Extend what’s possible with plugins for you and your team
Get inspired by plugin creators from Uber, GitHub, and Atlassian—see what's possible and start creating your own plugins.
Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020
Learn about five more reasons why every enterprise should make innersource a priority in 2020.
Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern - Shopify
There are strategies for reducing the size and responsibilities of large objects. Here’s one that worked for us at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform supporting over 1M merchants across the globe.
Creating Secure Password Flows With NodeJS And MySQL — Smashing Magazine
Reset password functionality is table stakes for any user-friendly application. It can also be a security nightmare. Using NodeJS and MySQL. Today, Darshan Somashekar demonstrates how to successfully create a secure reset password flow so you can avoid these pitfalls. Darshan will be using NodeJS and MySQL as the base components. If you’re writing using a different language, framework, or database
Refined Logging on Vercel
The refined UI for Build and Serverless Function logs makes consuming logs a pleasure.
How Replicated Developers Develop Remotely
Replicated is a 5-year old infrastructure software company with a focus on enabling a new model of enterprise software delivery that we call Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software.
Make Yourself a Little API With Netlify Functions
Here's an example of a nice little use case for cloud functions. Glitch has this great package of friendly words. Say you wanted to randomly generate
Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I've always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases
Creating a culture of accessibility
Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides with the Dropbox API
New Dropbox API endpoints and updates will help developers work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in Dropbox.
Introducing Developer Build Program, first stop – Austin
We’re inviting startups in Austin to apply to be part of the Dropbox Developer Build Day in Austin on July 31, 2019.
Scaling down large image files using the get thumbnail API
Technical blog post on Dropbox's get_thumbnail API and when to use it. Includes analysis on file size and a sample script to follow along.
3 ways to add sharing to your Dropbox App
Automate sharing in your Dropbox App using the Dropbox API from the lens of a college professor. Example code uses the Dropbox Python SDK.
Dropbox Chooser is already popping up in your favorite apps
Customer support and invoicing get better with the Dropbox Chooser
Announcing: OS X support for the Sync API and Datastore API
Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Evolution of Dropbox’s Edge Network
Silly benchmarks on completely untuned server code
Make Honest Design Work For Digital Business, With “Ethical Design Handbook” — Smashing Magazine
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Building An E-Commerce Site With October CMS And Shopaholic — Smashing Magazine
The Laravel-powered October CMS enables to extend the functionality of the application through the use of plugins. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will do a tour around October CMS: You will first see how to install it, then check some of its coding and usability features in a bit more detail, and finally get your hands dirty implementing an e-commerce website through one of its most popular plu
Smashing Podcast Episode 11 With Eduardo Bouças: What Is Sourcebit? — Smashing Magazine
In this episode of the Smashing Podcast we’re talking about an interesting open-source tool called Sourcebit. How can it help our content workflow with JAMstack sites? Drew McLellan speaks to developer Eduardo Bouças to find out.
How to Build a Highly Productive Remote Team (or Team of Contractors) with Cloudflare for Teams
Much of IT has been built on two outdated assumptions. First, employees all sit in the same building or branch offices. Second, that those employees will work full-time at the same company for years.
Cloudflare for Teams Free for Small Businesses During Coronavirus Emergency
Beginning today, we are making our Cloudflare for Teams products free to small businesses around the world. Teams enables remote workers to operate securely and easily. We will continue this policy for at least the next 6 months.
Negative Margins
PPK digs into the subject, which he found woefully undercovered in web tech documentation. Our entry doesn't mention them at all, which I'll aim to fix.
Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land
Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overlays — both with the
Update for developers writing desktop apps
First ever Dropbox hack night
Using OAuth 1.0 with the "PLAINTEXT" signature method
Easily add multi-select and drag-n-drop uploads with the Dropbox Chooser
Introducing DBX - Dropbox’s first developer conference
Registration is open for DBX!
DBX Conference Agenda
Introducing the Python Bee!
First timer’s guide to DBX
File type permission: access just the files your app needs
Using OAuth 2.0 with the Core API
DBX 2013 session videos
Simplifying view updates in JavaScript with the Datastore API
How the Datastore API Handles Conflicts – Part 1: Basics of Offline Conflict Handling
Dropbox + Xamarin webinar recording available
Dropbox Core API and OAuth 2 "the hard way"
Use Drop-ins with any app key
Integrating the Dropbox Datastore API with Ractive.js
How the Dropbox Datastore API Handles Conflicts – Part Two: Resolving Collisions
Filtering Dropbox /delta results by path
Your System is not a Sports Team
Embracing papercuts
Don’t lead by example
The scalable fabric behind our growing data center network
Handling system failures during payment communication
Infrastructure update: evolution of the Dropbox backbone network
Introducing Stormcrow
NetFlash: Tracking Dropbox network traffic in real-time with Elasticsearch
Improving the performance of full-text search
Pocket watch: Verifying exabytes of data
Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations
Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Years ago, we called Dropbox a “Magic Pocket” because it was designed to keep all your files in one convenient place. Dropbox has evolved from that simple beginning to become one of the most powerful and ubiquitous collaboration platforms in the world. And when our scale required building our own dedicated storage infrastructure, we named the project “Magic Pocket.” Two and a half years later, we’
