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I wonder what Dropbox is using. Of course they mention 'custom' software and possibly hardware, but I'm pretty sure it'll be some sort of Intel-based setup, may
by oneplane 9y ago
I wonder what Dropbox is using. Of course they mention 'custom' software and possibly hardware, but I'm pretty sure it'll be some sort of Intel-based setup, maybe OCP, and Linux. The might be some hypervisory things going on, possibly Xen, maybe KVM. Then there will be some sort of firmware/OOB management as well, and perhaps some non-standard connectivity.
Those are mostly given. What runs on top of it, that's what interests me. Some orchestration/
private cloud software, some container platform, and perhaps a storage platform, which/what are those for Dropbox? Would it be standard OpenStack, Kubernetes and the true in-hous stuff: dropbox object storage?
- maccam94 9y agoI don't think there's much public info about the compute infrastructure, but here's a blog post about the object storage system: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pocket/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...