Jan 4 · 21 min read · Introduction: When Security Theater Becomes a Real Disaster In March 2017, a misconfigured S3 bucket at Verizon exposed the personal information of 14 million customers. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated attack; it was a simple oversight in acces...
Join discussionDec 15, 2025 · 21 min read · Introduction: The $148 Million Lesson In late 2016, Uber learned that intruders had accessed a trove of personal data stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The entry point was painfully mundane: attackers accessed Uber's source code on GitHub using stolen c...
AAnthony commentedDec 5, 2025 · 20 min read · Introduction In the first and second parts of this deep dive series, we dissected the core foundations of Ceph RGW: stateless frontends, specialized RADOS pools, bucket index mechanics, and the head/tail data layout. We explored how IBM Storage Ceph ...
Join discussionDec 4, 2025 · 11 min read · The Challenge: Trapped Between Cloud Power and Cloud Lock-In Organizations face an impossible choice. Hyperscaler clouds offer powerful data services, advanced catalogs, vector search, and high-performance analytics, but only within their walled gard...
Join discussionNov 25, 2025 · 11 min read · Introduction: The Foundation of Scalable Object Storage In the modern data landscape, object storage has evolved from a simple file repository into the foundational layer for AI/ML pipelines, data lakehouses, real-time analytics, and massive-scale ar...
Join discussionNov 21, 2025 · 9 min read · Introduction The IBM Storage Ceph 8.1z4 release introduces significant enhancements to Object Gateway (RGW) rate limiting, addressing a critical gap that has long challenged administrators managing multi-tenant object storage environments. With the a...
Join discussionNov 11, 2025 · 4 min read · I recently started exploring Ceph, and it has opened my eyes to the possibilities of distributed storage. For someone like me, coming from a background of traditional storage systems, Ceph feels both powerful and flexible. It allows me to build a sto...
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Oct 24, 2025 · 6 min read · Introduction In the world of data storage, engineers and architects constantly face a fundamental dilemma: the trade-off between performance and efficiency. It’s a balancing act. When you want to save space, you typically enable features like compres...
Join discussionOct 12, 2025 · 13 min read · A Deep Dive into Ceph RGW: Data Path, Sharding, and Automated Management Introduction In the first part of this deep dive, we dissected the high-performance request path within the Ceph RGW. We covered its stateless frontends, foundational RADOS poo...
Join discussionOct 11, 2025 · 15 min read · Ceph RGW Architecture: A Deep Dive into its Core Foundations Introduction: The Stateless Powerhouse The Ceph Object Gateway (RGW) is far more than just a proxy; it's a high-level abstraction layer that seamlessly provides Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swif...
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