Saku: How I Went From Per-Line KV to 8M Writes/sec in One Week (While Learning C++)
Initial scope was simple: just make it fast. No fsync, no fancy durability. Just raw speed. I was bored. Asked AI "what should I build in C++?" It s…
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Mount Local Storage to Kubernetes Pods: An Easy Tutorial Using K3s and the Local Path Provisioner
Originally published on mihai.ltd . Persistent storage remains one of the first hurdles engineers hit when deploying stateful applications to Kubern…
Lioran S3 V1 Pre-Alpha: A Rust Object Storage Engine Built by Lioran Developer Solutions
Lioran S3 V1 Pre-Alpha On October 1, 2026, Lioran Developer Solutions (LDS) launched Lioran S3 V1 Pre-Alpha , also known internally as Lioran Bastio…
Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storage
The plan was a network change with a storage flavour. Move a Windows workload and two TrueNAS servers off the legacy flat network and onto the new d…
Stop Hand-Partitioning Disks: Practical systemd-repart on Linux
Stop Hand-Partitioning Disks: Practical systemd-repart on Linux You ship a minimal OS image. The target disk is 64 GB, 256 GB, or 2 TB. Root is stil…
Foundations in the Cloud: Navigating Azure Storage Accounts
Introduction In today's data-driven world, storage isn’t just about saving files—it’s about secure access, global availability, performance, and sca…
Marketplace SaaS Exports: Object Storage Signed URL Expiration After User Authorization
The least complex defensible design is private object storage plus a short-lived signed URL minted only after application authorization succeeds. Fo…
Zenoh's put is fire-and-forget, get isn't — a read-after-write race in Elixir
This English version is an AI translation of my original article on Qiita (in Japanese) . Background I've been experimenting with Zenoh via its Elix…
Deploying Lustre as a Self-Hosted AWS FSx Alternative
Lustre is an open-source, POSIX-compliant parallel distributed file system for HPC, ML training, and large-scale data processing, it separates metad…
Thumbnail Architecture for Small SaaS: Object Storage, Image CDN, or Resize on Upload?
Bottom line: for a beginner SaaS, put originals in object storage and have a backend worker write each thumbnail as a separate object with a determi…
S3-Compatible Storage Explained: The De Facto Standard for Object Storage in 2026
"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…
Understanding Pega's `pzPVStream`: Why a 20-Year-Old Design Still Makes Sense
One of the most misunderstood parts of the Pega Platform is pzPVStream . Newcomers often describe it as a "black box", while experienced architects…
Two TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designed
Two TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of…
Software RAID vs Hardware RAID for NVMe: The PCIe Bottleneck
For two decades, SysAdmins operated under a strict golden rule: "Always use a dedicated Hardware RAID controller to protect your disks." This was an…
Deploying SFTPGo as an Azure Storage SFTP Alternative on Linux
Azure Storage SFTP is Microsoft's managed file transfer service on top of Azure Blob Storage, convenient, but billed continuously per endpoint (roug…
Why Listing Objects Is One of the Hardest Operations in Cloud Storage
This is Part 4 of the Object Storage Internals series. Previous articles covered core mental models, metadata bottlenecks, and consistency tradeoffs…
SAN vs NAS for your home lab: which used storage to buy
If you're building out a home lab and need shared storage, you'll eventually hit the SAN vs NAS question. Both solve "storage that multiple machines…
Pro File Uploads in Rails 8: Speed and Scalability with Direct Uploads
Imagine a user trying to upload a 100MB video or a high-resolution photo to your app. If you use the standard Rails file upload, that file travels f…
Как строить отказоустойчивые кластеры Kubernetes: краткий разбор от команды VK Cloud
Миграция в облако и переход к микросервисной архитектуре сделали Kubernetes (k8s) де-факто стандартом для управления контейнерами. По данным 2025 го…
Как строить отказоустойчивые кластеры Kubernetes: краткий разбор от команды VK Cloud
Миграция в облако и переход к микросервисной архитектуре сделали Kubernetes (k8s) де-факто стандартом для управления контейнерами. По данным 2025 го…
Longhorn Volume Health: The Gap Between 'Healthy' and Actually Working
I once spent four hours debugging a PostgreSQL pod that was stuck in a crash loop with Input/output error across every single log line. I opened the…