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Portworx
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Portworx is the company blog at portworx.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Portworx's blog as a source on Roblox's cloud and data center setup and on running persistent storage and PostgreSQL on Kubernetes and in containers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Automate, protect, and unify Kubernetes storage and data services across cloud and on-prem environments. Try Portworx or explore the platform.
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- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-28
What Hacker News says?
I'm biased but checkout Portworx. It is designed to be that and if you don't think it is, I'd be curious why is missing. https://portworx.com
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on “Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives”Submitted LCFS: A New Container Filesystem for Modern Datacenters as a story · 71 points
HN discussionNIO, the self-driving car company is doing this. They did a pretty detailed interview on their use case which includes a 120 PB data lake, and Cassandra, Kafka, TensorFlow, HDFS. You can read here: https://portworx.com/architects-corner-kubernetes-satya-koma... . (Disclosure, I work for Portworx the solution they use for container storage, but hopefully the content speaks for itself).
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on “Kubernetes 1.10 released”Submitted LCFS speeds up docker build by making docker commit a constant time operation as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis article from 2019 suggests they use a mix of cloud and a dedicated data center. https://portworx.com/blog/architects-corner-roblox-runs-plat...
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on “Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle”Submitted Run HA MongoDB on Kubernetes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionShort answer is "yes", but I would keep in mind that Kubernetes isn't just one monolithic tool, it's a toolbox and you don't have to use all of its features for everything. It's absolutely fine to pin your Postgres to a handful of pre-selected hosts with locally attached storage fully exposed to a Postgres container. Yes, this won't be semi-magically "moving databases around" (not needed in most cases) but you'll st…
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on “Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes”I can attest that persistent storage is the hard part! Full disclosure, I work for a company[1] who makes a persistent storage solution for containers/Kubernetes. We are absolutely seeing that our large customers (folks like GE, Verizon, Dreamworks, Comcast, etc) are running "cloud native" applications on-prem as well as in the public cloud so this is a really smart move for Google. [1] https://portworx.com
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on “GKE On-Prem Alpha”You can use Portworx[1] to transfer data between servers and datacenters. It has a native kubernetes driver, is production ready being used by GE and Lufthansa airlines among others and does sync and async replication of data between environments. (disclosure I work for Portworx). [1] https://portworx.com/
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on “Putting GPUs to work with Kubernetes”Persistent storage remains a complicated problem. Attaching volumes on the fly with docker volume abstraction works well enough for most cloud workloads, whether on-demand or spot, but it's still easy to run into problems. This is leading to rapid progress in clustered/distributed filesystems and it's even built into the Linux kernel now with OrangeFS [1]. There are also commercial companies like Avere [2] who make…
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on “Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances”