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Box Engineering

@BoxEng

Solving enterprise-grade problems at consumer-grade speed.

 Redwood City, CA
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Joined March 2013
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Scaling Amazon Redshift cluster when you’ve got 43TB of analytics data and 550K weekly queries is hard. Box made it simpler. Learn how: bit.ly/2WpJ4Gb
Firefighting --> Self healing software. Check out how one of our interns built an auto-remediation framework for @kubernetesio: bit.ly/2W6tA9T
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Ensuring high availability & multi-tenancy on a petabyte scale search index is hard. Wondering how Box did it? Enter: Lumos! Learn more on our blog post authored by @shubhrojroy & illustrated by @jeremywins: bit.ly/lumosforbox
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Project Calico@projectcalico6 Aug 2019
Our friends @box have written cool tool! It produces k8s events for any traffic that is denied by network policy which show up very nicely in`kubectl describe pods` for super easy diagnosability - kubernetes.io/blog/2019/04/1…
Introducing kube-iptables-tailer: Better Networking Visibility in Kubernetes Clusters

Introducing kube-iptables-tailer: Better Networking Visibility in Kubernetes Clusters

At Box, we use Kubernetes to empower our engineers to own the whole lifecycle of their microservices. When it comes to networking, our engineers use Tigera’s Project Calico to declaratively manage...

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What does a Senior Staff Software Engineer actually do? Check out @jkebertz's take on our tech blog: bit.ly/2RAWH2D
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Last week we hosted Box’s "Jurhackssic Park" Hackathon, and we're super thankful we had some of our customers like @Nationwide and @generalelectric to kick around ideas with us!
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Did you know we have a TechBlog on Medium? See our latest post on logging by @Deep_W! medium.com/box-tech-blog/log… – at Redwood City, CA
Logging at Box: More efficient and more cost effective!

Logging at Box: More efficient and more cost effective!

Every day millions of enterprise users around the globe rely on Box systems to execute their most critical business workflows. Box…

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Check out @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies 2019 list: bit.ly/2EmoZZY Guess who's #4 in the Enterprise sector! #FCMostInnovative
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How we designed Mark for Offline in Box Drive: bit.ly/2SbI34S by Dave Sawyer, Staff Engineer via the Box Tech Blog
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Android Architectural components in Box App: bit.ly/2B86g21 via the Box Tech Blog
Box Drive — Engineering faster starts and less memory: bit.ly/2G0QclV via Peter Potrebic on the Box Tech Blog!
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No Regrets: My Time in Management Wasn’t Wasted - bit.ly/2HsANgv via @jkebertz on the Box Tech Blog
No Regrets: My Time in Management Wasn’t Wasted

No Regrets: My Time in Management Wasn’t Wasted

As I’ve previously written, I spent a brief stint as a manager before ultimately deciding that management really isn’t for me and I moved…

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How we learned to stop worrying and read from replicas: bit.ly/2sHtojo via Vova Galchenko on the Box Tech Blog
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Read from Replicas

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Read from Replicas

The data access layer of a million-dollar idea starts out as a single-server relational database. You’re hardly worried about scale issues…

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How did the Box Drive team build Mark for Offline, and how are zebras involved? 🦓 Staff Engineer Dave Sawyer explains: bit.ly/2PChggy
How we designed Mark for Offline in Box Drive

How we designed Mark for Offline in Box Drive

Without doubt, the most highly anticipated upcoming feature of Box Drive is the ability to mark files for offline access (MFO). In practical terms it brings the syncing ability of Box Sync to Box...

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Join Box engineers on October 18 at @BoxHQ to learn how we're scaling one of the world's largest content platforms, and mix/mingle with other engineers: bit.ly/2QJxq4D
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I'm hosting an evening of @BoxEng tech talks on how we're scaling one of the world's largest content platforms, including a talk about Gossip Based Rate Limiting! Event is next Thursday, 10/18, 6:30pm at Box HQ. Hope to see you there! backendtechtalkshostedbybox.…
Backend Tech Talks Hosted By Box - Splash

Backend Tech Talks Hosted By Box - Splash

Come join us for a round of tech talks hosted by the engineers that power Box! We will have food, drinks and four speakers discussing Box's backend infrastructure. Please let us know if you can make...

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Introducing wavectl: A Command Line Client For Wavefront - bit.ly/2HQoVA1
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Ken Mugrage@kmugrage13 Jun 2018
Spatula - a tool Box created to flip databases, might be the best tool name ever. @TamarBercovici #VelocityConf
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Bryan Friedman@bryanfriedman13 Jun 2018
Love these kinds of real world example talks - @TamarBercovici takes us through the detailed history of the architecture at @BoxHQ. #VelocityConf
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From Armageddon to Nirvana: a scaling story by @TamarBercovici at #velocityconf. – at Market Almaden, San Jose
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