Check out an overview of how the service works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1q5p7E4JY, and you can try it for free at https://regattastorage.com after signing up for an account. We wanted to let you try it without an account, but we figured that \u201cHacker News shares a file system and S3 bucket\u201d wouldn\u2019t be the best experience for the community.
I built Regatta after spending nearly a decade building and operating at-scale cloud storage at places like Amazon\u2019s Elastic File System (EFS) and Netflix. During my 8 years at EFS, I learned a lot about how teams thought about their storage usage. Users frequently told me that they loved how simple and scalable EFS was, and -- like S3 -- they didn\u2019t have to guess how much capacity they needed up front.
When I got to Netflix, I was surprised that there wasn\u2019t more usage of EFS. If you looked around, it seemed like a natural fit. Every application needed a POSIX file system. Lots of applications had unclear or spikey storage needs. Often, developers wanted their storage to last beyond the lifetime of an individual instance or container. In fact, if you looked across all Netflix applications, some ridiculous amount of money was being spent on empty storage space because each of these local drives had to be overprovisioned for potential usage.
However, in many cases, EFS wasn\u2019t the perfect choice for these workloads. Moving workloads from local disks to NFS often encountered performance issues. Further, applications which treated their local disks as ephemeral would have to manually \u201cclean up\u201d left over data in a persistent storage system.
At this point, I realized that there was a missing solution in the cloud storage market which wasn\u2019t being filled by either block or file storage, and I decided to build Regatta.
Regatta is a pay-as-you-go cloud file system that automatically expands with your application. Because it automatically synchronizes with S3 using native file formats, you can connect it to existing data sets and use recently written file data directly from S3. When data isn\u2019t actively being used, it\u2019s removed from the Regatta cache, so you only pay for the backing S3 storage. Finally, we\u2019re developing a custom file protocol which allows us to achieve local-like performance for small-file workloads and Lustre-like scale-out performance for distributed data jobs.
Under the hood, customers mount a Regatta file system by connecting to our fleet of caching instances over NFSv3 (soon, our custom protocol). Our instances then connect to the customer\u2019s S3 bucket on the backend, and provide sub-millisecond cached-read and write performance. This durable cache allows us to provide a strongly consistent, efficient view of the file system to all connected file clients. We can perform challenging operations (like directory renaming) quickly and durably, while they asynchronously propagate to the S3 bucket.
We\u2019re excited to see users share our vision for Regatta. We have teams who are using us to build totally serverless Jupyter notebook servers for their AI researchers who prefer to upload and share data using the S3 web UI. We have teams who are using us as a distributed caching layer on top of S3 for low-latency access to common files. We have teams who are replacing their thin-provisioned Ceph boot volumes with Regatta for significant savings. We can\u2019t wait to see what other things people will build and we hope you\u2019ll give us a try at regattastorage.com.
We\u2019d love to get any early feedback from the community, ideas for future direction, or experiences in this space. I\u2019ll be in the comments for the next few hours to respond!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) \u2013 Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS"}},"_tags":["story","author_huntaub","story_42174204","launch_hn"],"author":"huntaub","children":[42174255,42174305,42174329,42174372,42174389,42174423,42174429,42174443,42174466,42174501,42174516,42174566,42174682,42174683,42174697,42174733,42174808,42174813,42174818,42174821,42174836,42174866,42174886,42174933,42175041,42175067,42175213,42175229,42175235,42175244,42175379,42175477,42175507,42175510,42175852,42175870,42176002,42176227,42176279,42176321,42176558,42176608,42176640,42176647,42176699,42176750,42176756,42176764,42176787,42176823,42176861,42176894,42177190,42177303,42177457,42177534,42177663,42178051,42178061,42178704,42178897,42178966,42179003,42179090,42179324,42179377,42179770,42179784,42179804,42179993,42180315,42180320,42180323,42180521,42180611,42180894,42182345,42182488,42182645,42183182,42183210,42183351,42183927,42185334,42186660,42187886,42188096,42188429,42188465,42188489,42189747,42191010,42191396,42242218],"created_at":"2024-11-18T16:49:09Z","created_at_i":1731948549,"num_comments":320,"objectID":"42174204","points":587,"story_id":42174204,"story_text":"Hey HN, I\u2019m Hunter the founder of Regatta Storage (https://regattastorage.com). Regatta Storage is a new cloud file system that provides unlimited pay-as-you-go capacity, local-like performance, and automatic synchronization to S3-compatible storage. For example, you can use Regatta to instantly access massive data sets in S3 with Spark, Pytorch, or pandas without paying for large, local disks or waiting for the data to download.
