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  • Why 'Vibe Coding' Should Be Translated as 'Xieyi Programming'

    By Ruohang Feng In AI 752 words 4 min

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    Why 'Vibe Coding' Should Be Translated as 'Xieyi Programming'

    Last year Andrej Karpathy coined the term “Vibe Coding.” The rough idea is simple: you tell the AI what you want, it spits out code, you skim it, decide it looks close enough, and move on. The term spread quickly because it captures something real. …

    Last year Andrej Karpathy coined the term “Vibe Coding.” The rough idea is simple: you tell the AI what you want, it spits out code, you skim it, decide it looks close enough, and move on. The term spread quickly because it captures something real. …

  • I Finished Translating the Second Edition of DDIA: An Eight-Year Parable About AI

    By Ruohang Feng In Database 2826 words 14 min

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    I Finished Translating the Second Edition of DDIA: An Eight-Year Parable About AI

    This morning, I ran ten Codex sessions in parallel and, in less than half a day, translated the final four newly released chapters of DDIA’s second edition. The results surprised me. Formatting, terminology, footnotes, and anchors were nearly perfect …

    This morning, I ran ten Codex sessions in parallel and, in less than half a day, translated the final four newly released chapters of DDIA’s second edition. The results surprised me. Formatting, terminology, footnotes, and anchors were nearly perfect …

  • DDIA 2nd Edition, Chinese Translation

    By Ruohang Feng In Database 569 words 3 min

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    DDIA 2nd Edition, Chinese Translation

    The new DDIA—Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition—has published its first ten chapters. With Claude Code Max 20× on my side, it took two days to translate the released chapters into Chinese and re-render them via Hugo + Hextra for a …

    The new DDIA—Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition—has published its first ten chapters. With Claude Code Max 20× on my side, it took two days to translate the released chapters into Chinese and re-render them via Hugo + Hextra for a …

  • 7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025)

    By Matt Blewitt In Database 2096 words 10 min

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    7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025)

    Author: Matt Blewitt, Original: 7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025) Translator: Feng Ruohang, database veteran, cloud computing mudslide https://matt.blwt.io/post/7-databases-in-7-weeks-for-2025/ For a long time, I’ve been running Databases-as-a-Service, …

    Author: Matt Blewitt, Original: 7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025) Translator: Feng Ruohang, database veteran, cloud computing mudslide https://matt.blwt.io/post/7-databases-in-7-weeks-for-2025/ For a long time, I’ve been running Databases-as-a-Service, …

  • Optimize Bio Cores First, CPU Cores Second

    By David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) In Database 2081 words 10 min

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    Optimize Bio Cores First, CPU Cores Second

    Optimize Bio Cores First, Silicon Cores Second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a …

    Optimize Bio Cores First, Silicon Cores Second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a …

  • How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud

    By Ruohang Feng In Cloud-Exit 2162 words 11 min

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    How Ahrefs Saved US$400M by NOT Going to the Cloud

    Original: How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Cloud computing has been very popular in the IT infrastructure space recently, with going to the cloud becoming a trend. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds do have many …

    Original: How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Cloud computing has been very popular in the IT infrastructure space recently, with going to the cloud becoming a trend. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds do have many …

  • Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

    By Ruohang Feng In PGSQL 981 words 5 min

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    Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

    This article was published by Stephan Schmidt @ KingOfCoders on Hacker News and sparked heated discussion: Using PostgreSQL to replace Kafka, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and Redis is a viable approach that can dramatically reduce system …

    This article was published by Stephan Schmidt @ KingOfCoders on Hacker News and sparked heated discussion: Using PostgreSQL to replace Kafka, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and Redis is a viable approach that can dramatically reduce system …

  • PostgreSQL's Impressive Scalability

    By Ruohang Feng In PGSQL 2161 words 11 min

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    PostgreSQL's Impressive Scalability

    Source: How Cloudflare Supports 55M QPS with 15 PostgreSQL Clusters In July 2009, in California, USA, a startup team created a Content Delivery Network (CDN) called Cloudflare to accelerate internet requests, making network access more stable and …

    Source: How Cloudflare Supports 55M QPS with 15 PostgreSQL Clusters In July 2009, in California, USA, a startup team created a Content Delivery Network (CDN) called Cloudflare to accelerate internet requests, making network access more stable and …

  • DHH: Cloud-Exit Saves Over Ten Million, More Than Expected!

    By Ruohang Feng In Cloud-Exit 691 words 4 min

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    DHH: Cloud-Exit Saves Over Ten Million, More Than Expected!

    Author: DHH, “Our Cloud-Exit savings will now top ten million over five years” Feng’s Commentary As a cloud exit advocate, I’m gratified to see DHH’s tremendous success in the cloud exit process. The world always rewards leaders with the wisdom to …

    Author: DHH, “Our Cloud-Exit savings will now top ten million over five years” Feng’s Commentary As a cloud exit advocate, I’m gratified to see DHH’s tremendous success in the cloud exit process. The world always rewards leaders with the wisdom to …