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Dropbox engineering on storage at exabyte scale, including Magic Pocket, the in house immutable blob store it built to move off public cloud storage, plus monorepo size, infrastructure efficiency and newer work on AI evaluation and internal coding agents. Its archive on rewriting the sync engine is some of the best writing on storage and client systems anywhere.
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Dropbox engineering on storage at exabyte scale, including Magic Pocket, the in house immutable blob store it built to move off public cloud storage, plus monorepo size, infrastructure efficiency and newer work on AI evaluation and internal coding agents. Its archive on rewriting the sync engine is some of the best writing on storage and client systems anywhere.
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