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MinIO Tiering Warning: Data Loss and Fault Tolerance Issues

Introduction In the world of big data, storage solutions are the backbone of any architecture. As an expert solutions architect, I have relied on various storage solutions to ensure data integrity and availability. Recently, I discovered a critical flaw in MinIO’s tiering feature, introduced in RELEASE.2022-11-10T18-20-21Z and still present in Read more

By jlu, 8 months2025-12-06 ago

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Thanos TSDB: How Default Configurations Can Lead to Silent Data Loss

Thanos is a widely adopted open-source project that extends Prometheus’ capabilities, offering long-term storage, global querying, and downsampling. It’s a powerful tool for monitoring and observability, but like any complex system, it has its quirks. Thanos is cloud native and use s3 as its main storage backend. It can have Read more

By jlu, 8 months2025-12-06 ago