# Welcome to *MINIO*

Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data. This documents explains various API operations, related request and response structures, and error codes.

## Topics

- [Minio](./architecture.md)
- [Minio API](./minio.md)
- [Error Codes](./errors.md)