Erasure Coding: Backblaze Open Sources Reed-Solomon Code
Today we are releasing our latest open-source project: Backblaze Reed-Solomon Java library for erasure coding. Click for details on how to use and download.
At Backblaze we have built an extremely cost-effective storage system that enables us to offer a great price on our online backup service . Along the path to building our storage system, we have used time-tested technologies off the shelf, but we have also built in-house technologies ourselves when things weren’t available, or when the price was too high. We have taken advantage of many open-source projects, and want to do our part in contributing back to the community. Our first foray into open-source was our original Storage Pod design , back in September of 2009. Today, we are releasing our
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