Questions tagged [file-storage]
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PHP secure storage for sensitive document uploads [closed]
I need help deciding how to securely store sensitive docs uploaded via a PHP script. I realize I'm not personally qualified for this task (if I was I wouldn't be asking this question) but need to know ...
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Strategies to shard local storage folders based on sequential key
I am storing a large (~1M per year for ~30 years) amount of text files in file-based storage. Each file is named FFFFFFFFFF-YY-SSSSSS.txt where FFFFFFFFFF is a 10-digit filer key, YY is a 2-digit ...
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Creating associated resources before creating the main one in a REST setting
I'm not sure how common of a scenario this is, but what are some approaches to creating associated entities before you have the actual main entity they're supposed to be linked to? (basically having ...
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Saving and reading files in user specific application data in C or C++
Most useful or reasonably complex applications need to save data such as user settings or saved games or browser history. I have been working on applications and games in C or C++ but I am not sure ...
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File system for abstracting S3 object storage
We're looking for a scalable way to implement a file browser feature backed by a robust object storage system for the files. We were looking at an S3 compatible service, such as MinIO for this. Since ...
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How could creating symlinks/aliases to files on S3 work, while still taking advantage of CDN optimizations?
I am trying to imagine a website/system where only 1 copy of a file is ever stored, but multiple users get their own custom link to the file, and it uses the CDN features. For this question we can ...
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Why does most software break or refuse to continue immediately if the folder where their data is stored is not available? [closed]
Most software creates a directory (usually in ~/Library or ~/Library/Application Support in MacOS) to store user preferences, browser history, etc. Most software attempts to create their data ...
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What is the size of the number 65535 in bytes? [closed]
As I got to know there are 256 possible combinations to get for 1 byte. If I understand it correctly, it should mean that you can display any number out of numbers 0-255 and this very number would use ...
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Best way to store and fetch image bytes?
I have a case in my startup where I need to fetch images in bytes as fast as possible. At the moment I'm storing the images in Azure Storage then I fetch them on the run and cache them into my ...
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Large file uploading in chunks
How to upload large(mb/gb) of video files from client to app server? The solution as of now I know is pretty simple and widely used is to break file in chunks at at client side and send http post ...
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Share files between microservices
We have a service (lets say FileService) that provides API to store/download files into various stores (S3/local file etc.,) We have a scenario where one microservice (Service A) writes a file to S3 ...
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Streaming File Storage in Distributed (and Containerized) Systems
I'm trying to implement a system that allows a user to upload files over HTTP, saves the file to object storage as well as any metadata surrounding the file that already exists to a NoSQL database (i....
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In DDD, is it worth it to define a Bounded Context for file access?
I'm designing an editor as a desktop application that opens, saves and saves as documents from files, something very common in fact. I already have Bounded Contexts for my business rules. Naively, I ...
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designing a secure/encrypted file storage for a multi-tenant saas app with local and cloud storage in mind
as the title suggest, I need to handle the tenant files in a multi-tenant saas app. fairly common scenario I believe and should have been solved by the gurus already. right now the app is in infancy ...
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Supplying Kubernetes pods with data from a persistent volume and writing back
To keep it simple, I have this service that stores data in a persistent volume. There are pods that are created by an API which use a subset of the stored data to perform an operation and generate new ...
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