Garage reliability and performance

Garage is seeing increased adoption by users around the world in a wider variety of deployment scenarios. This has accelerated recently when MinIO decided to make changes to their offerings, and people started to look for replacement for local S3 storage. These new deployment scenarios are putting Garage outside of its original design space, somewhat stretching its current abilities, for instance in terms the of amount of data or objects stored.

In many cases, Garage behaves relatively well in these new configurations; but still, these have revealed issues surrounding performance, reliability and ease of operation. This projects aims to close the gap, by addressing a variety of topics such as stress-testing and reliability engineering, internal database engine performance, proper queuing and backpressure mechanisms, end-to-end performance, documentation and observability.