#whatsspinnin Saving Your Storage: How #OpenZFS Architecture Rescues Enterprise Data with Allan Jude

In this episode of What’s Spinnin’, host Brett Kelly sits down with a true titan of the open-source world: Allan Jude. As a member of the FreeBSD Core Team, a lead committer for OpenZFS, and the Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., Allan has shaped the way the industry handles data—including his pivotal work on ZSTD compression. We dive deep into the technical weeds of systems architecture, moving from Allan’s early days running IRC shells in Hamilton, Ontario, to professionalizing ZFS support at Klara. To learn more about 45Drives: https://www.45drives.com/ To learn more about OpenZFS: https://openzfs.org/