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How to Write a Better Scribe - Dropbox

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-to-write-a-better-scribe

“Like many companies, Dropbox uses scribe to aggregate log data into our analytics pipeline. After a recent scribe pipeline outage, we decided to rewrite scribe with the goals of reducing operational overhead, reducing data loss, and adding enhancements that are missing from the original scribe....” (from the page’s text)

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