Hacker News Reader

Comment by codegeek | Hacker News Reader

"We're the team that wrote the file system that powers S3."

Your funding slide heading right here.

He was at AWS for 5 years from 2015 to 2020. It seems unlikely that he wrote the filesystem that powers s3. Improved, absolutely.

His partner was a manager, not an engineer, per https://www.geekwire.com/2024/former-aws-engineers-raise-3m-...

Personally I don’t like this sort of puffery in funding slides nor announcements.

All our backend engineers were on the S3 filesystem team.

I'm Grant Slatton, founding engineer at Row Zero, and before this I designed and led the team that built S3's new filesystem, ShardStore (check out this paper https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/papers/shardstore-sosp21...). Our other Row Zero backend engineers (Breck, Erich, Greg) were all on the team.

Our frontend guy is ex-Airtable.

Oooh! Your reputation precedes you.

Please, please, please put an “about us” page on your site. People get leery when there aren’t named humans identified as being behind a product that’s asking for production data access.

VCs invest in people and not products/ideas from what I have heard/read. I think it is imp. to mention that you were on the S3 team if you are building something like this. Huge credibility factor.

I wont be surprised if someone acquires them. This looks really well engineered and it gets shit done as they say.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com