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If you've dealt with file uploads, you know the pain. Legacy solutions are cumbersome, competition has been sparse, and complacency has left us with systems that are unnecessarily complicated. It’s 2024, and file uploads shouldn’t feel like a technical quagmire. That’s where Pinata comes in.
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We’ve been serving high-volume customers for years. The NFT boom pushed us to fortify our infrastructure to handle massive traffic—volumes comparable to those managed by global tech giants. But we’ve always known there was room to improve. Today, we’re excited to announce a major upgrade: improved
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At Pinata, we’ve been building on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) for years, continuously innovating on top of this transformative protocol. At the heart of everything we do is the concept of content identifiers (CIDs). CIDs represent a fundamental shift in how we think about storing and addressing data.
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One of the best kept secrets at Pinata is that you might actually be able to save money compared to Amazon's AWS when you use us. Seems pretty dumb to keep that a secret. We should talk about it, so here you go. At the base layer, Pinata
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When YouTuber Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD) launched his highly anticipated wallpaper app, Panels, it was expected to be a hit. Instead, users discovered major flaws, mainly in security. Panels stored its images in a publicly accessible bucket, making it easy for anyone with basic skills to download the app’s
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One of Pinata’s key differentiators from other file storage APIs is that we believe immutability is a first-class citizen. Every file uploaded to Pinata is immutable. This means if you want to change something, you don’t lose the original version. You can, of course, delete the original, but
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Building modern web apps often follows a familiar structure, with developers typically having the necessary tools in mind. Many websites today are simple CRUD applications: a front-end client authenticates users and sends requests to a server that updates a database. Files also play a significant role, supporting rich media experiences
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There’s no doubt that AI has completely changed the way developers write code. Before LLMs became popular, you had to Google your problems and crawl through endless Stack Overflow pages looking for solutions. Nowadays, you can find answers in ChatGPT, Claude, or even directly in your text editor, like
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When building any application that requires file storage (which is just about all apps), you have to ask yourself if the files being stored should be public or if they should be private. From there, you can start to make decisions about how to structure your app’s file storage
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