1. Jenkins Working Modes Jenkins has a single-Master, multi-Slave architecture. The Master assigns tasks and manages services. Slaves execute the actual tasks. Even when multiple Masters are deployed, they remain independent of one another and cannot coordinate scheduling. A high-availability Jenkins solution requires an external task distribution framework, such as

1. Why Dial Testing For some of the critical services in a system, we usually set up monitoring. When a failure occurs, it can be detected as quickly as possible and a notification sent to the people who care. Once a failure has occurred, the failure process can be traced

1. Who Needs SonarQube Code review is an indispensable part of high-quality software development. It helps developers spot bugs in the code in time and improves code quality and maintainability. The dimensions of code review include language conventions, code style, and soundness of design. Checking these things by hand consumes

One of the illusions that programmers at big companies easily fall into is mistaking platform capabilities for their own abilities. In a large team, we should not focus only on our own little patch of ground; we need to understand every part of the platform. On one hand, this helps us make better use of the platform’s features; on the other, it helps our own technical growth.

In a team, any change to the development workflow must be paired with the corresponding automation tooling. Without a low enough cost of use, the change is meaningless, because nobody will actually use it. In the previous post we covered how to use a CDN for further frontend/backend separation; this