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
Migrating unmanaged OSDs is one of the operations I run for Ceph clients: Ceph storage consulting. If you are running Ceph Squid with a mix of managed and unmanaged OSDs, there is one thing worth stating clearly upfront: There is no in-place adoption mechanism in Squid. You cannot “import” an Read more
GPUs are no longer the bottleneck. Data movement is. The bottleneck in AI infrastructure has moved from compute to data movement. The claim was articulated in an online talk I attended recently, and it matches what I have seen for years across very different systems: raw compute stops being the Read more
Update, September 2026: the sibling failure hit site replication. ILM expiration on a replicated mesh created delete markers that MinIO re-probes forever: 706 million replication requests in 48 hours, 96.8 percent answered 405, no data moved. Full write-up: how 684 million HTTP 405s exposed the delete-marker replication loop. Introduction In Read more