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A comment on Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud. Parent comment

Re:Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud by pnathan on Monday March 14, 2016 @07:19PM (#11286321)
That is extremely cool. Please tell the author(s) of that system that a stranger on the internet has appreciation for that feat!
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Re:Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud by willglynn on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:47PM (#11286712)
You might be interested in a paper Microsoft published a few years ago, entitled "Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage", which describes some similar concepts in greater detail:

http://msr-waypoint.com/en-us/um/people/yekhanin/Papers/Usen...

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