A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Enterprise IT architects constantly have to balance conflicting demands for data storage: performance, cost, resilience and scalability. The result is a mixed ecosystem. We get object storage for ...

Gary Ogasawara is Cloudian’s first CTO, responsible for setting the company’s long-term technology vision and direction. Before assuming this role, he was Cloudian’s founding engineering leader. Prior ...

This is a simple demo to upload a file to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) using Python, gsutil and the GCS API. The demo is based on the official GCS documentation. The credentials needed are a key file in ...

Correctness comes first An object cache must be conservative. A wrong cache hit is worse than a slow build. If Vix is unsure whether an object file is valid, it should recompile. The rule should be: ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The art of the file upload is not elegantly addressed in languages such as Java and Python. But ...