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Nov 2016
26m 16s

Preslav Le on How Dropbox Moved off AWS ...

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As InfoQ previously reported in March 2016, Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le. Preslav has been a software engineer at Dropbox for the past three years, contributing to various aspects of Dropbox’s infrastructure including traffic, performance and storage. H ... Show More
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