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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.

Even trillion-dollar unicorns can be a house of cards when operating outside their core expertise.

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.

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!

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

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.

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...

Both client and vendor failed to control blast radius, leading to this epic global security incident that will greatly benefit local-first software philosophy.

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?

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!