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A Chinese-language knowledge base for Java/backend interview prep, covering JVM internals, collections, concurrency, databases, caching, message queues, and system design, plus real interview questions pulled from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, Meituan and other Chinese tech companies. It's aimed at Java developers preparing for interviews at Chinese firms, not at English-speaking audiences or at people looking for a library to integrate.
Broad coverage of core backend fundamentals (JVM GC, HashMap/ConcurrentHashMap internals, Redis failure modes, MySQL locking/isolation, RocketMQ/Kafka) in one place instead of scattered blog posts. The company-specific interview question lists (Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, etc.) are a real signal of what's actually asked, not generic trivia. It's actively maintained — last push Nov 2025 with a visible weekly cadence of new articles rather than a one-time dump.
Chinese only, no English version, which rules out most non-Chinese-reading developers despite the broad topic coverage. A large fraction of the table-of-contents entries are explicitly marked as unwritten placeholders ("没链接的是还没写"), so the advertised scope overstates what's actually there. There's nothing to install, run, or test — it's a markdown wiki, so 'adopting' it means reading hundreds of docs of varying depth and recency rather than evaluating code. Technical content isn't peer-reviewed like a textbook; some of the interview-answer style material trades correctness/nuance for memorizable soundbites, and the repo mixes in author self-promotion (WeChat QR codes, public account links) throughout the technical material.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →