Like many companies, Dropbox uses scribe to aggregate log data into our analytics pipeline. After a recent scribe pipeline outage, we decided to rewrite scribe with the goals of reducing operational overhead, reducing data loss, and adding enhancements that are missing from the original scribe....
This is the second of four posts on our experience deploying Content Security Policy at Dropbox. If this sort of work interests you, we are hiring! We will also be at AppSec USA this week. Come say hi! In the previous post, we discussed how to filter reports and deploy content source whitelists...
In short: Learn how to secure your website against XSS attacks with [CSP] Unsafe-inline and nonce deployment guide by Devdatta Akhawe. Discover strategies for deployin... (AI summary)
Location-specific feedback has always been fundamental to collaboration. At Dropbox, we’ve recognized this need and implemented annotations on document previews. Our goal was to allow users to provide focused and clear feedback by drawing...
In short: Learn how to integrate annotations with existing frameworks in document previews using Dropbox's FileViewer architecture. Gain insights into annotation functionality and its benefits. (AI summary)
Dropbox Extensions are now open to all developers. Give users the ability to trigger a workflow in your app directly from their file in Dropbox.
Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack // By Alexey Ivanov and Dzmitry Markovich • May 03, 2021 One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering...
Today we're rolling out new shared folder metadata functionality, which lets developers see additional metadata about shared folders and the files within them. This metadata includes the users who are part of a shared folder, the...
In short: Learn to manage shared folders more efficiently with Dropbox's new beta feature - Shared Folder Metadata! Demo and access details included. (AI summary)
With just a few lines of Objective-C, Java, or JavaScript, you can integrate the Chooser into your apps and quickly tap into hundreds of millions of Dropboxes. Clean, consistent UI The Chooser works across platforms and provides a simple and clean interface for users to select files so you don't...
Learn how to use the Dropbox OAuth 2.0 app authorization flow with offline access
We host a monthly tech talk series we call Droptalks. In the past, we've hosted Steve Souders, Guido van Rossum, Greg Papadopoulos, and Amit Singh. A couple weeks ago, we were lucky to have Hilary Mason in town. Hilary is the Chief Scientist of bit.ly, the world-famous URL shortener. Bit.ly may...
Inspired by the novelty Twitter account @isitchristmas, a few of us here at Dropbox put together the website Is it Christmas?, which answers the question by adding a cute photo to your Dropbox each day. Not only is this app adorable, but it demonstrates how a service can periodically update a...
In short: Discover if it's Christmas with Dropbox! Learn how to use this tool and try it out today. (AI summary)