Walrus is the kind of infrastructure that does not try to impress you in week one. #Walrus just refuses to become a problem in month six.
Long-lived blobs, quiet repair, coordination kept out of the app's critical path.. the work happens without asking product teams to keep proving the data still exists. Nothing here is tuned for applause or screenshots. It is tuned for the boring stretch where ownership changes, operators rotate and the system is supposed to keep holding anyway.
You usually understand the value late. The first time a migration plan starts reading like a risk memo instead of a "quick refactor". That is when storage stops being a tool you picked… and becomes an assumption you don't want to disturb.
