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Testing Sync at Dropbox

180 pointsby rbtyingabout 5 years ago

5 comments

sujayakarabout 5 years ago
hey all, author of the previous post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22595782" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22595782</a>) here, and I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about the system! I think the author isaac is here too.
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rakooabout 5 years ago
Interesting, I learned this technique of having a third, synchronization intermediary with offlineimap and this helpful blog post: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ezyang.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;how-offlineimap-works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ezyang.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;how-offlineimap-works&#x2F;</a>
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saagarjhaabout 5 years ago
&gt; To cover this layer of our codebase, we also run Trinity in a “native” mode, targeting the platform’s actual filesystem. However, running against the native filesystem incurs a huge performance penalty (roughly 10x), which in turn means Trinity Native can’t test as many different seeds.<p>What platforms do you test in “native” mode? What hardware backs it?
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amqabout 5 years ago
I&#x27;m sure Dropbox is first-class behind the scenes, but the desktop app has become simply awful with time, so that I almost feel sorry for them and embarrassed towards other people when I use Dropbox.
hilmartabout 5 years ago
I find the capitalization of the title here on HN to be rather misleading.<p>I thought Dropbox was actually testing Sync (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sync.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sync.com&#x2F;</a>) in-house and doing a public comparison.