Me thinking big corps with huge infrastructure bills meticulously model changes like that using the production data they have, so that exact change in all the metrics they care about is known upfront. Turned out they are like me: deploy and see what breaks.
Data in these systems moves slowly and with a lot of inertia, so the effects show up gradually and can lag behind the change itself. On top of that, the impact wasn’t uniform. Most of the overhead came from a small subset of volumes, so it took time to isolate what was actually driving the increase. These systems are hard to test at scale!
I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.
Until then, I’m using Filen. It’s fine, I have some qualms with it but it runs on every platform including Linux, it’s affordable, and end to end encrypted.
They absolute do!
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/simplified-desktop-applica...
Here's a screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/7g2xRJP.png
It's just a non-intrusive little menu that lives on your system tray. No ads, nags, bloat or unwanted new "features" pushed onto you. It resembles their original software much more than it does the latest garbage to come out of that company.
The context menu shortcuts in File Explorer for Copy Link, Share, and View on Dropbox still work. Sync works. Most of the other crap is gone. It's great. It was so refreshing when it got installed. I would have left Dropbox by now without it.
(I guess for Linux I could run the headless daemon, I think only the standard desktop experience is available)
They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
I’m already paying 20 Euro per month. Leave me alone.
Good riddance.
Secondly, I think that a lot of companies publish these "tech blogs" as a way to boost recruiting (look at the cool stuff that we're doing, don't you want to join us?). Amazon, of course, doesn't have a recruiting problem. If you want to work on the largest-scale systems, it's already a top destination for you.