Check out an overview of how the service works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1q5p7E4JY, and you can try it for free at https://regattastorage.com after signing up for an account. We wanted to let you try it without an account, but we figured that \u201cHacker News shares a file system and S3 bucket\u201d wouldn\u2019t be the best experience for the community.
I built Regatta after spending nearly a decade building and operating at-scale cloud storage at places like Amazon\u2019s Elastic File System (EFS) and Netflix. During my 8 years at EFS, I learned a lot about how teams thought about their storage usage. Users frequently told me that they loved how simple and scalable EFS was, and -- like S3 -- they didn\u2019t have to guess how much capacity they needed up front.
When I got to Netflix, I was surprised that there wasn\u2019t more usage of EFS. If you looked around, it seemed like a natural fit. Every application needed a POSIX file system. Lots of applications had unclear or spikey storage needs. Often, developers wanted their storage to last beyond the lifetime of an individual instance or container. In fact, if you looked across all Netflix applications, some ridiculous amount of money was being spent on empty storage space because each of these local drives had to be overprovisioned for potential usage.
However, in many cases, EFS wasn\u2019t the perfect choice for these workloads. Moving workloads from local disks to NFS often encountered performance issues. Further, applications which treated their local disks as ephemeral would have to manually \u201cclean up\u201d left over data in a persistent storage system.
At this point, I realized that there was a missing solution in the cloud storage market which wasn\u2019t being filled by either block or file storage, and I decided to build Regatta.
Regatta is a pay-as-you-go cloud file system that automatically expands with your application. Because it automatically synchronizes with S3 using native file formats, you can connect it to existing data sets and use recently written file data directly from S3. When data isn\u2019t actively being used, it\u2019s removed from the Regatta cache, so you only pay for the backing S3 storage. Finally, we\u2019re developing a custom file protocol which allows us to achieve local-like performance for small-file workloads and Lustre-like scale-out performance for distributed data jobs.
Under the hood, customers mount a Regatta file system by connecting to our fleet of caching instances over NFSv3 (soon, our custom protocol). Our instances then connect to the customer\u2019s S3 bucket on the backend, and provide sub-millisecond cached-read and write performance. This durable cache allows us to provide a strongly consistent, efficient view of the file system to all connected file clients. We can perform challenging operations (like directory renaming) quickly and durably, while they asynchronously propagate to the S3 bucket.
We\u2019re excited to see users share our vision for Regatta. We have teams who are using us to build totally serverless Jupyter notebook servers for their AI researchers who prefer to upload and share data using the S3 web UI. We have teams who are using us as a distributed caching layer on top of S3 for low-latency access to common files. We have teams who are replacing their thin-provisioned Ceph boot volumes with Regatta for significant savings. We can\u2019t wait to see what other things people will build and we hope you\u2019ll give us a try at regattastorage.com.
We\u2019d love to get any early feedback from the community, ideas for future direction, or experiences in this space. I\u2019ll be in the comments for the next few hours to respond!","title":"Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) \u2013 Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS","updated_at":"2026-09-20T04:27:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"RiderOfGiraffes"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["spikey"],"value":"Some time ago on this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833203
which asks about algorithms that blew one's mind, I replied with a comment that mentioned that high-dimensioanl spheres should be thought of as \"spikey\":
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834273
Someone asked why:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834508
and I promised a write-up.
I've now produced that write-up:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682
As so often happens, whether it's timing, luck or disinterest, that submission has sunk from the \"New\" page and will probably never be seen again. That happens, no surprise, no problem.
However, to tidy up I went back to the original to point at the new item and say that I'd produced the write-up that people had asked for. No problem there.
But it's dead. Here, look for yourselves:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847180
When I'm logged in that item is there. When I'm not logged in it's dead. Further more, it was dead almost instantly, without time for people to flag it.
Any ideas?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Confused about a dead comment"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_RiderOfGiraffes","story_1847215","ask_hn"],"author":"RiderOfGiraffes","children":[1847222,1847255],"created_at":"2010-10-29T13:28:30Z","created_at_i":1288358910,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"1847215","points":11,"story_id":1847215,"story_text":"Some time ago on this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833203
which asks about algorithms that blew one's mind, I replied with a comment that mentioned that high-dimensioanl spheres should be thought of as \"spikey\":
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834273
Someone asked why:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834508
and I promised a write-up.
