## Introduction

Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](./LICENSE) . It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
Minio's design is inspired by Amazon's S3 for its API and Facebook's Haystack for its immutable data structure.

### Build Minio from Source

[Source Install](./DEVELOPERS.md)

### Join Community

* IRC join channel #minio @ irc.freenode.net
* Google Groups - minio-dev@googlegroups.com

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