Storage Server Notes
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- Dominant language
- Ruby
- Stars
- 16
- Forks
- 2
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Description
Regional storage server accepting file uploads (bypassing the regional instance server)
Most servers are regional... as HA across regions is generally a heavy engineering effort.
This generally means that the speed and success of uploading files depends on the location of the client to the server. A client on the other side of the world with a bad route might upload slowly or not at all.
My understanding is the file path travels... client -> Web -> Sidekiq -> S3 bucket -> CDN -> Client
This is obviously a stretch goal as I believe this "storage server" project is to store/cache media from mastodon instances as a CDN layer and not a primary data source... but I'd imagine instances COULD have multiple storage servers around the world that accept inbound files.
A nice ANYCAST IP or GEO-Aware DNS that points to the faster local server for any client around the world but the file ends up on the local instances control would be a nice bonus.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing the described client → Web → Sidekiq → S3 bucket → CDN → Client path and reviewing the storage server project's scope; the issue does not define a concrete implementation target or completion criteria.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, ruby
- Domain
- backend, cloud, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100