Small File Performance Problems in Object Storage
HTTP round-trips make tiny files expensive at scale.
Yusra Al-Sabbagh
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Yusra Al-Sabbagh
Yusra Al-Sabbagh holds an M.S. in distributed systems from the University of Edinburgh and has reported on large-scale infrastructure since 2017, with bylines in several systems-focused trade publications. Her beat centers on how data moves—and fails to move—across distributed environments at scale.
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EBS vs EFS vs S3 Performance Benchmarks for ML Workloads
Storage bottlenecks, not GPU count, determine how fast ML models actually train.
Yusra Al-Sabbagh
Object Storage vs Block Storage Trade-Offs
GPU stalls cost more than storage when data moves slowly between tiers.
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How Mmap Works for File-Backed Memory
Skipping a costly data copy by pointing directly at kernel memory makes mmap blazingly fast.
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