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Meet Chrono, our scalable, consistent, metadata caching solution
// Jul 25, 2024 • Infrastructure
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From AI to sustainability, why our latest data centers use 400G networking
// Nov 14, 2023 • Infrastructure
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How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
// Jun 13, 2023 • Infrastructure
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How Edison is helping us build a faster, more powerful Dropbox on the web
// Apr 11, 2023 • Front End
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After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next
// Mar 08, 2023 • Infrastructure
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Balancing quality and coverage with our data validation framework
// Feb 07, 2023 • Infrastructure
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Future-proofing our metadata stack with Panda, a scalable key-value store
// Nov 03, 2022 • Infrastructure
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A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware
// Jun 29, 2022 • Infrastructure
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How we managed our global supply chain through a year of lockdown
// May 20, 2021 • Infrastructure
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Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack
// May 03, 2021 • Infrastructure
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Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
// Jan 27, 2021 • Machine Learning
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How we designed Dropbox ATF: an async task framework
// Nov 11, 2020 • Infrastructure
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Intelligent DNS based load balancing at Dropbox
// Jan 08, 2020 • Infrastructure
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Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
// Dec 17, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Continuous integration and deployment with Bazel
// Dec 11, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Monitoring server applications with Vortex
// Nov 14, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Enhancing Bandaid load balancing at Dropbox by leveraging real-time backend server load information
// Sep 18, 2019 • Infrastructure
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RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points
// Aug 21, 2019 • Infrastructure
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SMR: What we learned in our first year
// Jul 30, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Your System is not a Sports Team
// Jun 06, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Athena: Our automated build health management system
// May 22, 2019 • Infrastructure
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How we optimized Magic Pocket for cold storage
// May 06, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Embracing papercuts
// Apr 17, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Don’t lead by example
// Feb 21, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure
// Jan 30, 2019 • Infrastructure
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The scalable fabric behind our growing data center network
// Jan 23, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox
// Jan 16, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Courier: Dropbox migration to gRPC
// Jan 08, 2019 • Infrastructure
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Cape Technical Deep Dive
// Dec 21, 2018 • Infrastructure
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Cross shard transactions at 10 million requests per second
// Nov 09, 2018 • Infrastructure
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Building better compression together with DivANS
// Jun 19, 2018 • Infrastructure
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Extending Magic Pocket Innovation with the first petabyte scale SMR drive deployment
// Jun 12, 2018 • Infrastructure
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Meet Bandaid, the Dropbox service proxy
// Mar 01, 2018 • Infrastructure
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Balancing open source and proprietary IP—they can co-exist
// Dec 13, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Improving Document Preview Performance
// Dec 01, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Deploying IPv6 in Dropbox Edge Network
// Nov 09, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Handling system failures during payment communication
// Sep 29, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Infrastructure update: evolution of the Dropbox backbone network
// Sep 15, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
// Sep 06, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Evolution of Dropbox’s Edge Network
// Jun 19, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Introducing Cape
// May 17, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Deploying Brotli for static content
// Apr 06, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Introducing Stormcrow
// Mar 06, 2017 • Infrastructure
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Infrastructure Update: Pushing the edges of our global performance
// Nov 16, 2016 • Infrastructure
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NetFlash: Tracking Dropbox network traffic in real-time with Elasticsearch
// Oct 06, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Improving the performance of full-text search
// Sep 07, 2016 • Infrastructure
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(Re)Introducing Edgestore
// Aug 30, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
// Jul 14, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Pocket watch: Verifying exabytes of data
// Jul 06, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Lossless compression with Brotli in Rust for a bit of Pied Piper on the backend
// Jun 29, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Going deeper with Project Infinite
// May 24, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations
// May 11, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Inside the Magic Pocket
// May 06, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Scaling to exabytes and beyond
// Mar 14, 2016 • Infrastructure
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Inside LAN Sync
// Oct 13, 2015 • Infrastructure
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How to Write a Better Scribe
// May 20, 2015 • Infrastructure
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Firefly: Instant, Full-Text Search Engine for Dropbox (Part 1)
// Mar 22, 2015 • Infrastructure
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Dropbox at AWS re:Invent 2014
// Dec 04, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Streaming File Synchronization
// Jul 10, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries
// Jul 01, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Introducing Pyston: an upcoming, JIT-based Python implementation
// Apr 03, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Video Processing at Dropbox
// Feb 18, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails
// Jan 27, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Outage post-mortem
// Jan 12, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Dropbox Status Update
// Jan 10, 2014 • Infrastructure
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Caching in theory and practice
// Oct 16, 2012 • Infrastructure
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Comtypes: How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM
// Oct 04, 2012 • Infrastructure
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Dennis Ritchie
// Oct 14, 2011 • Infrastructure