dropbox
1:08:17How We've Scaled Dropbox
372K views • 14 years ago
Stanford
Dropbox engineer Kevin Modzelewski gives a Stanford colloquium on Dropbox's history and the technical problems it faced scaling, including detailed database schema decisions.
4:39DropBox Demo
674K views • 18 years ago
theragax
The original five-minute Dropbox demo video, which presented the product's features before a finished product existed. It was aimed at technical early adopters and became famous as a launch strategy.
54:20Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
25K views • 11 years ago
Colin McDonnell
Bret Victor's talk from Dropbox's DBX conference about living by a guiding principle, in his case that creators need an immediate connection to what they are making. He shows live-coding and time-manipulation demos that let ideas take form at the speed of thought.