Deep dives into local-first S3 infrastructure, AI pipelines, and self-hosted object storage.
On May 7 the index added 13 new nodes — five technologies, six pain points, one architecture, one standard. Each answers a specific question engineers building on object storage are asking right now: what is China's S3…
Read postDeepSeek's $5.6M training run didn't just reset model architecture. It made object storage performance-critical, made silicon export controls a storage decision, and pushed Aliyun OSS, Tencent COS, and Huawei OBS from…
Read postOn April 25, 2026, MinIO archived its main GitHub repository. This index has tracked Vendor Lock-In as a first-class pain point since launch. Here is what the post-MinIO Apache-2.0 server set actually looks like —…
Read postAWS shipped S3 Files on April 7, 2026. NVIDIA productized RDMA for S3 five months earlier. Both moves validated architectural patterns the local-first ecosystem had been proving for years — and both collapse gaps that…
Read postHow the vector database market split into three architectural tiers — each with a fundamentally different relationship to S3-compatible object storage — and how to choose between them.
Read postWhy Python-native streaming tools like Bytewax are reshaping how data flows into S3 lakehouses — what they sacrifice compared to Flink, and when the JVM is still the right call.
Read postThe economics and architecture behind the migration from cloud inference to local-first AI — covering the Local S3 semantic storage pattern, CXL memory expansion, specialized inference silicon, and why 80% of AI…
Read postA deep dive into building local-first S3 infrastructure for AI pipelines — covering SeaweedFS, MinIO, Garage, Lance format, DuckDB, Polars, LanceDB, Redpanda, and four reusable architectural patterns.
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