Introduction Benchmarking remains a critical (and often underestimated) tool when designing or validating large-scale data platforms. While many teams rely on synthetic workloads or production replays, standardized benchmarks still play a key role when comparing architectures, tuning clusters, or validating infrastructure choices. TPCx-HS is one of those benchmarks: designed to Read more
Bring the IOPS dude ! As a solutions architect working with MinIO storage solutions, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges that come with on-premises deployments using hard disk drives (HDDs). While HDDs may seem like a cost-effective option initially, they can introduce significant performance bottlenecks that impact the overall efficiency and Read more
Beware the AGPL! you may end with a product orphan from its S3 storage… MinIO has long been a popular open-source S3-compatible storage solution, but their strategy has shifted dramatically—especially since the release of their new AIstor product, now positioned as their main enterprise S3 offering. Over the past year, Read more
MinIO has just announced that the open source project is now in maintenance-only mode: no new features, no regular PR review, only best-effort community support.If your data lake, AI workloads or internal S3-compatible storage rely on MinIO, this is no longer a theoretical risk – it’s an operational one. Over Read more