Episode 48 - MinIO
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk with Garima Kapoor Chief Operating Officer and co-founder at MinIO. MiniO has built a high performance distributed s3-compatible object storage solution that is software defined, hardware agnostic designed for large scale data infrastructure. Garima and I talk about how MinIO was built from scratch with the private cloud as it's target but has also become a defaco standard for home labs through a strong focus on community. MinIO also offers high-performance, Kubernetes-native object storage. Optimized for cloud-native workloads, and looks to deliver Enterprise and service provider usecases around ML/AI, analytics, backup and archival workloads.
MinIO was founded in 2014 and is Head Quartered out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: Block Storage, Storage, NVMe, Object Storage, Kubernetes, VMware, S3, AWS, Azure, GCP, Software Defined Storage
☑️ Raw Talking Points:
- Community
- s3 API
- Millions of docker pulls
- PUT, GET, DELETE
- Opensource or Purchase Subscription
- Single Binary 34MB?
- Written in Go Lang
- CPU offloading
- Web Browser/Interface
- Significance of GUI ACCESSABILTY
- Cluster with multiple nodes
- Scaling and Performance
- Resilience at scale
- Consistency
- Unstructured Data
- Data growth and the move to Object Storage
- Kubernetes + CSIs
☑️ Web: https://min.io
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| 0:00.0 | Oh boy, I hope we didn't lose that recording. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 48 of Great Things with Great Tech, the podcast highlighting |
| 0:22.8 | companies doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:25.4 | My name's Anthony Spiteri, and in this episode we're talking to a company that has built a |
| 0:29.9 | high-performance distributed S3 compatible object storage designed for large-scale data infrastructure |
| 0:36.9 | that was built from scratch with private cloud |
| 0:39.5 | as a target, but has also become a de facto standard for home labs through a strong focus |
| 0:45.7 | on community. |
| 0:47.2 | That company is Minio. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm talking to Garima Kapoor, the chief operating officer and co-founder at Minio. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome to the show, Gerema. |
| 0:56.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.4 | Thank you for having me today, Anthony. |
| 0:59.6 | Great stuff. |
| 1:04.1 | So just before we get into the history of Minio and all the good things around object storage, |
| 1:06.6 | I just want to give a shout out to the show. |
| 1:17.5 | So if you love great things with great tech and would like to feature in future episodes, you can click on the link on the show notes or go to gtwggt.com and register your interest. |
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| 1:28.3 | And as usual, you can catch this on Spotify, all hosted and distributed by anchor.fm. And with that, Gareem, let's talk |
| 1:36.1 | about Minio. And I think the first thing to probably chat about is, you know, founded around |
| 1:40.4 | about 2015, but maybe talk a little bit about your background and how you came to |
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