Category: platform engineering
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Raunak Jalan
Jun 5th, 2026 | 13 min read
We Break Our Storage So You Never Have To
Simplyblock runs 100+ hours of automated chaos engineering before every release: real NVMe hardware, real FIO workloads, four failure types injected under live load. This is what we test, why it is necessary, and what it means for your infrastructure.
Chris Engelbert
May 12th, 2026 | 9 min read
Zero-Downtime Storage Upgrades: What 'Live Upgrade' Actually Requires
Storage vendors frequently claim live upgrade support. What the claim often obscures is the difference between an upgrade procedure that minimizes downtime and one tested to produce zero I/O errors throughout, verified by running a concurrent workload during the entire process.
Raunak Jalan
Apr 14th, 2026 | 8 min read
How to Evaluate Storage Vendor Reliability Claims
Most distributed storage vendors claim 99.999% availability. Almost none will show you the actual test that validates what happens to your data when a node fails mid-write. This is a framework for asking the questions that separate real reliability from marketing.
Rob Pankow
Apr 6th, 2026 | 4 min read
Unified Storage for Containers and Virtual Machines on OpenShift
Learn how to design unified OpenShift storage for containers and virtual machines without forcing VM workloads and Kubernetes-native applications into separate storage models.