Magic Pocket: Building and Operating Exabyte-Scale Storage Infrastructure at Dropbox

Explore a 48-minute conference presentation from SNIA SDC 2024 detailing Dropbox's Magic Pocket, their proprietary Exabyte-scale object storage infrastructure. Learn about the system's architecture designed to support file synchronization and sharing for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Discover how Dropbox pioneered large-scale implementation of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology, and gain insights into managing massive storage systems with a small engineering team. Examine the challenges of balancing growing disk capacities against static IOPS and throughput limitations. Through presenters Sandeep Ummadi and Eric Shobe from Dropbox, master the operational best practices for large-scale storage infrastructure, understand the implications of SMR technology adoption, and explore strategies for maintaining highly available and durable storage systems at multi-Exabyte scale.