storage Articles

3 articles

Related Tags

Infrastructure(2)

engineering(1)

migration(1)

infrastructure(1)

sql(1)

developer velocity(1)

(1)

Improving storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, our immutable blob store

This post explains how Dropbox improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, their immutable exabyte-scale blob store, after a fragmentation incident caused by a new service.

Reducing our monorepo size to improve developer velocity

This post explains how Dropbox reduced their server monorepo size from 87GB to 20GB (a 77% reduction), cutting clone times from over an hour to under 15 minutes.

Architecture•2025-09-24

Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

Airbnb shares how they completely rearchitected Mussel, their internal key-value store for derived data, migrating from v1 to a NewSQL-based v2 running in production for over a year.