15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T4f1,Hi HN,

I built nanokv, a small distributed object/kv store in Rust. This started as a personal learning project to understand distributed systems, concurrency, and Rust at scale, but it evolved into something that’s actually usable:

Architecture: Coordinator (metadata, placement, 2PC) + volume servers (blob storage)

Features: replication, consistency, health checks, repair, rebuild, rebalance, GC

APIs: simple REST (GET/PUT/DELETE)

Ops: verify/repair/rebuild tools, OpenTelemetry tracing, K6 benchmarks

Performance: on my laptop, 64 MB objects sustain ~600–1000 MB/s per stream; aggregate throughput climbs into hundreds of MB/s with replication.

It’s nowhere near the sophistication of MinIO or SeaweedFS, but the code is simple (a few thousand lines), and the focus is on clarity and hackability rather than features.

I learned a lot about backpressure (multi-semaphores for control vs data), streaming I/O, and debugging bottlenecks with tracing. If you’re curious about building storage systems in Rust, the repo has a detailed README and benchmarks.

I’d love feedback:

Does the design make sense?

What would you like to see if this grew beyond a learning project?

Thanks for reading!17:T497,So we contributed our Android TEE based browser enforcement to the community.

the PR is here - https://github.com/wootzapp/wootz-browser/pull/373.

I’ve been deep in the weeds on our browser, and we just merged something that felt worth sharing with this community.

We got Android’s hardware keystore (TEE / StrongBox) working end-to-end so that client certificates are truly non-exportable. The device generates the key inside the secur

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