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Dropbox’s Traffic Infrastructure

on YouTube 48m
TalkinRussianat HighLoad++ Moscow 2018 · 2018-11-08..11-09· [networking, web-performance]

speaker

name:Aleksey Ivanov
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/TSWBOJ19ofA
slides:none on file

summary

Overview of Dropbox’s traffic infrastructure from user request to application servers, covering external DNS/BGP load balancing using RUM and global points-of-presence implemented with IPVS, Nginx and Lua. Inside data centers the talk describes a custom Go reverse-proxy, plus approaches for isolation, metrics and tracing.

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chapters (17)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 3:44Anycast routing basics
  3. 6:33Anycast limitations
  4. 7:14Geo DNS intelligence
  5. 10:27Hybrid traffic balancing
  6. 13:02Real user monitoring
  7. 15:14POP infrastructure
  8. 18:36L4 balancer advantages
  9. 18:58Engine X deployment
  10. 21:31Data center traffic handling
  11. 22:32Bandit service proxy
  12. 25:27Bandit reliability features
  13. 28:03Load balancing with ABS
  14. 30:58Bandit evolution
  15. 32:01Dropbox runtime infrastructure
  16. 36:17Future plans
  17. 38:28Q&A

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