S3-Compatible Object Storage at $15/TB: Read the Egress Math First
Filebase's $15/TB S3-compatible object storage with free egress: when free egress actually cuts your bill, the 100 RPS limit, and a pre-migration checklist.
Marcus Chen
9 min readCloud Storage Insights for Engineering Teams
S3 architecture, AI workload bottlenecks, migration patterns and cost optimisation — analysis from working storage practitioners.
Marcus Chen
9 min read
GKE Inference Gateway Prefix Caching: Don't Sign Up for the Cache Tax
GKE Inference Gateway prefix caching delivers 92.8% faster TTFT, but only while your prompts stay uniform. The cache tax operators must plan for.
Alex Kumar
12 min read
Unstructured Data Tiering: The Step That Cuts Storage Cost
Unstructured data tiering only cuts your storage bill with access-driven classification, immutable cold copies, and tested restores. A platform engineer's playb
Alex Kumar
12 min read
Managed Spark Clusters: FinOps Controls Matter More Than 4.9x
Google's new Managed Spark clusters: why zero-scale, scheduled stops, and Flexible VMs matter more than the 4.9x Lightning Engine headline.
Alex Kumar
9 min read
Cloud Storage Egress Fees Decide Your AI Data Bill, Not Per-GB Price
Cloud storage egress, not per-GB price, decides your AI data bill. GCS is $0.020/GB to store but $0.12/GB to egress — parity with S3 at ~10TB. Price the exit.
Alex Kumar
10 min read
Spanner Graph Algorithms: Where the Storage Bill Actually Hides
Spanner Graph algorithms kill the analytics ETL pipeline, but Data Boost reads and Cloud Storage bucket exports relocate the cost. A storage architect's read on
Marcus Chen
10 min read
gcs-analytics-core: Stop the Sequential-Read Tax on Iceberg
gcs-analytics-core cuts Iceberg-on-GCS scan time up to 71.51%. Read the TPC-DS curve honestly, set both flags, and avoid the silent-failure trap.
Alex Kumar
9 min read
GCS MCP Server: Why "Zero Infrastructure" Is a Trap for Storage Teams
GCS MCP server gives agents zero-infrastructure storage access — but remote vs local, OAuth scopes, and prompt injection decide if it ages into an asset or a li
Marcus Chen
11 min read
Data Foundation Failure Kills AI Projects Before Models Ship
Only 22% of leaders trust their infrastructure for AI, and 60% of projects get abandoned. Why your storage and egress model decides whether AI ships.
Alex Kumar
10 min read
Cloud Storage FUSE Is the Hidden Bottleneck in Multi-Region TPU
A Google Cloud multi-region GKE TPU failover demo nails the network — but Cloud Storage FUSE quietly caps your real failover latency. Read the storage path firs
Alex Kumar
9 min read
S3 storage truth: Why Reddit skips directories
Reddit avoids directories because S3 handles 1M+ data lakes. Learn why flat namespaces beat rigid file systems for massive scale.
Alex Kumar
13 min read
Unified Backup Strategy: Why Immutability Is the Cheap Part
A unified backup strategy needs more than a locked vault. How Motability built ransomware-resilient AWS Backup with account isolation and verified recovery.
Alex Kumar
10 min read