Object Storage
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.