Our comms team told us we need an image; our legal team told us it needed to be freely licensed. Credit: Carsten Schertzer (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0). Dropbox employs traditional cross-site attack defenses, but we also employ same-site cookies as a defense in depth on newer browsers. In...
Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python // By Jukka Lehtosalo • Sep 05, 2019 Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app (we are also heavy users...
In short: Discover Dropbox's journey to type-checking 4M lines of Python code, learn about mypy and PEP 484, and gain insights into the migration process for better code reliability. (AI summary)
In our previous blog posts on Dropbox's document scanner (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), we focused on the algorithms that powered the scanner and on the optimizations that made them speedy. However, speed is not the only thing that matters in a mobile environment: what about memory? Bounding both...
In short: Learn how Dropbox optimized document scanner for memory-efficient image passing, reducing memory usage and improving performance. (AI summary)
In our previous blog posts ( Part 1, Part 2), we presented an overview of various parts of Dropbox's document scanner, which helps users digitize their physical documents by automatically detecting them from photos and enhancing them. In this post, we will delve into the problem of maintaining a...
In short: Learn how Dropbox improved document scanning speed with asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid processing approaches in this article by Jongmin Baek. (AI summary)
Offensive testing to make Dropbox (and the world) a safer place // By Chris Evans • Nov 16, 2018 Dropbox invests heavily in our security program. We have lots of teams dedicated to securing Dropbox, each working on exciting things. Some...
The Dropbox Chooser is an easy-to-implement, pre-built component that allows users to access their Dropbox files from within your app.
Machine intelligence at Dropbox: An update from our DBXi team // By Timo Mertens and Vinod Valloppillil • Sep 13, 2018 Our workdays are getting noisier. Never-ending emails, text messages, constant notifications from more apps and more platforms—it’s disruptive and distracting. And then there’s...
Using machine learning to index text from billions of images // By Leonard Fink • Oct 09, 2018 In our previous blog posts, we talked about how we updated the Dropbox search engine to add intelligence into our users’ workflow, and how we...
Augmented camera previews for the Dropbox Android document scanner // By Piotr Gurgul • May 03, 2017 With Dropbox’s document scanner, a user can take a photo of a document with their phone and convert it into a clean, rectangular PDF. In our previous blog posts (Part 1, Part 2), we presented an...
DropboxMacUpdate: Making automatic updates on macOS safer and more reliable // By David Euresti • Mar 08, 2017 Keeping users on the latest version of the Dropbox desktop app is critical. It allows our developers to rapidly innovate, showcase new features to our users, maintain compatibility with...
In short: Learn how DropboxMacUpdate enhances macOS update safety and reliability, with a focus on payload format and security measures. (AI summary)