Reading up on storage
9 deep · digging since jan 02
- Why AI Clouds Need a Tiered Storage Architecture
Neoclouds require a tiered storage architecture—flash for active training, cost-effective capacity for other stages—to avoid hyperscaler lock-in via data gravity.
- ZeroFS — A log-structured filesystem for S3
ZeroFS provides a log‑structured filesystem over S3‑compatible storage, exposing POSIX via NFS/9P and block devices via NBD with built‑in encryption and caching.
- Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects
Amazon S3 introduces annotations allowing up to 1 GB of mutable, queryable context per object, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows.
- IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]
A 1964 IBM training video explains the benefits of direct-access storage devices (DASD) over index sequential access (ISAM), using a flipchart presentation.
- AI inference just plays by different rules
AI inference workloads demand unprecedented concurrency and throughput, exposing cloud storage limits that require a decoupled, software-defined layer to avoid catastrophic failures.
- What are you doing this weekend?
A developer recounts returning to FreeBSD for a home NAS after years on Linux, praising its simplicity for servers but sticking with Arch for desktops.
Takes
Our house in Toronto had this fancy glassed wine cellar, but we are not big wine drinkers. Anyways, it had good climate control so here is my rack cellar.
@tobi
Hey fellow linux lovers, shouldI I install omarchy over my ubuntu lniux server on my spare ssd?
@BlockedPaths
Jeremy pulled off an incredible feat migrating five billion objects off S3 and onto our own on-prem petabyte storage setup. He shares the story on our new technically-minded Recordables podcast. https://t.co/O8AtDQKiwu
@dhh