Let’s solve the problem of object storage

Title: “Let’s solve the problem of object storage” Speaker: Jarrett Keifer 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.