https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/tags/alibaba-cloud/Recent content in Alibaba Cloud on Yongjie XueHugoen-USFri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/fastjson-boom/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/fastjson-boom/FastJSON has failed again. When is “ship rough, scale hard, move fast” a defensible shortcut, and when does it become an engineering habit whose bill falls to whoever comes next?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-mysql-crash/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-mysql-crash/A reader’s RDS MySQL instance failed over twice in five days: the cloud provider’s own back-end monitoring query brought it down, and the instance failed again with the same symptoms after the provider promised to disable that collector.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-dns/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-dns/Alibaba Cloud’s free DNS tier allows 100,000 queries per day—just 1.15 QPS averaged out. One throttling notice was all it took for me to move my domains to Cloudflare.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ali-scam/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ali-scam/Scammers hijacked Qianwen’s trusted identity, then used a single Xianyu QR code to run a seamless phishing scam through official apps and trusted domains across Alibaba’s ecosystem. I hope this case helps more people avoid the same trap.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/digoal-leave-aliyun/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/digoal-leave-aliyun/Alibaba Cloud’s leading PostgreSQL advocate has walked away, exposing a deeper struggle over the direction of China’s cloud database market.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/qwen-leave/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/qwen-leave/Qwen lead Justin Lin publicly announced his departure, followed by more core-team exits and a wave of speculation about compute allocation, KPI pressure, and organizational power shifts inside Alibaba.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rednote-cloud-exit/Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rednote-cloud-exit/When a company that was “born on the cloud” goes “self-host first,” does that count as cloud exit? A repost of a deleted piece on the infrastructure coming-of-age for China’s internet giants.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/alipay-crash/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/alipay-crash/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.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-supabase/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-supabase/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.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-duckdb/Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-ha/Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun-ha/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 issuehttps://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-failure/Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds-failure/A customer experienced an outrageous cascade of failures on cloud database last week: a high-availability PG RDS cluster went down completely - both primary and replica servers - after attempting a simple memory expansion, troubleshooting until dawn. Poor recommendations abounded during the incident, and the postmortem was equally perfunctory. I share this case study here for reference and review.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/luo-live/Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/luo-live/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.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ecs/Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/ecs/Alibaba-Cloud claimed major price cuts, but a detailed analysis of cloud server costs reveals that cloud computing and storage remain outrageously expensive.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/smile/Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/smile/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?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun/Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/aliyun/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?https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/cheap-ecs/Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/cheap-ecs/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.https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds/Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.yongjiexue.io/en/cloud/rds/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?