Author recounts XetHub’s origin and acquisition as Hugging Face buys the startup after its Content-Defined Merkle Tree innovation

The author recounts Hugging Face’s acquisition of XetHub and reflects on four moments from the startup’s journey—from a whiteboard idea for a Content-Defined Merkle Tree to meetings with major cloud vendors—celebrating the team that built the infrastructure. The piece frames infrastructure as future-facing work that only gets attention when it breaks and shares gratitude for Hugging Face’s bet on XetHub.

AAjit Banerjee SSageOx XXetHub