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DropboxCompany

File storage, sync and collaboration company

5 things

RustSoftware

recommended

Rust has been a force multiplier for our team, and betting on Rust was one of the best decisions we made.

Dropbox on writing its Nucleus sync engine in Rust

dropbox.tech ↗·2020-03-09Wrong?

mypySoftware

recommended

To mitigate this, we have been gradually migrating our code to static type checking using mypy, likely the most popular standalone type checker for Python.

Dropbox on migrating its Python code to mypy type checking (Dropbox employs the mypy core team)

dropbox.tech ↗·2019-09-05Wrong?

gRPCSoftware

recommended

We settled on gRPC primarily because it allowed us to bring forward our existing protobufs.

Why Dropbox built its Courier RPC framework on gRPC

dropbox.tech ↗·2019-01-08Wrong?

GoSoftware Google

uses

It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app (we are also heavy users of Go, TypeScript, and Rust).

Dropbox listing the languages it uses

dropbox.tech ↗·2019-09-05Wrong?

PythonSoftware

mixed

We mostly use Python for our server-side product development, with more than 3 million lines of code belonging to our monolithic Python server. It works, but we realized the monolith was also holding us back as we grew.

Dropbox on its Python monolith and why it moved toward services with Atlas

dropbox.tech ↗·2021-03-04Wrong?

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