Have you ever wondered where the trillions of photos on Instagram, the petabytes of video on Netflix, or the countless files on Dropbox actually live?
They don't just sit in a simple folder on a giant computer. Instead, they're stored in a massively scalable, highly cost-effective and incredibly durable type of system known as object storage.
In this chapter, I’ll walk you through the fundamentals of object storage - what they are, why they exist, and how they work under the hood.