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#23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox, Convex


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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 + Linkedin
  • Convex
  • Dropbox
  • Tech Talk on Dropbox’s Architecture
  • Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
  • Testing sync at Dropbox
  • How Convex Works
  • A Map of Sync
  • An Object Sync Engine for Local-first Apps

Links:

  •  Website: localfirst.fm
  • X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
  • YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

Thank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.

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