How we managed our global supply chain through a year of lockdown // By Refugio Fernandez • May 20, 2021 A little over a year ago, every Dropbox employee received the same email. We were asked to work from home for two weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19. What we didn’t realize then was that a...
Edgestore is the metadata store that powers many internal and external Dropbox services and products. We first talked about Edgestore in late 2013 and needless to say, much has happened since. In this post, we give a high-level overview of...
We made a small change to the /shares API call earlier today that makes it consistent with the intended behavior (as documented). Previously, /shares usually returned a direct link to the contents of the file or folder itself. Now, it will...
We introduced Cape in a previous post. In a nutshell, Cape is a framework for enabling real-time asynchronous event processing at a large scale with strong guarantees. It has been over a year since the system was launched. Today Cape is a critical component for Dropbox infrastructure. It operates...
In April we announced API v2, a new version of our Dropbox API. Over the past few weeks, we also released preview versions of SDKs for Swift, Python, and .NET that work with API v2. And now we've put this all together in a new developer...
Today we're excited to launch Dropbox API v2! We announced a preview of API v2 in April, and have continued to update and improve the API based on your feedback. As of today, Dropbox API v2 is ready to be used in all your Dropbox-connected apps. Thank you to the hundreds of developers who have...
Dropbox was out in full force at PyCon this year. We were the Financial Aid Sponsor for the event, hosted a workshop about how to use the Dropbox API, and had a lot of great conversations with attendees at our booth. Behind the scenes, the...
For some reason, white and gold things appear blue and black to a large number of people. As a demo for BattleHack LA, I built an app that automatically corrects the colors in your images in Dropbox so you can see their true white and gold nature. The full code is on GitHub at...
At Dropbox, we encourage, support, and celebrate independent open security research. One way we do this is via our bug bounty program. We recently tripled our rewards to industry leading values. We also celebrated some of the amazing hacker community results with top-up bonuses, where we...
Li Chen Koh is a summer 2014 intern at Dropbox on the Developer Platform team. Have you ever wondered how much your users interact with your app? Have you released a new version of your app and wanted to see how many users you gained? Or...
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