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Essays and analysis about MinIO, S3-compatible object storage, and the SILO community fork.
MinIO Fork, Promise Kept
April 17, 2026 in Post
Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. …
Two months ago in “MinIO is Dead, Long Live MinIO,” I promised I’d keep the MinIO fork patched. The recurring objection on HN is fair: can one person actually maintain something like this? The real answer isn’t clicking fork. …
MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO
February 14, 2026 in Post
MinIO’s open-source repo has been officially archived. No more maintenance. End of an era — but open source doesn’t die that easily. I created a MinIO fork, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought …
MinIO’s open-source repo has been officially archived. No more maintenance. End of an era — but open source doesn’t die that easily. I created a MinIO fork, restored the admin console, rebuilt the binary distribution pipeline, and brought …
MinIO Is Dead. Which Next?
December 08, 2025 in Post
MinIO announced maintenance mode two days ago. I ranted in “MinIO Is Dead” and immediately got flooded with “so what now?” The usual suspects: Ceph, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Garage. I packaged all of them for Linux (RPM/DEB) and ran them through the …
MinIO announced maintenance mode two days ago. I ranted in “MinIO Is Dead” and immediately got flooded with “so what now?” The usual suspects: Ceph, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Garage. I packaged all of them for Linux (RPM/DEB) and ran them through the …
MinIO is Dead
December 04, 2025 in Post
December 3, 2025 was a day to mark in open-source software history. MinIO’s team updated the project status on GitHub, announcing the MinIO open-source project was entering “maintenance mode.” This basically declared the death of …
December 3, 2025 was a day to mark in open-source software history. MinIO’s team updated the project status on GitHub, announcing the MinIO open-source project was entering “maintenance mode.” This basically declared the death of …