The power of scale is well-documented in the world of business. Cloud providers - Amazon in particular - have amassed extraordinary scale in a very short period of time. The cloud providers are now using this scale to rearchitect how enterprises interact with their data. They are remaking the enterprise data landscape with two primary levers: price and performance. Let’
Read more...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
Read more...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
Read more...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)
Read more...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
Read more...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
Read more...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,
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