Node.js Buffer Upload for OpenAI Images in Private S3-Compatible Storage
Short answer: keep the upload on the backend, send the generated image buffer straight to private object storage, and save only an immutable object…
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Short answer: keep the upload on the backend, send the generated image buffer straight to private object storage, and save only an immutable object…
Last year, my team was fighting the "small file problem" in a standard S3 bucket. We were running massive Glue jobs that spent 40% of their executio…
S3 storage tiering is the practice of moving objects from hot, expensive storage classes to colder, cheaper ones as access frequency drops, using li…
For years, MinIO was the obvious answer whenever an engineering team needed S3-compatible object storage outside AWS. You wanted an S3-compatible AP…
A 5-Minute RustFS Stack with Docker Compose RustFS is an Apache 2.0, S3-compatible object store written in Rust that you can run as a single Docker…
S3 Presigned URLs: Security Pitfalls You'll Regret A presigned URL is a time-limited, signed link that grants temporary S3 access without sharing yo…
Up until now, every file I've touched in S3 has gone through the console, or through a bucket policy that made things public for everyone. Today's p…
SeaweedFS and RustFS are both Apache 2.0, single-binary stores, but they solve different problems. SeaweedFS is a distributed file system that also…
RustFS 1.0.0 reached general availability on September 16, 2026. The core S3-compatible object storage engine is stable and supported for production…
Workshop Name:Hands-on Workshop on Cloud-Native Systems & Applied AI Integration Organized by : Department of Computing, Coimbatore Institute of…
Ceph vs RustFS: When to Use What (2026) Ceph and RustFS both speak S3, but they solve different problems. Ceph is a unified object, block, and file…
Disclosure: I work on RustFS. Every comparison number below is pulled from a primary source and dated 2026-08-21, so check the Sources table before…
--- The Problem I Kept Ignoring Every week, the same small annoyance played out: I'd snap a photo of a receipt, tell myself I'd log it later, and th…
Introduction This is the last part of the series. Part 1 built a file portal on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) S3 access points, Part 2…
Why you should avoid routing bytes through your Next.js server Ever lost a 200MB upload at 98%? I have — and it’s the fastest way to lose a user’s t…
I still see engineers storing user-uploaded photos in /var/www/uploads/ on an ext4 volume and wondering why their server falls over at 10M files. Me…
The Scenario An EC2 instance with an attached IAM role has s3:GetObject on a bucket containing sensitive data. An attacker compromises the instance,…
Using S3 as Your Disaster Recovery Target: A Practical Guide S3 works as a disaster-recovery target because your data is already there, it is redund…
Ciao Amici 👋 Quick story before we get into the weeds. Last week I took a patient health record sitting in Amazon S3, a file clearly stamped as regu…
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Actually Saves More Money in 2026? Backblaze B2's pricing is about as simple as cloud storage gets: $0.00695/G…
Multi-Cloud S3-Compatible Strategy: Avoiding Vendor Lock-In (2026) Most teams assume they're portable because their app talks the S3 API. That assum…
Database branching solved a real problem: you can fork your database at a point in time, get an isolated copy with all the rows, and run something r…
Why S3 matters Amazon S3 is the object storage service that powers a huge part of the internet. If you build anything that stores files, serves stat…
"S3-compatible" is one of those phrases that gets thrown around so much that people nod along without checking whether everyone means the same thing…
Originally published on the InsForge blog , written by Can Lyu (Principal Software Engineer). Reposted here with permission. Self-hosted InsForge no…
If you just want the recommendation: for the ordinary AI-generated image an inference job hands back — a 2 to 8 MB PNG — do one plain object PUT int…
What Is Object Storage? A Plain-English Guide Object storage is a data storage architecture that manages information as discrete objects—each bundli…
SeaweedFS is an open-source, distributed object storage system with an S3-compatible API, a filer for POSIX-style hierarchical access, and a small f…
Introduction In the previous article, we learned the theory behind Amazon S3. Now it is time to see Amazon S3 in action. In this hands-on project, w…
Introduction In the previous articles, we explored AWS networking concepts like: VPC Subnets Internet Gateway Security Groups Route 53 Now, let's mo…