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2022

2022 in review

Four new zones (Warsaw, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm), rename-and-move over the API, and one slow Tuesday we wrote up. We grew from two people to four. The thing we are proudest of is dull: the oldest files from May 2021 are still there, still hashing to the same value. That is the job.

We are looking for one infrastructure engineer

One role, part time to start, somewhere in the EU time zones. You would look after the zones: storage, backups, the boring reliability work. If the phrase "boring reliability work" sounds good rather than bad, write to us through the contact form.

What we learned saying no to sync

People keep asking for device sync, and we keep saying no. Here is the honest reason: sync is a different product, with its own failure modes, conflict handling and a desktop agent to maintain. We are four people. A storage box you upload to and download from is a thing we can keep correct. A sync engine is not, yet. So the answer stays no, and we would rather tell you that than ship a half one.

Two northern zones at once

Tallinn and Helsinki both open today. We usually do one zone at a time, but these two share enough groundwork that it made sense to bring them up together. Five zones now.

The Tuesday the uploads crawled

On 29 March uploads in Amsterdam were slow for about half an hour while a storage volume rebalanced. Nothing was lost, but it was slow enough to notice, and a few of you did. The rebalance should have run overnight; a scheduling bug ran it at 07:40. We moved the job back to its window and added an alert if it ever starts during the day again.

Warsaw zone

Warsaw is open. Three zones now, each standing on its own.