I've now produced that write-up:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682
As so often happens, whether it's timing, luck or disinterest, that submission has sunk from the \"New\" page and will probably never be seen again. That happens, no surprise, no problem.
However, to tidy up I went back to the original to point at the new item and say that I'd produced the write-up that people had asked for. No problem there.
But it's dead. Here, look for yourselves:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847180
When I'm logged in that item is there. When I'm not logged in it's dead. Further more, it was dead almost instantly, without time for people to flag it.
Any ideas?","title":"Ask HN: Confused about a dead comment","updated_at":"2023-09-06T20:13:33Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Lightbody"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["spikey"],"value":"I'm speaking at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara tomorrow morning, giving a talk on how to launch hundreds or even thousands of concurrent EC2 instances and manage them all.
It's based on my experience with a load testing startup I launched a few years back (http://browsermob.com). I thought it might be fun to incorporate some stories from the HN community on how they use EC2.
So please feel free to share what your instance limits are, how many you run concurrently, what kinds of instances you use, whether they are \"long running\" or you have \"spikey\" usage, or anything other interesting experiences.
I'll be sure to post my slides to the thread tomorrow afternoon. And if you'd like a hat-tip in the slides, just say so in the comments. Thanks!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: how many EC2 instances do you run?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":""}},"_tags":["story","author_Lightbody","story_3592689","ask_hn"],"author":"Lightbody","children":[3592810,3592833,3592855,3592909,3593343,3594416],"created_at":"2012-02-15T02:13:30Z","created_at_i":1329272010,"num_comments":12,"objectID":"3592689","points":9,"story_id":3592689,"story_text":"I'm speaking at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara tomorrow morning, giving a talk on how to launch hundreds or even thousands of concurrent EC2 instances and manage them all.
It's based on my experience with a load testing startup I launched a few years back (http://browsermob.com). I thought it might be fun to incorporate some stories from the HN community on how they use EC2.
So please feel free to share what your instance limits are, how many you run concurrently, what kinds of instances you use, whether they are \"long running\" or you have \"spikey\" usage, or anything other interesting experiences.
I'll be sure to post my slides to the thread tomorrow afternoon. And if you'd like a hat-tip in the slides, just say so in the comments. Thanks!","title":"Ask HN: how many EC2 instances do you run?","updated_at":"2024-09-19T18:21:33Z","url":""},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"squeakynick"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["spikey"],"value":"2018 Data Share: Blog Traffic
I\u2019ve been running my blog for close to ten years now, and I\u2019ve always been curious how the traffic I receive compares to other tech bloggers. Google searches all seem supply the non-helpful answer of \u201cit depends\u201d.
In the interests of sharing, now that 2018 is over, I\u2019m happy to share some data for the year. Perhaps others might like to do the same?
http://datagenetics.com/files/traffic2018.png
TL;DR \u2013 I finished 2018 with about 1.2 million PV (down slightly from last year; web traffic is very spikey.
A few other stats:
-Approx 48% of my traffic is now non-desktop so I\u2019ve (finally) got around to changing my site to a responsive design that is more mobile/tablet friendly (yeah, yeah, I know what took me so long!)
-Browser breakdown: 57% Chrome, 25% Safari, 6% Firefox, 2% IE, the rest noise.
-Search provides the lions share of my referral traffic (67%), followed by direct traffic.
-97.7% of this search traffic comes from Google, 1.6% from Bing, the rest noise."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Sharing Data: Blog Traffic"}},"_tags":["story","author_squeakynick","story_18811557","ask_hn"],"author":"squeakynick","created_at":"2019-01-02T23:57:49Z","created_at_i":1546473469,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"18811557","points":4,"story_id":18811557,"story_text":"2018 Data Share: Blog Traffic
I\u2019ve been running my blog for close to ten years now, and I\u2019ve always been curious how the traffic I receive compares to other tech bloggers. Google searches all seem supply the non-helpful answer of \u201cit depends\u201d.
In the interests of sharing, now that 2018 is over, I\u2019m happy to share some data for the year. Perhaps others might like to do the same?
http://datagenetics.com/files/traffic2018.png
TL;DR \u2013 I finished 2018 with about 1.2 million PV (down slightly from last year; web traffic is very spikey.
A few other stats:
-Approx 48% of my traffic is now non-desktop so I\u2019ve (finally) got around to changing my site to a responsive design that is more mobile/tablet friendly (yeah, yeah, I know what took me so long!)
-Browser breakdown: 57% Chrome, 25% Safari, 6% Firefox, 2% IE, the rest noise.
