Tags: Cloud-Exit

Did RedNote Exit the Cloud?

When a company that was “born on the cloud” goes “self-host first,” does that count as cloud exit? A repost of a deleted piece on the infrastructure coming-of-age for Chinas internet giants.

Column: Cloud-Exit

A whole generation of developers has been told “cloud-first.” This column collects data, case studies, and analysis on the cloud exit movement.

Amateur Hour Opera: Alibaba-Cloud PostgreSQL Disaster Chronicle

A customer experienced an outrageous cascade of failures on cloud database last week: a high-availability PG RDS cluster went down completely - both primary and replica servers - after attempting a simple memory expansion, troubleshooting until dawn. Poor recommendations abounded during the incident, and the postmortem was equally perfunctory. I share this case study here for reference and review.

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.

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.

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?

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.

S3: Elite to Mediocre

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

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.

From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency

Alibaba-Cloud and Didi had major outages one after another. This article discusses how to move from cost-reduction jokes to real cost reduction and efficiency — what costs should we really reduce, what efficiency should we improve?

Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud

Hardware is interesting again, developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud hype and marketing noise.

Cloud Computing Mudslide: Deconstructing Public Cloud with Data

Once upon a time, “going to cloud” was almost politically correct in tech circles, but few people use hard data to analyze the trade-offs involved. I’m willing to be this skeptic: let me use hard data and personal stories to explain the traps and value of public cloud rental models.

Cloud Exit Odyssey: Time to Leave Cloud?

This article chronicles the complete journey of 37Signals moving off the cloud, led by DHH. Valuable reference for both cloud-bound and cloud-native enterprises.

FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit

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 implementation path.

Why Isn't Cloud Computing More Profitable Than Sand Mining?

Public cloud margins worse than sand mining—why are pig-butchering schemes losing money? Resource-selling models heading toward price wars, open source alternatives breaking monopoly dreams! Service competitiveness gradually neutralized—where is the cloud computing industry heading? How did domestic cloud vendors make a business with 30-40% pure profit less profitable than sand mining?

SLA: Placebo or Insurance?

SLA is a marketing tool rather than insurance. In the worst-case scenario, it’s an unavoidable loss; at best, it provides emotional comfort.

EBS: Pig Slaughter Scam

The real business model of cloud: “Cheap” EC2/S3 to attract customers, and fleece with “Expensive” EBS/RDS

Refuting "Why You Still Shouldn't Hire a DBA"

Guo Degang has a comedy routine: “Say I tell a rocket scientist, your rocket is no good, the fuel is wrong. I think it should burn wood, better yet coal, and it has to be premium coal, not washed coal. If that scientist takes me seriously, he loses.”

Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First

Cloud databases’ exorbitant markups—sometimes 10x or more—are undoubtedly a scam for users outside the applicable spectrum. But we can dig deeper: why are public clouds, especially cloud databases, like this? And based on their underlying logic, make predictions about the industry’s future.

Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?

Winter is coming, tech giants are laying off workers entering cost-reduction mode. Can cloud databases, the number one public cloud cash cow, still tell their story? The money you spend on cloud databases for one year is enough to buy several or even dozens of higher-performing servers. Are you paying an IQ tax by using cloud databases?

Cloud RDS: From Database Drop to Exit

I recently witnessed a live cloud database drop-and-run incident. This article discusses how to handle accidentally deleted data when using PostgreSQL in production environments.

Is DBA Still a Good Job?

Ant Financial had a self-deprecating joke: besides regulation, only DBAs could bring down Alipay. Although DBA sounds like a profession with glorious history and dim prospects, who knows if it might become trendy again after a few terrifying major cloud database incidents?

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