Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency // By Alexey Ivanov • Sep 06, 2017 This is an expanded version of my talk at NginxConf 2017 on September 6, 2017. As an SRE on the Dropbox Traffic Team, I’m responsible for our...
The scalable fabric behind our growing data center network // By Vishal Sakpal • Jan 23, 2019 Dropbox needs its underlying network infrastructure to be reliable, high-performing, cost-effective, and truly scalable. In previous posts we described how the edge network was designed to improve user...
Adding IPv6 connectivity support to the Dropbox desktop client // By Nikhil Marathe • Apr 25, 2017 Computers on the internet are uniquely identified by an IP address. For decades the world has used Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), which...
RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points // By Eric Shobe and Jared Mednick • Aug 21, 2019 Open source is not just for software. The same benefits of rapid innovation and community validation apply to hardware specifications as well. That’s why I’m happy to write that the v1.0...
Accelerating our A/B experiments with machine learning // By Michael G. Wilson • Jan 24, 2023 Like many companies, Dropbox runs experiments that compare two product versions—A and B—against each other to understand what works best for our users. When a company generates revenue from selling...
Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews // By Win Suen • Jan 27, 2021 Recently, we translated the predictive power of machine learning (ML) into $1.7 million a year in infrastructure cost savings by optimizing how Dropbox...
Use this code sample to learn how combine the HelloSign and Dropbox APIs to send Dropbox files for eSignature using an embedded requesting workflow.
Meet Chrono, our scalable, consistent, metadata caching solution // By Lihao He , Ganesh Rapolu , and Yu-Wun Wang • Jul 25, 2024 Efficiently storing and retrieving metadata has long been a core focus for metadata teams at Dropbox, and in recent years we've made significant improvements to our...
Don't you (forget NLP): Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT // By Mark Breitenbach , Adrian Wood , Win Suen , and Po-Ning Tseng • Jul 19, 2023 Update 25/08/23: We've also published a Github repository with updated research...
Imagine you’re an engineer working on a new product feature that is going to have a high impact on the end user, like the Dropbox Badge. You want to get quick validation on the functionality and utility of the feature. Each individual...
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