S3 Server Hackathon

Name: S3 Server Hackathon
Start: 2016-10-21T17:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-10-23T19:00:00.000Z

Why should you join the Hackathon?

Object storage has become fastest-growing model for storing rich content for cloud applications, for data such as images and video. We now see the popularity of the Amazon AWS S3 API has emerged as a standard and is used by thousands of applications in use in the cloud and the enterprise. As a developer, gaining expertise with the S3 API provides a cornerstone to your career in bringing these new applications to life!

Scality has recently announced their new open source implementation of a full Amazon S3 Server under an Apache 2.0 license. This project took a full year with a team of 15 people, 8 of them we have recruited following a similar hackathon held in Paris in 2015!

This hackathon will give you a chance to interact directly with the S3 Server dev team, develop your own application on top of it or extend its storage capabilities by interfacing with Kinetic IP drives from our partner Seagate. Of course there will be free food and prizes to win for your efforts! We invite you to participate and join us the weekend of Oct 21-23 in San Francisco at the Holberton School - are you up to the challenge?

More Details about the Hackathon

Participation in the hackathon is open to hackers working in solo or in teams of up to 3.

Competitors will be judged at the end of the weekend based on quality of the design and creativity.

Scality engineers experienced in Node.js, Python and C as well as Seagate engineers specialized in IP drives software and hardware will be present for support during the entire event.

Example projects for this hackathon

You could decide to extend S3 Server to support another API like AWS Glacier or Openstack Swift,
Another idea could be to focus specifically on administrative tools for IP drives (for example discovery, or monitoring GUI),
Others may focus on smart data placement and repair strategies for placing data on IP drives.

But let your imagination and creativity run free - that’s the key to a successful hackathon.

The hackathon is open to any developer who wants to work on storage systems and their API, going from terabytes to exabytes of data.