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July 11, 2013 02:47 pm GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt our normal programming about crazy entrepreneurs and even crazier VCs to bring you a little learning from the world of Engineering. Remember that? Recently Dropbox was in the news for revealing they'd hit 175 million users, and daring to say they could replace the hard drive. Big words. But what's the engineering back-story of how they got there? How do successful startups scale, in technical terms, to hundreds of millions of users? It turns it one of the ways it became successful was by creating a very simple and flexible platform early on.
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How Did Dropbox Scale To 175M Users? A Former Engineer Details The Early Days
Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt our normal programming about crazy entrepreneurs and even crazier VCs to bring you a little learning from the world of Engineering. Remember that? Recently Dropbox was in the news for revealing they'd hit 175 million users, and daring to say they could replace the hard drive. Big words. But what's the engineering back-story of how they got there? How do successful startups scale, in technical terms, to hundreds of millions of users? It turns it one of the ways it became successful was by creating a very simple and flexible platform early on.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_bEQ-QZGrjo/
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