Tag: Alibaba Cloud
If There Was No Impact, Please Ignore This
A reader sent me this story: his RDS MySQL instance underwent two primary/standby failovers in five days. The cloud provider’s explanation was remarkable: its own back-end monitoring had queried the instance to death. The provider then promised to …
A reader sent me this story: his RDS MySQL instance underwent two primary/standby failovers in five days. The cloud provider’s explanation was remarkable: its own back-end monitoring had queried the instance to death. The provider then promised to …
FastJSON Broke Again. Why?
On July 21, Alibaba published a FastJSON security advisory for CVE-2026-16723, rated 9.0 by its CNA and affecting versions 1.2.68 through 1.2.83. The advisory explained the flaw, its trigger conditions, and why a specified target type was not …
On July 21, Alibaba published a FastJSON security advisory for CVE-2026-16723, rated 9.0 by its CNA and affecting versions 1.2.68 through 1.2.83. The advisory explained the flaw, its trigger conditions, and why a specified target type was not …
Alibaba Cloud's 1 QPS DNS Limit Sent Me to Cloudflare
I had used Alibaba Cloud for domain registration and DNS for more than a decade. Then one morning, I received an email unlike any it had sent me before. Alibaba Cloud informed me that one of my domains had exceeded its daily quota of 100,000 DNS …
I had used Alibaba Cloud for domain registration and DNS for more than a decade. Then one morning, I received an email unlike any it had sent me before. Alibaba Cloud informed me that one of my domains had exceeded its daily quota of 100,000 DNS …
Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam
My cousin messaged me today: she had been scammed on Xianyu, Alibaba’s secondhand marketplace, while trying to buy a Switch 2. She lost RMB 2,300. My first instinct was to laugh. Your mother is a police detective—so much for anti-scam education at …
My cousin messaged me today: she had been scammed on Xianyu, Alibaba’s secondhand marketplace, while trying to buy a Switch 2. She lost RMB 2,300. My first instinct was to laugh. Your mother is a police detective—so much for anti-scam education at …
Digoal, the Face of PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud, Has Left
Yesterday was April Fools’ Day, and Digoal published a post on his WeChat account titled “My Last Day as a Corporate Workhorse at Alibaba.” The database community immediately erupted. Many assumed it was an April Fools’ joke, but I knew it was not. …
Yesterday was April Fools’ Day, and Digoal published a post on his WeChat account titled “My Last Day as a Corporate Workhorse at Alibaba.” The database community immediately erupted. Many assumed it was an April Fools’ joke, but I knew it was not. …
Shockwaves at Alibaba Qwen: The Soul of the Team Walks Away
I had become more optimistic about Alibaba over the last year, largely because the Qwen team seemed to be doing real work: shipping strong models, contributing to open source, and earning genuine international attention. That is why this personnel …
I had become more optimistic about Alibaba over the last year, largely because the Qwen team seemed to be doing real work: shipping strong models, contributing to open source, and earning genuine international attention. That is why this personnel …
Did RedNote Exit the Cloud?
Original WeChat post Yesterday, I spotted a new article from RedNote’s official tech blog: “Design and Practice of Self-Built Data Centers under Hybrid Cloud Architecture.” I wrote a quick technical commentary on it. What I didn’t expect was the …
Original WeChat post Yesterday, I spotted a new article from RedNote’s official tech blog: “Design and Practice of Self-Built Data Centers under Hybrid Cloud Architecture.” I wrote a quick technical commentary on it. What I didn’t expect was the …
Alipay, Taobao, Xianyu Went Dark. Smells Like a Message Queue Meltdown.
Taobao, Alipay, and Xianyu simultaneously faceplanted on Dec 4. Cards were debited, yet orders sat frozen at “pending.” The story rhymes perfectly with the 2024 Double-11 outage, so the leading suspect is once again the message queue or whatever …
Taobao, Alipay, and Xianyu simultaneously faceplanted on Dec 4. Cards were debited, yet orders sat frozen at “pending.” The story rhymes perfectly with the 2024 Double-11 outage, so the leading suspect is once again the message queue or whatever …
Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase, the giant free loader
Chinese founders hear the nightmare scenario constantly: “What happens when Alibaba shows up?” Well, Alicloud RDS just shipped Supabase as a first-party feature. This is what it looks like when a hyperscaler parachutes into your niche. Supabase in a …
Chinese founders hear the nightmare scenario constantly: “What happens when Alibaba shows up?” Well, Alicloud RDS just shipped Supabase as a first-party feature. This is what it looks like when a hyperscaler parachutes into your niche. Supabase in a …
Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?
