The software engineering lifecycle: How we built the new Dropbox Plus

This post details the author's experience contributing to the development of the new Dropbox Plus features, specifically focusing on the Family plan and the Vault secure folder. For the Family plan, the author led frontend architecture, emphasizing independent application development for faster iteration and the use of API-QL for improved developer experience with REST endpoints. The post also touches on the transition to working from home due to COVID-19 and onboarding onto the Vault team. While the post discusses the software engineering lifecycle and team organization, it does not introduce new technical details about the sync engine itself, but rather contextualizes the development process around existing capabilities like the sync engine rewrite.