MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server implemented in Go. It is a monolithic application that provides a full-featured object storage system supporting erasure coding, bitrot protection, IAM, replication, lifecycle management, and a web console. The codebase is organized around a central `cmd` package containing the server implementation, with extensive `internal` packages for subsystems like erasure coding, encryption, event notifications, and distributed locking. The architecture follows a distributed systems pattern where nodes communicate via custom REST protocols and a proprietary grid messaging system for internode communication. The system implements a sophisticated storage engine using Reed-Solomon erasure coding with support for multiple storage classes, bitrot detection via HighwayHash, and strong consistency guarantees. It supports a wide range of protocols including S3 API, FTP/SFTP, and S3 Select for SQL queries on stored objects. The codebase demonstrates advanced Go patterns including extensive use of build tags for platform-specific code, code generation for serialization (msgp), and a plugin-based architecture for external identity providers and KMS integration. Key architectural components include the erasure coding subsystem (`cmd/erasure*.go`), the object API layer (`cmd/object-api*.go`), the IAM system (`cmd/iam*.go`, `cmd/auth-handler.go`), and the distributed systems infrastructure (`internal/grid`, `internal/dsync`). The codebase shows significant investment in operational features including comprehensive metrics exposure via Prometheus, audit logging, batch jobs for large-scale operations, and extensive debugging tools. The project maintains high code quality with extensive testing, CI/CD pipelines, and support for multiple deployment modes including standalone, distributed, Kubernetes, and various cloud platforms.
Grafana Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be cost-effective and easy to operate by indexing only log metadata (labels) rather than the log contents. The system consists of several loosely coupled services (distributor, ingester, querier, compactor, ruler) that can be deployed in a monolithic or microservices architecture. Logs are ingested via various protocols (HTTP, gRPC, Kafka) and integrations (fluent-bit, fluentd, logstash, Docker driver), stored in chunk format in object stores, and indexed by labels in a separate store. Queries are executed using LogQL, which allows filtering by label expressions and log content. The system includes a ruler for alerting and recording rules, a compactor for storage optimization, and a Kubernetes operator for deployment and management.