Dropbox DBA Renjish Abraham, in his April 2 keynote at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, talks about the overall architecture, some of the design decisions his team has taken at Dropbox, war stories and lessons learned.

What is Dropbox? Dropbox helps users store and share more than a billion files a day. MySQL is one of the critical components of our infrastructure stack.

His slides to this talk are available for free download here:
http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-con...

About Renjish:
Renjish Abraham is the Tech Lead DBA for Dropbox MySQL SRE where he focuses on automation of everything MySQL. Before Dropbox Renjish was also a Tech Lead at YouTube where he lead the MySQL operational efforts.