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System Design: Object Storage (Erasure Coding, Flat Namespace, and Exabyte Scale)
Design an exabyte-scale object storage system with 11 nines of durability using Reed-Solomon erasure coding, a flat namespace, CDN-accelerated reads, explicit control plane / data plane separation, and an application-layer partial update system built on immutable blobs.
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