Fast hashing in Golang using BLAKE2

In this blog we would like to present an optimized implementation, blake2b-simd [https://github.com/minio/blake2b-simd] , in pure Go for the BLAKE2 [https://blake2.net/] hashing algorithm that takes advantage of SIMD instructions. It gives up to a 4x speed increase over the (non-assembly) Go implementation and can achieve hashing speeds close to 1 GB/sec per core on

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Object storage in practice: Creating a reliable data store

Object storage in practice: Creating a reliable data store

In my previous post [https://blog.minio.io/object-storage-what-is-it-all-about-62920ca164ca#.bcz4d4nnd] we learnt the why and what of object storage. Specifically, we learnt why at all a new storage paradigm is required and what it does to alleviate modern unstructured data problems. We saw how object storage lets you access objects at application layer with simple API calls over HTTP(s)

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Microstorage for Microservices

Microstorage for Microservices

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

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