#23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox, Convex

This episode's guest is Sujay Jayakar, co-founder of Convex and early engineer at Dropbox. In this conversation, Sujay shares the story of how the sync engine powering Dropbox was initially built and later redesigned to address all sorts of distributed systems problems

Mentioned in podcast:

Sujay Jayakar: X + GitHub + Bluesky + LinkedinConvexDropboxTech Talk on Dropbox’s ArchitectureRewriting the heart of our sync engineTesting sync at DropboxHow Convex WorksA Map of SyncAn Object Sync Engine for Local-first AppsLinks:

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