Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again

Software Development, DevOps & Infrastructure, Storage & Performance Engineering(blacksmith.sh)view on HackerNews

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Author: piobio

Date: 7/24/2026

Article Summary:

The author, Piotr Bejda, joined Blacksmith to work on storage problems in continuous integration (CI), specifically the challenges of handling ephemeral, concurrent, and spiky workloads in a high-scale environment.