Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸

Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @Backblaze.

Previously @Citrix, @StreamSets, @SalesforceDevs, @Huawei, @SunMicrosystems.

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

If you’re on @bluesky, you can find me there at https://t.co/2wvL9oL3j6 - come say hi!

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

Are you getting the full picture of how your cloud storage is being accessed? #BackblazeB2 now offers Bucket Access Logs—a powerful feature that delivers detailed records of every access request to your data.
Join me next Wednesday and learn how to query these logs for insights, audits, and improved security.

📅 Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 | 🕒 10am Pacific | 💻 https://t.co/O2X0TPdpj3
#CloudStorage #Observability #DataSecurity #BackblazeTechLab https://t.co/GvpEAdvQTi

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

Why does @awscloud hate C++? Most of the AWS SDKs have supported overriding the endpoint URL via the AWS_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable for about two YEARS now, but still no sign of C++ support! https://t.co/r5CpYSU0rv

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

Congratulations to @Sammy_Sidhu and Eventual on their funding round. I've been giving @daftengine, their distributed data engine, a spin recently - great stuff! Expect a post on the @backblaze blog soon on how to access Apache Iceberg tables stored in #BackblazeB2 from Daft

[Sammy Sidhu @Sammy_Sidhu]

Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others.

The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted.
🧵

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@idrawrobots @BillQueens @SubwayTakes Absolutely not! The Romans were (mostly) not Jews; neither were the Greeks, the Egyptians, in fact, most of the population of the world at that time.

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@mholt6 @backblaze ...and "If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service." [2/2]

https://t.co/QXmy9OapoN

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@mholt6 @backblaze Yeah, Wasabi knocked unlimited egress on the head at some time after that. Now: "If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy"... [1/2]

https://t.co/QXmy9O9Rzf

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@gyulanemeth85 @travisstreet_ Wasabi cap your free egress at the amount of storage you're paying for. Backblaze offers free egress for up to 3x your storage, then $0.01/GB, no cap.

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@HackNSoul @thdxr 30 day retention applies to deleted/overwritten files and disconnected external drives. Your current files are retained as long as your subscription is active.

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

Handy cheat sheet for configuring CORS for #BackblazeB2 buckets, from @Ziberna https://t.co/yiLjm1TYaA

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

Stuck for pressie ideas? @backblaze has you covered!

[Backblaze @backblaze]

It's a funky year for holiday scheduling this go-round, but never fear: the Backblaze Gift Guide will get you ahead of the game. Snag the latest recommendations from the Backblaze team and focus on the fun 🔥➡️
https://t.co/bzRWUDKsN4

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

If you’re on @bluesky, you can find me there at https://t.co/2wvL9oL3j6 - come say hi!

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@JAYTEEAU @backblaze @akleinbert Hi! 1 failure *in the quarter* across 246 drives = quarterly failure rate of 0.4% = annual failure rate of 1.61%

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@johnrushx @Emu4iOS You can find #BackblazeB2 at https://t.co/GNjsfEH8x1

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

So the brain worm serial cheater who decapitated a whale & dumped a dead bear is gonna be in charge of our nation’s health and the chick who shot her dog and her goat and lied about meeting with Kim Jong Un is gonna be in charge of our homeland security.

We are living The Onion.

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@bstrat515 @PopBase Don't mind me - I'm just here for the ratio 👍🏻

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@WadeWegner @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze I don’t think we really do compete - you’re in a different price bracket for storage, and we don’t do any of the other stuff 😜

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@Presidentlin @WadeWegner @digitalocean @backblaze Oops - @Presidentlin - I guess that question was aimed at @WadeWegner, rather than me! 😂

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@Presidentlin @WadeWegner @digitalocean @backblaze Hopefully not - #BackblazeB2 is 1/3 the price of DO Spaces - $6/TB/month!

[Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 @metadaddy]

@WadeWegner @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze Hi Wade! 👋🏻