The article discusses the distinction between NVMe storage and traditional hard disks, highlighting how many applications manage their own redundancy. It argues that for certain workloads, the focus should be on effective instance placement rather than unnecessary data replication. The piece also covers NVMe technology and the network architecture needed for distributed storage systems.

This article details the author's experience creating an object store called blobd, optimized for speed with sub-millisecond read times and high upload rates. It discusses design choices, including using a hash-based index and direct I/O to bypass traditional filesystems. The open-source project aims to enhance performance for small object storage.