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Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by tmm_ on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:43AM (#12921933)
Very good question. Of course all services behave a little differently which is out of our control. To be honest, I don't have an exact answer on that. In my first tests I could chain a download directly after the upload with all services. But I don't know if that's because they're all guaranteed to be read-after-write or some were eventually-consistent just really fast. In general, if one service is read-after-write and you want to switch it for one that isn't you might get problems, unless you've programmed defensively (checking for existence before proceeding). Give us some time to check that and run some more tests.
Re:Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze... by EpicEng on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:42PM (#12933075)
That's kind of the point though. This abstraction seems doomed to be extremely leaky. Honestly, I'd rather just deal with them separately than be constantly fighting an API.