> a storage plugin only had to implement the API methods upload, download, list and delete, so you could literally use anything as a storage backend (FTP, SFTP,

> a storage plugin only had to implement the API methods upload, download, list and delete, so you could literally use anything as a storage backend (FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, ..) In the desktop world, this is pretty much the same idea as FUSE [1] for filesystems. It's really fun/easy to use FUSE libraries in languages like Python [2] to make mountable filesystems this way, which then allows for integrations with all of your favorite local software / shell commands / etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace [2] https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse