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Simplyblock Byte – Issue 2024-10/3

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While serverless computing has revolutionized how we think about application deployment and scaling, one critical component often remains stubbornly traditional: storage. Organizations embracing serverless architectures find themselves constrained by storage solutions that don’t match the elasticity and efficiency of their compute layer. This challenge is particularly acute for database operators and companies providing database-as-a-service (DbaaS) offerings, where storage requirements can fluctuate dramatically based on workload demands.

The fundamental disconnect between serverless compute and traditional storage is obvious: pre-provisioned capacity that sits idle, complex scaling procedures that require manual intervention, and cost structures that don’t align with serverless principles. Companies like Discord have highlighted these pain points, even building custom solutions to bridge the gap – but not every organization has the resources for such undertakings. That’s where simplyblock steps in, providing truly serverless storage experience that automatically scales maintaining the performance, durability, and cost-efficiency demands of modern cloud-native applications.

By providing a unified storage interface (NVMe) logical device that abstracts away underlying, diverging storage interfaces behind an easy-to-understand disk design, simplyblock enables genuinely serverless database operations. Our thin provisioning technology eliminates the need for upfront capacity planning, while automatic tiering ensures optimal cost-efficiency without sacrificing performance. This approach not only simplifies storage management but also aligns storage economics with serverless principles – you only pay for what you use, when you use it.

P.S. We’re sponsoring Kubecon NA in Salt Lake City in less than 2 weeks! Visit us at the booth or sign up for our breakfast events – more information below.”

Rob Pankow, CEO, Simplyblock

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Important upcoming information from simplyblock

Simplyblock joins KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America from November 12 to November 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find us at booth number T57 (right next to the t-shirt pickup, and the team is waiting for you to say hi and ask as much as you want!

More importantly though, we’re organizing socializing breakfast events, each on Thursday and Friday morning. There are still seats available. Get ready for the Simplyblock Breakfast Bytes and sign up now!

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