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Caching in theory and practice - Dropbox

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/caching-in-theory-and-practice

“Hello, my name is Pavel Panchekha. I was an intern at Dropbox back in ’11, and one thing I’ve investigated are various caching algorithms. The Dropbox mobile client caches frequently-accessed files, so that viewing them doesn’t require a network call. Both our Android and iOS clients use the LRU...” (from the page’s text)

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