[click170]

Excellent read, thank you for sharing!

Just curious, was there any consideration given to existing storage solutions like Ceph when you were evaluating writing your own erasure encoding system?

It seems like it may have been a potential good fit at one point in time, and might have made it easier to expose an S3-like API if you wanted to down the road.

[atYevP]

> S3-like API if you wanted to down the road.

We already have -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html! Vaults was one of the reasons why we could build out ourB2 Cloud Storage service. We considered a lot of of options, but rolling our own fit with our culture :)

[Veratyr]

I think by "S3-like API", OP likely meant an actual S3-compatible API such as that provided by other competitors (off the top of my head, Google Cloud Storage).

[atYevP]

Ah - that makes sense. Our devs are always looking at ways to make us more viable for folks - so they are aware :D