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A scaled-down clone of Dropbox’s Magic Pocket, the in-house block storage system Dropbox built to move off AWS S3. It reimplements the core architecture, justifies each design decision against Dropbox’s public sources, and benchmarks latency, scaling and cost against cloud providers and an on-prem estimate.

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good first issue area: devops team-wide type: chore
frectrium/Satchel
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A scaled-down clone of Dropbox’s Magic Pocket, the in-house block storage system Dropbox built to move off AWS S3. It reimplements the core architecture, justifies each design decision against Dropbox’s public sources, and benchmarks latency, scaling and cost against cloud providers and an on-prem estimate.

Rust
#aws#blob-storage#case-study#cloud-computing#cloud-repatriation#distributed-systems#docker#dropbox#erasure-coding#magic-pocket#object-storage#rust#terraform
good first issue type: chore area: devops team-wide
frectrium/Satchel
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A scaled-down clone of Dropbox’s Magic Pocket, the in-house block storage system Dropbox built to move off AWS S3. It reimplements the core architecture, justifies each design decision against Dropbox’s public sources, and benchmarks latency, scaling and cost against cloud providers and an on-prem estimate.

Rust
#aws#blob-storage#case-study#cloud-computing#cloud-repatriation#distributed-systems#docker#dropbox#erasure-coding#magic-pocket#object-storage#rust#terraform