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Re:Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer by Vampiero on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:20PM (#42393680)
Cloud storage before all the major cloud players were even a thing, for starters?
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Re:Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer by twoodfin on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:03PM (#42395794)
Sure, that was a great feature in 2007. (S3 existed when Dropbox was founded, FWIW.)

It eventually stopped being a differentiating source of value, and trying to out-commodity the CSP’s on storage cost at scale seems like a bad strategy to bring value back to the product. At tremendous effort you make it possible to lower prices by 20% or whatever, in order to keep the same profit on an undifferentiated product. Who cares?

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