“With Reed Solomon, you can get that down by a bit lower… I think it was like essentially 2x… versus three copies storing three times as much storage.”

Peter Mattis · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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Adopted Reed-Solomon erasure coding for data storage instead of triple replication

2x storage vs 3x replication

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