B2blaze
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python client library
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
16 positive, 37 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 16 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Performance: 3 for, 9 againstPricing: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
API feels similar to boto S3 API
From 1 comment
The best part is this API looks and feels very similar to AWS's boto S3 API. Great job!
Dawny33 on HN
Objections
Multithreaded uploads not supported yet
From 1 comment
Are you able to try multithreaded uploads too? I found that single stream uploads were too slow (< 10 megabytes per second) but I could get ~35 megabytes per second from…
voltagex_ on HN
Limited unit test coverage
From 1 comment
This feels like a handy tool! The first thing I read when opening new code is the test suite - it's worth getting that right at the start. Would you consider deeper unit testing?…
piqufoh on HN
B2 lacks S3-compatible API, requiring custom SDKs
From 1 comment
This whole library wouldn't be necessary if Backbalze implemented a S3 compatible API. They give reasons like being able to load balance on the client for their API (which I do…
tobias3 on HN
Requests
Add multithreaded uploads
From 1 comment
Are you able to try multithreaded uploads too? I found that single stream uploads were too slow (< 10 megabytes per second) but I could get ~35 megabytes per second from…
voltagex_ on HN
Deeper unit testing with mocks
From 1 comment
This feels like a handy tool! The first thing I read when opening new code is the test suite - it's worth getting that right at the start. Would you consider deeper unit testing?…
piqufoh on HN
Django integration
From 1 comment
I saw that one. I'm not a particular fan of Django but integrating my library apart from Django's storage library wouldn't be difficult. Neither would be building a django…
gsibble on HN
Questions
Whether B2 supports pre-signed upload URLs
From 1 comment
Can I use B2 as replacement for S3? Namely, I need "get upload URL" like pre-signed S3 URLs.
gtt on HN
Alternatives named
Official Backblaze B2 Python API classes
From 1 comment
BTW, the Backblaze team themselves officially support a Python implementation of the API wrapper (the B2Api and Bucket classes):…
metakermit on HN
rclone
From 1 comment
I use rclone's B2 driver (https://rclone.org/b2/) as an rsync-style backup solution of about 1TB worth of my pictures and other media. Also, it's encrypted with my own local key…
ereyes01 on HN
restic
From 1 comment
In the spirit of sharing details of open source tools that work well with B2, I am using restic and finding it to work well.
james_in_the_uk on HN
Minio
From 1 comment
The idea behind this was to avoid Minio at least when using Python with a very simple to use SDK.
gsibble on HN
Wasabi
From 1 comment
> Backblaze B2 provides the cheapest cloud object storage and transfer available on the internet Are you sure ? http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/ says there are cheaper…
simula67 on HN