Backblaze Developer Newsletter—July 2023. Read All About Our New Documentation Site!

Our monthly newsletter brings technical articles, events, and news to developers working with Backblaze B2 Cloud Object Storage.

Hi there!   Welcome to our July 2023 Backblaze Developer Newsletter, bringing you news, articles, and events from the world of Backblaze B2.   The big news this month is our new documentation portal, which we redesigned to be more developer-friendly—read all about it below, or hop on over to https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage right now if you can't wait to see it! We love to hear from you about topics that you'd like to see us cover here in the newsletter, on the blog, or on the improved docs site. Email your suggestions to us at evangelism@backblaze.com (or just reply to this email). Check Out the New Backblaze B2 Documentation Portal! The Backblaze Technical Publications team has been hard at work creating an improved documentation site, migrating existing Backblaze B2 documentation to a new platform, and completely reworking the API documentation into a more easily navigable and searchable format. The new platform allows us to much more easily and quickly add new articles, and we'll be porting content over from the Backblaze B2 Help Center to form a single, unified document collection. We'll bring highlights of new content each month here in the Developer Newsletter. Build Cyber Resilience: Protect, Respond, and Recover From Security Incidents The question isn't if your business will face a security incident, but when. Ransomware, employee errors, and natural disasters can be existential threats to an unprepared organization. In this webinar, Senior Risk Assessment Specialist Chris Vickery, Senior Marketing Manager Kari Rivas, and Senior Director of Partnerships Elton Carneiro explain how to strengthen your organization's cyber resilience by protecting systems, responding to incidents, and recovering with minimal disruption. Essential viewing for developers, IT admins, CISOs; in fact, everyone with a technical role! Discover the Secret to Lightning-Fast Big Data Analytics: Backblaze + Vultr Beats Amazon S3/EC2 by 39% Given the high cost of AWS components such as EC2 and S3, you might expect them to outperform more reasonably priced alternatives. However, when Backblaze Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson compared the performance of the Trino open source SQL query engine on EC2 and S3 against Vultr Cloud Compute and Backblaze B2, he was very pleasantly surprised to see the multi-cloud Backblaze/Vultr combination significantly beating AWS on both price and performance. Check out Pat's blog post for details of the benchmark he used as well as the results he observed. NAS RAID Levels Explained: Choosing the Right Level to Protect Your NAS Data "At what size of a RAID NAS should I have a two drive tolerance instead of one?" This question, posted on Twitter, inspired Product Marketing Manager Vinodh Subramanian to dive into the details of RAID and write this blog entry. From JBOD to RAID 1+0, Vinodh explains the different levels of redundancy and protection. Learn all about striping and parity, and why no one uses RAID 2, 3 or 4. Upcoming Events Catch up with us online or in person in the next few weeks:   DeveloperWeek CloudX: Aug 15–16, San Mateo, CA; Aug 22–23, online. This year, DeveloperWeek's cloud computing conference will be visiting Backblaze's hometown of San Mateo! Visit us at the Backblaze booth and attend Product Leader Bala Gangisetty's session, "Storing Smarter, Not Harder: Object Storage Best Practices" at 2:30 p.m. PT on August 15 (in-person) and at the same time on August 22 (online). Know anyone who might like this newsletter? Forward this email to them so they can subscribe! Backblaze, 500 Ben Franklin Ct, San Mateo, CA Unsubscribe Manage preferences