https://swarmfile.com/blog Product updates and engineering notes from Swarmfile. https://swarmfile.com/blog/what-a-read-actually-costs https://swarmfile.com/blog/what-a-read-actually-costs Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cold reads of 1 GiB and 8 GiB files on our staging service: bytes moved, time to first byte, the second we were wasting on every cloud read, and the limits we haven't tested yet. https://swarmfile.com/blog/why-our-mac-mount-has-no-kernel-extension https://swarmfile.com/blog/why-our-mac-mount-has-no-kernel-extension Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a kext used to cost you on Apple Silicon, what FUSE-T actually is, and the two-detector trick for catching a userspace mount helper that's alive but stopped responding. https://swarmfile.com/blog/erasure-coding-and-deliberate-shard-placement https://swarmfile.com/blog/erasure-coding-and-deliberate-shard-placement Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reed-Solomon 10+4, the exact threshold that turns adaptive erasure coding on and off, and how deliberate LAN shard placement uses real rendezvous hashing to guarantee (not just hope) that losing one machine doesn't touch your data. https://swarmfile.com/blog/lan-first-p2p-one-office-one-download https://swarmfile.com/blog/lan-first-p2p-one-office-one-download Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The private QUIC swarm, mDNS peer discovery, the fallback chain from LAN to WAN to cloud, and why there's no explicit "publish" step behind the office's first editor warming the cache for everyone else. https://swarmfile.com/blog/swarmfile-is-now-a-git-lfs-server https://swarmfile.com/blog/swarmfile-is-now-a-git-lfs-server Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Point git-LFS at Swarmfile and get real storage, dedup, and quota for your large binary assets, while your source stays in the git host you already use.