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Cloud Exit Mudslide

Column: Cloud-Exit
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Cloud-Exit
An entire generation of application developers has had their vision obscured by the cloud. Let us use hard data analysis and experience to clarify the value and traps of the public cloud rental model.
KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open Source Supply Cut
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Open Source Kubernetes
Deleting images and running away - this isn’t about commercial closed-source issues, but supply cut problems that directly destroy years of accumulated community trust.
Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain
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CloudExit
A user consulted about distributed databases, but he wasn’t dealing with data bursting through server cabinet doors—rather, he’d fallen into another cloud computing pig-butchering scam.
OpenAI Global Outage Postmortem: K8S Circular Dependencies
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Failure
Even trillion-dollar unicorns can be a house of cards when operating outside their core expertise.
WordPress Community Civil War: On Community Boundary Demarcation
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Open Source
When open source ideals meet commercial conflicts, what insights can this conflict between open source software communities and cloud vendors bring? On the importance of community boundary demarcation.
Cloud Database: Michelin Prices for Cafeteria Pre-made Meals
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Cloud-Exit RDS
The paradigm shift brought by RDS, whether cloud databases are overpriced cafeteria meals. Quality, security, efficiency, and cost analysis, cloud exit database self-building: how to implement in practice!
Alibaba Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered
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Cloud-Exit Alibaba Cloud Cloud Failure
Seven days after Singapore Zone C failure, availability not even reaching 8, let alone multiple 9s. But compared to data loss, availability is just a minor issue
Amateur Hour Opera: Alibaba Cloud PostgreSQL Disaster Chronicle
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Cloud-Exit RDS
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.
What Can We Learn from NetEase Cloud Music's Outage?
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Outage
NetEase Cloud Music experienced a two-and-a-half-hour outage this afternoon. Based on circulating online clues, we can deduce that the real cause behind this incident was…
Blue Screen Friday: Amateur Hour on Both Sides
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Cloud-Exit Cloudflare
Both client and vendor failed to control blast radius, leading to this epic global security incident that will greatly benefit local-first software philosophy.
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud
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Cloud-Exit AWS EBS
After Alibaba Cloud’s epic global outage on Double 11, setting industry records, how should we evaluate this incident and what lessons can we learn from it?
Database Deletion Supreme - Google Cloud Nuked a Major Fund's Entire Cloud Account
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Cloud-Exit Cloud-Outage
Due to an “unprecedented configuration error,” Google Cloud mistakenly deleted trillion-RMB fund giant UniSuper’s entire cloud account, cloud environment and all off-site backups, setting a new record in cloud computing history!
Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names
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Cloud-Exit AWS S3
The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.
Cloudflare Roundtable Interview and Q&A Record
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Cloud-Exit Cloudflare
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.
What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?
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CloudExit TencentCloud CloudOutage
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?
Cloudflare - The Cyber Buddha That Destroys Public Cloud
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Cloud-Exit Cloudflare
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.
Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?
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Cloud-Exit Aliyun
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.
Analyzing Alibaba Cloud Server Computing Cost
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Cloud-Exit ECS
Alibaba Cloud claimed major price cuts, but a detailed analysis of cloud server costs reveals that cloud computing and storage remain outrageously expensive.
Will DBAs Be Eliminated by Cloud?
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Cloud-Exit DBA RDS
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
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Cloud-Exit
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
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Cloud CloudExit S3 MinIO
S3 is no longer “cheap” with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.
Six Months Cloud Exit Saved Tens of Millions - DHH's Cloud Exit FAQ
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Cloud-Exit DHH
DHH’s cloud exit journey has reached a new milestone - they’ve already saved nearly $1 million from leaving the cloud, with potential savings of almost $10 million over the next five years. We track their latest cloud exit progress, offering valuable insights for businesses considering cloud adoption or those already in the cloud.
From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency
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Cloud-Exit Alibaba Cloud Cloud Outages
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
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Cloud CloudExit Hardware
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.
What Can We Learn from Alibaba Cloud's Global Outage?
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Cloud-Exit Alibaba Cloud Outage
Alibaba Cloud’s epic global outage after Double 11 set an industry record. How should we evaluate this incident, and what lessons can we learn from it?
Harvesting Alibaba Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead
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Cloud-Exit Alibaba Cloud ECS
Alibaba Cloud’s Double 11 offered a great deal: 2C2G3M ECS servers for ¥99/year, low price for three years. This article shows how to use this decent ECS to build your own digital homestead.
Cloud Computing Mudslide: Deconstructing Public Cloud with Data
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Cloud-Exit
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 Give Up on Cloud Computing?
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Cloud-Exit DHH
This article translates the complete journey of cloud exit pioneer DHH leading 37Signal’s migration from cloud, organized chronologically in reverse order and translated to English. It has tremendous reference value for enterprises preparing to go to cloud or already in the cloud.
DHH: Cloud Exit Saves Over Ten Million, More Than Expected!
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Cloud-Exit DHH
DHH migrated their seven cloud applications from AWS to their own hardware. 2024 is the first year of full savings realization. They’re delighted to find the savings exceed initial estimates.
FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit
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Cloud Cloud CloudExit FinOps
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?
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CloudExit Business
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?
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Cloud CloudExit SLA
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
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Cloud Cloud CloudExit EBS
The real business model of cloud: “Cheap” EC2/S3 to attract customers, and fleece with “Expensive” EBS/RDS
Garbage QCloud CDN: From Getting Started to Giving Up?
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Cloud-Computing Tencent-Cloud CDN
I originally believed that at least in IaaS fundamentals — storage, compute, and networking — public cloud vendors could still make significant contributions. However, my personal experience with Tencent Cloud CDN shook that belief: domestic cloud vendors’ products and services are truly unbearable.
Refuting "Why You Still Shouldn't Hire a DBA"
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Cloud-Exit RDS 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
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CloudExit Opensource
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?
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Cloud-Exit RDS AWS Alibaba Cloud
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
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Cloud-Exit DBA RDS
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?
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Cloud-Exit RDS DBA
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?