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tobilg 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storag...

I'm 100% aware of how S3 works. I was questioning why the S3 API is needed when the service is using local storage.

zdw 3 months ago [–]

Sometimes API compatibility is an important detail.

I've worked at a few places where single-node K8s "clusters" were frequently used just because they wanted the same API everywhere.

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