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Wireframe illustration of a LiDAR point cloud scan of powerlines and terrain, split into a dense grid of many small tile blocks on the left and a few larger tile blocks on the right, same data
object storage

Why File Count Matters as Much as File Size on Object Storage

Switching tile formats on a LiDAR ingestion pipeline cut output object count by roughly 25x at the same data volume, independent of compression. Here is why object count is its own cost and performance axis on object storage, and what to check before you scale a pipeline that writes many small files.

By Julien Laurenceau, 2 hours ago
Abstract grid of glowing compute cells densely packed into reserved cluster capacity
apache spark

Spark on Kubernetes Reserves CPU It Never Uses. Here’s the Overcommit Fix.

Spark sets executor CPU requests equal to limits, so a Kubernetes cluster reserves twice the CPU it uses and refuses to schedule pending pods. Kubernetes has no native overcommit. Here is the mutating-webhook operator I use to fix it.

By Julien Laurenceau, 3 months2026-05-31 ago
AI

GPUs Changed Everything. Storage Is the Bottleneck Again.

GPUs are no longer the bottleneck. Data movement is. I recently attended an online talk that stayed with me longer than most.Not because of a new GPU announcement, but because it clearly articulated something I have seen repeatedly over the years, across very different systems. That message, strongly emphasized by Read more

By Julien Laurenceau, 7 months2026-01-23 ago
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