Hello everyone, I’m very excited to announce Pyston, a new open-source implementation of Python, currently under development at Dropbox. The goal of the project is to produce a high-performance Python implementation that can push Python into domains dominated by traditional systems languages like...
Alki, or how we learned to stop worrying and love cold metadata // By Jonathan Lee , Stas Ilinskiy , and William Ehlhardt • Dec 17, 2020 In this post, we introduce Alki, a new cost efficient petabyte-scale metadata store designed for storing cold, or infrequently accessed, metadata. We’ll discuss...
Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform // By Naphat Sanguansin and Utsav Shah • Mar 04, 2021 Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly...
Infrastructure update: evolution of the Dropbox backbone network // By Naveen Oblumpally • Sep 15, 2017 Dropbox global backbone network topology In our previous post, we provided an overview of the global edge network that we deployed to...
Infrastructure Update: Pushing the edges of our global performance // By Akhil Gupta • Nov 16, 2016 Dropbox has hundreds of millions of registered users, and we’re always hard at work to ensure our customers have a speedy, reliable experience, wherever they are. Today, I am excited to announce an...
Future-proofing our metadata stack with Panda, a scalable key-value store // By Preslav Le , Tanay Lathia , and Mehant Baid • Nov 03, 2022 Metadata is crucial for serving user requests. It also takes up a lot of space—and as we’ve grown,...
Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s // By Daniel Reiter Horn • Jul 14, 2016 This open-source project is no longer maintained or supported by Dropbox. Please refer to Lepton’s GitHub page for more...
In this blog post we show you how to implement an OAuth authorization code grant flow using Node.JS and Dropbox JavaScript SDK.
You can now automatically transcribe your media files in Dropbox by using the Otter.ai integration. Welcome to the future of work.
Increasing Magic Pocket write throughput by removing our SSD cache disks // By Ankur Kulshrestha , Rajat Goel , and Sandeep Ummadi • Dec 08, 2022 When Magic Pocket adopted SMR drives in 2017, one of the design decisions was to use SSDs as...
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