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Podcast: Screaming in the Cloud
Episode: Solving the 20-Year S3 File System Problem with Hunter Leath
Description: Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil, spent 8 years building Amazon's EFS file storage system, learning exactly why making cloud storage act like a hard drive always fails. Old programs need hard drives, but cloud storage doesn't work like hard drives—a problem that's existed for 20 years.Now Hunter's building Archil, which puts super-fast storage between programs and S3 so they can finally work together. Your programs think they're talking to a regular disk while your data lives safely in the cloud.Hunter explains how they're doing what others couldn't, why it costs less than Amazon's own so...