Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB



Posted on Wed Apr 22 2026 | 7:44 pm


Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impact large-scale engineering workflows.




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