Operations
Distributing Cluster Images with Dragonfly V2
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1. Introduction to Dragonfly The Dragonfly documentation at https://d7y.io/zh/docs/ already covers things in detail. Here is just a brief introduction to the main components of V2: Manager, which provides the UI, user management, cluster monitoring, task management, and other features Scheduler, which schedules traffic between Peers and provides preheating and other features Seed Peer, the back-to-source node used to download data from origin sites (Harbor, Docker.

Nydus Lazy-Loading Image Configuration and Practice
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Statistics show that most files inside a container are never used. Based on this characteristic, Nydus defines a custom filesystem in the Rafs format, enabling on-demand loading of image files to solve the slow startup and storage consumption caused by large images. In AI scenarios, whether for inference or training, images often start at several GB, or even tens of GB, so Nydus is very well suited.

The Increment Is No More, Chaos Shall Stand
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1. Only a Wheel Turning at High Speed Stays Balanced 1.1 The Consumer-Side Boom Is Over As of June 2023, China had 1.079 billion internet users, up 11.09 million from December 2022, with an internet penetration rate of 76.4%. The consumer-side demographic dividend has passed, time spent online is also growing slowly, and there is little room left for growth in applications built on existing scenarios.

Chaos Engineering and Putting It into Practice
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Two months ago, I gave a talk to a business team about chaos engineering in practice. This post mainly organizes the content of that talk. Click to view the presentation 1. The Origin of Chaos 1.1 The Birth of the Discipline of Chaos Before discussing chaos, let us first think about the relationship between chaos, chaos engineering, and our production services.

What It's Like to Be an SRE at a Small or Medium-Sized Company
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1. Two Years Ago I Took a Different Path Looking back now, 2021 should have been a golden year for internet workers in Wuhan to change jobs. The pandemic had passed, and we were full of hope for the future; monetary policy was loose, and companies were confident about market prospects.