laterite-media

Laterite media: content-addressed blob storage with streaming ingest.

Three concepts are kept apart, which is the whole design:

• a blob is physical bytes, named by their own BLAKE3 hash;
• a record is a file with a stable identity, pointing at a blob;
• a link attaches a record to something that owns it.

Conflating them is what makes a media library hard to replace a file in, or to reference from two places. Here, replacing a file writes a new blob and a new hash while the record's id and every reference to it stay put.

This crate currently carries the bottom layer: the storage driver, the ingest primitive, and the record table. The library browser, virtual folders, variants and the finder widget arrive with the CMS work.

Part of Laterite

This crate is part of Laterite, a content management framework for Rust. See the repository for the guide, the full crate set, and the lat command-line tool.

License

Licensed under either the MIT license or the Apache License 2.0, at your option.