S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

kept by eddie sep 28

S3's architecture is built for disk-era limits, but with cheap SSDs and fast networks, a new SSD-based disaggregated storage service could replace it — cloud providers lack incentive.

Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
also on Amazon S3, #infrastructure, #cloud-computing
the mathematics of multi-tenancy - by almog gavra
Multi-tenancy only reduces costs when workloads are uncorrelated, similar-sized, and numerous; S3 succeeds due to massive scale, workload diversity, and fine-grained object splitting.
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Where Are the Most Data Centers Planned?
Rural areas in the southern United States are expected to host the most planned data centers, despite their noise and power demands.
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Anthropic doubles Claude Code rate limits and API capacity for Opus models, enabled by a new compute partnership with SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.
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