Would this help designing an object store, though? Case in point, S3 has unlimited bucket size, and they achieved that adding new servers will always increase t

Would this help designing an object store, though? Case in point, S3 has unlimited bucket size, and they achieved that adding new servers will always increase the performance and reliability of the S3 cluster (they call it taking the advantage of the scale). I'd imagine that the key to achieve such is the sharding strategy, or the strategy of data placement in general. In contrast, MinIO makes it O(1) operation to find the node to write, but it has to ask all the participating nodes, at least a subset of them, to figure out which node to read from for a given object. To that end, MinIO's salability will hit a wall at some point.