Cloud Storage
Object Stores Characteristics of Cloud Systems Object storage design principles 🟨++ We don’t want the hierarchy that is common in Filesystems, so we need to simplify that and have these four principles: Black-box objects Flat and global key-value model (trivial model, easy to access, without the need to trasverse a file hierarchy). Flexible metadata Commodity hardware (the battery idea of Tesla until 2017). Object storage usages 🟩 Object storage are useful to store things that are usually read-intensive. Some examples are ...