¡Hola, mundo! Welcome to our new engineering blog. We'd like to start with a post on i18n, because aside from being exceedingly fresh in our minds right now, hearing our take on it might be useful to other startups. Going global can be an intimidating prospect, especially if you're like me and...
Today we’re excited to welcome a new member of the Dropbox family under unusual circumstances. Though he's joining us now, his contributions to Dropbox date back to day one, all the way to the very first lines of code. Some people only...
The single biggest feature request since we launched the API is the ability to keep up with changes to files in a user's Dropbox. So, we're happy to announce that the /delta call is out and ready to use in production! It returns a list of...
There is nothing more important to Dropbox than the safety of our user data. When we set out to build Magic Pocket, our in-house multi-exabyte storage system, durability was the requirement that underscored all aspects of the design and implementation. In this post we’ll discuss the mechanisms we...
Learn how to upload files to Dropbox using the Dropbox API in a performant manner
Many people spend their lives endlessly searching for the perfect answer to “why?” It stops them early in their tracks and holds them back from reaching their true potential. Then there are those who are confronted with the question “why?” and laugh directly in its face. They interest themselves...
We've got some quick fixes lined-up to round out some of the edges on the API. First up: improvements to thumbnails and icons, all aimed at getting your apps looking good for prime time. You can now request PNG thumbnails, in addition to JPG thumbnails, via the /thumbnails call. Better error...
Dropbox LAN Sync is a feature that allows you to download files from other computers on your network, saving time and bandwidth compared to downloading them from Dropbox servers. As the number of companies and offices using Dropbox has...
Update: The Sync and Datastore SDK has been deprecated. Learn more here. DBX, our first developer conference, was a big event for us on the Platform team. It was the first time we’ve gathered developers excited about building apps that integrate with Dropbox. We took the opportunity to release...
It's been over a year since our last major update to the Dropbox API site. Version 0 was launched in July 2010 and has since run its course as our first baby step toward the great promise the API holds. The API team at Dropbox has been...