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.
From prompt to production: Building a landing page with Copilot agent mode
See how I built a developer-focused landing page in under 30 minutes using GitHub Copilot agent mode and Claude 3.5 Sonnet—with just screenshots and prompts.
Building An Offline-Friendly Image Upload System — Smashing Magazine
Poor internet connectivity doesn’t have to mean poor UX. With PWA technologies like `IndexedDB`, service workers, and the Background Sync API, you can build an offline-friendly image upload system that queues uploads and retries them automatically — so your users can upload stress-free, even when offline.
Vercel's Bot Protection stops malicious bots in a single click
Mitigate unwanted bot traffic by challenging requests from non-browser sources. Now available in public beta and free for all users on all plans.
New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary
In Q1 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world caused by cable damage, power outages, natural disasters, fire, a cyberattack, and technical problems. Interestingly, no government-directed shutdowns were observed during the quarter.
Type alignment and padding bytes: how to not waste space in PostgreSQL tables
Learn the concepts of data type alignment and padding bytes in PostgreSQL and how to define your table so that you don't waste storage space.