Implementing end-to-end encryption for Dropbox teams
Learn more about our implementation of end-to-end encryption for teams, the threat model of our design and encryption algorithms, and our commitment to minimizing the risk of data loss with a team-centric key management approach.
Inside the Magic Pocket
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
Testing sync at Dropbox
How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less
How we designed Dropbox’s ATF - an async task framework
Alki, or how we learned to stop worrying and love cold metadata
Lessons learned in incident management
Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack
That time we unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness
A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware
Everything in its write place: Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store
Future-proofing our metadata stack with Panda, a scalable key-value store
Increasing Magic Pocket write throughput by removing our SSD cache disks
Balancing quality and coverage with our data validation framework
After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next
How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
From AI to sustainability, why our latest data centers use 400G networking
Meet Chrono, our scalable, consistent, metadata caching solution
What’s new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service
By leveraging PID controllers, Robinhood can now more quickly and effectively manage load imbalances.
The art of art direction
We hand the mics over to Maria Chimishkyan and Jefferson Cheng on Figma’s Brand Studio team and eavesdrop as they discuss the ins and outs of their work.