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Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 9 posts.
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Farming Hard Drives: How Backblaze Weathered the Thailand Drive Crisis
The rain started in August and by mid-October 2011, violent floods in Thailand had damaged the factories that helped produce nearly half of the world’s
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Scaling Out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics Using CitusDB (YC S11)
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.
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YC Stats
We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are. All of these companies actually went through a YC batch and got their start with us (e.g. we do not include Quora). Also, the YC application for the next…
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Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes
Possibly one of the biggest hurdles that stands in the way of fostering innovation and discovering newer and better techniques of doing old things is the ease with which developers and designers to…
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Announcing MongoDB 3.0
Official MongoDB Documentation. Learn to store data in flexible documents, create an Atlas deployment, and use our tools and integrations.
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Moving all your data, 9TB edition
At GitLab B.V. we are working on an infrastructure upgrade to give more CPU power and storage space to GitLab.com. Learn more here!
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Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness