Pat Patterson – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Wed, 28 May 2025 16:05:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Building a Conversational AI Chatbot Website with Backblaze B2 + LangChain https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/28/building-a-conversational-ai-chatbot-website-with-backblaze-b2-langchain/ Wed, 28 May 2025 16:05:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112123 Build your own conversational AI chatbot with this easy how-to from Backblaze Chief Technical Evangelist, Pat Patterson.

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]]> Iceberg on Backblaze B2 https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/01/iceberg-on-backblaze-b2/ Thu, 01 May 2025 17:29:48 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112071 Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson discusses how you can leverage Apache Iceberg to efficiently store data in object stores like Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

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]]> Experimenting with DeepSeek, Backblaze B2, and Drive Stats https://noise.getoto.net/2025/03/04/experimenting-with-deepseek-backblaze-b2-and-drive-stats/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:22:33 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111976 Read about how to build a chatbot using Backblaze, DeepSeek, and the Drive Stats dataset.

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]]> Building an AI Agent with Backblaze B2, LangChain, and Drive Stats https://noise.getoto.net/2025/01/22/building-an-ai-agent-with-backblaze-b2-langchain-and-drive-stats/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:50:58 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111888 Pat Patterson uses Drive Stats data to demonstrate how to build and test your own AI agent.

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]]> How to Zip Files with the Python S3fs Library + Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage https://noise.getoto.net/2024/09/17/how-to-zip-files-with-the-python-s3fs-library-backblaze-b2-cloud-storage/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:55:18 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111593 A customer question inspires adventures in the Python S3fs library to build an application for creating .zip files from Backblaze B2.

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]]> Backblaze Open Sources Boardwalk Workflow Engine for Ansible https://noise.getoto.net/2024/09/12/backblaze-open-sources-boardwalk-workflow-engine-for-ansible/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:53:25 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111583 Read about how to orchestrate Ansible to help automate rolling maintenance jobs like kernel and OS upgrades across your production environment.

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]]> Do More with Backblaze B2: A Tour of the Backblaze GitHub Repositories https://noise.getoto.net/2024/09/05/do-more-with-backblaze-b2-a-tour-of-the-backblaze-github-repositories/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:41:03 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111560 Check out the Backblaze GitHub for a whole slew of useful, open source tools built on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

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]]> How to Build Your Own LLM with Backblaze B2 + Jupyter Notebook https://noise.getoto.net/2024/08/13/how-to-build-your-own-llm-with-backblaze-b2-jupyter-notebook/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:51:26 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111475 We didn't use an LLM to write this, but we did figure out how to build one on Backblaze B2.

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]]> AI Video Understanding in Your Apps with Twelve Labs and Backblaze https://noise.getoto.net/2024/05/09/ai-video-understanding-in-your-apps-with-twelve-labs-and-backblaze/ Thu, 09 May 2024 16:05:00 +0000 https://backblaze.com/blog/?p=111186 Learn how to use AI video understanding platform Twelve Labs, with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

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]]> Exploring aws-lite, a Community-Driven JavaScript SDK for AWS https://noise.getoto.net/2024/01/25/exploring-aws-lite-a-community-driven-javascript-sdk-for-aws/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:13:25 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110788 If you're a developer using JavaScript on S3 compatible cloud storage, chances are you've run into the limitations of the AWS SDK. Read about how aws-lite provides an open-source alternative, and how Backblazer Pat Patterson is contributing.

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]]> Data-Driven Decisions With Snowflake and Backblaze B2 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/01/09/data-driven-decisions-with-snowflake-and-backblaze-b2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:36:12 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110697 Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Snowflake can be a powerful integration for your big data tasks. Let's talk about when and why you'd use this solution.

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]]> How to Run AI/ML Workloads on CoreWeave + Backblaze https://noise.getoto.net/2023/12/13/how-to-run-ai-ml-workloads-on-coreweave-backblaze/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:37:55 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110526 At Backblaze's 2023 Tech Day, CoreWeave and Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson discussed how the two platforms interact. Read the article to see the details.

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]]> Digging Deeper Into Object Lock https://noise.getoto.net/2023/11/28/digging-deeper-into-object-lock/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:11:45 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110451 Object Lock can be a powerful tool to protect your data. Let's look more closely about how and when to use it.

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]]> How We Achieved Upload Speeds Faster Than AWS S3 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/11/02/how-we-achieved-upload-speeds-faster-than-aws-s3/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=110157 Backblaze upload speeds are now significantly improved thanks to breakthrough storage cloud innovation. Learn more about how we did it.

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]]> Big Performance Improvements in Rclone 1.64.0, but Should You Upgrade? https://noise.getoto.net/2023/09/21/big-performance-improvements-in-rclone-1-64-0-but-should-you-upgrade/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:13:41 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109809 Rclone just released v1.64.0, which includes updated multithreading implementation. See the details of the release, and how it works with Backblaze B2.

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]]> How to Use Cloud Replication to Automate Environments https://noise.getoto.net/2023/07/13/how-to-use-cloud-replication-to-automate-environments/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109204 Cloud Replication has several use cases. Today, let's talk about how to replicate data to different environments: testing, staging, and production.

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]]> Discover the Secret to Lightning-Fast Big Data Analytics: Backblaze + Vultr Beats Amazon S3/EC2 by 39% https://noise.getoto.net/2023/06/27/discover-the-secret-to-lightning-fast-big-data-analytics-backblaze-vultr-beats-amazon-s3-ec2-by-39/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:22:16 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109111 See the results of our side-by-side comparison of compute query times of Backblaze B2 + Vultr versus AWS + EC2.

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]]> Go Wild with Wildcards in the Backblaze B2 Command Line Tool 3.7.1 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/02/22/go-wild-with-wildcards-in-the-backblaze-b2-command-line-tool-3-7-1/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:41:54 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=108095 Check out our rundown of the latest version of the Backblaze B2 Command Line tool to see how we've made it even easier to manage files (especially in large datasets).

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]]> Build a Cloud Storage App in 30 Minutes https://noise.getoto.net/2023/01/24/build-a-cloud-storage-app-in-30-minutes/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:31:21 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=107832 Announcing our Developer Quick-Start Guide, your intro to using Backblaze B2 with Python, Java, and CLI. Read on to learn more.

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]]> How to Serve Data From a Private Bucket with a Cloudflare Worker https://noise.getoto.net/2023/01/18/how-to-serve-data-from-a-private-bucket-with-a-cloudflare-worker/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:32:29 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=107794 Backblaze partners with CDN providers to offer free egress between our services. Here's how—and why—you'd use a Cloudflare Worker to prevent direct downloads of content from your Backblaze B2 Bucket.

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