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This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.

kevinastone 11y ago
It's on the google github organization...
aabbccddee 11y ago
I believe it means they want to share the code but not support it like an official product launch, but I don't know for sure.
- rodgerd 11y ago
  And then withdraw the code and cancel it once it's in wide use, a la MyTracks?
  - notatoad 11y ago
    MyTracks was never in wide use, and its source code certainly wasn't.
  - yomism 11y ago
    It's open source, it they loose interest in it anybody can pick up the code and continue supporting it.
  - saintfiends 11y ago
    It's distributed under Apache License 2.0. So it doesn't really matter, you'll still have the source.
helper 11y ago
It is a load balancer Google is using in production: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-seesaw-load-balancer/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-see... Edit: Here's the official Google announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalable-and-robust-load.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalabl...
- thrownaway2424 11y ago
  It's not used in production, it's used in "corp" which is totally disjoint from production at Google.
  - detaro 11y ago
    How is that not "using it in production"? Internal usage is still production usage.
    - mwpmaybe 11y ago
      When Google, Facebook, etc. refer to "production" they typically mean google.com, facebook.com, etc. EDIT: If you're going to down-vote this comment, at least provide detaro with the correct answer to his/her question!
      - sangnoir 11y ago
        I didn't downvote, but your statement in no way refutes parent argument. Typically =/= always. It's similar to someone declaring "HN was down", and you reply by saying "HN is typically up"
        mwpmaybe 11y ago
        It was more like someone saying, "Foo is not bar," someone else saying, "How is foo not bar? Bar is bar," and then me saying, "Because bar has a different meaning, colloquially, at certain companies."
  - fishnchips 11y ago
    At least 2 years ago it was already not always the case and things were moving towards unification rather than the other way around. Unless the general direction has drastically changed since I left I can only assume your statement is even less accurate now than it used to be.
Goopplesoft 11y ago
> It’s worth noting that while this project comes out of Google, the open-source version is not an official Google product. So don’t expect the company to provide any official support. The distinction is that this project is Google written/used not google supported.
notatoad 11y ago
It's made by google, used by google, blogged about by google, and hosted on google's github. it's officially google, it's not officially a product.

It's on the google github organization...

I believe it means they want to share the code but not support it like an official product launch, but I don't know for sure.

rodgerd 11y ago
And then withdraw the code and cancel it once it's in wide use, a la MyTracks?
- notatoad 11y ago
  MyTracks was never in wide use, and its source code certainly wasn't.
- yomism 11y ago
  It's open source, it they loose interest in it anybody can pick up the code and continue supporting it.
- saintfiends 11y ago
  It's distributed under Apache License 2.0. So it doesn't really matter, you'll still have the source.

helper 11y ago

It is a load balancer Google is using in production: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-seesaw-load-balancer/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-see... Edit: Here's the official Google announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalable-and-robust-load.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalabl...

thrownaway2424 11y ago
It's not used in production, it's used in "corp" which is totally disjoint from production at Google.
- detaro 11y ago
  How is that not "using it in production"? Internal usage is still production usage.
  - mwpmaybe 11y ago
    When Google, Facebook, etc. refer to "production" they typically mean google.com, facebook.com, etc. EDIT: If you're going to down-vote this comment, at least provide detaro with the correct answer to his/her question!
    - sangnoir 11y ago
      I didn't downvote, but your statement in no way refutes parent argument. Typically =/= always. It's similar to someone declaring "HN was down", and you reply by saying "HN is typically up"
      - mwpmaybe 11y ago
        It was more like someone saying, "Foo is not bar," someone else saying, "How is foo not bar? Bar is bar," and then me saying, "Because bar has a different meaning, colloquially, at certain companies."
- fishnchips 11y ago
  At least 2 years ago it was already not always the case and things were moving towards unification rather than the other way around. Unless the general direction has drastically changed since I left I can only assume your statement is even less accurate now than it used to be.

Goopplesoft 11y ago

> It’s worth noting that while this project comes out of Google, the open-source version is not an official Google product. So don’t expect the company to provide any official support. The distinction is that this project is Google written/used not google supported.

notatoad 11y ago

It's made by google, used by google, blogged about by google, and hosted on google's github. it's officially google, it's not officially a product.