How teams built custom storage at scale: 2 real case studies
2 of the 73 engineering write-ups in our database mention Custom storage in their stack. They come from 1 company (Dropbox) and were published in 2019 (1 undated). Techniques that show up most often alongside Custom storage: erasure coding (2). 1 of the 2 state concrete scale numbers, for example "500 PB" (Dropbox). Each card below links to our short summary and the original post.
Dropbox · 2019
How we optimized Magic Pocket for cold storage
Dropbox added a cold tier to Magic Pocket that cuts replication overhead for rarely read data.
Dropbox · n.d.
Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Dropbox built Magic Pocket, its own exabyte-class block store, and moved user data off third-party cloud storage.
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