SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home(fly.io)
33 points by torutofu | 28 comments
Fly.io blog post introducing the Sprites Block Device (SBD), which replaces a modified JuiceFS setup with ext4 on an NBD block device backed by object storage.
#object-storage on Hacker News
19 stories tagged object-storage, newest first.
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure(github.blog)
53 points by Klaster_1 | 20 comments
GitHub engineering blog post on migrating Git repositories to Azure using per-reference quorums and object-storage-backed virtual replicas to scale reads and writes.
What changes when your search index lives on S3?(infino.ai)
13 points by tatvamasi | 11 comments
Infino blog post discussing the design implications of storing a search index on Amazon S3 object storage.
RIP, vector database(turbopuffer.com)
369 points by razin | 102 comments
Turbopuffer blog post announcing its v3 storage architecture, moving beyond a vector-index-centric design toward a generalized search database.
Walgit: A Git server that is one binary in front of an object store(github.com)
65 points by handfuloflight | 8 comments
GitHub repository for walgit, a single-binary Git server serving smart HTTP from an object-store bucket with a GitHub Enterprise Server facade.
S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past(btrblocks.com)
56 points by tkhattra | 61 comments
Blog post by Viktor Leis arguing that S3-centric cloud data architectures rest on hardware assumptions that are becoming obsolete.
S3 Files(allthingsdistributed.com)
356 points by werner | 105 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on the launch of S3 Files, which makes S3 buckets accessible as file systems, and how S3 has evolved.
MinIO repository is no longer maintained(github.com)
439 points by psvmcc | 318 comments
A GitHub commit to the MinIO repository updating README.md to clarify the project's state, indicating it is no longer maintained.
Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters(garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
681 points by ibobev | 155 comments
Homepage of Garage, an open-source S3-compatible distributed object store designed for self-hosting outside datacenters.
MinIO is now in maintenance-mode(github.com)
454 points by hajtom | 274 comments
A GitHub commit to the MinIO repository updating the README to announce that the project is now in maintenance mode.
MinIO stops distributing free Docker images(github.com)
648 points by LexSiga | 378 comments
GitHub issue on the MinIO repository asking why no Docker image was published for a security release, where MinIO indicates it no longer distributes free Docker images.
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs(bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
338 points by todsacerdoti | 147 comments
A Big Data Stream newsletter article explaining how AWS S3 achieves 1 PB/s throughput and 150M QPS using commodity hard drives.
Stop syncing everything(sqlsync.dev)
607 points by neilk | 110 comments
Carl Sverre's blog post launching Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine for lazy, partial replication with strong consistency backed by object storage.
Introducing S2(s2.dev)
347 points by brancz | 184 comments
Launch blog post introducing S2, the Stream Store, a serverless cloud storage primitive for streaming data built around durable logs.
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)(aws.amazon.com)
500 points by Sirupsen | 146 comments
AWS announcement that Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes using ETags (put-if-match) to prevent concurrent overwrites of objects.
Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage(garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
457 points by n3t | 116 comments
Homepage of Garage, an open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting, with download and getting-started links.
Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage(turbopuffer.com)
358 points by Sirupsen | 63 comments
Launch blog post by turbopuffer's CEO explaining why they built a vector and full-text search engine on object storage to cut search infrastructure costs.
S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)
535 points by todsacerdoti | 400 comments
Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.
Kafka is dead, long live Kafka(warpstream.com)
328 points by richieartoul | 228 comments
WarpStream blog post by Richard Artoul introducing WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built directly on object storage.