A viral post titled “Heavenly ‘PostgreSQL’ Calls Earthly Postgres ‘Little Trash’” hyped up Alicloud RDS’s new rds_duckdb plugin for OLAP and declared that managed RDS PG is noble while open-source Postgres is garbage. That take is ridiculous. I know …
A viral post titled “Heavenly ‘PostgreSQL’ Calls Earthly Postgres ‘Little Trash’” hyped up Alicloud RDS’s new rds_duckdb plugin for OLAP and declared that managed RDS PG is noble while open-source Postgres is garbage. That take is ridiculous. I know …
Alibaba-Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered
On September 10, 2024, Alibaba-Cloud’s Singapore Availability Zone C data center experienced a fire caused by lithium battery explosion. It’s been a week now and services have not been fully restored yet. According to the monthly SLA availability …
On September 10, 2024, Alibaba-Cloud’s Singapore Availability Zone C data center experienced a fire caused by lithium battery explosion. It’s been a week now and services have not been fully restored yet. According to the monthly SLA availability …
Amateur Hour Opera: Alibaba-Cloud PostgreSQL Disaster Chronicle
In “Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax”, I evaluated cloud database RDS as: “selling sky-high pre-made meals at five-star hotel prices” — but legitimate pre-made meals from industrial kitchens are at least edible and generally won’t kill you. However, a …
In “Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax”, I evaluated cloud database RDS as: “selling sky-high pre-made meals at five-star hotel prices” — but legitimate pre-made meals from industrial kitchens are at least edible and generally won’t kill you. However, a …
Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?
Luo Yonghao was once a brilliant digital product manager with decent IT industry credentials. But as they say, there’s a world of difference between industries. Luo selling cloud is like a street vendor simultaneously hawking meat, vegetables, eggs, …
Luo Yonghao was once a brilliant digital product manager with decent IT industry credentials. But as they say, there’s a world of difference between industries. Luo selling cloud is like a street vendor simultaneously hawking meat, vegetables, eggs, …
Analyzing Alibaba-Cloud Server Computing Cost
On Crazy Thursday, February 29, 2024, Alibaba-Cloud staged a major price cut, with promotional content flying everywhere. As the cloud computing mudslide, many followers asked me to comment. The flashy 20%, 50% off banners look impressive, but …
On Crazy Thursday, February 29, 2024, Alibaba-Cloud staged a major price cut, with promotional content flying everywhere. As the cloud computing mudslide, many followers asked me to comment. The flashy 20%, 50% off banners look impressive, but …
From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency
Year-end is performance rush time, but internet giants are having major incidents one after another. They’ve turned “cost reduction and efficiency improvement” into literal “cost reduction jokes” — this is no longer just a meme, but official …
Year-end is performance rush time, but internet giants are having major incidents one after another. They’ve turned “cost reduction and efficiency improvement” into literal “cost reduction jokes” — this is no longer just a meme, but official …
What Can We Learn from Alibaba-Cloud's Global Outage?
A year after the last major incident, Alibaba-Cloud suffered another massive outage, creating an unprecedented record in the cloud computing industry — simultaneous failures across all global regions and all services. Since Alibaba-Cloud refuses to …
A year after the last major incident, Alibaba-Cloud suffered another massive outage, creating an unprecedented record in the cloud computing industry — simultaneous failures across all global regions and all services. Since Alibaba-Cloud refuses to …
Harvesting Alibaba-Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead
Alibaba-Cloud’s Double 11 offered a great deal: 2C/2G/3M ECS servers with a list price of ¥1500/year for just ¥99/year for three years (¥99 annual renewal available until 2026), plus they’re reportedly giving every Chinese university student a free …
Alibaba-Cloud’s Double 11 offered a great deal: 2C/2G/3M ECS servers with a list price of ¥1500/year for just ¥99/year for three years (¥99 annual renewal available until 2026), plus they’re reportedly giving every Chinese university student a free …
Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?
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? Recently, an article by DHH, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, caused a stir【1,2】. The …
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? Recently, an article by DHH, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, caused a stir【1,2】. The …