[{"content":"I\u0026rsquo;m Pin Xiong (熊聘). I work on cloud architecture and distributed systems — currently on connectivity and vehicle-cloud platforms, with previous work across multi-region AWS deployments.\nI serve as Vice Chair of the CCC Fleet Management Task Group, am an Apache Dubbo Committer, and an AWS Community Builder.\nWhat I write about Cloud and distributed-systems engineering from production experience AI-assisted engineering: what actually works, and where it quietly breaks Field notes from standards work Why I write in English The problems I work on are discussed in English first, and the audience I want to reach reads English. Writing here is also my own practice: every post is a rep.\nElsewhere GitHub: github.com/pinxiong LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pinxiong ","permalink":"https://xiongpin.dev/about/","summary":"\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m \u003cstrong\u003ePin Xiong\u003c/strong\u003e (熊聘). I work on cloud architecture and distributed systems — currently on connectivity and vehicle-cloud platforms, with previous work across multi-region AWS deployments.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI serve as Vice Chair of the CCC Fleet Management Task Group, am an Apache Dubbo Committer, and an AWS Community Builder.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"what-i-write-about\"\u003eWhat I write about\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloud and distributed-systems engineering from production experience\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAI-assisted engineering: what actually works, and where it quietly breaks\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eField notes from standards work\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"why-i-write-in-english\"\u003eWhy I write in English\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe problems I work on are discussed in English first, and the audience I want to reach reads English. Writing here is also my own practice: every post is a rep.\u003c/p\u003e","title":"About"},{"content":"Problem. Most engineering writing is either too abstract to use or too specific to reuse. I want to write the kind that sits in between: real problems from real systems, written up so someone else can act on them.\nWhat this site is A working notebook, published. Every post comes from something I actually had to debug, design, or ship — cloud architecture, distributed systems, and the messy reality of getting AI assistance to help rather than hallucinate.\nThe format Each post follows the same four-part shape:\nProblem — what broke and why it mattered Diagnosis — how I narrowed it down, including the dead ends Fix — the change itself, with code or config Lessons — what I would do differently next time The constraint I set myself: if a competent engineer outside this project cannot follow it, the post is not finished.\nWhy publish at all Two reasons. First, writing forces me to check whether I actually understand something or just got it working by accident. Second, the answers to these problems were hard to find when I hit them — if this saves one person a weekend, it earned its keep.\nThe site is built with Hugo and published from GitHub, so the source of every post lives in a repository I control. If this platform ever disappears, the content does not.\n","permalink":"https://xiongpin.dev/posts/hello-and-why-this-site-exists/","summary":"A short note on what I plan to write here, and how I will write it.","title":"Hello, and why this site exists"}]