Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends Cantrill talks generally for their mix of industry history, technical depth and entertaining delivery, and this one is a favorite for storage and data integrity threads.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

AI Council

Topic

object storage with compute

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• If you have corruption in RAID 1 how do you know which copy is good? On a slight tangent ZFS will checksum data and store that checksum in the block pointer (i.e. not with the data itself) so it can tell which of the copies …

• Bryan Cantrill says it best, I think[1]: "If you had to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of WWII but was an oracle customer, there's a very good chance you would actually explain the Nazis as an Oracle allegory." There are more …

• If anyone's interested in a presentation introduction to Manta (presumably similar to the one you saw), you may want to check out my FutureStack presentation from last year.[1] And if you have 90 minutes to kill and are in the mood for the true origin …