| storage
Removing fsync from our local storage engine
How we used pre-allocation, O_DIRECT, and an SSD-aware journal to keep our local storage engine's writes crash-consistent without fsync.
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Blog
Technical articles about high-performance object storage, system design, and engineering insights from the FractalBits team.
| engineering
Bootstrapping a Storage Cluster with Object Storage Based Workflow & Barriers
How FractalBits uses cloud object storage as a bootstrap-time coordination plane to solve the cluster startup chicken-and-egg problem.
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| engineering
Metadata Engine for Our Object Storage : from LSM Tree to Fractal ART
Why we replaced RocksDB with Fractal ART, an on-disk adaptive radix tree for object storage metadata.
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| announcement
Why We Built Another Object Storage (And Why It's Different)
High-performance object storage exists, but the economics make it unusable at scale. FractalBits breaks out of the high-performance trap.
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