When storage cost money per kilobyte, when disks were finite, when networks were slow—we needed containers. We needed to know where things were. The file system was a map of a small territory.
WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 1
People have been bugging me to write about Integrated Storage for some time, and with Bill Gates having just disclosed that failure to ship WinFS was his biggest product regret now seemed like a g…
Comment on: Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets - Daniel&#...
"a bucket doesn’t necessarily imply a physical container sitting on one PDS. Consider how threads ..." The distributed-vs-centralized storage question is where this gets really interesting. If buc...
Filecoin | World's Largest Decentralized Storage Network for Humanity's Data
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Digital Topology & Economic Power
The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.
Blob store design challenges
It's just hashed data, what's so complex about a blob store anyway?
The History of Container Technology
To cover the history of container technology, we need to go back to the early days of virtualization in the 1960s...
JuiceFS - Open Source Distributed POSIX File System for Cloud
JuiceFS is a cloud-based high-performance distributed file system, based on object storage and database to achieve data and metadata separation architecture, easily carrying tens of billions of file storage, to meet the random read performance requirements of big data, AI, autonomous driving, gene sequencing and other massive data.
Pinata | Autonomous File Storage
Add file uploads and retrieval in minutes so you can focus on your app —because you’ve got better things to code than infrastructure.
Three schemes for shared-private storage - Paul's Leaflets
Decentralized Technology in Practice: An analysis of socio-technical resilience in IPFS
The “Interplanetary File System” (IPFS) refers to a peer-to-peer content addressing protocol that is designed to be “upgradeable, resilient, and more open”. [1]
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
The smallest permissioned data shape: a bookmarks space with a member list that never grows past me. Same bookmark record the atmosphere already uses, same write path, different address. URIs, scopes, tokens, and the full credential flow inside.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks
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