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• What’s new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service

  // Oct 23, 2024 • Infrastructure

• Meet Chrono, our scalable, consistent, metadata caching solution

  // Jul 25, 2024 • Infrastructure

• From AI to sustainability, why our latest data centers use 400G networking

  // Nov 14, 2023 • Infrastructure

• How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox

  // Jun 13, 2023 • Infrastructure

• How Edison is helping us build a faster, more powerful Dropbox on the web

  // Apr 11, 2023 • Front End

• After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next

  // Mar 08, 2023 • Infrastructure

• Balancing quality and coverage with our data validation framework

  // Feb 07, 2023 • Infrastructure

• Future-proofing our metadata stack with Panda, a scalable key-value store

  // Nov 03, 2022 • Infrastructure

• A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware

  // Jun 29, 2022 • Infrastructure

• How we managed our global supply chain through a year of lockdown

  // May 20, 2021 • Infrastructure

• Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack

  // May 03, 2021 • Infrastructure

• Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews

  // Jan 27, 2021 • Machine Learning

• How we designed Dropbox ATF: an async task framework

  // Nov 11, 2020 • Infrastructure

• Intelligent DNS based load balancing at Dropbox

  // Jan 08, 2020 • Infrastructure

• Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network

  // Dec 17, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Continuous integration and deployment with Bazel

  // Dec 11, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Monitoring server applications with Vortex

  // Nov 14, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Enhancing Bandaid load balancing at Dropbox by leveraging real-time backend server load information

  // Sep 18, 2019 • Infrastructure

• RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points

  // Aug 21, 2019 • Infrastructure

• SMR: What we learned in our first year

  // Jul 30, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Your System is not a Sports Team

  // Jun 06, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Athena: Our automated build health management system

  // May 22, 2019 • Infrastructure

• How we optimized Magic Pocket for cold storage

  // May 06, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Embracing papercuts

  // Apr 17, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Don’t lead by example

  // Feb 21, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure

  // Jan 30, 2019 • Infrastructure

• The scalable fabric behind our growing data center network

  // Jan 23, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox

  // Jan 16, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Courier: Dropbox migration to gRPC

  // Jan 08, 2019 • Infrastructure

• Cape Technical Deep Dive

  // Dec 21, 2018 • Infrastructure

• Cross shard transactions at 10 million requests per second

  // Nov 09, 2018 • Infrastructure

• Building better compression together with DivANS

  // Jun 19, 2018 • Infrastructure

• Extending Magic Pocket Innovation with the first petabyte scale SMR drive deployment

  // Jun 12, 2018 • Infrastructure

• Meet Bandaid, the Dropbox service proxy

  // Mar 01, 2018 • Infrastructure

• Balancing open source and proprietary IP—they can co-exist

  // Dec 13, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Improving Document Preview Performance

  // Dec 01, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Deploying IPv6 in Dropbox Edge Network

  // Nov 09, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Handling system failures during payment communication

  // Sep 29, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Infrastructure update: evolution of the Dropbox backbone network

  // Sep 15, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency

  // Sep 06, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Evolution of Dropbox’s Edge Network

  // Jun 19, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Introducing Cape

  // May 17, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Deploying Brotli for static content

  // Apr 06, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Introducing Stormcrow

  // Mar 06, 2017 • Infrastructure

• Infrastructure Update: Pushing the edges of our global performance

  // Nov 16, 2016 • Infrastructure

• NetFlash: Tracking Dropbox network traffic in real-time with Elasticsearch

  // Oct 06, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Improving the performance of full-text search

  // Sep 07, 2016 • Infrastructure

• (Re)Introducing Edgestore

  // Aug 30, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s

  // Jul 14, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Pocket watch: Verifying exabytes of data

  // Jul 06, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Lossless compression with Brotli in Rust for a bit of Pied Piper on the backend

  // Jun 29, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Going deeper with Project Infinite

  // May 24, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations

  // May 11, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Inside the Magic Pocket

  // May 06, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Scaling to exabytes and beyond

  // Mar 14, 2016 • Infrastructure

• Inside LAN Sync

  // Oct 13, 2015 • Infrastructure

• How to Write a Better Scribe

  // May 20, 2015 • Infrastructure

• Firefly: Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox (Part 1)

  // Mar 22, 2015 • Infrastructure

• Dropbox at AWS re:Invent 2014

  // Dec 04, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Streaming File Synchronization

  // Jul 10, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries

  // Jul 01, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Introducing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation

  // Apr 03, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Video Processing at Dropbox

  // Feb 18, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails

  // Jan 27, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Outage post-mortem

  // Jan 12, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Dropbox Status Update

  // Jan 10, 2014 • Infrastructure

• Caching in theory and practice

  // Oct 16, 2012 • Infrastructure

• Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM

  // Oct 04, 2012 • Infrastructure

• Dennis Ritchie

  // Oct 14, 2011 • Infrastructure