Traditionally web applications used file systems and databases to store user data in the back-end. It was simple, structured data goes to the database and anything else goes to the file system. This was easy to manage, since rarely an application generated unstructured data — most of the applications took user input in forms and saved the data to database. However,
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This new release adds support for Solaris/Illumos and FreeBSD 64bit Intel. Following is the non exhaustive list of changes in this release. * Parallel code for cp and mirror is deprecated and removed. All copy operations are serial now, this fixed a number of issues related to session file missing and overall code complexity. * All cli operations now standardize on
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One of the fundamental requirements of microservice is that application containers become stateless. However the states still need to be stored elsewhere, as in databases, object storage, session files, cookies, cache, etc. Microstorage is emerging as a new architecture to address the storage scalability for microservices. Microstorage inherits the idea from microservices that “only small things scale”. Scale-up is not
Read moreSince our September release of MinIO Client ‘mc’ for Amazon S3 and MinIO server, we received number of requests to also support Google cloud storage, Red Hat Ceph and Open Stack Swift. Here is the Amazon S3 API compatibility matrix for various server implementations. * Amazon S3 [https://aws.amazon.com/s3/]: Amazon S3 V4 (latest) and V2 API signature. * Minio
Read more> Download latest MinIO client ‘mc’ http://minio.io/#mc [https://minio.io/#mc] MinIO client went through several rewrites to reach this point. We fixed a number of bugs and introduced newer ones. From this release onwards, we will push smaller but frequent updates. Here are some enhancements in this release. Google Cloud Storage [https://cloud.google.com/storage/
Read moreMinIO Client “mc” is a tool for Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage and POSIX compatible filesystems. It implements basic Unix commands such as ls, cp, cat and diff. mc is entirely written in Golang and released under Apache License, Version 2.0. Project is hosted at Github —https://github.com/minio/mc NAME: mc - MinIO Client for cloud storage
Read moreAccording to an IDC study conducted in 2014, there are approximately 18.5 Million software developers world wide. Though it only accounts for a tiny 0.26% of 7 billion world population, their contribution towards overall economic prosperity and progress is mind boggling. I will publish a series of blog post to understand the developer population in detail. Cartography of
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“The less I needed, the better I felt.” ~ Charles Bukowski We often forget to learn from our successful projects in the past. If you are old enough like me, you will remember a project called qmail. Nobody could poke a hole in its security because of its minimalist design (qmail security guarantee [http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html]). Sysadmins
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