Splitting light Season 2 Episode 06 Object storage If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe Object storage was our first priority. Many existing and future products depended on having an object storage product. We looked at the state of the art. There were a few competing protocols. Amazon S3 was the oldest but there was also Blackblaze B2, Openstack SWIFT, Google GCS and lastly Azure Blob storage. When we looked into how object storage was used, where it was used...
12 days ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 2 Episode 05 Mind haze If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe Cafeteria (1) Those first few months are blurry in my memory. Because of my context, I thought at the time that it was because I wasn’t a good engineer. Now, I understand that I was in a learning phase. I recognize these phases better now. It was the same feeling as when I had started doing hardware. Not really understanding everything. Everything seemed to blurry precisely...
19 days ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 2 Episode 04 First product sunset If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe Slipper boxes (1) As we learned more and more about the existing products and how to maintain them online, we learned about different components and how many spare parts we had in stock. A question you could ask is why did we keep these products online? We could’ve pulled a Google and just killed them all to only have the products we were expected to build. Except, we...
26 days ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 2 Episode 03 Remote hands If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe Even before we could do anything other than look at what object and block storage were, we had to assure the continuity of the existing products. That meant getting the people who used to take care of them to give us all the information they knew and what we needed to continue running them. One thing helped us very much. Both Folays and Loic had worked on some of the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 2 Episode 02 Birth of team storage 💾 If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe The five of us had been tasked to build two new products in the short term. Object and block storage. What we had missed was that we would pick-up all the existing storage products as well. At the time, in the cloud department there had already been two tries at object storage, the first one had been a public offering based on RiakCS, a now defunct database. The...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 2 Episode 01 51 avenue Iena If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe November 2017, the cloud industry was now booming. AWS was 11 years old, Azure was 9 years old, GCP was 6 years old and Oracle Cloud was now 2 years old. For me, the adventure continued but on a different wavelength. I had jumped energy level, and it was a whole new light. The storage team was created. There were initially five of us. Me, the lead engineer, Théo the manager...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Splitting light Season 1 Episode 40 Thirty years old If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe I did my last student loan payment in August 2017 just before turning 30 a few weeks later. 30 for me had a meaning. I had survived. I had accomplished and did things I enjoyed. It was time to give back to friends and family. I organized my birthday at my uncle who had a property in the south of France. Me at my birthday My goal was to bring all these different people...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Splitting light Season 1 Episode 39 Pivot If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe Around that time, a big change was being prepared inside Scaleway. What we named later, the pivot. It was decided that the company would pivot to only cloud offerings. Up to that point there had been two distinct offerings. Cloud offerings, billed by the hour, and dedicated offerings billed by the month. The biggest business was the second but the one with the most potential growth...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Splitting light Season 1 Episode 38 ECMP / Tunneling If you are no longer interested in the newsletter, please unsubscribe The network chips we used had many more features that we had implemented in software. As the complexity of how the devices were used and set up in production, it raised the rationale to use more and more of the advanced chip features. It’s one thing to have routing capability, it’s a better one to have multipath routing capabilities. The multipath capability enables...
2 months ago • 2 min read