- 🐘 Author of Pigsty — the battery-included PostgreSQL Distribution, and free RDS
- 🏢 Founder of PGSTY — the organization behind Pigsty, and the services around it
- 📖 Wrote PG36G and Cyber Dharma, Chinese translator of DDIA & PG Internal
- 🧩 Maintainer of PostgreSQL Extensions, PG CN Docs, Community and NLS
- ☁️ Cloud-Exit evangelist — I think you should own your data, and your database
- ✍️ Columns with hundreds essays on databases, cloud-exit and AI — in EN / CN
- 💼 Former Architect, DBA and full-stack engineer at Alibaba, TanTan and Apple
| Project | What it is | |
|---|---|---|
| Pigsty | FOSS PostgreSQL with HA, PITR, IaC, monitoring and 570+ extensions |  |
| SILO | S3-compatible object storage — the community MinIO fork |  |
| PG Exporter | PostgreSQL / Pgbouncer observability expressed in pure SQL |  |
| PIG | PostgreSQL package manager — one command extension installation |  |
| OINK | Knowledge framework — markdown in, modern docs out |  |
| SOW | Repository manager — builds and mirrors APT & YUM repos |  |
| Farrow | Manage multiple QEMU VMs just like vagrant — one inventory, one deploy |  |
| Capslock | Turn the mostly useless ⇪CapsLock into a ✱ Hyper modifier |  |
| PGEXT.CLOUD | The PostgreSQL extension catalog — 2200+ extensions indexed |  |
| PG.CENTER | PostgreSQL docs search and knowledge graph |  |
| PGSQL.CC | PostgreSQL Chinese community website |  |
| Work | What it is |
|---|---|
| DDIA CN Translation | Designing Data-Intensive Applications 1st/2nd  |
| PG Internal CN Translation | PostgreSQL Internals by Egor Rogov, in Chinese |
| PostgreSQL CN Documentation | Chinese translation of the PG manual, 7.2 — 20devel |
| PostgreSQL zh_CN NLS Messages | Chinese translation of PG i18n messages, PG 14 — 19 |
| PG 36G | 《PG 三十六计》— from PGSQL to production, in 36 chapters |
| Cyber Dharma | 《赛博经藏》— seven traditions orbiting one machine |
| Column: Database Guru | News, insights and best practices from the database industry |
| Column: Cloud-Exiter | Cloud-exit and self-hosting — deep dives and cost analyses |
| Column: Postgres Mage | PG ecosystem, administration, development and operations |
| Column: AI Explorer | Agents, LLMs, and everything between AI and databases |
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