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Object storage, explained from first principles.

Deep dives into the ideas behind RustFS and S3-compatible object storage — erasure coding, durability math, data placement, and the internals that keep your data safe.

Featured articleOct 3, 2026

Erasure Coding Explained: How Reed-Solomon Keeps Data Safe When Drives Fail

A deep dive into erasure coding: why replication is expensive, how Reed-Solomon codes compute parity over finite fields, how lost shards are rebuilt with matrix inversion, and how RustFS implements it all in its storage engine.

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