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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Design a photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram where users can upload their photos and share it with their followers. High Level Design. Component Design. API Design. We have provided the API design of posting an image on Instagram below. Problem Statement. Sending and receiving messages from other users.

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Article: Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

InfoQ

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Mayastor: Lightning Fast Storage for Kubernetes

Percona Community

In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. It’s a new generation in storage software, designed for super high speed low latency NVMe devices. Why is SPDK exciting?

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Pioneering customer-centric pricing models: Decoding ingest-centric vs. answer-centric pricing

Dynatrace

This data overload also prevents customer-centric pricing models as users consider cost-effective technology platforms. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. The majority of costs are associated with data querying.

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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs

InfoQ

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 134
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Boost DevOps maturity with observability and a data lakehouse

Dynatrace

Teams need a technology boost to deal with managing cloud-native data volumes, such as using a data lakehouse for centralizing, managing, and analyzing data. Many organizations, including the global advisory and technology services provider, ICF, describe DevOps maturity using a DevOps maturity model framework.

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