Tammy shared some stories of how Go usage grew organically at Dropbox. Many of these are successors to previous non-Go systems.

'Jetstream', 'Telescope', block routing, and many more.

DBmanager: for automation and monitoring of Dropbox's 6,000+ databases.

AFS: file system to replace global Zookeeper.

Some of the key systems written in Go are:

Company-wide, Dropbox has 1.3 million lines of Go.15+ teams build and run Go services at Dropbox.The Go server repository has 150 unique contributors (out of 500 engineers total).Today, most Dropbox infrastructure is written in Go. Incorporate reliability and security into initial design.The guiding principles and requirements are: Go was designed to address the problems faced in software development at Google, which led to a language that is not a breakthrough research language but is nonetheless an excellent tool for engineering large software projects.' - Rob Pike, 2012Īs a result, Dropbox demands a lot from their systems, languages, and engineers. In this article we will explain why those are not contradictory positions. Some programmers find it fun to work in others find it unimaginative, even boring. 'Go is efficient, scalable, and productive. Tammy cited Rob Pike's Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering from 2012 as being a great summary of why Go works well at Dropbox: Any mistakes or misrepresentations are my fault Tammy's talk was excellent! Dropbox's journey to using Go Let me know on Twitter ( if I missed anything. Note: This post was best-effort live-blogged at the conference. She talked at GopherCon 2017 about how Dropbox engineers build and run large-scale services in Go. Tammy manages code workflows-the entire experience of using Go at Dropbox, from coding to shipping. Tammy Butow ( is an Engineering Manager in Developer Infrastructure at Dropbox.

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