Pigsty Blog Articles

Once upon a time, "going to cloud" was almost politically correct in tech circles, but few people use hard data to analyze the trade-offs involved. I'm willing to be this skeptic: let me use hard data and personal stories to explain the traps and value of public cloud rental models.

DHH migrated their seven cloud applications from AWS to their own hardware. 2024 is the first year of full savings realization. They're delighted to find the savings exceed initial estimates.

This article chronicles the complete journey of 37Signals moving off the cloud, led by DHH. Valuable reference for both cloud-bound and cloud-native enterprises.

At the SACC 2023 FinOps session, I fiercely criticized cloud vendors. This is a transcript of my speech, introducing the ultimate FinOps concept — Cloud-Exit and its implementation path.

StackOverflow 2023 Survey shows PostgreSQL is the most popular, loved, and wanted database, solidifying its status as the 'Linux of Database'.

Public cloud margins worse than sand mining—why are pig-butchering schemes losing money? Resource-selling models heading toward price wars, open source alternatives breaking monopoly dreams! Service competitiveness gradually neutralized—where is the cloud computing industry heading? How did domestic cloud vendors make a business with 30-40% pure profit less profitable than sand mining?

SLA is a marketing tool rather than insurance. In the worst-case scenario, it's an unavoidable loss; at best, it provides emotional comfort.

Pigsty v2.1 provides support for PostgreSQL 12 through 16, with PGVector for AI embeddings.

The cost-cutting imperative has triggered a reevaluation of all technologies, including databases. This series critiques hot DB technologies and poses fundamental questions about their trade-offs: Are cloud databases, distributed databases, microservices, and containerization real needs or false hype?

Similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, user demands for databases also have a progressive hierarchy: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, esteem needs, cognitive needs, aesthetic needs, self-actualization needs, and transcendence needs.