Alibaba-Cloud on Vonng

FastJSON Broke Again. Why?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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?

Alibaba Cloud's 1 QPS DNS Limit Sent Me to Cloudflare

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Xianyu, Qianwen, Alipay: Platform Trust 'Empowers' a Scam

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Digoal, the Face of PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud, Has Left

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alibaba Cloud’s leading PostgreSQL advocate has walked away, exposing a deeper struggle over the direction of China’s cloud database market.

Shockwaves at Alibaba Qwen: The Soul of the Team Walks Away

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

Alicloud “Borrowed” Supabase, the giant free loader

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

Alibaba-Cloud: High Availability Disaster Recovery Myth Shattered

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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

Can Luo Yonghao Save Toothpaste Cloud?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

From Cost-Reduction Jokes to Real Cost Reduction and Efficiency

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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?

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

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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?

Harvesting Alibaba-Cloud Wool, Building Your Digital Homestead

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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.

Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — 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?