--- title: Best Quastor Daily posts — November 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from November 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2024/11 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2024/11 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Quastor Daily posts — November 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from November 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Quastor Daily — November 2024 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-dropbox-s-load-balancing-service-mpufbteuc "The Architecture of Dropbox's Load Balancing Service") Article Quastor Daily · 2y The Architecture of Dropbox's Load Balancing Service Dropbox reduced the sizes of its hardware fleets by 25% and saved millions annually by deploying the Robinhood load balancing service in 2020, improving load distribution among backend machines. Key components of Robinhood include a service discovery system, a routing database, and a proxy for aggregating load reports. Dropbox evaluates load balancer performance using CPU utilization ratios such as max/avg and p95/avg. They emphasized simplicity in configuration, minimizing client changes, and early migration planning as crucial lessons learned. 76 2 [See all Quastor Daily archives](/sources/quastor/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2024/11#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2024/11","name":"Best Quastor Daily Posts — November 2024","description":"The most upvoted Quastor Daily posts from November 2024, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of/2024/11#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-architecture-of-dropbox-s-load-balancing-service-mpufbteuc","name":"The Architecture of Dropbox's Load Balancing Service"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Quastor Daily","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"November 2024"}]}]} ```