Gleb Budman (Backblaze) Interview - OSCON 2014
summary
Backblaze offers $5/month unlimited backup and will FedEx a hard drive or flash key with data, so the service focuses on low cost and simple recovery. To hit that price point engineers design commodity-based storage pods holding 180 TB for $3,000, rejecting enterprise arrays and even testing USB and FireWire approaches before stabilizing the design. The hardware is open sourced, spurring hundreds of adopters and leaving Backblaze with about 100 PB deployed and multi-petabyte monthly ingest.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Backblaze service overview
- 0:50Developing custom storage pods
- 2:44Engineering commodity hardware
- 3:50Benefits of open sourcing
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