Dropbox Tech Blog

Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less

about 15 hours ago

Dropbox syncs petabytes of data every day across millions of desktop clients....

How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy

6 days ago

In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its...

New Sample: Image Flipping Extension

6 days ago

In late June of 2020, Dropbox opened Extensions to everybody. Using Extensions,...

How we ensure credible analytics on Dropbox mobile apps

21 days ago

Adding user analytics to a feature may seem like a straightforward task:...

How Clipchamp integrated with Dropbox to make video editing easy for all

21 days ago

Clipchamp offers free, browser-based video editing with a wide range of tools...

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29 days ago

Now Available: Dropbox Embedder

29 days ago

The Embedder is officially released A few months ago we released the...

Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler

about 1 month ago

One of the challenges of application engineering within an established company like...

Build your own Dropbox Extensions

about 1 month ago

Overview Imagine you’re working out of your Dropbox and need to edit...

Dropbox App Center in Beta

about 2 months ago

Now in beta, the Dropbox App Center lets Dropbox users discover, learn...

Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with <200 lines of code

about 2 months ago

We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance...

New guides on error handling and detecting changes

2 months ago

When building with the Dropbox API, there are two common needs that...