[amazingamazing]

Interesting that what’s basically an ad is the top comment - it’s not like this is open source or anything - can’t even use it immediately (you have to apply for access). Totally proprietary. At least elasticsearch is APGL, saying nothing of open search which also supports use of S3

[viraptor]

Someone made an informed technical bet that worked out. Sounds like HN material to me. (Also, is it really a useful ad if you can't easily use the product?)

[amazingamazing]

Worked out how? There’s no implementation. It’s just conjecture.

[viraptor]

It's right there:

> Our bet that S3 would get it in a reasonable time-frame worked out!

[amazingamazing]

How? This is a technical forum. Unless you’re saying any consumer of S3 can now spam links to their product on this thread with impunity. (Hey maybe they’re using cas).

[richardlblair]

Oh look, someone is mad on the internet about something silly.

[hedora]

Pretty much all other S3 implementations (including open source ones) support this or equivalent primitives, so this is great for interoperability with existing implementations.

[ramraj07]

No one owes anyone open source. If they can make the business case work or if it works in their favor, sure.

[jrochkind1]

I don't mind hearing another developer's use case for this feature, even if it's commercial proprietary software.

It's no longer top comment, which is fine.

[jauntywundrkind]

https://github.com/slatedb/slatedb will, I expect, use this at some point. Object backed DB, which is open source.

[benesch]

Yes! I’m actively working on it, in fact. We’re waiting on the next release of the Rust `object_store` crate, which will bring support for S3’s native conditional puts.

If you want to follow along: https://github.com/slatedb/slatedb/issues/164

[deanCommie]

I mean isn't the news story itself essentially an ad?