Creating a culture of accessibility
At Dropbox, we strive to make products that are easy for everyone to use. As part of that mission, we’ve been improving product accessibility for users with disabilities, and building a collaborative...
View ArticleSecurity at scale: the Dropbox approach
The Dropbox Security Team is responsible for securing over 500 petabytes of data belonging to over half a billion registered users across hundreds of thousands of businesses. Securing data at this...
View ArticleSecurity culture, the Dropbox way
The Dropbox Security Team is responsible for securing around 1 exabyte of data, belonging to over half a billion registered users across the world. The responsibility for securing data at this scale...
View ArticleWhat we learned at our first JS Guild Summit
At Dropbox, we work to keep teams flowing—so earlier this month, we convened a group of our frontend engineers to do just that. At the beginning of October, we held the first JS (JavaScript) Guild...
View ArticleDon’t lead by example
This is the first in a series of posts that Dropbox Principal Engineer James Cowling has published on his personal Medium blog about technical leadership. Being a strong tech lead is very different...
View ArticleOn working with designers
Editor’s note: On January, 18, 2019 the Dropbox Design blog featured a post from Product Designer, Jenny Wen, on working with engineers. This post covers the topic from an engineer’s perspective. One...
View ArticleEmbracing papercuts
Team growth requires giving people room to make mistakes. Figuring out which mistakes are just “papercuts” and which are critical is one of the most difficult challenges in engineering leadership....
View ArticleYour System is not a Sports Team
It’s the responsibility of an engineering team to do what’s right for the company, not to advocate for the system they own. Engineering teams need to be oriented around a mission not a system to avoid...
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