There is always room for improvement, and benefits can come from unexpected places – particularly in the erratic web3 realm. For decentralized cloud object storge provider Storj, a recent cost optimization effort fueled by rapid growth has successfully doubled storage performance and slashed latency in half, claims COO John Gleeson, in conversation with Faultline. The secret behind the code overhaul that has enabled these improvements is quite simple—Storj cut down on the excess of durability it provided customers. While at first that sounds like marketing speak for purposefully downgrading product quality, Gleeson explains that Storj had previously been overzealous on that front, providing in practice some twenty 9s of durability, much more than what traditional object storage companies offer. With…