Tech Lab – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:05:54 +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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]]> One Simple Change That Made Our Exabyte-Scale Storage Faster https://noise.getoto.net/2025/05/06/one-simple-change-that-made-our-exabyte-scale-storage-faster/ Tue, 06 May 2025 16:37:44 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112085 When you're operating at exabyte scale, even one extra network request adds up. A simple tweak—combining two steps into one—cut download overhead in half and boosted performance. When you question assumptions, you can find big wins in small, smart changes.

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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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]]> Analyzing Performance at Exabyte Scale https://noise.getoto.net/2025/04/23/analyzing-performance-at-exabyte-scale/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:45:08 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112050 Before you can improve performance, you have to know where to look.

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]]> What Powers the Performance of Backblaze https://noise.getoto.net/2025/04/08/what-powers-the-performance-of-backblaze/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=112034 Senior Vice President of Engineering Tina Cessna kicks off a series of articles discussing how her team is continually improving our exabyte-scale platform.

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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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]]> AI 101: Building and Deploying an AI Model https://noise.getoto.net/2024/12/11/ai-101-building-and-deploying-an-ai-model/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:38:58 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111827 Is integrating AI on your company's roadmap? Read this primer on the AI model training and deployment process to understand how to approach it.

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]]> Solving the AI Training Data Challenge with Decart AI and Backblaze https://noise.getoto.net/2024/11/04/solving-the-ai-training-data-challenge-with-decart-ai-and-backblaze/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:17:04 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111714 How Decart launched a video-generating AI model using Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

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]]> Announcing Support for IPv6 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/09/19/announcing-support-for-ipv6/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111598 If you're rocking IPv6 or it's on your roadmap, you can now connect to Backblaze via the protocol.

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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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]]> 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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]]> Backblaze Network Stats: Ingress Trends and What They Tell Us About Backup Behaviors https://noise.getoto.net/2024/08/22/backblaze-network-stats-ingress-trends-and-what-they-tell-us-about-backup-behaviors/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:54:22 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111509 Ingress trends tell us that humans are creatures of habit.

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]]> Command Like a Pro with New Backblaze B2 CLI Enhancements https://noise.getoto.net/2024/08/20/command-like-a-pro-with-new-backblaze-b2-cli-enhancements/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=111495 Check out the latest enhancements to the Backblaze B2 CLI in version 4.1.0.

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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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]]> Backblaze Plugs In to Internet2 https://noise.getoto.net/2024/05/16/backblaze-plugs-into-internet2/ Thu, 16 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://backblaze.com/blog/?p=111201 Backblaze is now an Internet2 member, furthering the mission of supporting the technical and networking needs of higher ed organizations.

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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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]]> Automate Your Data Workflows with Backblaze B2 Event Notifications https://noise.getoto.net/2024/04/15/automate-your-data-workflows-with-backblaze-b2-event-notifications/ Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/blog/?p=111094 Announcing Backblaze Event Notifications, designed to give businesses the freedom to build automated workloads across the different best-of-breed cloud platforms. Available today in private preview.

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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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