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Yes, it’s true: I haven’t updated this blog all summer. Starting in mid-June, my life was consumed by an overwhelming deluge: a Google internship, three conference paper deadlines, an industry-academia collaboration, and prepping for graduate school job hunting. I basically went into a four-month hibernation (or rather, estivation) from content creation. Over the recent National Day holiday, I finally resolved to revive the blog, kicking off a brand-new hands-on project series (Day 1 & Day 2 of my Spark on K8s portfolio). Once I finished drafting the Traditional Chinese post and happily ran git push, I eagerly anticipated the fruits of my proud automated bilingual pipeline from May to auto-translate it into fluent English. ...

During the process of building this personal website, I’ve always faced a dilemma: I want to record and create in my most familiar and heartfelt native language (Traditional Chinese), but at the same time, I also aspire to connect with the world, allowing more English native speakers or international readers interested in my technical articles to discover the potential of this content. Furthermore, from a technical blog management perspective, bilingual content significantly aids search engine optimization (SEO), bringing a wider range of organic traffic to the website. ...