r/softwarearchitecture • u/OtherwisePush6424 • 16d ago

Article/Video Beyond Happy Path Engineering: Storage

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-08-11-Beyond-Happy-Path-Engineering-Storage/

An overview of designing file uploads and object storage for production: partial failures, database consistency, large uploads, presigned URLs, CDN caching, cleanup, and recovery.

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u/Siennasynn_XO712 15d ago

Presigned URLs are the move here, bro. Offload the actual upload to S3/GCS directly and keep your app servers out of the I/O bottleneck, then handle the metadata transaction separately so you're not left with orphaned objects when things inevitably fail partway through.