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The critical part of Dropbox is not just the storage layer but a combination of their client and server. Even small things like how do you handle conflicting wr
by ovaistariq 6mo ago
The critical part of Dropbox is not just the storage layer but a combination of their client and server. Even small things like how do you handle conflicting writes to the same file from multiple threads, matter a great deal for data consistency and durability.
- dangus 6mo agoA lot of the backend bucket providers can handle file versioning. I too would like the answer to this concern because the features page doesn’t mention it. I want to be able to handle file version history. I’m currently using Filen which I find very reasonable and, critically, it has a Linux client. But I wish it was faster and I wish the local file explorer integration was more like Dropbox where it is seamless to the OS rather than the current setup where you mount a network share.