How to Back Up with Restic and MinIO

How to Back Up with Restic and MinIO

Every system needs to be backed up because there are countless ways to lose local filesystem data and configurations. That loss can be devastating  – potentially resulting in revenue loss, dissatisfied customers and even costly litigation. The statistics are pretty bleak – sixty percent of businesses that suffer a data loss event close within six months and ninety-three percent of companies that

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Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent Platform with MinIO Tiered Object Storage Throughput Benchmark

Confluent, Intel and MinIO conducted benchmarking and certification testing for MinIO Tiered Object Storage for Kafka storage. This blog post describes the observations and results of testing MinIO object storage as a backend for the tiered storage feature of Confluent Platform 7.1.0 on servers equipped with third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The scope of these tests was

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MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO's OpenID Connect Integration Explained

MinIO provides a flexible Identity and Access Management system that can be integrated with popular external identity providers. MinIO IAM is built with AWS IAM compatibility at its core - access is controlled by policies mirroring AWS' IAM policies. While AWS supports myriad ways to control access, including ACLs, Bucket Policies, etc, in the interest of simplicity, MinIO'

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Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Building a Scalable, Data Sovereign National ID System

Some of the smartest minds in philanthropy are backing the concept of a simple yet powerful national ID system. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tata Trusts, the Omidyar Network and the Pratiksha Trust have all gotten involved with this movement because of its foundational capabilities for enabling a wide range of social programmes. They have put their resources

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Percona Streaming Backup

Percona Streaming Backup

What is streaming mode? Essentially it allows you to backup with Percona xtraBackup without touching disk. When used alongside MinIO Jumbo, it is designed to upload and retrieve large objects from the MinIO cluster.

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Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Creating an ML Scenario in SAP Data Intelligence Cloud to Read and Model Data in MinIO

Enterprise customers use MinIO to build data lakehouses to store a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, and work with it using ML and analytics. Data flows into MinIO from across the enterprise and the S3 API allows applications, such as analytics and AI/ML to work with it.   I previously blogged about building data pipelines with SAP Data

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