Object Storage
11 pagesMinIO Nuked Its Docker Hub Repos—Your Object Storage Doesn't Have to Go Down With It
Let me nail a date to the wall first: September 11, 2026, sometime between 18:31 and 19:36 UTC, MinIO flat-out deleted the minio/minio and minio/mc repositories on Docker Hub. Not rate-limited. Not retagged. The whole repository returns …
Let me nail a date to the wall first: September 11, 2026, sometime between 18:31 and 19:36 UTC, MinIO flat-out deleted the minio/minio and minio/mc repositories on Docker Hub. Not rate-limited. Not retagged. The whole repository returns …
RustFS 1.0 GA: Don't Turn Into MinIO
Li Wenkai, who runs RustFS — an S3-compatible object store written from scratch in Rust — is a friend of mine and a fellow alum of MiraclePlus (the fund formerly known as YC China); his batch was S26, mine was S22. Last night they shipped 1.0 GA, and …
Li Wenkai, who runs RustFS — an S3-compatible object store written from scratch in Rust — is a friend of mine and a fellow alum of MiraclePlus (the fund formerly known as YC China); his batch was S26, mine was S22. Last night they shipped 1.0 GA, and …
Catalog Bullshit: Take the Database Apart, Then Rent a PostgreSQL Table Back to You
Starting with Snowflake’s Governance Checklist A few days ago, Snowflake shared a poster with blue type on a black background in an official tweet. Titled THE ARCHITECT’S GOVERNANCE CHECKLIST, it listed nine problems: Revocation gaps Policy drift …
Starting with Snowflake’s Governance Checklist A few days ago, Snowflake shared a poster with blue type on a black background in an official tweet. Titled THE ARCHITECT’S GOVERNANCE CHECKLIST, it listed nine problems: Revocation gaps Policy drift …
Silo: A Maintained, MinIO-Compatible Object Store
Several months ago, I forked MinIO for a simple reason: Pigsty depended on it, and upstream had abandoned the open-source project. I said I would keep packages and security fixes flowing. Here is the recent report: The Docker image has been pulled …
Several months ago, I forked MinIO for a simple reason: Pigsty depended on it, and upstream had abandoned the open-source project. I said I would keep packages and security fixes flowing. Here is the recent report: The Docker image has been pulled …
Two months into maintaining a MinIO fork
Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. It’s what happens when …
Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. It’s what happens when …
MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO
MinIO’s open-source repo has been officially archived. No more maintenance. End of an era — but open source doesn’t die that easily. I created a MinIO fork, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought it back to …
MinIO’s open-source repo has been officially archived. No more maintenance. End of an era — but open source doesn’t die that easily. I created a MinIO fork, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought it back to …
MinIO Is Dead. Who Picks Up the Pieces?
MinIO announced maintenance mode two days ago. I ranted in “MinIO Is Dead” and immediately got flooded with “so what now?” The usual suspects: Ceph, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Garage. I packaged all of them for Linux (RPM/DEB) and ran them through the …
MinIO announced maintenance mode two days ago. I ranted in “MinIO Is Dead” and immediately got flooded with “so what now?” The usual suspects: Ceph, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Garage. I packaged all of them for Linux (RPM/DEB) and ran them through the …
MinIO is Dead
December 3, 2025 was a day to mark in open-source software history. MinIO’s team updated the project status on GitHub, announcing the MinIO open-source project was entering “maintenance mode.” This basically declared the death of MinIO as an …
December 3, 2025 was a day to mark in open-source software history. MinIO’s team updated the project status on GitHub, announcing the MinIO open-source project was entering “maintenance mode.” This basically declared the death of MinIO as an …
PGFS: Using Database as a Filesystem
A few days ago, I received a request from the Odoo community asking: “Databases support PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery), but is there a way to roll back the filesystem as well?” Why the “PGFS” Idea? From a veteran database engineer’s perspective, this …
A few days ago, I received a request from the Odoo community asking: “Databases support PITR (Point-in-Time Recovery), but is there a way to roll back the filesystem as well?” Why the “PGFS” Idea? From a veteran database engineer’s perspective, this …
Cloud Dark Forest: Exploding Cloud Bills with Just S3 Bucket Names
The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill. Imagine this: you create an empty, private AWS S3 storage bucket in your favorite region. What would your AWS bill look …
The dark forest law has emerged on public cloud: Anyone who knows your S3 object storage bucket name can explode your cloud bill. Imagine this: you create an empty, private AWS S3 storage bucket in your favorite region. What would your AWS bill look …
S3: Elite to Mediocre
WeChat Object storage (S3) has been a defining service of cloud computing, once hailed as a paragon of cost reduction in the cloud era. Unfortunately, with the evolution of hardware and the emergence of resources cloud (Cloudflare R2) and …
WeChat Object storage (S3) has been a defining service of cloud computing, once hailed as a paragon of cost reduction in the cloud era. Unfortunately, with the evolution of hardware and the emergence of resources cloud (Cloudflare R2) and …