SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home
The article discusses the development of the Sprites Block Device (SBD), a new storage infrastructure solution designed to replace a custom, complex filesystem. It explains the technical challenges of using object storage with Linux and how SBD simplifies the architecture for better reliability.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing engineering trade-offs between building custom infrastructure and using standardized, reliable tools in cloud-native environments.
Annie Ruygt I have unkind things to say about people who make their own pasta. Here, I’ll only use them as an example of how not to think when you’re building infrastructure. It’s unfairly easy to believe that the harder you work on something, the better it gets. But infra is about making the $1 bag of spaghetti: a simple thing that works well (and doesn’t require you to spend a week scraping flour out of the corners of your kitchen).
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