Oct 16, 2020What is Decentralized Cloud StorageTardigrade is the world’s first enterprise-grade, decentralized cloud storage service. Through decentralization, Tardigrade is more secure, more performant, more affordable, and more private by default than centralized cloud providers. What exactly is decentralized cloud storage? On the user’s end, it operates exactly the same as traditional cloud storage options like…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
Sep 24, 2020NEM and IoDLT — Using Tardigrade to Accelerate MongoDB Snapshot Distribution and StorageIoDLT is a company that secures, records, and monetizes data from a wide array of sources, (including IoT devices). The company and wider NEM ecosystem have had difficulty making their blockchain data easy to access for application developers. By working with IoDLT to build a solution leveraging Tardigrade and MongoDB…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
Aug 11, 2020Choosing Cockroach DB for Horizontal ScalabilityBy Krista Spriggs And Jessica Grebenschikov Here at Storj Labs we just migrated our production databases from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. We want to share why we did this and what our experience was. TL;DR Our experience has convinced us that CockroachDB is the best horizontally scalable database choice in 2020. Why use a horizontally scalable database in the first place? …Cockroachdb8 min readCockroachdb8 min read
Jul 24, 2020Remote but Not AloneThe significant shift toward remote work brought on by the pandemic looks like it’s going to have a lasting effect mainly because of the long list of benefits, from increased productivity to general employee satisfaction. While the shift to remote work has a lot of great things going for it…Remote Work5 min readRemote Work5 min read
Jul 23, 2020Managing Remote TeamsManaging a remote team might be an entirely new concept for you. Because of COVID-19, many of us are working from home full-time, for the first time, and will be doing that for the foreseeable future. At Storj Labs, most of our team is already remote — we have employees…Remote Work6 min readRemote Work6 min read
Jul 21, 2020Relationship Building Over ZoomStorj Labs decided early on that Tardigrade.io, the leading globally-distributed cloud storage platform should be built by an equally distributed team. As a result, Storj now has workers spread across 24 cities in 13 countries. While we definitely know a thing or two about effectively managing remote teams, it doesn’t…Remote Working6 min readRemote Working6 min read
Jul 15, 2020How to Maintain Productivity in a Remote EnvironmentIt’s difficult to be productive in even the best circumstances, but the current state of the world presents unique challenges. At Storj, the majority of our team works remote since day one, so we’ve had extra time to experiment with what works best in a distributed and remote environment. Here’s…Remote Work5 min readRemote Work5 min read
Jul 15, 2020Remote-first Versus Partially Remote Work CulturesCOVID-19 has forced nearly every company to adopt some semblance of a work remote culture. It’s great to see companies take the initiative in flattening the curve through social distancing. However, the work remote culture your organization adopted in response to COVID-19 is necessarily not a remote-first work culture. At…Remote Working5 min readRemote Working5 min read
May 20, 2020Changing the Security Paradigm to Push Access Management to the EdgeBy John Gleeson, VP of Operations at Storj Labs With the paint barely dry on our production release of the Tardigrade Platform, one of the areas where we’re seeing the strongest interest from customers and partners building apps is our security model and access control layer. …Encryption9 min readEncryption9 min read
Mar 19, 2020General Availability for Tardigrade is HereThe internet was designed to be decentralized. When you send a message, stream media, or do a video conference, you don’t worry about which routers your data is passing through, who owns them, or whether some may be down. The decentralized model for internet communications has delivered multiple orders of…Decentralization4 min readDecentralization4 min read
