“We have over 700 million users, tens of exabytes of data... some of these tools cannot work at that scale. For example, we had to build our own search engine.”

Me, Myself, and AI · Connecting Data at Scale With AI: Dropbox's Ali Dasdan

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Built a custom search engine for Dropbox because off-the-shelf tools could not handle 700 million users and tens of exabytes of data

700 million users, tens of exabytes of data

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