This week I’ve been thinking about object storage services such as Amazon S3. Despite being called “object” storage, in my mind they are used for storing files. However, that’s not the only way to think about them. Another perspective is that they are key-value stores for storing binary blobs Nowadays a lot of people want to use them as a storage backend for their databases because they’re very durable and the data storage is cheap. We do, too, at work. Retrofitting object storage t...
