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. The Read more
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 existing OSD into the orchestrator. If an OSD was deployed manually or predates your orchestrator setup, Read more
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
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