You might only use a small part of Dropbox, but I bet there is a lot of functionality that you don't care about but which is critcial to Dropbox as a business/product for others.
The fact that you think it's small means they're probably doing something right!
(FWIW I don't use Dropbox myself, but I definitely had people ask me why Google needed 3,000 employees back in the day. Apparently it now has nearly 90K employees.)
>There's also a wide body of research that's found that decreasing latency has a roughly linear effect on revenue over a pretty wide range of latencies for some businesses. Increasing performance also has the benefit of reducing costs.
I wish he cited some of that research, because Google doesn't show much except for this amazon study with the 100ms.
I'm especially interested if there's any research on engineering tools and their latency (long build times) etc., which are chronically under addressed in quite a few large corporations. I'm just wondering if there's some studies that would make the case for me if I were to present this to management.
The fact that you think it's small means they're probably doing something right!
Relevant: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
(FWIW I don't use Dropbox myself, but I definitely had people ask me why Google needed 3,000 employees back in the day. Apparently it now has nearly 90K employees.)