After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next // By Eric Shobe • Mar 08, 2023 In 2018, Dropbox became the first major tech company to adopt high-density SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology for our...
Technical blog post on Dropbox's get_thumbnail API and when to use it. Includes analysis on file size and a sample script to follow along.
Introducing a preview of the new Dropbox.NET SDK for API v2 // By Leah Culver • Jun 23, 2015 [ Update: API v2 and the Dropbox.NET SDK are no longer in preview and are ready for use in production.] Today we're announcing the Dropbox.NET SDK, a new SDK that you can use to try out our new API v2...
We met the CEO of FlowVella at a Dropbox Dev Meetup in Seattle and asked him to write a guest post sharing how they integrated with Dropbox.
How <form.io> uses Dropbox as a file backend for JavaScript apps // By Randall Knutson • Mar 15, 2016 Randall Knutson is the Lead Architect at <form.io>, a combined form and API data management platform designed specifically for application developers, addressing complex enterprise workflow...
How we rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever // By Max Bélanger and Damien DeVille • Sep 25, 2018 Dropbox is one of the most popular desktop applications in the world: You can install it today on Windows, macOS, and some flavors of Linux. What you may not know is that much of the...
Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with <200 lines of code // By Utsav Shah • Jun 10, 2020 We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance...
Update: The Sync and Datastore SDK has been deprecated. Learn more here. One of the primary benefits of the Datastore API, which left beta last month, is that it syncs data cross-platform. We launched datastores with support for three...
The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus // By Matthew Gerstman • Sep 15, 2020 A few weeks ago, we released a whole bunch of new features to Dropbox Plus, our paid plan for personal users. While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your...
Cross shard transactions at 10 million requests per second // By Daniel Tahara • Nov 09, 2018 Dropbox stores petabytes of metadata to support user-facing features and to power our production infrastructure. The primary system we use to store this metadata is named Edgestore and is described in a...
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