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Did RedNote Exit the Cloud?
December 26, 2025 in 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.
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.
Alipay, Taobao, Xianyu Went Dark. Smells Like a Message Queue Meltdown.
December 05, 2025 in Cloud
Dec 4, 2025, Taobao, Alipay, and Xianyu all cratered. Users got charged while orders still showed “unpaid,” a carbon copy of the 2024 Double-11 fiasco.
Dec 4, 2025, Taobao, Alipay, and Xianyu all cratered. Users got charged while orders still showed “unpaid,” a carbon copy of the 2024 Double-11 fiasco.
Cloudflare’s Nov 18 Outage, Translated and Dissected
November 19, 2025 in Cloud
A ClickHouse permission tweak doubled a feature file, tripped a Rust hard limit, and froze Cloudflare’s core traffic for six hours—their worst outage since 2019. Here’s the full translation plus commentary.
A ClickHouse permission tweak doubled a feature file, tripped a Rust hard limit, and froze Cloudflare’s core traffic for six hours—their worst outage since 2019. Here’s the full translation plus commentary.
Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase. This Is What Happens When Giants Strip-Mine Open-Source.
November 06, 2025 in Cloud
Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.
Founders here get asked the same question over and over: what if Alibaba builds the same thing? Alicloud RDS just launched Supabase as a managed service. Exhibit A.
AWS’s Official DynamoDB Outage Postmortem
October 24, 2025 in Cloud
AWS finally published the Oct 20 us-east-1 postmortem. I translated the key parts and added commentary on how one DNS bug toppled half the internet.
AWS finally published the Oct 20 us-east-1 postmortem. I translated the key parts and added commentary on how one DNS bug toppled half the internet.
How One AWS DNS Failure Cascaded Across Half the Internet
October 21, 2025 in Cloud
us-east-1’s DNS control plane faceplanted for 15 hours and dragged 142 AWS services—and a good chunk of the public internet—down with it. Here’s the forensic tour.
us-east-1’s DNS control plane faceplanted for 15 hours and dragged 142 AWS services—and a good chunk of the public internet—down with it. Here’s the forensic tour.
Column: Cloud-Exit
August 08, 2025 in Cloud
A whole generation of developers has been told "cloud-first." This column collects data, case studies, and analysis on the cloud exit movement.
A whole generation of developers has been told "cloud-first." This column collects data, case studies, and analysis on the cloud exit movement.
KubeSphere: Trust Crisis Behind Open-Source Supply Cut
August 02, 2025 in Cloud
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.
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.
Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?
March 06, 2025 in Cloud
Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."
Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."
Escaping Cloud Computing Scam Mills: The Big Fool Paying for Pain
January 13, 2025 in Cloud
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.
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.