Learn to say popular self-hosted, S3-compatible object storage system names correctly.
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How is MinIO (open-source, high-performance object storage compatible with the S3 API) correctly pronounced?
MinIO is pronounced 'MIN-ee-oh' — stress on MIN, three syllables. In a technical interview: "MinIO gave our staging environment the exact same S3 API our production cloud bucket uses."
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How is SeaweedFS (fast, simple, and scalable distributed file and object storage system) correctly pronounced?
SeaweedFS is pronounced 'SEE-weed-EF-ES' — 'seaweed' exactly like the everyday plant, plus 'F-S' spoken as letters. In a technical interview: "SeaweedFS stored billions of small files without the metadata overhead a normal filesystem would have hit."
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How is Garage (lightweight, self-hosted S3-compatible distributed object storage system) correctly pronounced?
Garage (the object storage project) is pronounced 'guh-RAHZH' — the French-style pronunciation, not the everyday word for a car shelter. In a technical interview: "Garage replicated every uploaded object across three nodes before it ever confirmed the write."
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How is Ceph (distributed storage system providing object, block, and file storage in one cluster) correctly pronounced?
Ceph is pronounced 'SEF' — one syllable, short for 'cephalopod'. In a technical interview: "Ceph rebalanced the data across the cluster automatically the moment we added a new storage node."
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How is Rook (cloud-native storage orchestrator that runs Ceph and other backends on Kubernetes) correctly pronounced?
Rook (the storage orchestrator) is pronounced 'ROOK' — exactly like the everyday name for the chess piece, one syllable. In a technical interview: "Rook provisioned the whole Ceph cluster as Kubernetes custom resources instead of manual shell scripts."