-Search provides the lions share of my referral traffic (67%), followed by direct traffic.
-97.7% of this search traffic comes from Google, 1.6% from Bing, the rest noise.","title":"Sharing Data: Blog Traffic","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:28:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"KnoxProtocol"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["spikey"],"value":"My kernel FLUXNATION is the fastest FLUX.1 kernel currently in existence. I engineered this from the ground up to replace standard ComfyUI SingleStreamBlock implementations by shifting the entire execution flow to a custom C++/CUDA engine, eliminating all unnecessary overhead. I developed the custom Triton kernel to handle the neuromorphic inspired Spike Attention, iterating the design via Nsight Compute until the hardware utilization reached its absolute capacity.
S Tier Performance: The kernel achieves 4\u20136 second image generation times on any sampler or scheduler, regardless of whether you are running 20 or 50 steps. Once Spikey kicks in, it goes ham and COOKS with 0 image quality loss.
Bare metal C++/CUDA Engine: I stripped out the standard execution path and built a custom SSBEngine that interfaces directly with torch.ops. Zero ctypes latency, zero wasted cycles.
Fused Computations: The kernel executes gate, residual, and bias computations in a single high velocity lovelace pass. This completely eliminates the intermediate float32 memory bottlenecks that choke standard pipelines.
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Cache Stepping & Native FP8: I integrated explicit cache stepping logic to manage state. The first generation takes a moment to saturate the system, but every run after that operates at peak velocity. I also built in native float8_e4m3fn support with automated per-tensor scaling and module-level weight caching to ensure zero redundant extractions. Spikey and cache stepping compliment each other beautifully.
Nsight Compute Verified: I profiled and iterated this through Nsight Compute until there was literally no more theoretical headroom. The kernel utilizes the lovelace architecture at full physical capacity. I have untested 10 series through 30 series iterations on my github, I have a 1080TI in my other rig but I havent tested the 10 series iteration on it, or the 20 or 30 series as I dont have those cards. I cooked only on the lovelace architecture, so feel free to give them a whirl if you rock those cards or want to fix it if broke.
ComfyUI Integration: The kernel is fully integrated into the ComfyUI Manager, allowing for immediate deployment via custom nodes. I don't think anyone has seen it yet though it's been up for a while. Hopefully some people here can appreciate my work and utilize it themselves. Its night and day difference and allows image generation to cook on whole new level. Just search FLUXNATION is comfyui manager.
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Fused Computations: The kernel executes gate, residual, and bias computations in a single high velocity lovelace pass. This completely eliminates the intermediate float32 memory bottlenecks that choke standard pipelines.
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Nsight Compute Verified: I profiled and iterated this through Nsight Compute until there was literally no more theoretical headroom. The kernel utilizes the lovelace architecture at full physical capacity. I have untested 10 series through 30 series iterations on my github, I have a 1080TI in my other rig but I havent tested the 10 series iteration on it, or the 20 or 30 series as I dont have those cards. I cooked only on the lovelace architecture, so feel free to give them a whirl if you rock those cards or want to fix it if broke.
ComfyUI Integration: The kernel is fully integrated into the ComfyUI Manager, allowing for immediate deployment via custom nodes. I don't think anyone has seen it yet though it's been up for a while. Hopefully some people here can appreciate my work and utilize it themselves. Its night and day difference and allows image generation to cook on whole new level. Just search FLUXNATION is comfyui manager.
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- Supports Groq (free tier), OpenAI, OpenRouter, Bedrock. Ollama support just landed for fully local inference.
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that's why i created uiino. it makes it easy to create user flows with just plain text, anywhere you can type. if you get stuck, our ai can even help you build a story map from your app idea.
uiino keeps things clear and simple. we use tags to make it easy for everyone to understand. need feedback? you can add comments directly to the map. and if you need to move things around, it's super easy!
we use uiino ourselves to build better products. to try ditching the sticky notes and see how clear user stories can help.
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that's why i created uiino. it makes it easy to create user flows with just plain text, anywhere you can type. if you get stuck, our ai can even help you build a story map from your app idea.
uiino keeps things clear and simple. we use tags to make it easy for everyone to understand. need feedback? you can add comments directly to the map. and if you need to move things around, it's super easy!
we use uiino ourselves to build better products. to try ditching the sticky notes and see how clear user stories can help.
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I created this tool because I wanted a lightweight and efficient way to keep an eye on my server's performance without constantly logging in. Rust's performance and safety features made it an ideal choice for this project.
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