Mobility

2021 was a year of upheaval for me personally. A job I had planned to pursue long-term — one with excellent comfort and promising prospects — suddenly collapsed due to certain reasons. Consequently, I faced a critical crossroads regarding my future direction. At least so far, I feel I’ve made some correct choices. I’ve also made good progress on the personal growth goals I set at the beginning of the year. So I’m approaching this year-end review with a reasonably positive mindset. Career Re...

Canary release is actually a process well-suited for cloud-native environments, so I believe many people have the need to perform canary releases under Kubernetes. In this article, we introduce a very simple approach to canary release. What is Canary ReleaseFirst, let me introduce what a canary release is. The name “canary” originates from the fact that miners discovered canaries are very sensitive to gas. Before descending into the mine, miners would send a canary down first. If the canary...

As the “default” monitoring system in the cloud-native ecosystem, Prometheus is gaining increasing attention. Today, we’ll write a tutorial about Prometheus’s design philosophy, examining how it uses very simple designs to support such complex functionality. First, let’s think about what the challenges would be in building a monitoring system similar to Prometheus: Each service has different monitoring requirements. How should a monitoring system design its data model to balance ease of us...

A high-performance Java IP address-to-country lookup tool. The core approach uses binary search over a pre-loaded array of IP ranges, achieving microsecond-level latency per query. Design ThinkingAn IP address is essentially a 32-bit integer. An “IP range” is simply a continuous range of integers. Given an IP, we need to find which range it falls into — a classic interval search problem. The most direct approach is to iterate through all IP ranges — O(n) complexity. But there are hundreds o...

Pain Point: Frequent SSH LoginsIf you’re like me and frequently need to access different remote servers, recording server IPs and entering passwords can be very tedious. Fortunately, by making some configurations in iTerm2, this pain point can be well addressed. The final result is similar to configuring SSH bookmarks, enabling iTerm2 to remember SSH passwords and achieve passwordless and automatic login. Complete Configuration StepsiTerm2 (https://iterm2.com/) is a widely used terminal alt...

Tech talks exist in nearly every company. The effectiveness varies from person to person and team to team. In some teams, tech talks gradually become a useless time killer due to various reasons. This article aims to improve the baseline of tech talks through some fundamental rules, starting from topic selection and other aspects, striving to help 80% of people deliver a tech talk that scores above 80 points. Topic SelectionBasic PrinciplesFirst, you need to understand that in-person tech t...

Definition of Cloud NativeIn recent years, cloud native has become an increasingly popular concept across the open-source community. But what exactly is cloud native? Is it an architecture? A platform? What does it affect? System security? Development efficiency? So today, let’s dig deep and sort out what cloud native really is. To understand what cloud native is, we need to start with its name. The English name for cloud native is “cloud native,” which obviously contains two parts: cloud a...

“Amoeba Management” is a classic book about work attitudes and work methods. In today’s world of severe labor-capital conflicts and increasingly rigid class structures, it’s difficult to fully practice the philosophy of the book’s author, Kazuo Inamori. But this doesn’t mean the book has no value. Working hard and enhancing one’s own value has always been a spiritual pursuit hidden deep within the human heart. What we need to do is ensure that the returns from value enhancement go to ourselve...

Why Code Review is NeededIn a typical development workflow, there are various review stages — product spec reviews, design reviews, test case reviews, code reviews, and so on. To conduct these reviews, meetings are inevitably introduced. Some people might think these activities are useless and a waste of time. In reality, they are extremely important. If you have the impression that reviews don’t matter, it’s likely due to one of two reasons: either a lack of understanding, or poor review pra...

Today I want to talk about career choices for fresh graduates, primarily focused on backend development (the topic of role selection is also quite broad, and I may write a separate article about it if I get the chance). Over the past few years, I’ve worked in state-owned enterprises, large companies, and small companies, so I feel I have some real perspective on what different companies are like. Trade-offs Across Four DimensionsCareer choice ultimately comes down to two key decisions: city...