A whirlwind tour through the various storage technologies used by DreamHost over the years. These days we’re hoping to change how people think about storage by introducing them to Ceph. Ceph is a distributed object store and filesystem designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This talk will describe the Ceph architecture and the [...]
The other day I was talking with my wife and she revealed a dirty little secret. She had not backed up the pictures on her phone or camera since our daughter was born in August. Meet Chloe! It’s really more my fault than hers, I’m the one that works with technology professionally and I certainly [...]
Back in September we took the wraps off of a neat little project we’d been working on for quite some time. In fact, some of you have been using it since those early days! DreamObjects is, of course, our object-based storage offering. Designed from the ground-up to be API-compatible with both Amazon’s S3 and OpenStack [...]