This article compares cloud and on‑premises storage, outlines their advantages and disadvantages, and introduces cloud‑near storage as a hybrid solution that balances control, cost, scalability, and security for modern data platforms.
The article examines how 37signals' cloud repatriation initiative, along with broader industry trends at companies like Snap, Twitter, and major cloud providers, is driving significant cost savings, prompting a resurgence of on‑premises hardware and reshaping cloud cost‑optimization strategies across the sector.
This guide details a step‑by‑step migration from a cloud‑hosted Kafka service to a self‑managed on‑premises cluster, covering requirements, a data‑synchronization strategy using Kafka MirrorMaker, consumer offset alignment, potential pitfalls, and practical scripts to ensure a smooth transition.
JetBrains Space, an integrated software‑team platform, now offers a test version for on‑premises deployment, supporting Docker Compose for simple single‑host setups and Kubernetes for scalable clusters, with built‑in Git, code review, CI/CD pipelines, and package management.
This article walks through a practical, step‑by‑step migration of an Elasticsearch cluster from a public‑cloud environment to a self‑hosted data‑center, covering strategy, configuration changes, node role separation, manual data transfer, and post‑migration re‑enabling of automatic balancing to ensure a smooth, low‑impact transition.
The article examines three practical ways to adopt Kubernetes—Above, On, and In—explaining their target scenarios, benefits, trade‑offs, and real‑world examples such as Alibaba Sigma, Meituan HULK2.0, JDOS 2.0, and OpenKruise, to help organizations choose the most suitable deployment model.
This article uses a pizza‑eating metaphor to demystify cloud computing’s three service models—Infrastructure‑as‑a‑Service, Platform‑as‑a‑Service, and Software‑as‑a‑Service—explaining each layer, real‑world providers, and how they compare to on‑premises deployment, while walking through four pizza‑acquisition scenarios—home cooking, buying a ready‑made pizza, ordering delivery, and dining out—to illustrate the concepts.
