SMRTR ProgrammingDec 31, 2024Daily.dev

Building Cloud Storage from Scratch

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A cloud-ready block storage service, similar to Amazon EBS, was built using Python. The system implements network block devices, replication for high availability, sharding for throughput, and leader election for failover. Performance benchmarks show the service achieves about 1% of a bare cloud instance's disk performance.

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