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Many of GCP's services did actually grow out of Google's internal tools. For example, BigQuery is a public version of Google's internal Dremel. And Cloud Spanne
by jvolkman 7y ago
Many of GCP's services did actually grow out of Google's internal tools. For example, BigQuery is a public version of Google's internal Dremel. And Cloud Spanner is of course a public version of Spanner.
- kube-system 7y agoAnd Kubernetes came from Borg.
- ovi256 7y agoKubernetes is an open-source project inspired by Borg, not a proprietary product like the examples given by GP.
- kube-system 7y agoIt supports the original claim that is being disputed: > technical infrastructure to support their original businesses[0], then turn those resources into services[1] to rent out in the form of cloud[2] [0]: i.e. Borg [1]: i.e. Kubernetes [2]: i.e. GKE
- pradn 7y agoYes, Kubernetes's design was inspired by Borg, but the code is not Borg's code. BigQuery and Cloud Spanner use most of the code of the internal versions. That's the difference.
- snazz 7y agoAnd Cloud Source Repositories is similar to the internal code search as well as https://cs.android.com https://cs.android.com and https://source.chromium.org https://source.chromium.org. Edit: and https://cs.opensource.google https://cs.opensource.google. It’s this product: https://developers.google.com/code-search https://developers.google.com/code-search
- kortilla 7y agoBut this is still backwards. Internal google services are being cloned into watered down versions for the public. Google isn’t moving to GCP internally.
- mr_toad 7y agoEMR was obviously inspired by Google. And arguably the whole idea of using huge numbers of cheap x86 machines, rather than more expensive servers was inspired by Google’s search architecture.
- senderista 7y agoImagine if Google suddenly decided to enforce the MapReduce patent.