Pigsty Blog Articles

MySQL's transaction ACID has flaws and doesn't match documentation promises. This may lead to serious correctness issues - use with caution.

S3 is no longer "cheap" with the evolution of hardware, and other challengers such as cloudflare R2.

DHHs cloud exit journey has reached a new stage, saving nearly a million dollars so far with potential savings of nearly ten million over the next five years.

Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. While Kubernetes (k8s) excels in managing stateless applications, it has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services, especially databases like PostgreSQL and …

Pigsty v2.5 adds Ubuntu/Debian support (bullseye, bookworm, jammy, focal), new extensions including pointcloud and imgsmlr, and redesigned monitoring dashboards.

Alibaba-Cloud and Didi had major outages one after another. This article discusses how to move from cost-reduction jokes to real cost reduction and efficiency — what costs should we really reduce, what efficiency should we improve?

Vector storage and retrieval is a real need, but specialized vector databases are already dead. Small needs are solved by OpenAI directly, standard needs are captured by existing mature databases with vector extensions. The ecological niche left for specialized vector databases might support one company, but trying to build an industry around AI stories is impossible.

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.

Alibaba-Cloud's epic global outage after Double 11 set an industry record. How should we evaluate this incident, and what lessons can we learn from it?

Alibaba-Cloud's Double 11 offered a great deal: 2C2G3M ECS servers for ¥99/year, low price for three years. This article shows how to use this decent ECS to build your own digital homestead.