, moving from standard local disks to the cutting edge of RDMA-accelerated network storage.

The Two-Pointer Pattern: How Distributed Systems Guarantee No Data Loss

Every serious distributed middleware — Kafka, RocketMQ, Redis, MySQL, etcd — solves the same fundamental problem. They just arrived at the solution from different directions.

Algorithmic Patterns Landscape, Mindset, Approach

I don't like this, but someone may do. Mindset may cover 95%, but still need practice.

The 'Invisible Giant': My Curious Journey with Alibaba RocketMQ

Alibaba RocketMQ, it's good, but almost invisible. Uncanny one, like the translation of robust.

Zero-Downtime Migration: Sharding a 30M-Row MySQL Single Table

Most critical part is cutover traffic and rollback, single truth as always

Alibaba Sentinel: Achieving High-Throughput Statistics with LeapArray and LongAdder

Typical of high throughput, dive into the core of Sentinel’s StatisticSlot, exploring the Logic Zero-Copy of LeapArray and the lock-free magic of LongAdder

Beyond Zero-Copy: Modern Linux Kernel Techniques for CPU-Efficient Systems

CPU-Efficient approaches, performance tuning tricks

MySQL Performance Tuning: From Indexing to Architectural Scaling

Emmmm... this make sense.

From Owl Streaks to Podcast Peaks: My English Learning Journey

Communication > Perfection. Native speakers are remarkably good at filling in the gaps (contextual inference) if you just have the courage to speak.