Alibaba-Cloud on PIGSTY

Alipay, Taobao, Xianyu Went Dark. Smells Like a Message Queue Meltdown.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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. Read more

Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase. This Is What Happens When Giants Strip-Mine Open-Source.

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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. Read more

Alibaba-Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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 Read more

Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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. Read more

From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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? Read more

What Can We Learn from Alibaba-Cloud's Global Outage?

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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? Read more

Harvesting Alibaba-Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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. Read more

Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Winter is coming, tech giants are laying off workers entering cost-reduction mode. Can cloud databases, the number one public cloud cash cow, still tell their story? The money you spend on cloud databases for one year is enough to buy several or even dozens of higher-performing servers. Are you paying an IQ tax by using cloud databases? Read more