Sebastian Galkin

@functionth.bsky.social

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑐𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠? Icechunk stores only new or changed chunks for each version —no redundant copies or rewrites. You get instant time travel, branching, and efficient updates, all with negligible storage overhead. More: bit.ly/3F1XFST

Icechunk: Efficient storage of versioned array data - Earthmover

We recently got an interesting question in Icechunk’s community Slack channel (thank you Iury Simoes-Sousa for motivating this post): I’m new to Icechunk. How is the storage managed for redundant info...

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Our latest blog post dives into the chaos of the status quo - where every tweak means regenerating the 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑡 and collaboration and experimentation is often stifled by silos and secret knowledge. Check out the full post: earthmover.io/blog/tensoro...

TensorOps: Scientific Data Doesn't Have to Hurt - Earthmover

Curious how your team scores on the "Data Pain Survey"? Wondering why your teams are building Rube Goldberg machines just to put some data on a map? Or just want to see our plan to bring order to your...

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📣 Blog post alert! 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝟑'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. This technical post by @functionth.bsky.social dives deep into the internals of how S3 shards data, showing that distributed Icechunk can easily perform 230,000 object reads/sec and beyond. earthmover.io/blog/explori...

Exploring Icechunk scalability: untangling S3's prefix story | Earthmover

We show Icechunk can scale to extremely high concurrency levels, and explain how it achieves this in modern object stores.

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I've worked on Icechunk almost exclusively for the last six months. I'm very proud of the result; you should check it out.

Earthmover@earthmover.io · last yr.

1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

1/ Check out our latest blog post earthmover.io/blog/xarray-... to learn about the dramatic improvement and performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. We achieved improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3 | Earthmover

We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. This post explores how we’ve improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

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