[bsimpson]

I wonder if Guido is behind this. He wrote the Datastore API for AppEngine, and transferred to Dropbox last year.

[smarx]

Yes, Guido wrote the datastores part of the Python SDK and also played a big role in the design of the Datastore API itself.

[camus2]

Are dropbox front-end and apis built with Python at first place?

[smarx]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Dropbox uses Python heavily both server-side and client-side. Does that help?

[camus2]

Sure , i was talking about the website users and api clients "see" , as opposed to "back-end" , ie , all the infrastructure used to manage files,ect...