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Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform

Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per second. Systems that worked great for a s...

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Hasnain says:

“In our view, developers don’t care about the distinction between monoliths and services, and simply want the lowest-overhead way to deliver end value to customers. So we have very little doubt that a managed platform which removes operational busywork like capacity planning, while providing maximum flexibility like fast releases, is the way forward. We’re excited to see the industry move toward such platforms.”

Posted on 2021-03-16T08:36:36+0000