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Posts in 2024
  • Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names

    April 30, 2024 in Cloud

    Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names

    The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: **Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.**

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    The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: **Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.**

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  • Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A Record

    April 23, 2024 in Cloud

    Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A Record

    As a roundtable guest, I was invited to participate in Cloudflare's Immerse conference in Shenzhen. During the dinner, I had in-depth discussions with Cloudflare's APAC CMO, Greater China Technical Director, and front-line engineers about many questions of interest to netizens.

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    As a roundtable guest, I was invited to participate in Cloudflare's Immerse conference in Shenzhen. During the dinner, I had in-depth discussions with Cloudflare's APAC CMO, Greater China Technical Director, and front-line engineers about many questions of interest to netizens.

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  • What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?

    April 14, 2024 in Cloud

    What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?

    Tencent Cloud's epic global outage after Double 11 set industry records. How should we evaluate and view this failure, and what lessons can we learn from it?

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    Tencent Cloud's epic global outage after Double 11 set industry records. How should we evaluate and view this failure, and what lessons can we learn from it?

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  • Cloudflare - The Cyber Buddha That Destroys Public Cloud

    April 03, 2024 in Cloud

    Cloudflare - The Cyber Buddha That Destroys Public Cloud

    While I've always advocated for cloud exit, if it's about adopting a cyber bodhisattva cloud like Cloudflare, I'm all in with both hands raised.

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    While I've always advocated for cloud exit, if it's about adopting a cyber bodhisattva cloud like Cloudflare, I'm all in with both hands raised.

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  • Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?

    April 01, 2024 in Cloud

    Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?

    Luo Yonghao's livestream first spent half an hour selling robot vacuums, then Luo himself belatedly appeared to read scripts selling "cloud computing" for forty minutes — before seamlessly transitioning to selling Colgate enzyme-free toothpaste — leaving viewers bewildered between toothpaste and cloud computing.

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    Luo Yonghao's livestream first spent half an hour selling robot vacuums, then Luo himself belatedly appeared to read scripts selling "cloud computing" for forty minutes — before seamlessly transitioning to selling Colgate enzyme-free toothpaste — leaving viewers bewildered between toothpaste and cloud computing.

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  • Analyzing Alibaba-Cloud Server Computing Cost

    March 10, 2024 in Cloud

    Analyzing Alibaba-Cloud Server Computing Cost

    Alibaba-Cloud claimed major price cuts, but a detailed analysis of cloud server costs reveals that cloud computing and storage remain outrageously expensive.

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    Alibaba-Cloud claimed major price cuts, but a detailed analysis of cloud server costs reveals that cloud computing and storage remain outrageously expensive.

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  • Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?

    February 02, 2024 in Cloud

    Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?

    Two days ago, the ninth episode of Open-Source Talks had the theme "Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?" As the host, I restrained myself from jumping into the debate throughout, so I'm writing this article to discuss this question: Will DBAs be eliminated by cloud?

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    Two days ago, the ninth episode of Open-Source Talks had the theme "Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?" As the host, I restrained myself from jumping into the debate throughout, so I'm writing this article to discuss this question: Will DBAs be eliminated by cloud?

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  • Cloud-Exit High Availability Secret: Rejecting Complexity Masturbation

    January 10, 2024 in Cloud

    Cloud-Exit High Availability Secret: Rejecting Complexity Masturbation

    Programmers are drawn to complexity like moths to flame. The more complex the system architecture diagram, the greater the intellectual masturbation high. Steadfast resistance to this behavior is a key reason for DHH's success in cloud-free availability.

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    Programmers are drawn to complexity like moths to flame. The more complex the system architecture diagram, the greater the intellectual masturbation high. Steadfast resistance to this behavior is a key reason for DHH's success in cloud-free availability.

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Posts in 2023
  • S3: Elite to Mediocre

    December 26, 2023 in Cloud

    S3: Elite to Mediocre

    S3 is no longer "cheap" with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.

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    S3 is no longer "cheap" with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.

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  • Cloud Exit FAQ: DHH Saves Millions

    December 21, 2023 in Cloud

    Cloud Exit FAQ: DHH Saves Millions

    DHHs cloud exit journey has reached a new stage, saving nearly a million dollars so far with potential savings of nearly ten million over the next five years.

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    DHHs cloud exit journey has reached a new stage, saving nearly a million dollars so far with potential savings of nearly ten million over the next five years.

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