Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1
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JULY 13, 2012
RSS Archive. I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. We once long ago had two shards for user data, and once it started getting full I added a third shard to put new users in. Some software just doesn’t even handle non-UTC time properly, so don’t do it!
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