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A junior engineer on my team asked me why we store bytes in our Blobstore/Filesystem rather than something structured like a DB. Bytes are a "narrow waist" and
by kuchenbecker 3y ago
A junior engineer on my team asked me why we store bytes in our Blobstore/Filesystem rather than something structured like a DB.
Bytes are a "narrow waist" and in-fact DBs actually use our system for storage. By supporting bytes, anything that can be serialized can be stored by the next layer up and the contract is very simple.