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facundo_dbx

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About facundo_dbx

Software engineer at Dropbox. Opinions are my own.

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  1. comment
    Comment #47708403

    Author here :) We did have high-level metrics and expectations for how this change would behave, but a couple of factors made it much harder to reason about in practice that were h…

  2. comment
    Comment #47708262

    Author here. With SMR, you do have large zones that are essentially immutable. However, in this case our extents and volumes are immutable because we do volume level striping for e…

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    Comment #35983528

    Author here. We do try to post updates as much as we are able to in our blog: https://dropbox.tech/tag-results.magic-pocket . While the talk did go through details of the system we…

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    Comment #35983416

    Author here. We recently published a post about our last 4 years on SMR usage here: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/four-years-of-smr-storag... . Note that SMR technology just …