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Hi, I'm Luke. I'm a Senior Software Engineer at AWS on the Elastic File System (EFS) service.
Previously, I worked at Readyset, which implements a SQL query caching layer on top of MySQL or Postgres. Based on Noria, Readyset keeps caches up to date automatically via dataflow. 2026-03-03 Note: This post was written with Claude as an experiment in AI-assisted writing. A survey of file systems and object stores — from spinning disks to distributed blobs — and what actually matters when you're choosing one. "The Lie …Latest Writing