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## About Flysystem

Flysystem is a filesystem abstraction library for PHP. By providing a unified interface
for many different filesystems you're able to swap out filesystems without application wide
rewrites.

Using Flysystem can eliminate vendor-lock in, reduce technical debt, and improve the testability
of your code.

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## Getting Started

* **[Architecture](/docs/architecture/)**: Flysystem's internal architecture
* **[Setup/Bootstrap](/docs/usage/setup/)**: Load Flysystem and set up your first adapter
* **[Flysystem API](/docs/usage/filesystem-api/)**: How to interact with your Flysystem instance

### Commonly-Used Adapters

* **[AWS S3](/docs/adapter/aws-s3/)**
* **[Azure](/docs/adapter/azure/)**
* **[Digital Ocean Spaces](/docs/adapter/digitalocean-spaces/)**
* **[Local](/docs/adapter/local/)**
* **[Memory](/docs/adapter/memory/)**
* **[Creating An Adapter](/docs/advanced/creating-an-adapter/)**