Posts in 2023
  • FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit

    2023-07-06 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog At the SACC 2023 FinOps session, I fiercely criticized cloud vendors. This is a transcript of my speech, introducing the ultimate FinOps concept — cloud-exit and its best practice. TL; DR Misaligned FinOps Focus: …

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  • PostgreSQL, The most successful database

    2023-06-28 in Postgres

    The StackOverflow 2023 Survey, featuring feedback from 90K developers across 185 countries, is out. PostgreSQL topped all three survey categories (used, loved, and wanted), earning its title as the undisputed “Decathlete Database” – …

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  • SLA: Placebo or Insurance?

    2023-06-12 in Cloud Exit

    In the world of cloud computing, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are seen as a cloud provider’s commitment to the quality of its services. However, a closer examination of these SLAs reveals that they might not offer the safety net one might …

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  • v2.1.0 Release Note

    2023-06-09 in Releases

    v2.1.0 PostgreSQL 12 ~ 16 support and pgvector for AI embedding. https://github.com/Vonng/pigsty/releases/tag/v2.1.0 Highlight PostgreSQL 16 beta support, and 12 ~ 15 support. Add PGVector for AI Embedding for 12 - 15 Add 6 extra panel & …

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  • NewSQL: Distributive Nonsens

    2023-05-07 in Database

    WeChat Column As hardware technology advances, the capacity and performance of standalone databases have reached unprecedented heights. In this transformative era, distributed (TP) databases appear utterly powerless, much like the “data middle …

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  • EBS: Pig Slaughter Scam

    2023-03-15 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog We already answer the question: Is RDS an Idiot Tax?. But when compared to the hundredfold markup of public cloud block storage, cloud databases seem almost reasonable. This article uses real data to reveal the …

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  • v2.0.0 Release Note

    2023-02-26 in Releases

    v2.0.0 “PIGSTY” is now the abbr of “PostgreSQL in Great STYle” or “PostgreSQL & Infrastructure & Governance System allTogether for You”. Get pigsty v2.0.0 release via the following command: curl -fsSL …

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  • RDS: The Idiot Tax

    2023-01-30 in Cloud Exit

    WeChat Column | Vonng’s Blog Winter is coming, and big tech companies are starting to lay off employees, entering a mode of cost reduction and efficiency increase. As public cloud databases, often referred to as the “slaughterhouse …

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Posts in 2022
  • v1.5.0 Release Note

    2022-05-19 in Releases

    v1.5.0 Highlights Complete Docker Support, enable on meta nodes by default with lot’s of software templates. bytebase pgadmin4 pgweb postgrest kong minio,… Infra Self Monitoring: Nginx, ETCD, Consul, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, …

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  • v1.4.0 Release Note

    2022-03-31 in Releases

    v1.4.0 Architecture Decouple system into 4 major categories: INFRA, NODES, PGSQL, REDIS, which makes pigsty far more clear and more extensible. Single Node Deployment = INFRA + NODES + PGSQL Deploy pgsql clusters = NODES + PGSQL Deploy redis …

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