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by notmyname 13y ago
It's not RAID over IP. Each drive itself is a network endpoint. On the practical side, this means that the drive is "connected" to one or more servers (and can be re-homed on the fly). The storage system itself is responsible
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2013 Contest Winners: The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest(bulwer-lytton.com)
1 points by notmyname 13y ago|0 comments
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by notmyname 13y ago
Interesting, and thanks for the response. If I may probe a little further, I have a couple of follow-up questions. 1) Server groups of at least 3 mirrored servers, with a max of 5TB. This seems like an interesting design choice. What do you
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by notmyname 13y ago
Can you share more about your implementation? (Disclosure: I'm very interested since I work on OpenStack Swift.) Starter questions: How does data placement work? How is data checked for correctness? How do you do listings at scale? Dur
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by notmyname 13y ago
I'm interested on more detail on this. How does it work? Object storage at scale is not a trivial problem to solve. Are they using their own storage engine or are they using an open-source one? Where are the docs? "Just look at th
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New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable(forbes.com)
2 points by notmyname 13y ago|1 comments
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by notmyname 14y ago
San Francisco, CA SwiftStack ( http://swiftstack.com/jobs/ ) is hiring software developers at all levels of experience. Why Join SwiftStack? You’ll work on a product that touches millions of people’s lives even if they don’t know it. The nu
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by notmyname 14y ago
We just added a CONTRIBUTING file to OpenStack Swift (and I believe the other OpenStack projects are getting one soon): https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/fdf55c2817c9a457de... . The odd thing about OpenStack (from a GitHub perspect
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by notmyname 14y ago
You may be interested in "Made of Code" http://madeofcode.com/posts/29-photo-my-new-textmate-theme-8... Sample of Made of code theme in SL2: http://d.not.mn/made_of_code_sample.png (the code is https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/m
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by notmyname 14y ago
Ah. my mistake. I completely missed the "'" as I was reading it.
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by notmyname 14y ago
On step 3, where you say "scrypt(s'i, md5(si, password))", don't you actually need "scrypt(s'i, md5(s0, password))", where s0 is the original salt? In other words, you still need to know the original salt you were using to successfully mi
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Openstack Swift 1.5.0 release(lists.launchpad.net)
1 points by notmyname 14y ago|0 comments
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by notmyname 14y ago
True. Your content needs to be in Cloud Files, not on your own server. The storage and cdn services are tied together into the product. They have not been separated to allow the CDN on top of any arbitrary endpoint. I don't see the requirem
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by notmyname 14y ago
Rackspace Cloud Files supports this. The file "test_javascript.js" was saved non-compressed. It works the other way, too (compressed->uncompressed if the client doesn't support compression): $ curl -i http://d.not.mn/test_javascri
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by notmyname 14y ago
Check out http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category . You can probably find something you like in the "License that are popular and widely used or with strong communities" section. The basic requirements that you described are probably m
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by notmyname 14y ago
Yes, swift provides multiple redundant copies of the data. It depends on what you are protecting against: failure of a piece of your data or failure of a hosting provider. If you simply rely on "dumb disks" spread across multiple providers
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by notmyname 14y ago
If this were built on top of (or in conjunction with) Openstack swift ( http://swift.openstack.org ), it could be done with a common storage backend. There are already several public cloud storage providers using swift (Rackspace, HP, Softl
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A Technical Overview of Openstack Swift(programmerthoughts.com)
3 points by notmyname 14y ago|0 comments
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by notmyname 15y ago
A coworker of mine wrote a series of posts on how to build a consistent hashing ring and expand it with the concepts or weighted nodes and availability zones. http://www.tlohg.com/p/building-consistent-hashing-ring.html Those ideas for th
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Transparent Multi-Hop SSH(sshmenu.sourceforge.net)
63 points by notmyname 15y ago|7 comments
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by notmyname 15y ago
French. Or Arabic. Or whatever you don't already speak. Snark aside, the standard answer is something like "Learn a language in each of the different kinds or programming (functional, procedural, etc)". Really, though, programming is not ab
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by notmyname 15y ago
Such is the challenge of hosting public content. .rackcdn.com is for content hosted on Rackspace Cloud Files and served via our partnership with Akamai. Cisco's SenderBase recently changed the rating for .rackcdn.com and Bad Things (tm) h
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by notmyname 15y ago
Great to hear. I'll look forward to looking at your implementation and exploring the tradeoffs you are making. I'm especially interested in how you solve durability in the face of multiple, simultaneous hardware failures. I'm also quite cur
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by notmyname 15y ago
The idea is to limit each "shard" to some number configurable number of objects, say, 1 million. As the container grows, the db can be split in two and each of the two new pieces can grow. The original container entity keeps an index listin
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by notmyname 15y ago
woeful seems a little harsh :-) There is a current workaround for the issue you describe: use many containers. However, there are 2 ways to solve the issue for good. One (the simplest) is to have dedicated hardware for the account and conta
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by notmyname 15y ago
From my experience working with Rackspace Cloud Files, customer sizes are all over the map. Some customers are very small. Some are very large. I know that S3 has a similar variance in customer size. From my experience talking to users (and
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by notmyname 15y ago
Actually, many people consider it. Some are simply cautious about hosting their data with a third party. Some are prevented from using a third party for compliance or regulatory reasons. Also, it's generally more cost-effective for extremel
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by notmyname 15y ago
As others have said, being open source is important because it gives you more control over your data. If you have access to the code that is storing your data, you have the option to host it yourself or pay someone else to host it with the
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by notmyname 15y ago
There is already a 100% open source version of Amazon S3: Openstack swift ( http://swift.openstack.org ). Swift is in use by many companies, and it is the software that runs Rackspace's Cloud Files product, storing petabytes of data and bil
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Simple, live markdown editor(ronin.io)
4 points by notmyname 15y ago|2 comments

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