Why did we build our own blob store? | Balls & Bins, A Mix of Random Thoughts
In a world increasingly dominated by open source technology, we understand that we shouldn't reinvent the wheel (unless there are good reasons to do so). The Bob (read as Bag of Blobs) team at Upthere is a small group (four members as of now), but still we decided to work on this very challenging project — to build our own blob store. This seems unnecessary at the first glance, given that there are already some pretty good open source storage solutions like HDFS and Ceph. Upthere is not a startup at its early days but yet still doesn't have abundant resources to build everything of our own. So why do we want to devote efforts to build our own blob store from scratch?
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