Scaling up MinIO Internal Connectivity

Scaling up MinIO Internal Connectivity

A MinIO cluster operates as a uniform cluster. This means that any request must be seamlessly handled by any server. As a consequence, servers need to coordinate between themselves. This has so far been handled with traditional HTTP RPC requests - and this has served us well.  Whenever server A would like to call server B an HTTP request would

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Myths about Deduplication and Compression

Myths about Deduplication and Compression

A lot of vendors offer compression and deduplication as a feature of their storage solutions. We critically evaluate these claims by looking at the two methods used to reduce the raw disk usage. Compression Overview Compression in overall terms, gets its benefit from reducing redundancy in the data you upload. This means that repeated or otherwise predictable data can be

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