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As you may already know, Dropbox runs our infrastructure on a hybrid model—a mix between on-premise hardware and the public cloud. Known as Magic Pocket, it’s our own custom built multi-exabyte infrastructure. After our original migration to Magic Pocket in 2015, our primary goal was to manage large capacity growth at scale. This presented us with challenges including power efficiency and concern for our carbon footprint. We were able to check the box of powering hundreds of millions of users,...