by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
The S3 GUI team is building a standalone app as a GUI front-end to Scality storage on Kinetic. They’re writing a drag-and-drop User interface using JavaScript, Electron and React so that people can interact directly with the storage without having to use a command line interface.
The S3 GUI Team
Team member Andy Chen goes to every single Hackathon in in the bay area: he’s been to 14 or 15 this year so far. He knows S3, so this one was especially attractive to him. this. A junior at Berkeley, Andy’s pretty good at the Hackathon game: he’s won 5 just this year. And, so far this year, those wins have earned him approximately $20k in scholarship money, Uber credits and other prizes.
His teammate, Alex Davis is an entrepreneur. Alex chose to join this hackathon as a learning experience, and to give himself a break from the intense project he’s been working on for his business. He uses AWS S3, and finds it frustrating that he has to be online to use it. The fact that he can work offline with the Scality S3 Server is a great help to him, so he wanted to get to know this tool because it will help in his work. He was also impressed that Scality has a JavaScript interface to the Seagate Kinetic drives.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Boba Team wanted to explore what the Kinetic implementation of Scality S3 Server did, and what limitations it has…and then develop a way to overcome those limitations. They found that Kinetic drives can’t store objects bigger than 1MB, so they are developing a program that breaks up objects into smaller chunks (and reconstitutes them on retrieval) so that larger objects can be stored.
Boba Team
Boba Team is made up of Holberton students Electra Chong, her twin sister Rona Chong and Daniel Alzugaray. This is the first Hackathon for all of them, outside of the Commando Hackathons that the school puts on for its students.
Electra knew about the hackathon before she began working at Scality three weeks ago, but she loves the idea of coming back to the school as a Scality employee, interacting with fellow students and colleagues. Rona decided to do the hackathon to build skills and expertise, meet people and learn more about the Scality S3 Server that her sister works on. This is her first experience examining source code in depth. Daniel learned about it through the school and his friends. New to the area, Daniel came here from New York to go to the Holberton school, and he’s here to stay.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Immutables Team
The Immutables team is deep into design discussions, as they work to build a relational database on top of content-addressable immutable objects with the Scality S3 Server. Team lead Ignacio (Nacho) Corderi is huddled with Marc Segura and Michael McThrow to build this ambitious extension. Nacho, who was on the original Kinetic team at Seagate, came by to see friends here on Friday night, then got caught up in the wave of enthusiasm and joined the Hackathon. Nacho is a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, and an engineer at Exablox. Michael McThrow, also a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, signed up for the Hackathon on the recommendation of a friend and professor at the school. He came for the practice and the contacts, as he’s looking for his next gig. Marc is on the S3 Server team at Scality.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 2, 2016 | Meetups & Events
The Holberton school is humming! We started with a social hour, enjoying delicious, creative food by Guillaume Salva of Blankette. Now, the creativity is turning to developing ideas for innovative ways to use the Scality S3 Server. Giorgio Regni and Vianney Rancurel of Scality and Chiaming Yang of Seagate took participants through the background and logisitics to get the hackers geared-up to consider possible projects. Next, they made their teams and pitched their ideas–to each other and to mentors. There’s a lot of excitement (and not just because of the prizes).
Hackathon weekend is underway!
With just a few minutes more to go in the Friday session, ideas are gelling and teams are working to set the stage for tomorrow’s work.
S3 Server Hackathon
If you couldn’t make it to the hackathon here in San Francisco, you can still take advantage of the same tools these hackers are using. Download the open source Scality S3 Server at https://s3.scality.com/. Scality S3 Server is an open-source object storage project to enable on-premises S3-based application development and data deployment choice. Use it to build and integrate S3-based applications faster, and store your data anywhere.
Planning the Hackathon
Giorgio Regni
