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Posts in 2024
  • 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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  • Redis Going Non-Open-Source is a Disgrace to "Open-Source" and Public Cloud

    March 25, 2024 in Database

    Redis Going Non-Open-Source is a Disgrace to "Open-Source" and Public Cloud

    Redis "going non-open source" is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to "open source/OSI" and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.

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    Redis "going non-open source" is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to "open source/OSI" and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.

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  • Will PostgreSQL Change Its License?

    March 20, 2024 in PostgreSQL

    Will PostgreSQL Change Its License?

    PostgreSQL will not change its license. This article is a response from PostgreSQL core team members on this question.

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    PostgreSQL will not change its license. This article is a response from PostgreSQL core team members on this question.

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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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  • Postgres is eating the database world

    March 04, 2024 in PostgreSQL

    Postgres is eating the database world

    PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a …

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    PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a …

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  • Pigsty v2.6: PostgreSQL Crashes the OLAP Party

    February 28, 2024 in Pigsty

    Pigsty v2.6: PostgreSQL Crashes the OLAP Party

    Pigsty v2.6 makes PostgreSQL 16.2 the default, introduces ParadeDB and DuckDB support, and brings epic-level OLAP improvements.

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    Pigsty v2.6 makes PostgreSQL 16.2 the default, introduces ParadeDB and DuckDB support, and brings epic-level OLAP improvements.

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  • Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

    February 19, 2024 in PostgreSQL

    Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

    Whether **production databases** should be containerized remains a controversial topic. From a DBA's perspective, I believe that **currently**, putting production databases in Docker is still a bad idea.

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    Whether **production databases** should be containerized remains a controversial topic. From a DBA's perspective, I believe that **currently**, putting production databases in Docker is still a bad idea.

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