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Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain
·1629 words·8 mins
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.
What Can We Learn from Tencent Cloud's Major Outage?
·2060 words·10 mins
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?
S3: Elite to Mediocre
·2507 words·6 mins
S3 is no longer “cheap” with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.
Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud
·2845 words·14 mins
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.
FinOps: Endgame Cloud-Exit
·3959 words·8 mins
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?
·2247 words·11 mins
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?
·2404 words·5 mins
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
·3875 words·8 mins
The real business model of cloud: “Cheap” EC2/S3 to attract customers, and fleece with “Expensive” EBS/RDS
Paradigm Shift: From Cloud to Local-First
·2123 words·10 mins
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.