Ethan Carter·3d agoSpin Up a Self-Hosted S3 Bucket in 5 Minutes with RustFSLast month, Hacktoberfest 2026 had open-source contributors everywhere reaching for a place to stash build artifacts, datasets, and CI…
Ethan Carter·Oct 19Apache Iceberg & Lakehouse: RustFS S3 Tables in PracticeA lakehouse is not a product; it is a three-layer split — a table format (Apache Iceberg), a catalog that knows which tables exist, and…
Ethan Carter·Oct 12RustFS S3 Tables: A Built-In Iceberg REST Catalog in an Apache-2.0 Object StoreRustFS S3 Tables is an Apache Iceberg REST Catalog built directly into the RustFS object storage kernel, so one process on one port serves…
InTowards Data EngineeringbyThink Data·Oct 11I Wanted a Lakehouse on My Laptop. Apache Polaris Makes It Possible.Most engineers don’t have a safe, disposable environment to test Iceberg behavior without spinning up cloud infra, burning credits, or…A response icon1A response icon1
Inuninterrupted engineeringbyBartek Galezowski·Sep 28MinIO Is Deprecated: Best Alternatives for S3-Compatible StorageFor years, MinIO was the obvious answer whenever an engineering team needed S3-compatible object storage outside AWS. You wanted an…A response icon13A response icon13
Ethan Carter·Sep 17RustFS 1.0 Is GA After 2.5 Years: What’s Actually Production-Ready, and What Isn’tRustFS 1.0.0 reached general availability on September 16, 2026. The core S3-compatible object storage engine is stable and supported for…A response icon2A response icon2
Sadia Neela·Aug 21Building a Simple S3-Compatible App with RustFS (A Faster MinIO Alternative)Amazon S3 has become the go-to object storage solution for countless applications, handling everything from images and documents to backups…
Ethan Carter·Aug 18We keep seeing the same MinIO migration storySaw a post on r/elasticsearch the other day that stuck with me. An engineer walked through how they ran MinIO from 80 TB to 1.5 PB on…
Ethan Carter·Aug 5What Is a Rust Alternative to MinIO for AI & Cloud Native Workloads?As AGPL licensing constraints and garbage collection pauses bottleneck modern AI workloads, engineering teams are seeking a new generation…
Ethan Carter·Jul 27MinIO vs RustFS: Migrating 12TB — What We Measured, What Changed, and What Didn’tWe migrated 12 terabytes of production object storage from MinIO to RustFS over a single weekend in March 2026. Not because MinIO broke —…A response icon1A response icon1
