Reading up on storage
6 deep · digging since jan 02
- 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.
