Please join us for the first showcase of the fall series, where we’ll be joined by Jarrett Keifer for a timely presentation and discussion, following his recent Cloud Native Geospatial blog post on Redefining cloud native with the Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol.
Title: “Let’s solve the problem of object storage”
Speaker: Jarrett Keifer
When: Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12 PM EDT
Where: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Abstract:
Object storage transformed data at planetary scale, giving us cheap, durable, elastic storage. But in geospatial, it also turned chunking into everyone’s problem. Misaligned queries waste time, compute, and money, while producers struggle to optimize datasets for all users.
This talk reframes our problems with chunking as a limitation of the object model itself. We’ll look at why object storage makes chunking visible, what that means for usability and efficiency, and how the Coalesced Chunk Retrieval Protocol (CCRP) could restore transparent, efficient access — this time at cloud scale.
Agenda:
- ~15 minutes - Showcase presentation
- 10 - 30 minutes - Discussion
- 15 - 30 minutes - Community check-in