What Technology Dropbox is using for its client and server?

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Hi if its not secret I will be more then happy to know which technology did drop box are using For its windows client and server

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I know this is no complete answer, but AFAIK they use binary diffs to detect changes in the client and a dæmon that monitors the dropbox folder. I'd also assume that the server has binary de-duplication. In their YC application they explain some other stuff: http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html

Thanks for the reply , i was more interested in the technical aspects of the client / server for example i know they are using python , but how did they compile it for windows ? py2exe ? , and how about server side ?

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