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How our universal content processing platform Riviera evolved for AI and beyond

Our short summary of Dropbox’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Users needed fast, consistent previews and AI-ready content across many file types.

Solution

Built Riviera, a shared platform that converts files into thumbnails, PDFs, and lightweight videos, scaling to handle billions of transformations daily.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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