In the mid-2010s, a quiet crisis was brewing in data centers. Flash storage—blazing-fast SSDs—had arrived, but the software running the servers couldn't keep up. It was like putting a Formula 1 engine inside a horse-drawn carriage. The hardware was ready to scream, but the operating system and traditional file systems were choking on the data.
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The industry took notice. Genomics researchers, who deal with petabytes of DNA sequence data, could now analyze a genome in hours instead of weeks. Oil and gas companies processing seismic data could run simulations in real-time. And in Hollywood, visual effects studios rendering films like Avengers: Endgame could have hundreds of artists working on the same massive frames without waiting for files to load. Imagine you have a giant, urgent puzzle to solve (the data). Normally, you’d put all the puzzle pieces in one box on a table, and one person (the storage server) hands pieces to a team of workers (compute servers). That one person becomes exhausted. In the mid-2010s, a quiet crisis was brewing in data centers