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January 26, 2021

So You Want to Store a File...

This week’s blog post is distilled from several conversations I’ve been having at work recently.

Why do we use S3? What’s an asset pipeline? Why should all application-stored files be marked as private, even if they are things like profile pictures?

I explore these questions and provide a bit of a history lesson in So You Want to Store a File…

The title is a nod to one of my favorite books as a child, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

Hopefully this post serves as a good bookmark to forward to new engineers on your team or in the industry when you need to explain why the simple task of storing a file might appear so complicated.

Up Next

Next week’s blog post will take the "It’s been N days since…" concept from budgeting and workplace safety to apply it as a measure of health for software teams. If you’re interested in giving the draft a read and providing feedback, please get in touch.

Until next week!

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