Pigsty Blog Articles

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!

The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: **Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill.**

Today we discuss the fair pricing of commercial databases, open-source databases, cloud databases, and domestic Chinese databases.

Friends often ask me, **can Chinese domestic databases really compete?** To be honest, **it's a question that offends people**. So let's try speaking with data - I hope the charts provided in this article can help readers understand the database ecosystem landscape and establish more accurate proportional awareness.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Redis "going non-open source" is not a disgrace to Redis, but a disgrace to "open source/OSI" and even more so to public cloud. What truly matters has always been software freedom, while open source is just one means to achieve software freedom.

PostgreSQL will not change its license. This article is a response from PostgreSQL core team members on this question.