How We've Scaled Dropbox
5 人推荐 · 跨 5 个月 · 2014–2023
中文导读
Dropbox 早期核心工程师 Kevin Modzelewski 在斯坦福大学的内部技术分享。坦诚复盘 Dropbox 从零起步到支撑数百万用户的爆发式扩展过程中经历的严峻架构危机，包括具体到底层数据库 Schema 的关键决策与权衡。
为什么 HN 推它
真实系统从零扩展到千万级负载的教科书式硬核实战复盘，毫无保留、直面架构痛苦的诚意之作。
「我在斯坦福听过的讲座里，Dropbox 这一场绝对是听得最过瘾、最让人欲罢不能的之一。」HN 网友原话：I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever.
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Dropbox engineer Kevin Modzelewski gives a Stanford colloquium on Dropbox's history and the technical problems it faced scaling, including detailed database schema decisions.
Recommended as a detailed, candid case study of scaling a real system from zero users to millions.
HN 上的提及
It is incredibly detailed (down to the exact sql schema they use for file metadata etc).
there are a lot of good talks on youtube from places like dropbox and facebook that explain the problem and solution.
there are a lot of good talks on youtube from places like dropbox and facebook that explain the problem and solution.
You might enjoy this talk
Here's some of my favorite talks that go from 0 users to millions.