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3 questions in Cloud Storage.

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A design platform stores billions of user assets and rendered outputs, where a small fraction are accessed constantly and most are never accessed again after the first week. Design the storage architecture.

A product serves user-uploaded images in twelve renditions across devices. Precompute all renditions on upload or generate on demand and cache?

Choose storage for four workloads: a Postgres data directory, user-uploaded images, a shared build cache, and seven years of audit records.