Story time! In Asian mythologies (Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Indian at least), foxes have held a strong role since the 11th century. The Konjaku Monogatarishu, a collection of Ancient Tales from Asia, is the first written reference we have to zenkos.
It gains tails as it matures and, after 100 years, when reaching its final stage, it has 9 tails, and may then become a zenko. (fun fact: did you know Tails, the character from Sonic The Hedgehog, is a zenko?)
Zenkos are celestial, benevolent foxes, who attached themselves to Samurai families, protecting them in exchange for housing. And Zenko strives to be a role-model in the open source world, by attaching itself to the open source contributors and users, and protecting their technical endeavors.
Foxes are, among other things, universal. We talked about zenko as a Japanese word, but there are divine occurrences of the fox globally: in Peru, there was a Fox god for the Andean people; in Egypt, foxes were good omens; in Persia, foxes were the equivalent of Charon; for a number of Native People from North America, the fox spirit was a strong one… And Zenko is global. Its core engineering team is split between France, the USA, and New Zealand, and its contributors come from very diverse backgrounds… object (and file) storage is a universal need, Zenko is aiming at providing a universal answer.
S3 Server Hackathon – October, 2016
Finally, foxes are smart, witty, artful, aware, swift, playful, brave… you name it.
Zenko is all of that. And even more so every time one of you joins our community. Welcome to Zenko, zenkos!
The F1 in this team’s name stands for Formula One, because the project is all about the race. The S3 F1 team is Racing Scality S3 Server against AWS S3 Server, blasting commands to both servers to see which is faster, and developing a way to display the results visually. The project could ultimately be used as a performance monitor, or as a marketing tool that demonstrates performance.
This team is heavily Scality/Holberton; 3 teammates are Scality employees, and 3 are or were Holberton students.
Team S3 F1
Bennett Buchanan is both: a Holberton student and a Scality employee. A D.C.-area native, Bennett came to the Holberton School after developing an interest in coding while working at a non-profit in Berkeley.
Dora Korpar is another team member with both a Holberton and a Scality connection. She has a degree in Biology, and was living in Minnesota and working at Trader Joe’s while trying to decide what direction to head in next when she came upon an article about the Holberton School, so applied on a whim.
Nicolas Humbert is from France. He came to the U.S. and worked for a company in Berkeley for a while, but wasn’t happy there. He was thinking of going back to France when he found Scality (a little bit of France in San Francisco). It was perfect—he really wanted to do back-end development.
Ian Liu-Johnston is just 3 weeks into his education at Holberton. Video brought him to software. Before coming to Holberton, he earned a degree in digital electronic art and video editing, and worked as a video editor for a non-profit.
Shivaji Vidhale is on-call this weekend, so in and out. He’s a site reliability engineer at Apcera who did his studies at North Carolina State University. He wanted to do a Hackathon, so Googled Hackathon and found this one.
I’d like to warmly welcome you to the hub for Scality S3 Server, the open source version of our Amazon S3 API.
Scality S3 Server fulfills our long-held dream of creating a true open source project. For Scality, Amazon S3 was the natural choice because it has become the de facto standard for object storage. We believe the best way for developers to learn the technology is to explore the source code and see how things are put together. That’s why we’re seeding the open source community. Once people sink their teeth into Scality S3 Server and start playing with the source code, we’re confident that creative ideas and innovations will emerge beyond what we imagined. Such active community involvement is the magic of open source—and we’ve committed to the vision by equipping Scality S3 Server with its own distinctive brand, logo, and hub.
Giorgio Regni (CTO) and Jérôme Lecat (CEO).
We’ll keep the API current as Amazon makes periodic protocol changes. And because we’re open source, you’re free to tweak code on your own.
One key point we would like emphasize: Scality S3 Server is by no means a stripped-down version of something else. It’s the same production-grade code as our commercial product, with no subtractions or compromises. With Scality S3 Server, you can go comfortably from your first line of code to a real production experience with object storage. Develop and test on your laptop, deploy your finished app on a larger server configured with RAID protection, and use it to store production data. Start small and scale up to as much as a few hundred terabytes.
So go ahead—take Scality S3 Server for a spin! Then let us know what you think, and don’t be shy. We look forward to your feedback.
Edit the box as follow, Using S3 (HTTP) as the access method, use the IP & PORT listed on Kinematic in the previous step
The username is accessKey1, when prompted, type the secret key/password verySecretKey1
Double click on the bookmark you just created
Ready to begin?
You’ll find comprehensive guides and documentation to help you start working with Scality as quickly as possible, as well as support if you get stuck. Let’s jump right in!
For developers, quickly checkout the code on GitHub and start running it locally. For users, get an S3 server running in under 5 minutes by following our Docker guide.
