Cloudflare R2 Architecture and Zero-Egress Trade-Offs
Zero egress fundamentally reshapes the math for bandwidth-heavy workloads and AI pipelines.
Marcus Telford
Staff Writer
Marcus Telford
Marcus Telford came up through site reliability engineering at a mid-sized cloud consultancy, where he designed and migrated multi-tenant storage architectures for enterprise clients. He now brings that practitioner's eye to his coverage of cloud-native and cross-cloud storage design.
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Checkpoint Storage for Distributed Training on S3
Optimizing checkpoint writes cuts GPU idle time and unlocks cheaper training infrastructure.
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Hard Links and Inodes Explained
Understanding why files are three separate layers, not one.
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Atomic Rename as a Crash-Safety Primitive
Rename guarantees atomicity to other processes, not safety from crashes.
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How a Write-Ahead Log Keeps a Filesystem Consistent
Write-ahead logs prevent filesystem corruption by recording changes before applying them to disk.
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