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Experimental Amazon S3 API support for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Service

on Cloud Computing 3 October 2017

Some our community members have repeatedly asked for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and MinIO integration [1] . B2 is competitively priced and has a huge fan following. We also heard from Backblaze team that they are actively expanding their B2 cloud storage service. We added experimental support for Backblaze B2 backend in MinIO to add S3 compatible API support for their

Golang Internals Part 2: Nice benefits of named return values

Frank Wessels Frank Wessels on Golang 28 June 2017

You may know that Golang offers the ability to name return values. Thus far at MinIO we have not been using this feature much, but that’ll change since there are some nice hidden benefits as we will explain in this blog post.If you are like us, you may have considerable amounts of code as shown down below whereby

Golang Internals Part 1: Autogenerated functions (and how to get rid of them)

Frank Wessels Frank Wessels on Golang 14 June 2017

Maybe if you are like us at MinIO, you have every now and then come across ‘autogenerated’ functions in your Golang call stacks and wondered what they are all about?We had a case the other day where the call stack showed something like the following: cmd.retryStorage.ListDir(0x12847c0, 0xc420402e70, 0x1, ...) minio/cmd/retry-storage.go:183 +0x72 cmd.(*retryStorage)

Scalable Genomics Data Processing Pipeline with Alluxio, Mesos, and MinIO

Nitish Tiwari Nitish Tiwari on Apache Spark 21 March 2017

This is a guest blog from our friends at Guardant Health.Guardant Health is the world leader in comprehensive liquid biopsy. Oncologists order our blood test to help determine if their advanced cancer patients are eligible for certain drugs that target specific genomic alterations in tumour DNA. Each test produces huge amounts of genomic data that we process into easily

ToolsLib switches to MinIO for scale and performance

Nitish Tiwari Nitish Tiwari on Cloud Computing 14 March 2017

ToolsLib recently switched to a brand new dashboard. However, behind the scenes, there was another switch happening. We used block based filesystem for underlying storage. However, as we grew, the filesystem was proving difficult to scale.So, we were looking to move from block based storage to an object store system, when we found MinIO. After initial analysis, MinIO looked

Introducing Webhooks for MinIO

MinIO MinIO

on Cloud Computing 6 February 2017

MinIO provides integration with a range of backend systems which enables you to build a complete solution for your projects. The team has recently integrated a pull request from the community to add Webhook support and wanted to tell you a bit about it.First we will look at what Webhooks are, some examples of what they can connect with,