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Dropbox Evolves Riviera Content Processing Platform to Support AI Workloads

Leela Kumili — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:42:00 GMT

Dropbox has evolved Riviera from a file preview service into a universal content processing platform supporting more than 300 file formats and over 100 transformation capabilities. Processing hundreds of thousands of transformations per second, Riviera now supports Search, Replay, Sign, and Dash, while its APIs enable asynchronous content extraction for AI and RAG workflows.

By Leela Kumili

Netflix Reworks Conductor for 420 Million Monthly Workflow Executions and 10X Larger Workflows

Leela Kumili — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:17:00 GMT

Netflix has reworked its Conductor workflow orchestration engine to handle larger workloads, increasing supported workflow size from about 2,500 to 30,000 tasks and reducing p99 workflow evaluation latency by about 40%. Conductor 4.0 separates workflow metadata from task data, moves evaluation to asynchronous processing, and introduces dynamic worker allocation and concurrency controls.

By Leela Kumili