Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @Backblaze. Previously @Citrix, @StreamSets, @SalesforceDevs, @Huawei, @SunMicrosystems.
SF Bay Area, California, USA
Joined April 2007
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If youโre on @bluesky, you can find me there at bsky.app/profile/metadaddy.nโฆ - come say hi!
Are you getting the full picture of how your cloud storage is being accessed? #BackblazeB2 now offers Bucket Access Logsโa powerful feature that delivers detailed records of every access request to your data.
Join me next Wednesday and learn how to query these logs for insights, audits, and improved security.
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#CloudStorage #Observability #DataSecurity #BackblazeTechLab post.dsmn8.com/SbHyFTrmuW
Why does @awscloud hate C++? Most of the AWS SDKs have supported overriding the endpoint URL via the AWS_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable for about two YEARS now, but still no sign of C++ support! github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp/iโฆ
ALT Table of AWS SDK support for service-specific endpoints showing AWS SDK for C++ as one of the few SDKs that still does not support it
Congratulations to @Sammy_Sidhu and Eventual on their funding round. I've been giving @daftengine, their distributed data engine, a spin recently - great stuff! Expect a post on the @backblaze blog soon on how to access Apache Iceberg tables stored in #BackblazeB2 from Daft
Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others.
The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted.
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Handy cheat sheet for configuring CORS for #BackblazeB2 buckets, from @Ziberna medium.com/@matijazib/settinโฆ
Stuck for pressie ideas? @backblaze has you covered!
It's a funky year for holiday scheduling this go-round, but never fear: the Backblaze Gift Guide will get you ahead of the game. Snag the latest recommendations from the Backblaze team and focus on the fun ๐ฅโก๏ธ
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If youโre on @bluesky, you can find me there at bsky.app/profile/metadaddy.nโฆ - come say hi!
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So the brain worm serial cheater who decapitated a whale & dumped a dead bear is gonna be in charge of our nationโs health and the chick who shot her dog and her goat and lied about meeting with Kim Jong Un is gonna be in charge of our homeland security.
We are living The Onion.
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Doctors said it was โinevitableโ that Josseli Barnica would miscarry โ yet they waited 40 hours to treat her under Texasโ abortion ban.
Days later, Barnica died.
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ALT A woman died after being told it would be a โcrimeโ to intervene in her miscarriage at a Texas hospital
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1. I've found a large, AI-driven bot network on X which is posting in support of Trump in the US election.
Thread.
.@Backblaze customer @DecartAI emerged from stealth mode last week, announcing Oasis, their playable, realtime, open-world AI model. I love this quote from their CEO, @DLeitersdorf, in our blog post: "B2 Cloud Storage was literally the only technical thing we used in training these models that didnโt crash the first time we tried it. Weโre in an industry where everything fails, but Backblaze didnโt."
How do you build an AI model 10x more efficient than Sora? Guessing Decart won't tell you all the secrets, but we can tell you how Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage helped. Today, we're sharing how @decartAI used @backblaze to launch their Oasis model.๐ฅโก๏ธ hubs.ly/Q02WQwRQ0
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Thread of before and after photos ๐งต
1. Chichen Itza in 1892 and now
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Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.
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This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala
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Poppy vs. Community Notes
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1. How it all started
.@Backblaze continues its expansion, announcing a new data region in Canada, in partnership with @Opti9Tech. Now, Canadian organizations with data residency requirements can benefit from Backblazeโs ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness!
Backblaze and Opti9 are partnering up to bring Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to joint customers around the world as well as businesses in Canada who are required to keep their data within national borders. Read the full announcement ๐ฅโก๏ธ
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