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Release deep-dives, architecture, integrations and field reports from the SkyWalking community — newest first.

Posts in 2026

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Monitoring WeChat and Alipay Mini Programs with SkyWalking

SkyAPM/mini-program-monitor and SkyWalking OAP together extend SkyWalking's end-user monitoring to WeChat and Alipay Mini Programs. This post focuses on the data path, the cross-platform abstraction, and the OAP-side integration.

Apr 30, 2026 Sheng Wu
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SkyWalking GraalVM Distro: Design and Benchmarks

A technical deep-dive into SkyWalking GraalVM Distro — how we turned a mature, reflection-heavy Java observability backend into a native binary with a repeatable migration pipeline.

Mar 13, 2026 Sheng Wu
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How AI Changed the Economics of Architecture

A case study in how AI changed the economics of architecture in a mature project by making better designs cheaper to prototype, validate, and refine.

Mar 13, 2026 Sheng Wu

Posts in 2025

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Monitoring Flink with SkyWalking

SkyWalking 10.3 introduces a new Flink monitoring dashboard, and this article will demonstrate the usage of this monitoring dashboard.

Apr 25, 2025 YiMing Shao
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SkyWalking Ruby Quick Start and Principle Introduction

This article demonstrates how to integrate applications with SkyWalking Ruby and provides a brief interpretation of the implementation mechanism of Ruby auto-instrumentation plugins.

Mar 6, 2025 Zixin Zhou