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Scaling at Dropbox

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Summary

Rajiv Eranki shares the pains and lessons learned scaling up Dropbox from a few thousands to tens of millions of users.

Bio

Rajiv Eranki was previously head of server engineering at Dropbox, a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Eranki joined Dropbox in 2008 and worked on scaling the website from a few thousand to tens of millions of users. Before Dropbox he wanted to pursue academics but was drawn away by the allure of startups.

About the conference

RAMP: A sold-out conference on how to scale backend systems at startups and fast growing companies designed for everyone who wanted to create MVPs that scale beyond expectations. It featured a great lineup of stories and presenters including Jeremy Edberg from Netflix (previously lead architect at Reddit), Rajiv Eranki (formerly lead server architect at Dropbox), and Theo Schlossnagle (OmnIT).

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Sep 08, 2013

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