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by Kinrany 915 days ago
I linked the overview page because the image on it explains the project better than any description I could find.

One of the issues I see is mixing "what" and "why".

The "what": an abstraction for accessing object storage services, implemented as client libraries in multiple languages plus utilities built on top.

The "why", the problem to be solved: there are many services that provide key-value storage with values being possibly very large; it is reasonable to want to write code that works with any of these services but there is no common interface to write this code against.

Caveat, I may very well be misunderstanding the project.

Questions I have:

- how does it compare to object_store

- what is the philosophy of the project; in what way is it opinionated about the design of object storage services