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Architecture pattern used by Dropbox
As we have many software architecture patterns available like peer-to-peer, client server, Observer and a lot more, which one does Dropbox uses ? and why it has selected that specific architecture? P...
Hey Akhil_M_S, I'd happily take it from where you left off with Daphne; I hope my message finds you well today!
To answer your initial question Akhil, different features on different platforms tend to have slightly different models, but the most common pattern is the observer pattern. This is implemented as long-polling from the client to the server, which holds the canonical representation of the data. For example, we do this for a lot of sync features, but also for comments/file activity. Where we don't use long-polling, we do client/server polling.
Hope that helps with your class presentation and good luck with your project!
Walter
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the follow up and happy Friday Prasanth!
When it comes to sharding, please take a look at the following resources; I think they make an excellent read:
- https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/11/cross-shard-transactions-at-10-million-requests-per-second/
- https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/ (this is an older blog post from 2016)
If you're still having questions, let me know if it would be OK if I reached out to you via a ticket to your Dropbox associated email address so I can then forward your queries to the relevant team and we'll take it from there.
Thanks a bunch and have a lovely weekend prasanthkp!
Thanks Walter. Am reading through the blog post.
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