Give this man the credit he deserves 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Enjoyed this video more than others because of the cute doggo interruptions. :) Thank you!

idea scope 1:38
scale 2:10
HLD 2:41
problem to solve 4:55 6:57
solution 10:41
metadata file 15:26
HLD 17:38
messaging service detail 25:01 device sync feature
metadata handling 28:40
metadata schema 31:48
edge store usage to serve metadata 36:16
search feature 40:01

honestly as a swe working at dropbox, i don't feel like this is an answer i am looking for. It misses a lot of important stuff like how do you design your database schema for storing the metadata and how would your sync protocols looks like? what if there are write conflicts during sync how do you deal with that? and the search engine part i guess is the least likely bonus question i'll ask in an interview(probably makes more sense in design twitter)

no offense to Narendra, i think you put in a lot of effort/research into this and even referenced dropbox's blog post on network edge infra.
but i think this's a problem to almost all of these youtube system design videos, like, yes you will learn a little bit here and there, but it's not the same as a real interview and don't expect to memorize some sys design solution and pass the interview.

better ways to learn system design:
read DDIA, web scalability for startup engineers, take a distributed system class
listen to real mock interviews if you somehow can(or some faang engineer does these mock interviews and post them somewhere i guess)
design and implement projects at your job if you have the opportunity

Shit, it's fucking perfect explanation. Thanks for all these stuff.

15:39 LMFAO! great video man, you are my go to for system design prep

Great system design. I really wish he explained why file change sets need to be ordered and consistent, in which led him to use a relational database for the metadata.

If you look at his design for google docs, it doesn't even use a relational database for massively concurrently updated files.

The best part I like about your videos is you do a lot of research to put the information from various sources about a topic into one place. You are our Edgestore ;)

Very good content. I loved the dog barking.

Needs an explanation of how exactly does one detect which chunk was changed. Because your applications, video editor, for example, doesn't know anything about chunks, it doesn't change a chunk, it changes your file. It's up to your Dropbox client to figure out which chunk the change corresponds to. And that is not immediately obvious especially for huge binary files.

THE BEST OF THE BEST -> PLEASE, CONTINUE YOUR CHANNEL!

WTF. only 633 likes out of 38,663 views for this gold? Come on viewers, you are beholden for this guy who is putting enormous effort to share knowledge beyond his boundaries.

Amazing no nonsense serious designs which are really good hatsoff bro 👍 keep doing good work

Thanks for your channel Naren! Brings back my love for computer science. We need more such teachers that can break things down and explain it as simply as you have done here.

sweetest part of the video at 15th Min <3

for the length of video, i learned a ton

You don't have studio but you are delivering better content than those who have studio.

Great work Narendra. This is the best video I have found so far on YouTube on the DropBox architecture.

A Great Video on Understanding file storage service design like dropbox, Preparing for an interview and this content is helpfull

Wonderful Explanation...!! Thanks for the work Naren.