Note: This article was inspired by a LinkedIn post by Can Sinan A. on the hidden operational cost of an Iceberg migration, especially when governance moves from one access-control plane to several layers: catalog, storage and engine configuration Introduction Many organizations are modernizing their data platforms with lakehouse architectures, and Read more
RBD mirroring in production is one of the patterns I audit and design: Ceph storage consulting. Alpha Feature in Production… Good Idea? The most promising approach, journal-based mirroring, offers near real-time replication and faster failover. However, it’s currently an alpha feature in the Ceph CSI driver and relies on rbd-nbd, Read more
Choosing a PVC backend is an architecture decision I review; the Ceph storage consulting page describes the cluster side. Most discussions about PVC focus on on-prem deployments, but many of these technologies are equally relevant in the cloud, especially when using managed block storage like AWS EBS, which caps at Read more