A storage taxonomy for the rest of us

Jack van Lijnsbergen has published a workload-architecture taxonomy for storage, and it's the kind of thing you want pinned to the wall. The TL;DR Data folks flagged it, and for once the substack is right.

The gist: different workloads need different storage, and one size doesn't fit. The piece walks through the categories, what each one does, and when you'd use it. It's not a sales pitch for a vendor; it's a map.

You'll want to bookmark it. It's the kind of reference you'll open when someone on your team says something vague like "we should put it in S3" and you need to know whether that's the right call.

The original article lives at jack-vanlightly.com, and a related data catalog webinar is also linked in the post if you want the slides.

Why this matters for us: when the tech crowd starts naming things clearly, the rest of us stop getting sold the same thing twice. This one's worth keeping around.