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MinIO AIStor Blog: AI Storage & Infrastructure Insights
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MinIO AIStor Blog: AI Storage & Infrastructure Insights is the company blog at blog.min.io, writing about data, systems and ai. Since 2013, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 303 times, most often “Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link MinIO's engineering posts on erasure coding, compression, small-object handling, benchmarks and gateway deprecation, mostly as sources for technical claims. Some also cite its licensing disputes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
Most-linked posts?
- Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
- MinIO just made migrating data to/from AWS via Snowball simple and easy3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-15
- Understanding the Relationship Between Kubernetes and Object Storage3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-16
- Deprecation of the MinIO Gateway3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-16
- Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store Is a Bad Idea. Here Is Why3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
- Weka Violates MinIO's Open Source Licenses3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-25
- When Companies Should Go to the Public Cloud and When They Should Come Back2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-07-28
- Building Streaming Data Lakes with Hudi2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- Cross Data Center Active Active Replication for Object Storage2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-10-07
- The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-17
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps even stranger, MinIO have publicly stated they have revoked an Apache 2 license grant to a third party, Weka: https://blog.min.io/weka-violates-minios-open-source-license... Not sure what their counsel is thinking there..
Comment linking /weka-violates-minios-open-source-licenses/
on “Elasticsearch is open source, again”Submitted Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license as a story · 425 points
HN discussionAn open-source implementation of Amazon S3 - MinIO has had it for almost two years (relevant post: https://blog.min.io/leading-the-way-minios-conditional-write... ). Strangely, Amazon is catching up just now.
Comment linking /leading-the-way-minios-conditional-write-feature-for-modern-data-workloads/
on “Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)”Submitted MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls as a story · 134 points
HN discussionWhat is the use case for implementing a POSIX filesystem on top of an object store? I remember reading this article a few years ago, which happens to be by the minio folks: https://blog.min.io/filesystem-on-object-store-is-a-bad-idea...
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on “MinIO is now in maintenance-mode”Submitted Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage as a story · 125 points
HN discussionIts worse than I thought: https://blog.min.io/weka-violates-minios-open-source-license... They think they can revoke someone's AGPL license. That's not at all how that license works!
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on “MinIO is now in maintenance-mode”Submitted Updated MinIO NVMe Benchmarks: 2.6Tpbs on Get and 1.6 on Put as a story · 94 points
HN discussionDespite the HN bubble, there are a lot bigger markets for pro users than developers. I would venture to say that from a profit motive, it makes little sense to bring development to the iPad. There is no money in development tools. For places that must have bespoke internal apps, a lot of them are moving toward dumb clients and some type of Citrix solution. In terms of “sheer numbers”, the desktop market is minuscule…
Comment linking /intel_vs_gravitron/
on “U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business”Submitted The trouble with Cassandra as an object storage metadata database as a story · 84 points
HN discussionIt doesn't really have to impact performance. The index is generated easily as a side-effect of compression. And the index is only needed if you need to seek. I implemented this as part of the MinIO server. See "Seeking Compressed Files" here: https://blog.min.io/transparent-data-compression/ We choose a compressor without literal compression for a faster baseline, but the concept remains the same.
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on “AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage”Submitted Apache Arrow and MinIO as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThere have been other instances in which exit fees, which is what this amounts to, were considered anticompetitive, e.g. [1] (although this was settled so there is no ruling). Google itself has started to waive egress costs for GCP customers leaving the platform last month, which, according to some sources, is simply a direct consequence of new EU legislation (Data Act) [2], but according to others is in anticipatio…
Comment linking /googles-new-egress-policy/
on “Cloud Egress Costs”Submitted Small File Archives in MinIO as a story · 57 points
HN discussionThis has not been true since 2021. https://blog.min.io/minio-optimizes-small-objects/
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on “SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake”Submitted Best Practices for Deploying MinIO in Virtualized Environments as a story · 54 points
HN discussionMinio used to support this, but removed the feature a while back. It was called “gateway mode”. Sadly, I know that doesn’t help much now… https://blog.min.io/deprecation-of-the-minio-gateway/amp/
Comment linking /deprecation-of-the-minio-gateway/amp/
on “A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff”Submitted Crossing the 1 tb/s throughput threshold for object storage with NVMe drives as a story · 54 points
HN discussionWhen Companies Should Go to the Public Cloud + When they Should Return https://blog.min.io/repatriation_wave/
Comment linking /repatriation_wave/
on “The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox”Submitted Pulumi and MinIO – Making Multi-Cloud Magic as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThere was a 60 days notice? https://blog.min.io/ The only notice I have received is from the blowback of their behavior. Walking away from supporting the open source product at any other time than in the wake of a security vulnerability disclosure would have been received better. Sure they're not legally culpable for fixing anything but they're now obviously untrustworthy as a business partner going forwards.
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on “OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage”Submitted Sidekick – An Open Source, High Performance, Ultralight Load Balancer from MinIO as a story · 32 points
HN discussionMinio used to have a filesystem backend that would store each file as a file on the local filesystem. They removed this, so lots of people still use the last version before that. https://blog.min.io/deprecation-of-the-minio-gateway/
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on “Valkey 8.0.0 Is Out”Submitted Transparent compression at IO speed for object storage as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThe MinIO code is highly optimized for the md5 hashes using AVX512 https://blog.min.io/accelerating-aggregate-md5-hashing-up-to...
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on “Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage”Submitted MinIO Event Notification with Apache Nifi as a story · 27 points
HN discussionAs per last week's announcement from AWS about the availability of AMD EPYC cpus, we have repeated the “single socket” test for the EPYC cpu as well. The updated chart is included in the post or you can find it here: https://blog.min.io/content/images/2020/06/single-socket-per... It clearly performs and scales a lot better than the Intel CPUs (no doubt also benefiting from the increased memory bandwidth) and at high…
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on “Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage”Submitted Certificate-Based Authentication for S3 with MinIO as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI was looking at the single-socket results for what I said above specifically to rule out any NUMA differences: https://blog.min.io/content/images/2020/06/single-socket-per... That really looks like it's just sorting by memory bandwidth. Particularly with Cascade Lake's results vs. Skylake at the ~10 core number, since there's not really any other major difference between those two. Being that memory bandwidth const…
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on “Intel and ARM Performance Characteristics for S3 Compatible Object Storage”Submitted Software defined storage vs. hardware defined storage as a story · 21 points
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