jhurwitz·há 7 anos·discussJamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.
jhurwitz·há 7 anos·discussAs of last year, they now offer hourly guided tours 7 days a week for about USD$10. (In fact, I was just there earlier today!)Note: it's about 1.5 hrs (each way) from Tokyo, and you need someone in your group who can speak Japanese.Reservations here: https://reserva.be/guidetour
jhurwitz·há 7 anos·discussDropbox previously acquired Hackpad (YC W12), Snapjoy (WC S11), and TapEngage (WC S11).
Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.