The author was the CTO for a company that’s stock has been flat or down since IPO. He made decisions and wrote a blog post here about the strategy he thinks is best, but the justification here seems to be confirmation bias and self confidence.
The team that built out Dropbox’s (incredibly hard and complex) custom replacement for Amazon S3 hadn’t built distributed systems for 20 years. They were strong generalists who had a passion for learning and figured it out.
This is a misrepresentation. A PHD who co-authored papers on distributed systems led the team.
The team that built out Dropbox’s (incredibly hard and complex) custom replacement for Amazon S3 hadn’t built distributed systems for 20 years. They were strong generalists who had a passion for learning and figured it out.
This is a misrepresentation. A PHD who co-authored papers on distributed systems led the team.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix09/tech/full_paper...
Top experts experienced in running large scale infrastructure from Facebook and Google supported the team.