Houston3 min read
Building a Kubernetes operator for S3
Why manual operations led me to build a Kubernetes operator for our S3, and how I rebuilt its first prototype at half the size.
Marc Singer founded Quadrant Systems. At a large Swiss telecom company, he ran storage and compute for big data on Kubernetes and Linux for 5 years, then advised internal teams as an SRE consultant. He teaches computer science and DevOps at a Swiss college of higher vocational education (HF).
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ObjectGateway7 min read
How fast is S3 from where your app runs?
A small read takes 2 ms in the same data center and 20 ms across a border. I measured ObjectGateway from four European cloud zones to show what distance costs.
Company3 min read
Why does nobody build S3 like this?
I built storage for a friend's company, and it could not keep up. Two S3 storage projects that went wrong led me to found Quadrant.