Hi all,


Have you ever wondered how Dropbox stores and serves your data? How do they provide a service that is both reliable and secure? In this talk, we give a brief history of Dropbox’s architecture and the DevOps model that supports it. We’ll present how we scaled a MySQL cluster to handle millions of requests a second. We’ll discuss how Dropbox, once one of the largest consumers of AWS S3, migrated user data to their own data centers. This will be targeted to people who have no background with cloud concepts, but are interested in examples of the cloud at scale.


Our speaker, Tom Manville graduated from the University of Michigan with a MSE in Computer Engineering in 2013.  He initially joined Maginatics, which built a cloud-backed, locally cached, consistent filesystem.  Maginatics was acquired by EMC in 2014.  After the acquisition, he joined Dropbox where he was focused on improving the efficiency of Dropbox’s metadata storage. In 2017, Tom joined the founding team at Kasten, a startup helping developers manage their data in container-based, cloud-native environments.


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Hope to see many of you there,


Allan