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How We Migrated Dropbox From Nginx To Envoy

- Alexey Ivanov Oleg Guba

• Dropbox
• Migration

tl;dr: "We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of the problems encountered on the way."

featured in #197

The (Not So) Hidden Cost Of Sharing Code Between iOS And Android

- Eyal Guthmann

• Dropbox
• Mobile

tl;dr: Writing code once sounds like a good idea but doesn't factor in the additional costs associated with it. The Dropbox team doesn't share code via C++ but writes in platform native languages.

featured in #150

Looking Inside The Box

- Vincent Berg

• Python
• Dropbox

tl;dr: Reverse engineering the Dropbox client, "breaking its obfuscation mechanisms, de-compiling it to Python code as well as modifying the client in order to use debug features which are normally hidden from view."

featured in #141

Building the Dropbox “Design Cabin”: The quest for team-wide consistency and collaboration amongst the Dropbox Design team

- Daniel Eden

• Design
• Dropbox

featured in #2.1