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Sayed Alesawy · 2021-06-04T17:41:51.856Z

So a couple of weeks ago, I came across a file system called SeaweedFS which is according to their readme: ... is a distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, to store and serve billions of files fast! Blob store has O(1) ...

Well researched and beautifully written article. I benefited a lot...thanks Sayed.

Thank you! Glad you like it. You can checkout the follow up article on how facebook managed to cut costs by integrating a new system for cold storage and move Haystack to serve warm storage purposes only. You can find the article in the series.

This is really interesting. Made me check out SeaweedFS. Damn. Thanks ! Keep it up

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Amolo Just published a follow up article on this topic discussing a paper by facebook on how they added warm storage to their system to cut costs. You can checkout from the article series. Hope you like it!

Never thought someone would ever write such a detailed article on SeaweedFS. I found it one the most complex real-world systems designed ever. But you just made it super simple for me to understand. Thanks! 👏👏

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Pankaj Tanwar Just published a follow up article on this topic discussing a paper by facebook on how they added warm storage to their system to cut costs. You can checkout from the article series. Hope you like it!

Sayed Alesawy Really interesting. Back to back.

Very informative article. Just bookmarked it far a thorough reading. Thanks for sharing.

Ahmed Sadman Muhib Just published a follow up article on this topic discussing a paper by facebook on how they added warm storage to their system to cut costs. You can checkout from the article series. Hope you like it!

Just scanned through it and it's awesome! Gonna re-read it over the weekend to not miss a word of this masterpiece of an article! Thanks for sharing! 🤩🤩

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Victoria Lo Just published a follow up article on this topic discussing a paper by facebook on how they added warm storage to their system to cut costs. You can checkout from the article series. Hope you like it!

Your articles are in-depth and very informative. How did I miss your blog?

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Catalin Pit Just published a follow up article on this topic discussing a paper by facebook on how they added warm storage to their system to cut costs. You can checkout from the article series. Hope you like it!

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Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How Facebook Serves Millions of Images per Second

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