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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud. Actually, we do precisely this. Google contributes heavily to Linux, KVM, LLVM, and so on in addition to the open source pr
by boulos 8y ago
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Actually, we do precisely this. Google contributes heavily to Linux, KVM, LLVM, and so on in addition to the open source projects we launched (Android, Chromium, Kubernetes to name some popular ones).
Our marketing team decided to highlight this on https://cloud.google.com/open-cloud/ https://cloud.google.com/open-cloud/ which does an okay job. Feedback welcome, and I’ll pass it along to them.
- Beltiras 8y agoThat's very good. Does Google also donate money to OSS projects they use? Postgres? Redis? uWSGI? Gunicorn? MySQL? I'd imagine they are heavily used in many projects within Google.
- infinite8s 8y agoThey aren't used.
- cmsj 8y agoGoogle definitely uses MySQL (e.g. https://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=555 https://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=555) and offers a MySQL deployment/management as a Service in GCloud. No idea what, if any, their contributions back to upstream have been, but I know they've been using it for important internal stuff for years, so I would be very surprised if, at the very least, no patches have come from out from the chocolate factory doors.
- mrep 8y agoGoogle built and open sourced an entire horizontal scaling cluster management system for MySQL: https://vitess.io/ https://vitess.io/