facundo_dbx

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   by facundo_dbx 5mo ago

   Author here :) We did have high-level metrics and expectations for how this change would behave, but a couple of factors made it much harder to reason about in practice that were happening in parallel. Data in these systems moves slowly and
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   by facundo_dbx 5mo ago

   Author here. With SMR, you do have large zones that are essentially immutable. However, in this case our extents and volumes are immutable because we do volume level striping for erasure coding. This mean that if any extent changes, the par
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   by facundo_dbx 3y ago

   Author here. We do try to post updates as much as we are able to in our blog: https://dropbox.tech/tag-results.magic-pocket . While the talk did go through details of the system we've covered in the past, the purpose of
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   by facundo_dbx 3y ago

   Author here. We recently published a post about our last 4 years on SMR usage here: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/four-years-of-smr-storag... . Note that SMR technology just 5 years ago was rather nascent and a lo