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.

1. Quota Limits Every resource in the cloud has a cap on how much of it you can use. This is how cloud vendors prevent resource abuse and reduce the mutual impact between tenants. For example: the number of enterprise projects under one account, the number of elastic compute instances, the number of elastic public IPs, the bandwidth of an elastic public IP, and so on.

1. A Process Divorced from Responsibility Is Meaningless Software architecture matches organizational architecture, and this shows up not only in functional boundaries but even more in the division of responsibilities. Only clear responsibility boundaries can build good team collaboration and growth. Every team and every person should understand their own goals — what they should take on and what they should stay out of — and invest their time and energy in things that benefit the primary goal, rather than sinking into trivia.