Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 Rajiv Eranki <rajiv.eranki@gmail.com> I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend. Here are some suggestions on scaling, particularly in a resource-constrained, fast-growing environment that can’t always afford to do things “the right way” (
