VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE!

The only thing hotter than Kubernetes at the moment is Crypto. While the price of BitCoin takes centre stage for the most, there is so much more behind this technology that enables value to be applied to the smart contract mechanisms of a BlockChain and what can be stored inside the immutable ledgers. Practical applications of BlockChain technology is becoming more common and beyond the lure of becoming a Crypto Millionaire, the DeFi Smart Chain boom and general hype there are a growing number of legitimate companies doing things with BlockChain technology.

I came across FileBase this week after I saw news of their 2 million dollar seed round. Having owned coins in one of the BlockChain technologies they are leveraging to provide their S3 Storage, I was instantly interested. Now this isn’t for everyone… because at its core we are talking about a de-centralised storage network spanning many nodes across the globe. GDPR and other data sovereignty controls will not work here. From an availability point of view, bucket objects are redundantly stored across thousands of availability zones globally. Bucket replication policies are not required given the underlying BlockChain technology.

Incredibly, Filebase does not operate any physical infrastructure. Instead, they maintain a cluster of application servers connected to various de-centralized networks. This results in a lower overhead and capital expense due to fewer servers. Users can upload data to Filebase using the browser-based interface or by using our S3-compatible API.  In theory, de-centralisation will add latency when objects are retrieved from the distributed servers network. The impact on response times and performance is mitigated in theory by edge caching technology to increase throughput and lower read and write response times. The implement caching and If a recent object is downloaded from the service, it it likely that this object will be retrieved from the edge layer.

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